Changing The Way I Collect Music

27Jan/10Off

Changing The Way I Collect Music

I've amassed a lot of digital music over the years. Lots of times I'd download the entire album even if I just wanted one song... 'cause, you know... there might be some other good music on the album.

Sorry to say, that this wasn't the case in 70%-80% of the music I downloaded. I've always been a pretty fanatical completionist (are you an incrementalist or a completionist?) so I'd keep the bad songs around with the good ones, "because then I have the whole album," or "I might like that sometime in the future."

No More!

You may know about my obsessive iTunes star ratings, so I know what songs I don't really like. However, I'm not going to blindly delete all my 1 and 2-star rated songs. I'm going to delete songs as I come across them during my normal listening schedule for each day. I don't expect to delete any more than 4 or 5 songs a day from my 4,000 song, 20 GB music library.

Do you think I'm going about this the right way? Am I stupid for deleting songs in this age of extremely cheap storage mediums? Let me know. The deleting begins today.

First song to bite the dust and see the inside of my trash bin? "Full Moon" by The Black Ghosts.

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Scott Roche
January 27th, 2010 - 10:42

Nothing wrong with weeding out the dreck.
Melissa
January 27th, 2010 - 14:57

I think that’s a really good, safe approach. Hell, you might listen through and end up actually finding some that you like out of your 1 and 2-star songs. Better safe than sorry, and it’s obnoxious to me to shift through thousands of songs when you only like the top 20-30%. I find myself having to make lots of special playlists to filter out the bad junk (although Smart Playlists are for the win).
evan
February 4th, 2010 - 15:25

Weeding out relevant comments, however, is just dirty.