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öde:
I have a few weeks worth of music. A fair amount of it I'm not interested in anymore and a lot I haven't sorted out and listened to yet. When I get my iphone back I'll listen to stuff I really like more often, and I always find I become much more intimate with music when I listen to it on an mp3 player as it becomes less of a passive act of listening. I don't think I even liked Sleater-Kinney before I listened to them on my mp3 player for a while, and now I can't imagine not loving them.

rynne:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 07 Nov 2009, 03:27 ---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?

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I have no clue how many hours of music I have (900 CDs is... how long?).  I'm in the same boat—there are things that I have that I've listened to maybe once or twice.  On one hand, I suspect there are some albums I've probably overlooked because I haven't given them enough time to sink in. 

But, on the other hand—and this is the view I lean towards more strongly—I feel that I've listened to enough music to have a very good immediate gut reaction as to what will appeal to me.  In other words, if I get an album and end up not wanting to listen to it, obviously it's not as enjoyable or appealing (to me, at least) as other albums in my collection. 

That isn't to say that not listening to an album is equivalent to not liking an album.  There are plenty of albums I own that I wouldn't want to listen to all the time (e.g., Nurse With Wound, Merzbow, etc.) that I thoroughly appreciate when I'm in the right mood.  But if years go by and I never feel the urge to listen to a particular album, I think that's a pretty good indication of said album's relative merits (i.e., it doesn't have many).

KickThatBathProf:

--- Quote from: rynne on 11 Nov 2009, 06:11 ---I have no clue how many hours of music I have (900 CDs is... how long?).

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If I were to compare it to my collection (790 albums/23.2 days) I would guess yours would be somewhere in between 25 and 26 hours, depending on the style of music you listen to.

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