Do ya listen in the depth to all you're purchases?

[Carlo Gesualdo]

If you're like me, you probably have lot's of records In CD AND LP and digital, here the problem whit digital beside the sound, I use to be wealthier financially speaking, would bought gazillions albums, some albums had many listen while other sometime I rediscover, jeez... had this or that...

I've lost count to my recordings collection, we could easily say, I reach a point of saturation were have too many albums to explore so, will chill out a bit stop spending my cash on albums for a while, perhaps I got pearls of albums that did not fully explore whit multiple listen, so not don't spurting my name fully Deprofundis until I do, that is in the depth for ya.

This is crazy, got almost too many albums, but is there such a thing as having too many albums... perhaps , perhaps not.

I've got all that had wanted explore the depth of Gregorians, various chants music (same era), than ars: Vetus, Nova, subtilior to early to late renaissance, from late renaissance to baroque, have some baroque.This is the period I lack a bit in knowledge beside J.s Bach and Sylvius Leopold Wiess, Jean Pancrace Royer.

That not all the classical period after the baroque, lack even more beside: Mozart| Haydn and a couple of composers, the Romantic period  to be frankly Honest few name, I venture Wagner, Zemlinsky, Glière

Than Vienna school two (Schoenberg , Berg and Webern) I'm knowledge enough, Russian & Italian Futurists, have's moderns composers a plenty and super modernists (spectralists composers).

So guess to this point classical as almost no secret beside ''some composers, will explore on days, notorious or not.

Know my classical 80% no one know his classical 100% unless breast feed whit classical since birth, ya get the point.

So I might venture in Blues and Jazz a bit more in future since ,  have too much classical, outside classical: Jazz, Blues, electronica, rock, you name it I have what  wanted.

So it's time for me to relax a bit and listen to what, all ready have, since I reach a point of saturation musically speaking, it's not that have no more interest, won't buy a single record in the future it's just now I'm counting, almost lost count of what I have , this is insane...

So what do you think, have reach the point where you proclaimed I have all I won't and like now...



What you're cue on this?
Am I insane or an ardent music lover?

[steve ridgway]

I have reached that point. Yesterday I finished loading my music player with my ten favourite non-classical artists, just bought a couple more Nico albums to get a reasonable number. I've already got my ten favourite classical composers on there plus a load of Pierre Henry's musique concrete. I know classical less than 1% but don't care, I'm very pleased with the ones I've found.

[Irons]

You make a valid point, deprofudis. I have thought for some time that too much music an affliction. I don't think digital is to blame though, but more mindset. My guess is that if 99% contributors to this forum did not obtain another recording they would still own enough music to last the rest of their lives. Going a step further and more controversial, has enough recordings of classical music already been made, is there a point for more?  The only problem with this scenario is that without feeding the monster for some of us the interest could slowly wane. So although not necessarily a good thing - I have well enough to see me out - I buy as many, if not more, LPs and Cds as I ever did and enjoy doing so although deep down know I shouldn't.

[71 dB]

A few years ago my attitude changed. Instead of "hoarding" classical CDs I realized my problem is having time to listen to everything I have. How many oratorios by Handel does one need? Three? I have more than that, but still I haven't listened to Handel's oratorios in years! That's why I buy scarsely music these days and instead listen to my existing collection to listen in the depth to them. I have about 550 Naxos CDs and that's maybe 40 % of my classical music collection. My classical music collection is about 2/3 of my CD-collection. I have about 2000 CDs worth of music. Listening to all of them in depth is a real challenge! 

[amw]

No. I try to, but currently am still at around 24,000 tracks I have yet to listen to (about 16.8% of the total) at least on the current iteration of my iTunes library (which has been around since 2012).

I can even see what the oldest as-yet-unplayed tracks are, which date from April 17, 2015: some Saint-Saëns piano music (Six Fugues, Op. 161, the Rhapsodie d'Auvergne, and the Caprice on Gluck's Alceste); Peter Maxwell Davies's Black Pentecost; some of the fillers on a Koch album of Ives's Orchestral Set No. 2; Dietrich Buxtehude's Suite in G minor, BuxWV 242; Elena Mendoza's Contra-diccion for two violas. Maybe I'll listen to some of them now that my attention has been drawn.

[Mirror Image]

No and, honestly, I doubt I ever will and I'm completely fine with that. It's not a race to the finish line. I'm just enjoying the journey.

[some guy]

No and, honestly, I doubt I ever will and I'm completely fine with that. It's not a race to the finish line. I'm just enjoying the journey.

+1

[j winter]

No and, honestly, I doubt I ever will and I'm completely fine with that. It's not a race to the finish line. I'm just enjoying the journey.

Agreed.  I've bought 19 discs worth of Schumann in the past week (Demus & Perahia boxes), and just sent out a post asking for recommendations, so yeah... that would be a no... 

[vers la flamme]

I try to, even if it takes months after the original purchase date to really get into something.

[Marc]

No and, honestly, I doubt I ever will and I'm completely fine with that. It's not a race to the finish line. I'm just enjoying the journey.

Yeah.

It's like life.

[Biffo]

I listen to everything once - though I have a backlog  that doesn't seem to get any smaller. This weeds out the stuff I am not likely to listen to again. The rest I return to as I feel the urge.

If I had any will-power I would dispose of the discards but I can rarely bring myself to do it.

[ChopinBroccoli]

I never buy anything until I've listened first

If I don't like, I don't buy