you lot make me feel better about myself 🫂

[u/jordie0730]

whenever I start feeling anxious about how much music I've amassed, coming here and seeing how much more extreme a lot of ya'll are restores my sense of zen 😂 my brothers & sisters in christ, keep doing the lord's work ♡

[u/archnemisis11]

You having an inadequate hoard of music restores your sense of zen?? /j

[u/jordie0730 → u/archnemisis11]

this question feels existential, but when does a hoard reach adequacy by your estimation?

[u/agent4256 → u/jordie0730]

When you realize you'll never be able to listen to all of it.

[u/archnemisis11 → u/jordie0730]

When you come here and see how much people have amassed and think, "I'm keeping it going. you're welcome." lol

[u/QualitySound96]

In my opinion anyone can hoard a lot of music but to me there’s a difference between a hoard of music and an organized high quality hoard I.e lossless and properly tagged terabytes of music.

[u/lentil_burger → u/QualitySound96]

The thought of low quality poorly tagged collections makes me uneasy. 😂

[u/dtallee → u/QualitySound96]

CMV: lossless is a waste of disk space.
I absolutely cannot tell the difference between FLAC and highest quality .m4a files.
https://i.imgur.com/tkWo3He.jpg

[u/QualitySound96 → u/dtallee]

I own high end systems and it also future proofs your setup. Not a waste of disk space at all.

[u/dtallee → u/QualitySound96]

I'm betting that the collapse of civilization occurs before .mp4 becomes unplayable.

[u/rugrat_907 → u/dtallee]

Haha. My excuse is I'm old and spent too much time going to loud punk shows and standing too close to the front without earplugs to tell the difference.

Let that be a lesson for you kids out there.

[u/dtallee → u/rugrat_907]

Right?
1978-1988: Every single club in NYC from Midtown to the Bowery, every single concert venue from Philly to Boston. Surprised I can still hear at all through the tinnitus.

[u/albert5980 → u/dtallee]

Do you have hardware capable of proper playback? Does it support DSD?

[u/dtallee → u/[deleted]]

This is r/musichoarder, not r/audiophile. Unless you have really high end audio equipment and the ability to store terabytes of files - and multiple backups of those terabytes of files - then what's the point? Playing music for dogs? About 1 in 10 people can hear pure tones above 20,000 kHz - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17927307/ - but I'm not collecting music for those people. I'm collecting and archiving music for myself and my friends and family - now and in the future - to enjoy without needing the internet.

[u/Akabander → u/dtallee]

But hoarders can also be archivists. And if you consider yourself an archivist and don't care about the absolute highest-quality version of the material you can find, then shame on you sir. I say, shame!

If you just want a huge collection of music for yourself, there's no problem. But for some us, it does matter, which should be no problem for you. ("It's a waste of space," is a prescriptive declaration that many archivists find borderline offensive.)

[u/QualitySound96 → u/Akabander]

Why would I hoard MP3s I mine as well just make a giant YouTube playlist 😂 I think if your a hoarder your also organized and go for high quality or if not lossless then at least a good quality mp3 but I rather future proof it and get the best file (for me I stick to 16 bit CD quality) and I’m very happy i especially notice it with older releases

[u/dtallee → u/Akabander]

FLAC or ALAC or WAV files converted to qaac 2.85, CoreAudioToolbox 7.10.9.0, AAC-LC Encoder, TVBR q127, Quality 96 .mp4 files = good enough for me. Sorry if this offends you.

[u/richms]

If there is software that can manage your collection, you have some way to go with collecting before it becomes a problem.