I’ve been re-ripping and re-evaluating my CD collection. I took some pictures and stitched them into a panorama to show what’s in my iTunes library, and what isn’t in as well.
First what’s in:
Now, what’s out:
Essentially, everything in pile two is either music I don’t listen to, music that came up on random too much and annoyed me, or music that’s badly engineered.
The GTA soundtrack isn’t bad, but it’s poorly put together. It just sounds bad. Maybe this is because it’s a collection of ‘pop’ tracks, which rarely sound good in the first place.
Collections aren’t bad, they’re just the wrong mix of songs for me. I’ve found that LPs were more selectively constructed, with less filler. Engineers and bands were a lot more picky on them than modern CDs, and producers usually gave them a free hand. This makes collections and modern remasters with ‘out-take’ or ‘first run-through’ tracks add nothing to the original.
Added: ripped with ALAC, my collection comes out to 85GB for 2989 songs, in case you’re wondering.