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

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I have around 150 box sets - about a dozen of them with 10 or more CDs (2 with 15!). On larger sets I will listen to one CD at a time, generally, and intersperse with different kinds of music. I try to pay enough attention to identify particular favourites and rip same. On smaller sets, some 3CD ones, like the Trojan ones for instance, I often listen to them straight through.

I have found the larger ones tend not to get played again very often. I am thinking I should stop buying them unless I am absolutely convinced I will want to listen lots of times.