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    Posted: July 26 2013 at 03:39
Have you ever tried listen to your music collection by the date? Or just some decade (for example 60' or 70')? I'm making a chart (day, month, year) and I have currently about 800 albums. I miss some dates so if someone has a similar table, we can make exchange.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 07:05
I dont understand the question
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 07:41
Me neither. Why would I listen to my CDs in date order?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 08:19
I tried this a couple times back in the day but usually got bored before a single day was out, let alone how long it would take me to actually go through my collection chronologically.

My collection is catalogued at RYM so it's pretty negligible to view it sorted by date.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 08:52
I don't think I could do this.  Too much sorting.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 10:50
OK, how much albums do you have?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 10:53
I have been going through my collection alphabetically by band for the past few years.  I tend to listen to each band in chronological order, but I don't track the specific dates of release, just the years.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 11:12
Since some of my records are anthologies from bands or even record catalogues, it would be rather complex to range my records by the date: in which decade could I classify a compilation of Deep Purple or Black Sabbath going from the late 60's to nowadays?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 11:50
I'm talking about classic albums.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 12:04
I've got over 1500 CDs now.  In about the mid '90's I started to log them in to Excel, but I didn't start including added dates unil 1999.  I was just doing an alphabetical sort every 100 titles and then numbering them in a batch.  I've never done an acquisition order listening exercise, partly because I haven't kept up with that but also because I don't find that mode particularly interesting as I already did that in real time.  Right now I'm doing a reverse chronological shuffle.  It's 1998, so I pull all of those titles into a separate spreadsheet and use the RANDBETWEEN function to pick the listening order.  Of course I'm not too anal about it.  I'll skip a title and come back to it if I'm not in the mood for it when it comes up, but I'll complete the year before moving on to the next one.  Again not being anal about it, I will intersperse the randomized revearse year listening with whatever the hell I want to listen to if I don't want to do the title the randomizer comes up with.  In the end my goal is to be sure that sooner or later everything gets listened to, or there's no point in having them in my collection.  Unfortunately the titles I would be most likely to sell of wouldn't fetch much.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 12:35
Originally posted by MrJames MrJames wrote:

OK, how much albums do you have?
Roughly 4000 I think.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 12:37
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I don't think I could do this.  Too much sorting.

That's what Rate Your Music is for
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 12:41
Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I don't think I could do this.  Too much sorting.

That's what Rate Your Music is for
remind me to ask you sometime about that.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 12:51
Wouldn't take very long for me to get through my pathetic 17 CD collection Unhappy
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 12:54
Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

Wouldn't take very long for me to get through my pathetic 17 CD collection Unhappy


Let me guess: 17 CD... and 2486 LPs?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 13:40
Sorry, not interested.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2013 at 17:10
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2013 at 07:36
So far I have heard just about 30 albums from 62 to 67 I think. Now I expanding my collection and hope soon I will continue.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2013 at 09:59
I don't bother to rate anything, big waste of time in my opinion.

You know whether you like anything or not.   What's the damned point?  Are you trying to impress others?  Are you trying to impress yourself?


Edited by Slartibartfast - July 27 2013 at 10:00
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2013 at 11:07
No, I was just asking. Big smile
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