Large Library : best collecting practices

[Matthew_Shields (Paying overs)]

A call to those with large libraries : > 10K albums?

Did you find as your library increased in size, the new additions accelerated or slowed? Constraints became apparent (budget / storage constraints / listening time), no?

I’m assuming larger libraries have a very high portion of digital (again budget)? Is there a need to offer more support to the records through purchasing digital / merch / live? Or are the streamers OK given that it’s only possible to sample the marginal recordings.

I’m musing whether I should try to restrict my collecting, given that the streamers make it so easy. There are artists where I’d offer fair recompense from streaming alone: many others that will make pennies from my listening habits, and command little of my attention elsewhere.

Is that fair?

[DDPS]

You may wish to peruse:

Impossibly Large Music Collections

Hello! I have what I think is a fairly large collection of music on my server. It’s approximately 40,000 tracks of music / 1.9 TB / total playback time of about 110 days. Nearly a third of a year of no-repeat music. This represents close to 50 years of active music curation across just about all genres. I see screenshots on these forums of collections of 750,000 or 1.5 million tracks. Using my own library’s math, that’s 5.6 or 11 years of no-repeat music. I can’t fathom anyone caring about t…

FWIW, I am now up to about 50,000 tracks. That didn’t take as long as I thought it would. Happy collecting.

[Matthew_Shields (Paying overs)]

Thanks! I knew someone will have asked an (identical) question. Thanks for the share!

[Matthew_Shields (Paying overs)]

My conclusion: it’s almost pointless (to worry about it at least) but we get good feelings from the hobby. And the music is rather good, too.

Thanks for reading.