Music Hoarder?
 

I was looking through my music library trying to get rid of songs that i never listen to or i just don't like off of my computer but as much as i try to clean up my music library deleting song after song i find myself downloading MORE songs right after. I feel like a person thats addicted to shopping once i start i just can't stop ...if that makes any sense (it does in my head XD) I call myself a music hoarder because i have tons and tons of songs on my computer that i just don't listen to or i will pass by a song in my library and think...oh one day i will listen to it or what if i wanna listen to it and its not there!

Who else has had this problem?

I did. Two years ago, I hit the 13,000 mark, which was a TON at the time. So I went through and deleted everything that I didn't like or never listened to. Got down to about 8,000.

Now I'm up to 15,000. :-/

I kind of miss the days when I bought a CD and listened to it dozens of times over, instead of downloaded a dozen CDs and listening to each once. I feel like the internet has made music really impersonal, if that makes sense.

It makes 100% sense, I'm with you. I miss the old days of really getting to know albums. Nowadays I still get to know some albums intimately, but slightly less, and many don't get the chance to make an impression because there are just too many.

I think everybody on MB is a music hoarder.

the other day, I found 10GB of post rock albums I forgot about.

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Very true, when I got the internet it allowed me to hear bands that I had never hear before but it also gives to much access to music, when I only bought CDs I used to listen to it non-stop and fall in love with it. Now I download an album, start listening to it on my ipod, then realise theres something else I just remembered I had to listen to and never hear the first album again.

If it's on my computer I will delete songs/albums if I don't like them but I would never throw out any of my CDs, even the embarassing ones.

Yes i totally agree with all of you i used to buy CD's all of the time and listen to one over and over and over again but ever since i started downloading music on the internet i listen to an album maybe once or twice or i download and album listen to one song and forget about it because i download another album or other songs that i like sometimes i dont even get to "know" the album because i never listen to it as much as i usually would if i had it on cd...i have downloaded music so much i have stopped buying cds and i threw out my old cd player which has been replaced by my ipod...which i really regret doing :(

I have the same problem as well everyone one lol. I find the best thing to do is listen to actual albums in my car. I still have to buy the albums I love, so thats where I listen to em.

I do it intentionally. I'm setting myself up so when music stops being so freely available I'm still set for years and years.

I also still manage to find albums I love on a regular basis and they get as much play as they would have back in the days of dubbing tapes.

You guys are right about the availability of music affecting how much we get to "know" albums, but I think a lot more of it has to do with my collection just being large in general. When it was smaller and first starting out, it was easy to give each album the attention it deserves. Now I have thousands of albums, so of course it just become unfeasible to really study all of them. There are still plenty of albums I have discovered recently that I find myself listening to over and over.

I have a lot of music. A lot of it I haven't listened to. A lot of I like. A lot of it I hate.

I'd consider myself a hoarder in that I don't delete even the albums I don't like. I'm not even sure why I do this. I might go delete the stuff I don't enjoy right now actually.