@tracydurnell Thank you :) That's not even the half of it lol. (I keep not getting notified of replies - sorry I missed this earlier)
@sherif haha, no worries! Part of me kicks myself for getting rid of most of my CDs, but then again, a lot were music I don't really listen to anymore 🤷♀️
@tracydurnell I have the same struggle. To sprinkle serendipity into my music exploration I'd buy a lot of CDs from bargain bins, or from shelves based on "feel" without really knowing the artist or their work, and so I do have CDs of music I don't actually enjoy all that much. The struggle is whether to winnow things down to only albums I genuinely like, or to keep it all as physical marks along the musical path.
Makes me think of Rob in High Fidelity organizing his record collection autobiographically instead of alphabetically.
@sherif I've been cleaning out my digital music collection and having a hard time choosing what to keep. I have a lot of old stuff I know well but never listen to. I'm aiming for "I would be happy if that song came on on autodj" while recognizing YouTube isn't a reliable backup library.
@tracydurnell (I'm a music collection nerd so I may never drop the subject, feel free to drop the thread whenever :D)
How do you listen to your music collection? I was an iTunes user for the longest time. I thought nothing could make me give up the playcounts and last played metadata that I built over many years, but then I found out about Plex + Plexamp, and Plexamp changed everything for me. It's like a Spotify / Apple Music for your local files. Library radio, many other fun radios, DJs, mixes made for you, and sonic similarity that you can use to find similar sounding tracks and albums in your library. It eliminated any desire I might've had to curate manually (although I still make a few playlists).
@sherif I'm using MusicBee now though I don't love it, so I've resisted investing the time to recreate playlists in it, which would make it better 😂 🤷♀️ On my phone I use AIMP, which I'm not sold on. Only having the music I've saved to my phone is aggravating, so a server has been on my mind...
@sherif my main requirement for a new music player is scrobbling to last.fm 😂 I've been collecting my listening since 2007 -- even though I don't do much with the info, it's still fun to have. It looks like Plex supports it! 👀
@tracydurnell hah, well! Our usecases are eerily close. Last.fm is also a must-have for me, and Plex does have it and it works quite well. It also works very well when you're away from home and streaming from your home server, so you're not limited to the music you have on your phone (although you can download to your phone for offline listening). I don't want to make it sound like it's too good to be true, but yeah, it's pretty good.