Listening to ALL your music

I think most of us stick to a certain frecquent menu and forgot about a considerable ammount of music we own.
I played a little trick to add surprise to my listening:
numbered all discs and made a random number generation in a simple excell spreadsheet and now and then pull it out and pick a number to listen. I found that I´m building up a shopping list based on the experience and the flash back in time in some cases has been very interesting.
Regards
Luis

1000 CDs in changers played randomly gives your music collection a workout and keeps it fresh - the spontanaity of what comes on often makes it much more enjoyable. Swap out what you don't like for something new and it continues to be enjoyable. iTunes is probably a better alternative still, as it's more flexible.

nope.

I have 602 cd's and 513 of them are crap.

Here's how I do it.

For home (high-end listening) i play whatever catches my fancy. My car has 6-cd cartridges. I have three cartridges so I have 18 Dcs 'loaded' at any time. One day I mixed up my entire Cd collection (except for the total CRAP, as Slappy calls it) and I piled my Cds. When I finish listening to one cartridge, I re-load it from 'the pile' and continue listening to the other two cartridges. By the time I get to the third cartridge I am pleasantly surprized. There are about 250 CDs so it takes my mor than half a year to get through it.

I hear you.

I went to a changer and dac set up a year ago and it was bliss to have 5 disk random play for casual listening. Found that there are quite a few disks that I like but can't sit through the whole album straight, and lots that I tossed in the changer to fill it up that I loved though hadn't listened to in literally years.

Great to have guests over and do a 3 / 2 split, guests get to pick 3 disks and I pick 2.

Nik