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How much of your music do you actually like?

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  • January 2, 2013 at 8:35 pm #34380
    Anonymous
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    Don’t delete them. Hard disks are cheap.

    January 2, 2013 at 9:32 pm #34381
    Hee Won Jung
    Participant

    I have about 3 or 4 hard drives filled with music…I probably havent touched some of them in like a year…but i never delete anything permanently.

    January 2, 2013 at 9:43 pm #34382
    aaron altar
    Participant

    I’ve become a delete guy. Having stuff I never use is just clutter in my mind regardless of whether or not it’s taking up actual physical space.

    January 2, 2013 at 10:08 pm #34384
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I doubt I’ve ever purchased music I don’t like.

    January 2, 2013 at 11:12 pm #34386
    Strictly T
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    haha i wish i was like you but my music tastes always subtly change over time. I must have liked the music in order to buy it , but now it just doesn’t fit in with what I play. To be honest up until the summer I think I was a bit happy go lucky with buying tunes, but it is good to experiment.

    I’m really keen to get back into vinyl alongside my digital djing but I am worried I will waste money on EPs I wont use 🙂

    January 3, 2013 at 7:49 am #34405
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    I only play music I like. But then I have a very broad taste and find good music in almost any genre. I can go from some nice old Frank Sinatra to a hardstyle banger in no time for my own listening pleasure (not that I would do that to any audience hehe).

    January 3, 2013 at 1:06 pm #34419
    DJ Yaka
    Participant

    Up until 6 months ago, I was part of a DJ CD pool. This involved me receiving CD’s every month and ripping them to my hard drive. It hit me one day that I was only actually using approximately 30-40% of the music I was paying for.

    Since then I have switched to a digital record pool, and I am not only saving money on the subscription fees, but I am now playing 90%+ of the music I download.

    January 3, 2013 at 7:03 pm #34434
    J-Zed
    Participant

    I don’t think I’d ever play something I flat out don’t like. There’s stuff I prefer to others for sure though. If somebody requested anything by the Swedish House Mafia I wouldn’t be able to do it, but even I have some cheesy house I enjoy.

    January 6, 2013 at 8:37 am #34519
    Richard Driver
    Participant

    im a mobile dj, so out of a 100gig macbook pro, i really only like 10% of that. when i get an opportunity to play my taste, i rock it and i even find myself throwing in a track i like when playing to the masses, but as a mobile dj, i have to deal with picky bar managers or owners or just have to read the crowd you know. but hey, ive been keeping books on my income from djing last year and it turned out to be 35% of my total combined yearly! so to each is own.

    January 6, 2013 at 1:26 pm #34526
    Maximlee
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    strictlyt, post: 34519, member: 2747 wrote: Happy new year everyone!

    I was just messing around on Beatport and thought I would check out the upgrade your library feature. It led me to an area I had never seen before, my downloaded library! I thought I would play a few tunes to see what I had been buying 2 years ago and my word I hate most of the tracks I used to purchase.

    Is anyone else like this? My new years resolution is to be more careful when buying music and to have a clear out of my mp3’s and just keep what I like.

    When you clear out your mp3’s can your bring yourself to delete them? Or do you store them away “just in case” you magically like them again? 🙂

    I kind of can relate… i do listen to old tracks and see how my taste has changed but i still like the tracks i have purchased. hating your records and deleting your records you have bought…. i think ure either only buying tracks that you hear other djs play or big tracks e.g top 10s. You got to LOVE each and ever record you buy and you gotta know why you are buying them…what attracts you to a record… is it bass.. is it the groove of the drums… is it hooks or melodies. If it just because ure fav dj is playing it, then you will probably not like that record in a few weeks cau there’s no element of that track that you LOVE.

    Before i buy any records from beatport or traxsource i listen to them again and again then i come back to it the next day and do the same, then maybe even a third day…. after about 10 listens you firstly filter out the tracks that are catchy but have no real depth plus you start to hear tracks that are in the same feel and groove that will fit together as you are listening to the main piece of records.

    Happy Mixing

    January 6, 2013 at 2:56 pm #34529
    Charles Sue-Wah-Sing
    Participant

    I only play music I like. But then I have a very broad taste and find good music in almost any genre. I can go from some nice old Frank Sinatra to a hardstyle banger in no time for my own listening pleasure (not that I would do that to any audience hehe).

    I don’t think my musical tastes ‘change’ but ‘evolve’. So my musical preferences are very wide (acid jazz to world beats to grunge to house of course). I need variety to keep my creativity in my work and interest in house music alive. I’m a music hoarder in a way. But I’m very picky on what I keep. If it’s in my library it will stay. So if I know (based on my pref) a tune has got a 15 min lifespan I’m not buying it. The one thing I’ve gotten back into recently is buying vinyl. Not just house or dance. We have some real good vinyl shops here. I love the accessibility of iTunes and Beatport to here and buy music. But there’s nothing like going into a record store, talking to music lovers and throwing a track down and having it pump through the store’s PA system.

    January 6, 2013 at 10:20 pm #34546
    NietzSKY
    Participant

    I bump very little music I don’t like. There’s a lot of songs I feel “eh, it’s ok” about (mostly prog house), but any popular song I generally find a suitable remix that I can stand (Afrojack’s gangnam style, for instance XD)

    January 8, 2013 at 3:14 pm #34667
    Strictly T
    Participant

    Maximlee, post: 34682, member: 2165 wrote: I kind of can relate… i do listen to old tracks and see how my taste has changed but i still like the tracks i have purchased. hating your records and deleting your records you have bought…. i think ure either only buying tracks that you hear other djs play or big tracks e.g top 10s. You got to LOVE each and ever record you buy and you gotta know why you are buying them…what attracts you to a record… is it bass.. is it the groove of the drums… is it hooks or melodies. If it just because ure fav dj is playing it, then you will probably not like that record in a few weeks cau there’s no element of that track that you LOVE.

    Before i buy any records from beatport or traxsource i listen to them again and again then i come back to it the next day and do the same, then maybe even a third day…. after about 10 listens you firstly filter out the tracks that are catchy but have no real depth plus you start to hear tracks that are in the same feel and groove that will fit together as you are listening to the main piece of records.

    Happy Mixing

    Thats good advice MaxinLee, especially about the catchy tunes with no depth:)

    I think hate may have been too strong a word for some of my old tunes, I loved them at the time but my taste has evolved – there are some tracks that fit into my style still now and there are some classics that I will always keep.

    I do think in the past I have been too hasty when buying music off beatport – I have changed my ways recently, and I mainly buying full EPs rather than individual tracks, just like if I was buying vinyl. It puts extra pressure on me to ensure I buy music I really like plus you get the other tracks that can grow on you over time.

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