Pale Blue Ego Wrote: > I realize I'm probably in the minority, but I don't want any cruddy > songs in my library. I want to be able to cue up a large playlist and > not have to run for the remote every few minutes to skip past a bad > song. There are just some tracks I never want to hear again. Life's > too short to listen to bad music. > > We all know that some albums only have 1 or 2 good songs. That's fine. > One reason I consider my digital collection more valuable than my LP/CD > collection is that it's all good stuff - no filler. There's a lot of > time and effort that's gone into deciding what to keep and what to > leave out. > > One other benefit is that by keeping partial albums, I'm able to fit > 6-8 albums per GB instead of just 3. Makes a big difference in the > long run storage-wise. > > Even going through my FLACs to more accurately tag them (I'm trying to > research the actual release date of each song, so when I browse by year > it's actually meaningful), I find myself culling maybe 5% of the tracks > - do I really need 3 live versions of that song? No! > > So, am I nuts? Anybody else out there doing this? To each his own. I'd never consider doing this. Storage needs don't bother me. The only place the filler and the duff generally get in the way is when playing in random mode. I'm hoping that some day the track rating system of SlimServer gets implemented, then perhaps the ratings could be used to filter tracks selected for random play.
One thing I've noticed about random play, though, is that I'll often hear a lesser track from an album that catches my ear. I'll then look to see where it came from, sometimes not even recognizing the artist. The same track when played in the context of the album goes virtually unheard because it's not as good as the rest of the album. So I'm actually discovering great music in that "filler" by hearing it in random play. I have considered leaving tracks out of the library. In particular, I have some reservations about some of the the "bonus" tracks added to classic albums, especially if they're not from the same time period, as is often the case. Since I often listen to complete albums, I wish there were an easy way to choose whether I want to listen to the "original" or the extended version of an album. I suppose playlists might do this, but I don't think they'd be organized with albums. If I could browse artists, or artwork, then when I got to an album, I had the choice of playlists to play, instead of just "All Songs" that would be ideal. Particularly with jazz, I love having ten or twenty different versions of the same tune by the same artist. That's the essence of jazz. There are often classic versions, or at least those we're all familiar with, but the others are almost always worthwhile and often better, although there's seldom a "best". The other thing with jazz is that if you have a large library of reissues then you'll probably have several hundred tracks worth of false starts and recording session banter. I love having all that available, but it doesn't usually work well in random mode. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21807 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
