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> but I can recall a huge amount of my collection pretty much instantly when someone asks me which records I have by artist X, or which records did I buy in 201

> but I can recall a huge amount of my collection pretty much instantly when someone asks me which records I have by artist X, or which records did I buy in 2019. When I first started buying CDs, in 1992 or so, I kept them in the order purchased. By the time I went to college, I had about 150 albums on one long rack. No groupings by artist, or publish date, or genre, or anything like that. Just ordered by when I acquired them.* It was a strange system, but I was surprised how easily I could locate any of them, and I think you're right. The tangibility of it. Now I have probably 20 times as much music on my phone (plus access to everything else on Apple Music). And It's harder than ever to decide what I want to listen to. I strongly suspect I wouldn't have this issue if my entire library was physically in front of me. (* Things got muddy when I'd get 10 or 12 CDs at a time, by repeatedly joining Columbia House or BMG under new fake names. Those just grouped together in the rack in a random order within the subset)

siquick 6y ago
> Now I have probably 20 times as much music on my phone (plus access to everything else on Apple Music). And It's harder than ever to decide what I want to listen to. I strongly suspect I wouldn't have this issue if my entire library was physically in front of me. I got rid of Spotify a couple of months ago and started fresh with Tidal. I purposely haven't build a single playlist and just have a collection of 20/30 albums on rotation saved. I've found the whole thing really liberating - I was so reliant on the playlists that I'd built up on Spotify over the last decade and was pretty bored with my own taste. A lot of people I know rely on their Spotify playlists for music so much that if you put them in charge of the music at a party then they would barely be able to think of 5 songs off the top of their head.
dzhiurgis 6y ago
I've read on r/shortcuts today some people put NFC tags on their CD cases so they can listen them albums on phone because they like physically experience...
crtasm 6y ago
Makes sense to me, I do similar for music I download- remembering that I got an album approximately x months ago and it was definitely before I heard that EP I just scrolled past is often easier then recalling an artist's name.

siquick 6y ago

> Now I have probably 20 times as much music on my phone (plus access to everything else on Apple Music). And It's harder than ever to decide what I want to listen to. I strongly suspect I wouldn't have this issue if my entire library was physically in front of me. I got rid of Spotify a couple of months ago and started fresh with Tidal. I purposely haven't build a single playlist and just have a collection of 20/30 albums on rotation saved. I've found the whole thing really liberating - I was so reliant on the playlists that I'd built up on Spotify over the last decade and was pretty bored with my own taste. A lot of people I know rely on their Spotify playlists for music so much that if you put them in charge of the music at a party then they would barely be able to think of 5 songs off the top of their head.

dzhiurgis 6y ago

I've read on r/shortcuts today some people put NFC tags on their CD cases so they can listen them albums on phone because they like physically experience...

crtasm 6y ago

Makes sense to me, I do similar for music I download- remembering that I got an album approximately x months ago and it was definitely before I heard that EP I just scrolled past is often easier then recalling an artist's name.