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evilbobthebob:
My puny music collection stands at 9.97GB, 1691 songs, 98.5 hours, so about 4 days. However, according to some Last.fm statistic messing, I listen to about 2000 tracks a month. So, allowing for a good few repeats, once a month I can cycle through my entire music collection.
If you check out my Last.fm account, you can see my listening tends to focus on about ten bands. However, over the past few months, I've changed that up a bit by listening again to a lot of albums I had rarely listened to, or new releases from bands. I've listened to most of my library at least twice. By that point I decide whether or not I'll bother to keep the album. (If I do decide to keep it, I tend to go out and buy it). I don't tend to get entire discographies unless I really, really like the band, or they have a very solid (or very short!) discography.
Over the past eight months or so I haven't listened to music on the move very often, mostly because I haven't been going anywhere. At college, I always listened to my MP3 player on the bus. That was a 1GB model, so I had to do a lot of regular swapping of tracks. I now have a 2GB Walkman phone, and I'm trying to decide if I should bother to upgrade the capacity. Mostly I want to fit about the same number of songs (500) at a higher bitrate.
Scarychips:
Well, if we move onto the subject of listening habits, I usually have my mp3 player with me (4gb of music). Not because I want to shut myself off, but when you have to walk alone to school every day for three years straight by using the same route, I get a bit bored of daydreaming of the same places. When I go to new places, (eg, I went to Montreal two days ago and I just walked for about 3 hours), I usually don't listen to my mp3 player and I check out places. I find that when I have my earphones on, I am mostly focusing on the music and on my "own world" than otherwise. But I think I'll upgrade my mp3 player. Not that I need the extra space, but I am extremely indecisive. If I delete something from my mp3 player, next time I'll open it up, I'll notice that this song isn't here and I'll want to listen to it.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: michaelicious on 08 Nov 2009, 07:21 ---
--- Quote from: E. Spaceman on 07 Nov 2009, 23:36 ---Personally I don't understand it when people want larger mp3 players because of the 15000 songs that my ipod has in it at the moment I could do with carrying 100 and simply changing the music from time to time.
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I only have a tiny 4gig mp3 player that I barely ever listen to. I can't seem to wrap my head around people constantly having headphones in whenever they are in a public space. People don't spend enough time day dreaming anymore.
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I absolutely agree with you. My iPod almost never leaves my house. The sole reason I got it was so that I could listen to music on long-haul flights (I fly from Australia to England usually every two or three years - 20 hours each way). But for that reason I wanted an iPod that I could put all of my music onto: I have no idea what I'm going to feel like listening to up in the sky (or sometimes on a long-distance train or bus) when I don't have access to my computer or my C.D. collection.
Bastardous Bassist:
--- Quote from: David_Dovey on 07 Nov 2009, 20:28 ---I'd say it takes me longer than most (for whatever reason) for music to really sink in for me
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Whenever I get new music, I always throw it into my "new music" playlist, which I listen to for several days/weeks until I start to get a feel for what I like and what I don't like. This is especially true for concert music, where there's usually too much going on for me to get the full impact with just one listen. As such, I usually end up liking or disliking albums in a way that stands the test of time. Hell, most of the time when my opinion changes over time it's that I begin to enjoy an album more after I give it some space.
--- Quote from: E. Spaceman on 07 Nov 2009, 23:36 ---Personally I don't understand it when people want larger mp3 players because of the 15000 songs that my ipod has in it at the moment I could do with carrying 100 and simply changing the music from time to time.
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I bring my mp3 player everywhere, and sometimes I'll want to listen to different music. As such, I load it up with all sorts of different stuff, and then I choose as I go. It's also great for if I end up hanging out with people and we all play awesome music for each other. I've got access right at my fingertips. Also, I listen to music most of the time when I'm in the lab (because I've usually got the lab to myself), because it helps me focus, and if I get the same stuff over and over again (because I'm in the lab a large portion of the day), then I start getting a little annoyed.
--- Quote from: michaelicious on 08 Nov 2009, 07:21 ---I can't seem to wrap my head around people constantly having headphones in whenever they are in a public space. People don't spend enough time day dreaming anymore.
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When I am going from point a to point b (which is what is going one when I've got my headphones on in a public space), I am usually listening to music to which I can daydream.
David_Dovey:
--- Quote from: E. Spaceman on 07 Nov 2009, 23:36 ---As an aside, am I alone in thinking that along with countless benefits, the ability to instantly download and listen to an album has changed our attitude towards listening to music? Added a sense of dispose-ability maybe? Sometimes I wonder, mainly while reading our own mediaf!re thread, if people now really listen to the music or just hear it and then move on to the next thing. Maybe I am just wrong but I feel that some of the albums we filed in the "only listened to once" folder would be regulars if we weren't as accustomed to instant gratification. On this I am most interested on Paul's view due to obvious reasons.
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Absolutely true. Even just going on the Play Count column in my iTunes (ha), All of the songs that have had the most plays
a) are stuff I was listening to 3-4 years ago i.e; before I downloaded music and bought everything on C.D, and as such acquired music much slower
b) have twice as many plays as any of my heavily-listened-to music from more recent years
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