control on music

[Kanzaki]

I'm very picky. Always have been.

There is a ton of good music out there, but also a lot of generic crap and music that doesn't speak to me at all. In my case, I like music I myself even think of as "bad" or perhaps even "grating". But there's one thing I can't stand - boring music. Which there is a lot of.

I follow very few artists with zeal. A good amount with high interest and many with somewhat of an interest. I don't have a whole lot of music to listen to and go through

[koumori]

I still try a lot of different artists. But most of them get deleted from my computer if it didn't really catch my attention. It's all about keeping on top of keeping quality music and being honest with yourself when you say "Will I ever want to listen to this again?"

[mizuki-7]

Originally Posted by Koumori

I still try a lot of different artists. But most of them get deleted from my computer if I didn't really catch my attention. It's all about keeping on top of keeping quality music and being honest with yourself when you say "Will I ever want to listen to this again?"

Yes it's exactly my case too ^^
I have only 64 différents singers/bands in my computer. 1/4 are the ones I can listen all days, 2/4 are the ones I like a lot but not the whole discography and the last quarter are the ones I only like a few songs ... In fact I really don't like have just one song of a singer so I take time to appreciate new stuff I am very picky when in comes to music ! I don't like have tones of songs which I can not remind me of the melody lol

[Yoake]

I try a lot of musics & download cds. One day, I realized that I have more 40GO on my external HDD. It's too much. So I'm cleaning it since that day. I listen to each song. I clear out the one I don't like (when I have an album, I used to keep the song I don't like, now I only keep the one I like) or the one I liked in the past but don't like anymore.
When I download a cd now, I put in the bin the song I don't like quickly. When the song is ok, I let a trial time before to decided of it fate. I delete instrumental version on single too.

[XFER]

Originally Posted by Yoake

I delete instrumental version on single too.

jajajaja Me too! If a single comes with instrumentals, the first thing I do, is delete those

I download music like everyday. I keep most of it in 3 different folders, so when I don't know what to listen, I comb through those folders and give a listen to those artists I didn't know, and then decide their fate.

I also keep a main folder with albums I like. I have... literally hundreds of GBs of music, so every like 2 months, I go though my collection and delete stuff I kept for whatever reason and I never liked, or simply stuff that while not bad, I won't ever listen again.

Still, it's hard to give equal attention to all of them. I make a top 25 weekly of my favorite songs, and even if I am stuck in one artist, I listen to my chart and get a nice mix of artists. If too long passes and some artists still don't get heard, I delete them.

[khan5]

Lately i have been in a real stump my ipod is 32gb and i keep 10 gb as back up however i have to decide between two artists to keep so i can maintain 10 gb and so far alll the other artists i have are ones i constantly listen to. lol i have to decide between onitsuka chihiro and ai otsuka, what are your guys opinion

[MeltingCORE]

Originally Posted by khan5

Lately i have been in a real stump my ipod is 32gb and i keep 10 gb as back up however i have to decide between two artists to keep so i can maintain 10 gb and so far alll the other artists i have are ones i constantly listen to. lol i have to decide between onitsuka chihiro and ai otsuka, what are your guys opinion

Ai Otsuka imo!

I have very good control of myself. I only buy music now, I never download. I only buy what I really like. I have about 1,067 songs and buy *around* a couple of albums every few months. So space isn't a issue on my computer or iPod/iPhone. I used to download and I did have problems with space back then! (And there were tons of unlistened to songs!)

I'm really happy with the way I do things now. (And I never tire of what I have.)