![]() Convenience can be a negative thing in this context, as it causes a loss of focus. ![]() Physically putting the CD in a CD player, allows you to pause and focus your intentions on what you are actually going to do - which is: listening seriously to music. The picture on the album cover also adds to this and helps to remind you of when you first bought the album.Ģ. This allows your mind to categorize your music, including where and when you bought the album (thereby associating the music to a specific time and place in your life). Having a real physical CD, allows the album to be objectified in the mind as a real object. I've re-discovered in the last months that is it far more enjoyable to just play the original CDs on a CD player, than sending them through a separate DAC.ġ. However, I sometimes wonder why I bother. I've spent the last couple of years ripping a lot more of my CDs (around another 1000 classical and jazz CDs) to FLAC. I understand people who used to just listen to 1 or 2 tracks off each disc and listen to popular music (or anything suited to standard tagging) streaming and file based music is a no-brainer.įor me it is a frustrating, irritating blot on my spare time I have tried Songkong and may again, but it only takes 15 seconds or so to find the disc and put it on (OK longer for an LP) but since I pretty well always plan to listen to a whole symphony or whatever I don't do it that often. I have spent time tagging my own rips (I was an early adopter almost 20 years ago) at the beginning but in the end got exasperated about how bad it was and gave up in a fit of pique. It often isn't even possible to find which symphony by which composer it may be in a list of "songs" labeled 5th symphony. ![]() No system I know works for that, certainly not the "noise generating" assistants I detest so much. The standard tagging system is targeted at pop music, ie "artist" and "album" whereas I am looking for "composer", "work" "version/performer".
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