What is the portion of your neglected music?

Haim, seeing as how you are now organized again and that you have expertise in this department, I could use a little help and assistance in this department.  I am a little behind in my usual bi-annual plight to reorganize my library. 

I admire your humbleness in acknowledging a rather high listening rate of owned software.  40% is rather a good figure?  In my defence, I would imagine this rate rises as one diminishes the incoming new purchases?  I would say my ignored music rate is rather high because I generally am focused on the new incoming on a daily basis.  With roughly 10x the music library as you I would imagine that I ignore about 99% of my CD collection.  Certainly, even more of the vinyl is ignored in comparison. 

Still I view a library as a reference tool for life.  The music that I haven't listened to in three years won't expire and will be just a good and valid when I listen to it 10, 20, 30 or more years from now.

OK, so I am admitting that you are the wise one here.  When the show Buried Alive keeps calling me, I think it is time to admit that at some point I need to deal with this situation at some point? 

Ever since my NAS drive died I've listened to vinyl or streaming only. So all my CDs have been unplayed for about two years and 80% hit the three year mark.

I probably have about 300 records with roughly 20-30 in rotation at any given time. It's been about three years since I got my turntable so the majority of them have been played in that time.

I have stacks of CDs on top of the popular music storage bin,  need to go play some and get rid if it doesn't excite me.  Often I can't find what I want.  then there's really getting into my storage shed and organizing that, a huge project must be done by summer before the heat.

Close to 13.000 albums, so incredible. It sometimes makes me sad.....

Florestan posted:

Haim, seeing as how you are now organized again and that you have expertise in this department, I could use a little help and assistance in this department.  I am a little behind in my usual bi-annual plight to reorganize my library. 

I admire your humbleness in acknowledging a rather high listening rate of owned software.  40% is rather a good figure?  In my defence, I would imagine this rate rises as one diminishes the incoming new purchases?  I would say my ignored music rate is rather high because I generally am focused on the new incoming on a daily basis.  With roughly 10x the music library as you I would imagine that I ignore about 99% of my CD collection.  Certainly, even more of the vinyl is ignored in comparison. 

Still I view a library as a reference tool for life.  The music that I haven't listened to in three years won't expire and will be just a good and valid when I listen to it 10, 20, 30 or more years from now.

OK, so I am admitting that you are the wise one here.  When the show Buried Alive keeps calling me, I think it is time to admit that at some point I need to deal with this situation at some point? 

Doug,

I understand your point. The larger the collection is the bigger the neglected portion will be simply because we are limited by the time we can play the music.

Think about this: even if you played three different albums every day it will take you over nine years to hear them all and considering your age they will be played only four to five times.. Depressing, right? On a second thought, we better not think about it.

The difference is that I am not trying to put together a reference library but just keep a moderate collection of pieces I enjoy and likely to keep playing in the future. My wife is facing a similar situation with her books (vastly outnumbering my discs), having extreme difficulties in letting any of them go.

I think that I am going to constitute a new rule for myself. Before purchasing a new CD I will have to listen to at least ten neglected albums. Hopefully that will slow me down.

Haim

My collection is about 1200 albums, and I guess I play less than 100 of them frequently. That could mean over 90% neglected. And I guess maybe about 50% are very rarely played, at most  only once every 2-5 years. So that tends to suggest that a collection of about 600 is all I need - however, I do value them all - and from time to time something I haven’t played for a long time can come to the fore and be aired several times in a short period.

These days I don’t add to my collection very often - no more than maybe an album a month on average: I suppose I just feel that I have more music than I can play and don’t crave more, mostly just buying when I happen to come across something good.

I'm probably about the same as Innocent Bystander, although my vinyl is possibly even less played -  more of it was very much "of its time" and no longer interests me.

blythe posted:

I'm probably about the same as Innocent Bystander, although my vinyl is possibly even less played -  more of it was very much "of its time" and no longer interests me.

No ‘of its time’ for me - Indeed, of my most frequently played music, I guess 2/3rds are albums from my original vinyl collection which went from late 1960s to late 80s, with a good few  that have remained stalwarts for 40-50 years.

When I ripped my vinyl 8-9 years ago, it involved playing every disk - a good discipline, forcing me to go through my entire collection of about 500 albums. They obviously related to the first part of my music collecting, but despite the fact that there were some I had not played for many years, there were only maybe a dozen or so that I did found myself wondering what had led me to buy them, scrapping the rip (while others were so worn or otherwise deteriorated that once I started streaming I replaced the rips with downloads).