I got to 1000 songs and 4.5GBs of disk space used and thought, sod that. I have imported loads of CDs accumulated on my travels, but at times I think a lot of the stuff I own is crap, and it grieves me that I paid so much money on the basis of a few good tracks only. So I'm glad I dont have 32000 tracks because 30000 would never be played.
In order to broaden my musical horizons and not clog up my hard drive, I have loaded streaming links to new promo music on the likes of MP3.com where artists are open-minded enough to air their music for free.
I have links to a batch of 330 full length songs/20 hours , with iTunes access to a whole new unknown world of blues and reggae, which I can review good and proper with 0kb taken up on my hard drive.
The sound quality is good, occasionally a stream doesnt kick in straightaway, maybe all the streams will eventually be cut, I dont know, but it suits me. There seems to be enough brilliant music perpetually coming out from unknown bands to keep my foot tapping, so I do not feel the need to cross the moral line and download and copy their music. Having said that, when i have paid off the PB I will start off a 21st century music collection by downloading a paid for copy of a BB CHUNG KING AND THE BUDDHAHEADS blues cd.
In order to broaden my musical horizons and not clog up my hard drive, I have loaded streaming links to new promo music on the likes of MP3.com where artists are open-minded enough to air their music for free.
I have links to a batch of 330 full length songs/20 hours , with iTunes access to a whole new unknown world of blues and reggae, which I can review good and proper with 0kb taken up on my hard drive.
The sound quality is good, occasionally a stream doesnt kick in straightaway, maybe all the streams will eventually be cut, I dont know, but it suits me. There seems to be enough brilliant music perpetually coming out from unknown bands to keep my foot tapping, so I do not feel the need to cross the moral line and download and copy their music. Having said that, when i have paid off the PB I will start off a 21st century music collection by downloading a paid for copy of a BB CHUNG KING AND THE BUDDHAHEADS blues cd.