how much of your music is mp3s?

I have very few MP3 files that are not already in my CD collection because of this. Exceptions are the occasional song that I want to hear but know nothing about, and I can count the number of times I've gone out looking on one hand, mostly because I don't trust any of the file-sharing programs not to install backdoors onto my system (see Audiogalaxy thread for justification of the paranoia).

I have a lot of CD's that I buy, too.

It's bad, I'm bad, I'm sorry.

*The above is all lies, RIAA, all of it.

Heavens-to-Mergatroid; just loaded up my entire hard drive into Mediamonkey and it clocks in at over 8 months of continuous play. Playing it on "shuffle" for the rest of the weekend.

I have hundreds to thousands of cds and jewel cases in various states of disarray. sadly I was never good about backing up my collection so often these days, if I can't find shit, I just fire it up on Spotify. I bought physical media mostly cos of old habit, but realized quickly how much I hated how much space the shit took up, and started buying mp3 albums only from there on out.

so basically anything I've bought in the last two years, or any physical cds I bought from Amazon prior to that that either had AutoRip at the time or retroactively added it, is in my Amazon Cloud. something like 800 albums worth (kinda scary to think I acquired at least that much music since 2010, considering how much I already had before then).

there are probably at least 100 albums that I have played once. there are at least three I've paid for on Amazon that I've never played. there are times I've almost rebought albums without realizing I already had them.

Get me out of this nightmare #enforcer

I hardly own any CDs. Got rid of most ages ago, hanging only only to a few oddities it'd be hard to replace. Still own & buy shitloads of vinyl, but that's more a mental health symptom than a listening choice.

Weird thing is that I no longer care at all about "collecting" & cataloging mp3s, a hobby that consumed several hours a week only a few short years ago. I still have 100s of gigs on an external, but haven't hooked it up or visited slsk in months. If I wanna hear something, I find & stream it. And if I can't, I find something else.

like my real "music collection" these days is simply my awareness of things i might wanna look up & play

I'm in the same category as contenderizer. I have 1.5TBs of meticulously tagged and sorted mp3s but since Spotify and my renewed vinyl obsession (and a bit of Sonos not being able to deal with more than 65K tracks), I have completely stopped downloading and don't even have the HD with the music plugged in. I don't miss it at all.

i still don't trust streaming or "the cloud", especially when stuff i like has a tendency to randomly disappear and become unfindable (example: foefur's earth wind and fire mix, which is great and wholly unavailable on the public web due to dmca notices). my tagging and sorting is far from "meticulous" but i do attempt to curate stuff that i feel would reward repeat listens, though my active listening library long ago got too large for me to fully know what's in it (which i count as a benefit these days- worst thing about listening only to one's own music is losing the sense of surprise one gets on hearing something great for the first time).

I like having mp3s, so I don't use work's bandwidth when I'm listening at work.