Box Set Go

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is a question for those of you who buy (or yes ACQUIRE) large amounts of music at once - maybe in the form of a box set, or some kind of big "torrent", or something. I'm especially thinking of things like 4CD sets of country songs, or 8CD Disky box sets - anything with a huge number of not-known-to-you tracks.

My question is - how do you deal with them? Do you have a method for working out what the good stuff is? Do you just listen to them as you would single-artist albums? Do you find that the first five tracks get listened to more than the last five? etc etc.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I ask this because since digitising most of my collection in the last few weeks I have happened upon several GREBT tracks languishing on the third discs of compilation box sets etc.

(My method being - rip everything and hit shuffle).

But are there any better science methods for identifying these good records? Especially in single-genre comps where with the best will in the world things start to get a bit samey one disc in let alone four - I am too much of a style magpie I think.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

(My method being - rip everything and hit shuffle).

A somewhat more cumbersome variant of this I've played with for eg Disky 8cd boxes: rip everything, tag every track with correct year (this is the cumbersome part), line up everything from eg 1973 and hit shuffle.