Topic: too much music? (Read 9916 times)

the-artful-dodger-rodger · « **on:** 26 Mar 2007, 18:11 »

ever think that you can have too much music, I been thinking about lately, is it possible to have too much music or like too much music?

Joseph · « **Reply #1 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 18:25 »

My iTunes has around 50 gigabytes. I figure this is a large amount. Admittedly, there is a small amount that I've yet to listen to, but I don't really feel overwhelmed with it, and I'm decently familiar with pretty much all of it. Liking a large number of genres, it can be difficult to keep up with all of them, and stay informed, but I would hardly say that there is too much music out there.

Liz · « **Reply #2 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 18:51 »

I vote no. I can't get enough.

Gridgm · « **Reply #3 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 18:52 »

to part a i have 30gb and can probably sing along to every song on my computer and am still constantly looking for more so no you ca't have too much music however part b) i would have to say yes it is possible to like music too much...if it's starting to interfere with other parts of your life your probably a little too into it

ScrambledGregs · « **Reply #4 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 18:59 »

This thread should be about how there's too much god damn music out there to buy. I am going to die penniless because there are so many albums I want to hear before I croak.

Inlander · « **Reply #5 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 19:00 »

Yes, absolutely you can have too much music. At a recent one-day music festival I attended, there were twenty minutes between each band. These twenty minutes were filled by music from the D.J. booth being put through the sound system for the main stage. The end result was ten hours of music, non-stop - it was too much. Sometimes you need a little respite, or it starts to feel like assault and battery on your ears.

Also, I buy too many C.D.s - or, to put it more accurately, I buy them at too high a rate. I barely give myself a chance to listen to what I already have, to properly absorb it, before I'm off on the next spending spree. Occasionally I delve back into the "archives" of my C.D. collection and find an absolute jewel that I'd somehow forgotten about in my mad rush to have more, more, MORE!

Music is wonderful and I couldn't imagine life without it, but as with any good thing you can have too much of it.

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #6 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 19:38 »

Yes... My University recently joined the ranks of this program called Ruckus that allows you to download music for free...I haven't even had this program for two weeks and I've downloaded 1373 songs... Way to many to listen to.

camelpimp · « **Reply #7 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 20:48 »

What? Of course not, you people are silly.

jimbunny · « **Reply #8 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 21:15 »

Quote from: tommydski on 26 Mar 2007, 20:43

It can happen.

I think a lot of people, including myself, turn to music at times when they should just "be alone with their thoughts." Music can be a good escape for people not wanting to, well, face the music.

"We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while."
~Henry David Thoreau

Same idea.

strangeparallel · « **Reply #9 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 21:22 »

There's just not enough time.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #10 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 22:20 »

I think I have somewhere along the lines of 150-160 gigabytes of music. I haven't properly checked it in a month, and last time it was at 140 gigabytes.

Inlander · « **Reply #11 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 22:58 »

You kids and your measuring music in "gigabytes".

lockedge · « **Reply #12 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 23:34 »

There is such a thing. People need to work through what they have before moving on to other albums, or it'll all be first impressions for all their music.

Seriously, I buy a lot of CDs for my low low income. I make about $100 a week and every other week $90 goes to music, if not more. During those weeks, I listen to those albums alone, usually, with some other stuff I find online thrown in.

My GB collection isn't too high(around 30), but I also don't download music, other than free full-song sample MP3s bands give out, so if I had 150+ GB I'd have a collection of CDs covering most of my wall if not all of it. I had too much on my iTunes/Songbird so I took out all my non-album MP3s from itunes and left in all my album stuff in, and doing the opposite for songbird. The result works quite well and keeps things fresh.

the-artful-dodger-rodger · « **Reply #13 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 07:22 »

you guys are right, yes and no.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #14 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 07:24 »

Quote from: Inlander on 26 Mar 2007, 22:58

You kids and your measuring music in "gigabytes".

Fine. 3,000 CD's. 30,000 songs. I rounded. I have listened to all but 50 CD's quite a few times.

Lines · « **Reply #15 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 07:45 »

Though I love music, I do think it is possible to have too much of it. When your computer tells you you have too much crap on your disk, that's a sign. I like music. I like hearing new and different music that I haven't before. But I need silence every now and then, too. I don't think I could stand 10 hours of music non-stop. That and my ears would want to fall off probably.

That said, I'm not going to stop buying music though. I go through phases of what I want to hear and buy a bunch of stuff like it, but I always go back and mix it up once I get bored with my current phase, find something else, and the cycle goes on.

Scytale · « **Reply #16 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 07:55 »

That Thoreau quote is a really good one actually. Reminds me of the character from Ghost World that collected old records, we cling to something because we have nothing else to look forward too.

I went through a phase when I first moved out of home where I was buying a lot of CD's just for the hell of it really, there was a really good record store near where I moved out too and every weekend I'd blow about $100 dollars on CD's.

I'd do crazy stuff like buy the entire bands discography's in one go. I guess in my mind at the time I thought if I listened to a wide enough range of stuff then the quality of what I was listening too wouldn't matter. I kind of had a revelation one day when I was going through the boxes I used to keep my cd's in and realised I'd probably only listened to aout 20% of my collection more then once and had very little desire to listen to a lot of the cd's I owned a second time through. After that I realised I have very specific tastes when it comes to what I like and I'm a lot more selective in what I purchase these days.

The Last three years I'd say I've bought 25 cd's, compared with about 250 - 300 cd's I bought four years ago.

Oh and if we're talking gigabytes, which seems to be the cool thing to do these days I have 13.5 at the moment, 90% of that is cd's I've ripped, which I'll regularly listen to.

supersheep · « **Reply #17 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 08:03 »

Yeah, my hard drive is filling up. This is a bad thing. Plus, I need to listen to all the new music I have gotten a few more times so I can form opinions. I wish I had one of those portable MP3amajigs.

McTaggart · « **Reply #18 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 08:22 »

I have maybe 300mb of music.

I also have about 130 cds that get waay more play time than the odd random mp3s and podcasts on my harddrive. Since I got my laptop and I can listen to music in my room I don't need to rip everything anymore.

That's buying about 1.2 cds a week for the last two years. At this rate I get to listen a fair bit to what I hear and don't go completely broke. The only amount of music that is too much is that which mkes you fuck up your life and amke you unable to enjoy more music.

Thrillho · « **Reply #19 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 08:45 »

Of course not. Stupid question.

Misereatur · « **Reply #20 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 09:36 »

Quote from: Inlander on 26 Mar 2007, 19:00

I buy too many C.D.s - or, to put it more accurately, I buy them at too high a rate. I barely give myself a chance to listen to what I already have, to properly absorb it, before I'm off on the next spending spree. Occasionally I delve back into the "archives" of my C.D. collection and find an absolute jewel that I'd somehow forgotten about in my mad rush to have more, more, MORE!

This is pretty much where I am.

!!!CPAOI!!! · « **Reply #21 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 10:19 »

The beauty of having so much music out there is that one can afford to be incredibly selective. I have a lot of music, but I've probably listened to a good 10 times that amount. With so much coming out these days and so much stuff already out there, we can all afford to be prickly editors. In fact I'd vanture to say that it's better that way.

Valdemar · « **Reply #22 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 11:13 »

My music consumption can be summed up as:

I buy a lot of cds. I never listen to said cds(okay, maybe once)
Instead I listen to some random tracks off my computer.
Aforementioned cds sit lonely and dust-ridden in my drawer.

Oh and I suffer from severe music overload syndrome too. I solve it with patchy abstinence.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #23 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 14:31 »

On my itunes I have a little over 30 gb of music, or about 5000 songs which I consider not nearly enough. I have a list(s) somewhere of literally hundreds of cds that I want. Whenever I hear a song I like or here of something which sounds interesting I put the artist down on the list along with cds of thiers I've heard or have heard are good. My point, in a convoluted way, is there's probably another 100gb of music, if not more, that I want. However, I heard/read somewhere that a particular music executive whose name eludes me has somewhere in the neigborhood of 90,000 songs. This, to me, seems to border, if not cross, the line of excess.

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #24 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 21:36 »

Quote from: Inlander on 26 Mar 2007, 22:58

You kids and your measuring music in "gigabytes".

<3

If it's quality, quantity don't matter.

glwtta · « **Reply #25 on:** 28 Mar 2007, 01:47 »

Quote from: Inlander on 26 Mar 2007, 22:58

You kids and your measuring music in "gigabytes".

Yeah, it's kind of silly, much easier to say that I have about 0.1TB of music.

Inlander · « **Reply #26 on:** 28 Mar 2007, 06:04 »

To put it another way: I like my music in a format I can hold.

McTaggart · « **Reply #27 on:** 28 Mar 2007, 06:15 »

I have 12.5 hands of music.

Gridgm · « **Reply #28 on:** 28 Mar 2007, 06:20 »

ok in cd's...

as i mention before i choose my music by downlaoding it first from where i can find it and if i like it i buy it if it is overly bad i delete it

using this method i have currently aquired about 300 cd's

Inlander · « **Reply #29 on:** 28 Mar 2007, 06:30 »

Quote from: McTaggart on 28 Mar 2007, 06:15

I have 12.5 hands of music.

Children's hands or adult's hands?

McTaggart · « **Reply #30 on:** 28 Mar 2007, 07:05 »

Whichever one you use to measure horses.

Inlander · « **Reply #31 on:** 28 Mar 2007, 07:32 »

Draught horses or race horses?

McTaggart · « **Reply #32 on:** 28 Mar 2007, 08:15 »

Whichever combination equals (1.270 ? 0.005) x10^9 ?.

Screw these fora and their screwing with my writing. The first '?' is the 'plus or minus' symbol. The second is the symbol for the Angstrom, a really really unambiguous unit of distance.

celticgeek · « **Reply #33 on:** 28 Mar 2007, 09:00 »

1 hand = .000505051 furlongs. 12.5 hands = .006060606 furlongs.

Johnny C · « **Reply #34 on:** 28 Mar 2007, 09:15 »

60 x .2 x .3 cubits.

jimbunny · « **Reply #35 on:** 28 Mar 2007, 11:24 »

Cubit...What's a cubit?

Der Turm, der Leute frass · « **Reply #36 on:** 28 Mar 2007, 13:49 »

I don't think, that anyone really can have too much music.

Couldn't imagine life whithout music....need it all the time .....need more more MORE....there are waaaay to many Albums out there.

well.......I just realized that I that I bought about 80 CDs since January......that frightens me somehow

Scytale · « **Reply #37 on:** 29 Mar 2007, 02:17 »

Yeah this forum needs to support uni code characters already.

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Scytale

!!!CPAOI!!!

Valdemar

Scytale