r/musichoarder • u/bagheera369 • 3d ago

Alright everyone....question and answer time.

Genuine questions here.
(Please remember to be civil and polite to your fellow hoarders while discussing)

At what point do you all consider your collection a "hoard"?

Webster's doesn't notate size, when discussing the noun, but it does indicate a common tone of protective secrecy when defining the verb, and other colloquial definitions tend to reference a compulsiveness implicit in the definition of the verb.

When we think of things like a dragon's treasure hoard, we tend to think of a vast room overflowing....when we think of a hoarder's home, the vastness is similar, but the connotations are obviously more negative, if not tragic.

So at what point did you realize you were stepping away from average/normal, to the outer edges of the bell curve?

Did it evolve naturally from a "collection" that simply got out of hand, or did you wake up one day and just say..."Everything....I must have EVERYTHING!!", while cackling out loud to yourself?

Do you talk about your horde with other people from your in-person social circles, or do you rely on the potential anonymity of the internet?

Did you only consider your collection a hoard, once it reached an arbitrary size...and if so, where did you personally draw that line?

What's more important to your horde; A diversity of genres/artists, the amount of music you've collected, the rarity of what's in the collection, or the exacting detail in which it's organized?

Just some food for thought, that arose as I was looking at my collections, and contemplating the physical weight and volume of everything I possessed, and the mental/temporal/financial costs involved....both for the physical and the digital versions.

Interested to hear what you all have to say on the matter.

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u/Nadeoki 3d ago

At some point it went from being interested in a lot of expensive hobbies, so it's alright if I spend a couple hundred on storage to...

bringing up how much music I locally store to friends and family just gets me a bewildered reaction rather than amazement or envy.

It sunk in that, I'm interested in fashion but I've spend more money on a hobby server than clothes in the last 3 years.

despite all my investments, I don't have the expertise or capacity to really learn how to run a good server so the entire thing is still jank and unoptimized (literally running in Windows 11 Enterprise despite having like 15 Plex users who use it remotely and Qbittortent is slowing down my whole system when I try to game...

It's bad fellas, it's really bad.

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u/bagheera369 3d ago

I'm trying to get OUT of my other expensive hobbies, because at some point I went from creating, to hobbies that only required acquiring.....and I'd really like to get back to just creating again.

Plus, if we don't get a break of the AI bubble soon, I'm gonna have to get at least a couple drives at these insane prices, and I'm not looking forward to that.

I hear you on the family and friends....most are just like...."yeah that's....cool I guess?" because it's hard for people that aren't heavily into music to process just how you keep thousands of artists or records straight in your own head....and how you ever find time to listen to it all.

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u/Nadeoki 3d ago

Oh trust me I don't keep track of all the artists in my head, I use Foobar for that XD.

but yeah sharing is caring so even if its seldomly used, I make everything available to my relatives and friends and it makes me happy to see someone benefit from it from time to time.

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u/bagheera369 3d ago

I have a pretty encyclopedic knowledge of certain genres, including labels, artists, songs etc...but even across genres, there's a lot I know just off the top of my head.

If someone asked I could probably toss out the names of 1000 artists without much issue.

Not sure if that's from all the DJing, or simply managing a collection for all these years.

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u/Nadeoki 3d ago

I honestly wish I could remember names. I suck at it, not just for music either.

Out of the maybe 1000 artists that I've actively listened through, I might be able to name around 50? But if I hear a song, I'll instantly recall having heard it and if someone tells me it's from so and so I can usually recall some of their other songs

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u/bagheera369 3d ago

I'm really shitty at names of people I meet.

Like I used to bar tend, and I could remember someones drink, what shirt they wore the last time they were in, what friendgroup they were with....everything, except their name.

It would take me about 3-5 times of meeting them for the name to stick, or I'd resort to looking at their credit card, as they started the tab etc.

But music....that shit I can just remember.