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The Grand Listening Project

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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 25th 2024 edited
    I wanted to make this a trilogy of threads, after The Grand Collection Bulding Project and The Grand Whittling Project.

    The Grand Listening Project means listening to my ENTIRE music collection, some 3000 titles worth, now that composer collections have been curated, and albums whittled.

    I started it right after summer, I think, and am now at "G" and Giorgio Moroder. The process is thusly:

    I go through my iTunes collection album by album, starting with 10CC and moving on alphabetically. But I want to put my CDs in play too. The first CD on my shelf is the Irwin Allen box. So when I get to that in my iTunes, I will switch to CDs. It also means that I've skipped playing those iTunes albums up to now that I also have on CD. Once I start playing my CDs, it will be a mix between listening through them as they stand on my shelf (first some 300 John Williams CDs!) and continuing with iTunes alternately.

    Obviously, I can't do this all the time or I will get mad. In certain composer walkthroughs, like Delerue, it gets a bit samey. When that happens, I break it up by sampling new 2024 scores or maybe an LP or something. Before I move back in.

    I don't know if you understood any of that; it does perhaps only make sense in my mind.

    But the question to y'all is: Have you ever attempted a systematic walkthrough of all of your music collection at any point?
    I am extremely serious.
  2. It's an interesting project. I would probably need to thin out my own collection somewhat before trying anything so systematic - I tend to keep everything. So there are albums that I know I won't want to listen to but I would need to listen to - because it would be a systematic run through of my collection.

    So, no, I haven't and probably wouldn't go through my collection from A-Z. And where would I start? Album titles starting with "A", composers whose surname begins with "A", and where would I place titles beginning with a number (e.g., 36 Hours). Or should I convert all numbers to text? dizzy
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 26th 2024 edited
    iTunes is pretty easy that way. I have everything organized alphabetically. So 10CC first (numbers always go first), then Aaron Copland, then A.R. Rahman, then ABBA and so on (and within composers, albums are obviously sorted chronologically). It's by first name, not surname (because that looks better.....Williams, John might be good for a Word document list or something, but not for iTunes display).

    But I don't know which program you use to play your digital music, and it depends on how you have everything organized.
    I am extremely serious.

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