How do you decide what to listen to? Same old stuff?

subscribe to a magazine that covers the music you listen to. The writers will introduce to the younger, newer versions of what you currently listen to. It will open your eyes to what is out there.

Noooo....I like all that other stuff....

What attracts me to listen is something that is mastered/pressed really good. I guess the same applies when I stream, my initial motivation to listen is to hear something that sounds great. 

I had a sealed Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium for a long time but just did crack it and wow! I think it just might be the best recorded album in the discography at the moment? At least that's what I want to hear first for a time now.

Streaming lately I was blown away by the energy from Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream. After a lot of research suggesting the first perhaps four vinyl presses are thought to be better than what's available digitally, I'm looking forward to receiving a NM purple copy soon! 

This is going to sound a little nuts, but here’s what I do:

I build playlists for single track listening from my library (Roon combines my music with Qobuz music that I have added to my library) by selecting the same track number and then adding that track number on every album, alphabetically. For example, I am now building out my playlist called "Track 7". I do one letter at a time, so I start with The albums that begin with the letter "A", then "B", etc. After "Z", I begin a new playlist, "Track 8", and so on. If an album only has 6 tracks, it will be skipped from playlists after "Track 6".

I know it sounds crazy, but this forces me to listen to everything over a long, long, period of time. It avoids repetitiveness, and eliminates the "what do I listen to?" question.

Every week, I spend time on Qobuz sampling the new releases, and adding those I like to my library. This means that, someday, when I get back to "Track 1", I will have to delete the old playlist and build it anew.

Enjoy the insanity!!!!