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

answer to "is there any better method" question: no

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

iTunes is handy because it helps you quickly identify what you have and haven't listened to. i have an smart "unplayed" playlist that i conscientious turn to when i want some music but don't particularly care what it is.

also, for big comps like the one you describe, i will actually consciously play ONLY those things i don't know/remember. the better stuff seems to jump out more quickly that way.

in principle, though, i try to listen one disk at a time (usually that's about my attention span) rather than go through the whole collection at once (i remember very deliberately doing this when i got the james brown box set a few years ago).