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
Here's how I do it.

For home (high-end listening) i play whatever catches my fancy. My car has 6-cd cartridges. I have three cartridges so I have 18 Dcs 'loaded' at any time. One day I mixed up my entire Cd collection (except for the total CRAP, as Slappy calls it) and I piled my Cds. When I finish listening to one cartridge, I re-load it from 'the pile' and continue listening to the other two cartridges. By the time I get to the third cartridge I am pleasantly surprized. There are about 250 CDs so it takes my mor than half a year to get through it.
I hear you.

I went to a changer and dac set up a year ago and it was bliss to have 5 disk random play for casual listening. Found that there are quite a few disks that I like but can't sit through the whole album straight, and lots that I tossed in the changer to fill it up that I loved though hadn't listened to in literally years.

Great to have guests over and do a 3 / 2 split, guests get to pick 3 disks and I pick 2.

Nik
I tend to listen to listen to music according to my mood, but within my moods I listen to the same albums. Not on sound quality, but because some albums are better in my opinion than others. So why did I buy the other albums? Well..... I thought they would stand the test of time better....
And that's a great idea, buying more than one set of underwear! I'll rush to the store to try that at once. But what's a washingmachine or whatever you call it?
A washing machine is a sort of turntable for your clothes. I understand they are working on a digital replacement that promises "perfect underwear, forever..."