Rediscovery


Being a member of the “streaming  revolution” for some time now, I’ve barely listened to my large CD collection (I’ve listened to records because I acquired a new analog setup). Several thousand CDs have been lying fallow. This is partially due to mobility issues (although records are more demanding,) and the convenience and lure of listening to new music,  Now, I’m delving into my CDs and discovering treasures long forgotten. Although it’s a little more effort, I find it very much worth it. It’s like refinding old friends.  Very rewarding.

Any of you having this experience?

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Absolutely, although I have to admit that 'streaming' was never attractive to me in the first place. I have music on all day now that I am retired, usually on a college FM station, but I also have a multi CD player (Onkyo) which I load with a lot of music which I enjoy, but would otherwise rarely pull off the shelf to just sit and listen to (I have a decent CD setup for single disc's when I really want to just sit down and pay attention. BTW I got Buniatishvili's Mussorgsky's Pictures, and it is as you described, a very enjoyable performance. 

FWIW, I love just roaming thru my CD's. I hated trying to read the small spines on the plastic cases so I put them in plastic sleeves and placed them in drawers and in open shelving, so I could just manually flip thru them as you would have done with LP's in a record shop in the old days. Amazingly it reduced the shear volume of CD's (absent cases) by an almost 18 to 1 ratio. No small job to make such a conversion even if you're inclined to do so, but then there are always a lot of rainy days. :-)

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Everything I've listened to the streamed version I try to get CD, record or cassette if possible.