I had them alphabetized by genre so I knew where to find anything. Behind the CD I'd put the CD insert just in case I ever wanted to look at it again. My biggest fear, was losing my CD collection. If someone were to ever rob the house or break into my car or if everything went up in flames; it would suck to lose a lot of things but the thing I'd be the most upset about were those CD binders.
The main reason I got an iPod, which was a 4th Gen "Classic", was so I could take it with me instead of the CD case, that way if my car was ever broken into all they'd take was my iPod (which did happen once in SF).
I'm getting tons of clips and pops when making my track in Ableton because I don't have enough memory. Its making it extremely difficult to listen to and almost makes me not want to make music. I thought in the meantime what I'll do is upload everything I want to keep to a cloud, like drop box and since all my music is on iTunes Match, I don't really need it on my computer. After doing that I could completely reformat my computer and just install the bare minimum things I need to produce until I can buy a new laptop. I went to my iTunes folder to delete the music and had it all highlighted and than it hit me that I've finally accepted the cloud for music. I didn't really need the actual files downloaded to my computer at all times. I can almost always access it either through iTunes Match or Spotify and download whenever.
Bam, just like that, I'm accepting the future. And that's just the iTunes folder, SoulSeek is another 60 gigs of where I kept all my downloaded music. Don't get me wrong, I will probably buy a hard drive and re-download everything there and keep 1 hard drive specifically for music files and I'm OK with using both as main sources and backups of my music libraries. As far as the music I'll need for my DJ Sets. I'll have 1 folder with all the songs I'll need that I'm sure isn't going to take up 100 gb worth of memory, at least I hope.
Then I got used to the iPod and slowly fell madly in love with it. I could have ALL my music in one place. I loved it! I've always had an iPod after that. The new thing the kids are loving to do these day is stream music, whether it be YouTube or Spotify or some other music streaming service. I purchased a Spotify Premium account two months ago and am slowly falling in love with new technology all over again. With the offline feature, when I want I can put music on my computer so I don't have to stream and I can also download songs on my phone! I've been wanting to get a new laptop for the last month or two. It's gonna have to come after I get buy my 2nd studio monitor to complete my set.
I'm getting tons of clips and pops when making my track in Ableton because I don't have enough memory. Its making it extremely difficult to listen to and almost makes me not want to make music. I thought in the meantime what I'll do is upload everything I want to keep to a cloud, like drop box and since all my music is on iTunes Match, I don't really need it on my computer. After doing that I could completely reformat my computer and just install the bare minimum things I need to produce until I can buy a new laptop. I went to my iTunes folder to delete the music and had it all highlighted and than it hit me that I've finally accepted the cloud for music. I didn't really need the actual files downloaded to my computer at all times. I can almost always access it either through iTunes Match or Spotify and download whenever.
Bam, just like that, I'm accepting the future. And that's just the iTunes folder, SoulSeek is another 60 gigs of where I kept all my downloaded music. Don't get me wrong, I will probably buy a hard drive and re-download everything there and keep 1 hard drive specifically for music files and I'm OK with using both as main sources and backups of my music libraries. As far as the music I'll need for my DJ Sets. I'll have 1 folder with all the songs I'll need that I'm sure isn't going to take up 100 gb worth of memory, at least I hope.
