Hey all. I’ve got around 600GB of music I’ve been collecting since the late ‘90s and early 2000s, back when Napster, Hotline, Carracho, Limewire (lamewire) was the thing. A lot of the singles and one offs are random tracks I grabbed as a teenager, plenty of it stuff I’d never know to track down again. And I don’t want to lose any of it.
The thing is, my listening has changed. These days I’m mostly doing full albums in lossless (which by volume is about 50% of the library or more), and I keep my main library curated for that kind of serious listening. All these old one-off tracks dilute it. But I still love them and want them on call when the mood hits. So it’s all mixed together-the singles and weird tracks and the albums.
I was thinking about what to do. It would be nice to have a kind of two tier system. I’ve considered dumping the single material into a Spotify playlist or something similar so they’re separate but still reachable. Has anybody else dealt with this, or is there a smarter way to handle a big personal archive like this? Curious how people keep a “serious” library and a nostalgia stash without the two bleeding into each other.
The thing is, my listening has changed. These days I’m mostly doing full albums in lossless (which by volume is about 50% of the library or more), and I keep my main library curated for that kind of serious listening. All these old one-off tracks dilute it. But I still love them and want them on call when the mood hits. So it’s all mixed together-the singles and weird tracks and the albums.
I was thinking about what to do. It would be nice to have a kind of two tier system. I’ve considered dumping the single material into a Spotify playlist or something similar so they’re separate but still reachable. Has anybody else dealt with this, or is there a smarter way to handle a big personal archive like this? Curious how people keep a “serious” library and a nostalgia stash without the two bleeding into each other.
