Do you play the same records over and over again?

@mulveling 

Is your record collection growing? 3000 is a lot of records.

How do you decide what to listen to? Do you have a master index of all your recordings?

Do you have any 45s? 

I don't, but I miss that. I get so many new records in my life that I am almost always playing the newest, or the ones I haven't played in a long time. When I owned 100 records, and loved twenty of them madly, it was as if they were family members. They became part of my world view, part of my personality, in a way few things did.

These days, I might find one or two records a year that I play repeatedly (like almost every day). I'm now in a phase of wanting to touch as much of the music world as I can before I leave the planet. And it is wonderful, in many ways. But obsessively loving a very few pieces of music - I seem to have lost that ability. 

As I said, I miss that. It might have more to do with the law of diminishing returns, and how large I view the world in my older age. I don't know...

David

@emergingsoul ”How do you decide what to listen to?
 

l believe most music lovers need no prompting. They generally know on the spur of the moment what appeals in that moment. If not, a quick look along the spines in the record rack something will “pop out” and that title will be chosen.

After all if the record is in your collection, surely it must be of value, or appreciated for it to be still in there?

Since April 2020 my goal was to play my entire vinyl collection. I made the decision to play only 1 side to speed up the process. During this time period I have added nearly 1000 albums bringing my total to around 2400. Currently have played over 98% of the entire collection with the vast majority of the unplayed being sealed, only a handful of bottom feeders(content/condition) are left to be possibly played. My 2026 focus will be trimming the fat from the collection and component upgrades.

@mulveling 

Is your record collection growing? 3000 is a lot of records.

How do you decide what to listen to? Do you have a master index of all your recordings?

Do you have any 45s? 

@emergingsoul  It’s not been growing much for the last few years. Glad I acquired most of my records before prices went too crazy. 3K is plenty; it’s already sort of an obnoxiously large collection. At least 30% of these LP’s, I don’t care for - based on sound quality or music - but I’m too lazy to get rid of them yet.

I’m not nearly enough of a "Type A" to track these things to the Nth degree. Partial organization / alphabetization is the best I can pull off. I’ll either browse the general bins or hit up the few "hot" piles (recent plays & favorites), based on my whim at the time. 

Very few 45’s here. None of the small singles. 12" 45’s can sound truly awesome, but they’re a bit unwieldy in use, and a good 33 still sounds amazing.