Are you highly protective of your interest/obsessions?
I suppose it stands to reason that anything you invest a lot of time and effort in would be considered extremely precious.
Has anyone ever lost their collection? How did you cope? Did you rebuild or move on?
I've lost my collection twice - which is music. Both times it felt like my world had ended, and I spent many frantic and anxious months afterwards working hard to recoup my losses and rebuild my collection.
Whilst we've been sorting stuff to go into storage I found 2 old hard drives and was over the moon - thinking I might find long lost music. I was disappointed when I found the drives nearly empty, but then it occurred to download a free disk recovery programme. A few hours later and I had over 500 songs that I'd lost for years. It was the happiest I had felt in a very long time.
I'm very critical about categorising the music into genres, and playlists. Whenever I would give people lifts, or have people over my house, I would spend hours fine tuning playlists which I felt would cater best to people.
If someone asks me what a song is however - I feel uneasy. Seems trivial, and egotistical to feel unhappy to share my music, seeing as it's a musicians intention to have their songs heard by all sorts of people.
Perhaps my emotions are just an extension of wanting to keep my obsession safe. I recall an old work employee I used to give lifts to would use a programme on her phone to find out what songs were playing whilst in the car. It literally felt like robbery to me. I was just glad so much of my music is so obscure that her phone programme wasn't able to identify them.
I buy all my music as I like to own it, rather than rely on streaming programmes. I've never enjoyed playlists by other people or things like Spotify which would presume other music I would enjoy. My approach has always been very manual, and involved tens of thousands of hours of searching and research to find my music. Each week I go through hundreds of new songs.
It's funny really - for such a big lover of music, I dislike most music I hear. I suppose it echoes a description a friend once gave to me:
"You're a very particular person."
Ed
I suppose it stands to reason that anything you invest a lot of time and effort in would be considered extremely precious.
Has anyone ever lost their collection? How did you cope? Did you rebuild or move on?
I've lost my collection twice - which is music. Both times it felt like my world had ended, and I spent many frantic and anxious months afterwards working hard to recoup my losses and rebuild my collection.
Whilst we've been sorting stuff to go into storage I found 2 old hard drives and was over the moon - thinking I might find long lost music. I was disappointed when I found the drives nearly empty, but then it occurred to download a free disk recovery programme. A few hours later and I had over 500 songs that I'd lost for years. It was the happiest I had felt in a very long time.
I'm very critical about categorising the music into genres, and playlists. Whenever I would give people lifts, or have people over my house, I would spend hours fine tuning playlists which I felt would cater best to people.
If someone asks me what a song is however - I feel uneasy. Seems trivial, and egotistical to feel unhappy to share my music, seeing as it's a musicians intention to have their songs heard by all sorts of people.
Perhaps my emotions are just an extension of wanting to keep my obsession safe. I recall an old work employee I used to give lifts to would use a programme on her phone to find out what songs were playing whilst in the car. It literally felt like robbery to me. I was just glad so much of my music is so obscure that her phone programme wasn't able to identify them.
I buy all my music as I like to own it, rather than rely on streaming programmes. I've never enjoyed playlists by other people or things like Spotify which would presume other music I would enjoy. My approach has always been very manual, and involved tens of thousands of hours of searching and research to find my music. Each week I go through hundreds of new songs.
It's funny really - for such a big lover of music, I dislike most music I hear. I suppose it echoes a description a friend once gave to me:
"You're a very particular person."
Ed
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