Illegal Downloads

ThirdMan

I just deleted all my illegal downloads. About 500 albums worth. I've just went from an insanely cool collection of music to a fairly obvious one (anyone remember Dave Seaman?).

The reason I deleted them was because I've lost the love. I was downloading entire discographies and not listening to them. Music has become a commodity for me. So I'm going back to basics. I want to slowly build up a collection of music that I have a relationship with (i.e. stuff I've paid for and care about).

I'm just wondering if anyone else has done something similar, and do you feel like it's paid off?

ianuss

I did the same a while back. I just wiped most of what was on a hard-drive, a lot of which I'd even paid for. Can't say I miss any of it tbh.

ThirdMan

Cheers. That's what I was looking for - a reassuring voice telling me it's okay. I've changed the rules even further. I'm only importing one album at a time into iTunes, and I have to listen to that album in it's entirety before I import the next one. It's working out well so far. I'm actually listening to my music, not displaying it like artwork.

copeyhagen

had about 1200 mps @320 or higher on the laptop.. an awful lot i had never played... none of them were acquired legally.

this week, set up a google play music account on the phone and on the latpop. uploaded every song onto the account, and i have been listening to every track all week while in work, sorting everything into genre playlists, including a 'delete' playlist.

at the moment, im up to the letter G and the delete playlist has about 300 songs im gonna remove from the laptop..

found an awful lot of gems i didnt even know i had...

bring back the days of going into abbey discs with enough money for 5 records, sifting through all the ****e to find good music...

ThirdMan

copeyhagen wrote: »

bring back the days of going into abbey discs with enough money for 5 records, sifting through all the ****e to find good music...

I'm not from Dublin, so I used to have to bus it up there to buy new stuff. Great craic though.

was.deevey

Had about 20k tracks in Itunes mostly CD Rips and decided I'd Cull my collection down to only "Dj Sets" stuff .. cut it down to over half (put the chart/indie crap onto the GF's computer).

Then I went and started removing all the stuff that I know had its small window of opportunity to be played closed and will never be heard from again ...god there really is some awful sh1te thats come out in the past 10 years !!

Down to under 2000 tracks now, properly categorized and can actually find what I want, when I want.

Horrible experience, so freaking time consuming.

bring back the days of going into abbey discs with enough money for 5 records,

+1 .. at almost 10 euro per track (in todays money) you made damn certain you were only going after quality, and hopefully something that no-one could get their hands on!.

BetterCallSaul

I'd find that insanely hard to do, but can definitely see the appeal of it!

copeyhagen

it happened to most people when they switched to digital, the novelty of being able to download every track u check out online within about 5 minutes meant that a lot fo mediocre crap was downloaded!

i download a lot of the resident advisor monthly top 50s. of the 50, i normally only keep about 10 maybe.

Scubadevils

I went through a feckin mental period of downloading when I first discovered Soulseek - I had 2 computers on the go at one point downloading different lots/genres of music, it became an obsession to check in the morning as to what albums had successfully come through overnight - then load them up in the MP3 player and try to enjoy, try being the operative word as it never felt right! For me it was mainly a quest to get everything I'd never managed to get my hands on in terms of older electronic music, either because it was rare and out of print or stuff I never knew about... it actually became a period of serious education as part of the obsession, some nights I'd set out to ensure I had every classic detroit techno album, another might anything and everything ambient etc etc etc.

I ultimately dumped it all I'd say about 4 years ago and set about buying the stuff I really liked either on CD or vinyl - that continues to this day! Nothing more rewarding than owning the physical release for me, even if I have to track down a grubby 2nd hand copy somewhere...

I still haven't managed to get this fecker due to the high price it fetches so its probably the only one I still go back to in terms of the download, one day...

http://www.discogs.com/Chapterhouse-Retranslated-By-Global-Communication-Blood-Music-Pentamerous-Metamorphosis/release/134716

ThirdMan

Scubadevils wrote: »

I still haven't managed to get this fecker due to the high price it fetches so its probably the only one I still go back to in terms of the download, one day...

http://www.discogs.com/Chapterhouse-Retranslated-By-Global-Communication-Blood-Music-Pentamerous-Metamorphosis/release/134716

That's some money for a CD. If I was to make an exception it would be for something like that. The artists can't profit from that situation. And I'm sure they'd prefer people actually listening to their back catalogue, as opposed to flogging it for exorbitant prices.

milltown

Yep.
Deleted about 28 gigs of awful gick last year, including a good few tunes I had bought. I think I kept maybe 200 tracks. Some stuff I own and like and want to have on MP3 for handiness and some stuff that is only available on digital.
I'm slowly working through getting the stuff I want bad enough from discogs. Like Scuba, and I'm sure most others, there's some stuff I'm resigned to never owning.
Being honest, if I'm listening to MP3s at home, in the car or in work, it's usually a mix or podcast. If I'm listening to "a tune" at home I'll stick on a record, or youtube if I'm feeling lazy. Even with a massively trimmed down mp3 collection, managing an iTunes library is a chore I'm not sure I'd do as a paid job.

DominoDub

Scubadevils wrote: »

I still haven't managed to get this fecker due to the high price it fetches so its probably the only one I still go back to in terms of the download, one day...

http://www.discogs.com/Chapterhouse-Retranslated-By-Global-Communication-Blood-Music-Pentamerous-Metamorphosis/release/134716

Was lucky to work beside Freebird Records back in the 1990's ,so nearly every lunch time was spent looking for new 2nd hand Promo's that some Jurno just got rid of...so it just so happens I have the the first release of the Blood Music album which came with a bonus CD, separately packaged in a card sleeve:D

Still remember picking it up off the rack with an elastic band holding the card to the main disc....!

Sorry not for sale .

But to make you feel better ..when I think back to many of the rare CD's that I passed over at the time...some "Coil" lots of early FAX (Pete Namlock)

Got to remember folks no mobile internet in those days ..just list of CD's in my head from NME & MUZIK magazine etc

francois

DominoDub wrote: »

Was lucky to work beside Freebird Records back in the 1990's ,

I used to hold the sign up for them on Saturdays!

lb1997

haha i had about 15 days of music (according to itunes) on my old laptop! when it broke i sorta went the same path as you and only downloaded individual albums at a time....still its starting to gather some size now again but at least i can say that i listened to every all of it