I have my cd collection in an excel database. I use a random number generator to insure that I continually go through my collection and listen to new albums I purchase. I'll listen to the album that is associated with the random number and also a new cd that is the closest in proximity to that cd. Obviously, I do not blindly follow that system, but it does keep me recycling through my collection.
I've been doing that too for listening in my car. The problem is that I have 5,000+ CDs with more always coming in. I'm on the letter "M" right now. I started on "A" aboout 7-8 years ago. This isn't the only way I'll listen to an album, but it has helped re-visit some things that may not have been played in 5-15 years.
Wow some of you guys have way complex systems. I guess you need it if you want to cycle through a lot of albums. I decide what I feel like and listen to that.
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Have close to 2000 CDs and have all entered into a excell spreadsheet. Until recently the CDs resided on CD wall units mounted throughout my music room. Decided to repaint/remodel and 99% of these CDs and CD wall units are headed to storage bins. Have the music now stored on hard drives and update 3 ipods continously with music of the drives. Still only listen to about 15-20% of my collection throughout the year.
I have a feeling I'd be depressed if I had a way to ascertain this - my collection is way out of control and I don't get to play jams every day
Most of my spins are on the weekend, between other fun things
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I listen to whatever interests me. There are large portions of my collection that remain untouched as I move from one interest to another. But, I always get back to them.
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I probably dont listen to much of the new stuff I get, Its usually some memory that causes me to go back and revisit that time in my life. Most of the newer stuff gets played a few times and then is shelved for a while, until I remember it again. I keep all my songs on my phone,and I sometimes just browse the catalog to remind myself of something thats been a while since I played. I sometimes do random, but because I prefer to hear albums in the context of the whole album, That seems to be rare. I seem to go more off the wall - stuff like Hermans Hermits, maybe Badfinger - the fillers. obscure stuff from gradeschool and Jr high seems to be more interesting to me than obscure current stuff. But there are definitely exceptions.
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I've tried a few times to compile a database of my music collection but it has always failed, and at this point, I'd spend far too much time to get it right - something for retirement?
Though I often call my wife when I'm out record shopping with "Hey, could you check and see if I have this album..."
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Because I buy so much music, most of my listening (I'll use the 80/20 rule and say 80%) is from stuff I have bought in the last few months. Most of my collection is untouched, which is no reflection on the quality of the music, only on the size of the collection. For example, I played Contre-Courant by Opus 5 today because it was the featured CD, and thoroughly enjoyed it, but it must have been the first time I've listened to it for about 7 or 8 years.
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I too have too many CDs, vinyls, MP3s, and could never expect to listen to the majority ever again, in fact typing that I'm wondering why I do not reduce my collection to a core of essentials, just a thousand should do. I have the larger part ripped to the computer, and have a series of iPods that I transfer to. One in the car is only 16 gig and so tends to have my all time favourites, acoss many genres, consequently these get played frequently. My phone has all things current and a smattering of music I like to hear when out and about. My 160gig classic has loads on, and I tend to listen to this one in the bedroom. CDs get played for a while and the filed away, never to see the light of day!
In fact reflecting on the above makes a huge statement for the ease of download, but being from the old school, I love to have the physical disc too, and cannot pass up something that I feel I need. I went to see Kraftwerk at Tate Modern on Tuesday, I own pretty much everything they have ever released on CD, vinyl and download already, but I still bought the deluxe limited edition 8 CD box set of remasters, just because it was calling out to be mine. I will never change, but I may start to thin those discs out one day.
This is an impossible Q to answer or at least to provide the type of answer the OP wants.
Joey's reply highlights this best, he actively listens to 100% of his collection by going thru it in order from album to album but it takes him 2 years to get through it. So the fact that he only listens to each album once every 2 years still means he actively listens to 100% of his collection.
I have digitized my collection onto iTunes and listen either on iPod touch or via speakers attached to my laptop- but a few boxes full of CDs didn't make it onto iTunes and have not been listened to in about 5 years. I listen almost exclusively on shuffle - I have got to the point where this is almost a religion - my wife can't stand the genre leaps which shuffle presents and when she asks me to play an album in full I get annoyed (but i usually end up doing it anyway - like having to watch a tv show i don't like) My iTunes library is on a large external hard drive and at the moment all in mp3 format and includes 78762 songs from 13044 albums - although vol1 and vol2 of a box set would show up as 2 albums so its probably a bit less than that. In the year Feb16 2012-Feb15 2013 I played 13198 songs from 2414 albums, although this does not tell me if the albums were played in their entirety or if a track was played more than once.
So I guess I listen to about 15% of the collection.
Of my vinyl collection? Very little.... wished it was more however where I have my stereo set up I rarely make the time to sit and listen anymore.
90% of my CD collection is stored on various mp3 storage units (Zune)... so I do tend to rotate around quite a bit. But Yes, Floyd, Beatles get the most
attention for sure. WYWH going into work today... Abbey Road coming home just the other day.
Lots of interesting responses. I'm surprised that so many of you seem to listen almost exclusively to music via digital playback on shuffle. I say that I'm surprised because I think that much of the music that gets discussed here seems to me to be designed for the album format, and that the impact of the individual songs is lost when you jump around from album to album. It's interesting that so many of you seem not to think so.
I totally get the appeal of shuffle, though; it's the same sort of magic when I was kid and would listen to the radio, hoping to hear "that song". The unexpected juxtaposition of two songs can be thrilling.
Your a braver man that me. I got lazy with putting my CDs on an Excel spreadsheet around 2500 and now sporadically list them. I have two large wooden cabinets with glass doors where most of my CDs reside in my living room. I have about 30 Japan Promo CD Box sets on top of the cabinets so this is now an issue of aesthetics. I like the way they look.
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Inspired by the same thread the OP was I investigated this a little while ago. Based on my 12,000 songs in my itunes, sorting by last listen date going back to last Feb. I have listened to a little over 6,000 at least once. This doesn't count playing on my home stereo, but that gets limited use these days, or CDs in the car (which is also limited because everything is on my ipod). So I can confidently say I play 50% of my collection yearly.
Also I don't remember a lot of my music so I usually get to listen to something new.
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