Listening to ALL your music


I found that I seem to be listening to only a few CD's in my collection very often. While it is nice to have "reference" recordings, I found that I am concentrating on sound, not music. So, to counter this, I have decided to listen to all my CD's . I will not aquire any new CD's or make any changes to my system until I have listened to every note on every CD I have.

They are arranged alphabetically, and I seem to be able to do 2 or 3 a night. I have close to 700 CD's, so this should take a while.

Has anyone else done this?
rlips
Actually,

I have been finding that I like almost everything I own! Is just that I have got into a rut. My collection is almost evenly divided between classical and jazz.

Right now, I am on beethoven, and am really enjoying hearing ALL the piano sonatas again.

Reminds me when I was in college, I used to sit in the music library with a score and headphones for hours, and study and listen....

Maybe I will go out and buy some scores.

Oh, and I have also decided to get rid of any disc that I can't listen to. So far, I am keeping the 20 or so I have gone through...
I had the same problem a few years ago and inadvertently stumbled across a wonderful solution. I ended up transferring all my digital and about half of my analog collection into an Apple Mac computer using iTunes as the interface. I have any number of playlists organizing the music, but basically I set things to random play and let the machine do the choosing. In addition to convenience this setup allows me to hear music that I already own that I would never pick otherwise. The system strongly reinforces the fact that I have great taste in music.
Hi!
Yea, that's a good idea. I'm doing the same thing with my underwear. Sometimes, if I'm not careful, I find myself wearing the same ones all the time. I've labeled mine Mon-Sun and it makes it a lot easier. Gets confusing otherwise.

Sincerely
I remain.
My collection is sorted by artists relationships along with styles of music. For example David Byrne I can retreive among the Talking Heads bundle and Bryan Eno can be found between David Byrne and Phill Manzanera while Phill Manzanera can be found along with Bryan Ferry within Roxy music bundle etc...

Very often I figure the need of using equalizer due to many found rock recordings sound horrible but but still feel hunger to listen to it.

As to underware I prefere my few pair of Banana Republic boxers among bunch of others and also use them up whenever possible among other crap I have in my bedroom drower. I'd trash the rest of my undies and buy Bananas but they cost like a good Wallmart jeans indeed.
Hmm,

Funny, as the underwear drawer does need rotation. Seems with wash all the time, the same ones stay on top..Maybe I should alphabetize my underwear, and go throught them all sequentially...........