There was a time not too many years back when the music never stopped playing in what ever room I was in. Then for a long time it was podcasts that played all day long. Then I began to notice that the predominate theme of the podcasts were all politics… all the time.
After a time I noticed I wasn’t any happier listening to all of that all day everyday…So I winnowed the podcast list. Now on most days they play in less than an hour… That left the rest of the day to be filled with something else. Then a few weeks back my last off board hard-drive started getting squirrely. So I ordered a couple of new ones to back everything up on before the old one crashed and burned.
The process caused me to revisit my music files. Now I’ve been saving my music onto my computer ever since it became possible to do so. Luckily for me the cost of storage has been going down all of that time. In copying everything over it took close to four hours just for the music. That started me to thinking about how I hadn’t been listening to any thing in a long time… So it was time to fire up the old Winamp and start listening again… So once again my day is filled with music.
I think what drives my wife a bit crazy is that most of the time I have Winamp set to random play. You never know what you will hear, or how it will intertwine. I just went from Mindy Smith to Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Scaggs to Shania Twain to Jane Siberry to Joni Mitchel to Ani DiFranco to Fleetwood Mac. Who knows what will be playing next. And since it’s all music I chose to begin with, it’s all good.
Earlier I was at YouTube watching some Priscilla Ahn videos… I just love that girls voice. While all of this was going on I was adding the latest solo album from Joe Walsh to my collection. Winamp says I have about 506 hours of music on this machine… Some day I may hear the same song twice in a row…
Now, I need to get back to updating my WordPress sites. A new version rolled out.
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You know, since I found Pandora I’ve been pretty content with that – and the occasional download. The thing I like about Pandora is that I can create channels, and while I hear things in the genre I’m in the mood for, I also hear things I’d never find on my own. A nice mix of favorites and brand new – it’s great!
Of course, I have to confess I’m ipod-less, and all that. I still have those old CDs. At least I’m not still rolling out the 8-track. 😉
If I hadn’t been “ripping” every cd that has passed through my hands for twenty years, I would probably go with a subscription service. But, since I’ve managed to continue to move the library from computer to computer to off board hard drive all these years it just makes it so much easier.
Plus, winamp has playlists that can work like channels. If i’m in the mood for the blues I just open my blues playlist. If I want country I can open that one. Most of the time though, I just load the one named “all” and let the luck of the random choose what I hear.
And all of those cds I ripped are still in their pristine shininess in their cases on the bookshelf in the closet. I even added a few oldies this past weekend when I found a bin of $5 cds at the Wallymart. Janis and James and 3 dogs…Songs I hadn’t heard in years now in the que.