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The problem with 'music I own' is that then you have to organize and manage it. I have many multiple gigabytes of music on my hard drives, but I rarely bother

by Qz 16y ago

The problem with 'music I own' is that then you have to organize and manage it. I have many multiple gigabytes of music on my hard drives, but I rarely bother with that anymore when I can just click open Pandora and it plays music I like without me having to think about it.

marksmen 16y ago
I haven't downloaded a single song in last 3 years! and haven't bought one since last 10+ years (I am 22 years old. Why buy when you can listen for free on you tube! I have spent that money wisely on lot of book and good food which is actually needed rather than mindless itunes spending.
ugh 16y ago
I buy about three to five albums per month. Organizing that is no big deal. I just name it consistently (I have my own capitalization rules ;) after it finished downloading. That’s what, maybe two minutes per album? Doesn’t seem like work.
- Qz 16y ago
  My issue isn't with the process of cataloging, but with deciding what music to play when it comes time to listen to music. Sure you can just pick some random albums from your collection and throw them on, but if you have a nontrivial number of albums, or a large collection of individual songs, then you quickly end up managing multiple playlists, skipping tracks you don't want to hear not because you don't like them but because you're just not in the mood, etc. Alternatively, I can just turn on Pandora and it plays music I like. It's literally a one click solution. It makes better playlists than I could if I spent 2 hours a day perfecting my own. It also goes out and finds new music that I haven't even heard yet, but because Pandora knows more about the music I like than I do, there's a pretty damn good chance it will be right. In the time since I've started using Pandora I've discovered more new music that I like than I ever did when I was buying individual albums or songs off of iTunes or whatever. Not only that, but I actually buy more CDs because I've heard all the songs on Pandora and I can buy the CDs with confidence, rather than wonder whether I'm going to waste another $15 on crappy music. Although, I was mostly buying CDs to play in my car, but soon I'll be getting a Droid, and then I can just play Pandora directly in my car so CDs might get obsoleted.
JMiao 16y ago
i've never had an issue organizing/managing music that i've bought.
DTrejo 16y ago
Hey Qz, if you're into new indie music you might like http://mixest.com/ http://mixest.com/ We're still improving it, so if you have any feedback, shoot me an email.
samps 16y ago
Sorry to barrage you with self-links, but I felt the same thing recently and I've started working on an (open-source) tool for addressing exactly that: organizing my music collection correctly and painlessly (i.e., as automatically as possible). It's called beets and the idea is this: just throw new albums at it; they get tagged correctly (from MusicBrainz), copied into a directory structure you specify, and catalogged in an sqlite database. Let me know what you think: http://beets.radbox.org/ http://beets.radbox.org/

by Qz 16y ago

marksmen 16y ago

I haven't downloaded a single song in last 3 years! and haven't bought one since last 10+ years (I am 22 years old. Why buy when you can listen for free on you tube! I have spent that money wisely on lot of book and good food which is actually needed rather than mindless itunes spending.

ugh 16y ago

I buy about three to five albums per month. Organizing that is no big deal. I just name it consistently (I have my own capitalization rules ;) after it finished downloading. That’s what, maybe two minutes per album? Doesn’t seem like work.

Qz 16y ago
My issue isn't with the process of cataloging, but with deciding what music to play when it comes time to listen to music. Sure you can just pick some random albums from your collection and throw them on, but if you have a nontrivial number of albums, or a large collection of individual songs, then you quickly end up managing multiple playlists, skipping tracks you don't want to hear not because you don't like them but because you're just not in the mood, etc. Alternatively, I can just turn on Pandora and it plays music I like. It's literally a one click solution. It makes better playlists than I could if I spent 2 hours a day perfecting my own. It also goes out and finds new music that I haven't even heard yet, but because Pandora knows more about the music I like than I do, there's a pretty damn good chance it will be right. In the time since I've started using Pandora I've discovered more new music that I like than I ever did when I was buying individual albums or songs off of iTunes or whatever. Not only that, but I actually buy more CDs because I've heard all the songs on Pandora and I can buy the CDs with confidence, rather than wonder whether I'm going to waste another $15 on crappy music. Although, I was mostly buying CDs to play in my car, but soon I'll be getting a Droid, and then I can just play Pandora directly in my car so CDs might get obsoleted.

JMiao 16y ago

i've never had an issue organizing/managing music that i've bought.

DTrejo 16y ago

Hey Qz, if you're into new indie music you might like http://mixest.com/ http://mixest.com/ We're still improving it, so if you have any feedback, shoot me an email.

samps 16y ago

Sorry to barrage you with self-links, but I felt the same thing recently and I've started working on an (open-source) tool for addressing exactly that: organizing my music collection correctly and painlessly (i.e., as automatically as possible). It's called beets and the idea is this: just throw new albums at it; they get tagged correctly (from MusicBrainz), copied into a directory structure you specify, and catalogged in an sqlite database. Let me know what you think: http://beets.radbox.org/ http://beets.radbox.org/