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pwhodges:
Having a head start, I probably have more recordings (largely classical, as it happens) than most of you.  I reckon that if I listened for several hours a day it would take me more than a year to listen to every one again.  As a corollary, many (most, even?) of these recordings I have only ever listened to once, or maybe twice.

How long would it take you to listen through every recording you have, how many have you listened to enough times to become really familiar with, and - the killer - what does this say for your opinions about the relative merits of recordings you may only have heard once or twice at a couple of years' distance?

valley_parade:
According to iTunes, I have 24 days, 6 hours, 44 minutes, and 44 seconds of music.

Make what you will of it. That's not counting a few albums I have on vinyl but not digitally, though.

De_El:
If I listened to music for four hours every day, without repeating any recordings, it would take me 351.5 days to get through all my audio files. Some of that isn't music per se, I've got some readings, meditative noises, sound experiments.  Some of the things I've got that I only listened to once I really liked, but for some reason didn't return to, out of business or perhaps preoccupation with other music. Some are things I heard once and felt kind of ambivalent about but thought if I listened more might grow on me. Some of the things my computer says I've only listened to once are files that I've replaced for higher quality recordings, so it's misleading.  I guess I hang on to things I know I like but don't listen to a lot because I like to have the option of listening to them, even though I know the chances aren't as good that I'll go back and listen to Tosca's Suzuki as they are that I'll listen to Unknown Pleasures for the umpteenth time. And that's fine.

JD:
10.8 days of music, holy shit

scarred:
1,276 albums that total 31 days, 3 hours, 36 minutes, and 59 seconds of music.

I'd like to think I'm intimately familiar with around half of that. But that's wishful thinking, and I'm sure the real answer (if I were to throw my iPod on shuffle) would be closer to 1/4 or 1/5.

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