Seriously. For probably the past two years now, I haven't really listened to a CD in my car more than once. I download only MercuryNation (selectively), burn mp3 CDs, listen to the 6-8 sets per mp3 CD in my car, then stack the CD on a spindle. Repeat. Basically, every time I get in my car I'm listening to a new set that I haven't heard before.

I'm so far behind on listening to my music that I'm constantly filling up ALL disk space on 2 of my company computers with MP3s, my home computer is full, my boss actually bought me an 80gb usb drive that I'm storing mp3s on, and I burn DVD cds every 4.7GB of sets that I download. I just bought an mp3 player for portable set listening, but I still don't have the fucking time to go through everything!

Where the hell do you guys find the time to download and listen to everything on this board, and still have the time to appreciate sets multiple times (JZ's new promo) and even venture out into non-edm (e.g., the jamiroquai thread)? I can't imagine ever having time if I'd ever actually start downloading the Hernan sets or John's set :shock:

It is impossible for me to catch up... most of the time when its something i like ill listen a few times in a row which just makes me more in the hole with all the other stuff I havent heard on my cpu... i try to appreciate and d load as much as i can just to keep up, but can hardly remember sets tryign to listen to too much... tough to catch up now because it seems like there is so much out there you can catch on to and listen to, such a growing community... hopefully one day but i cant see it being anytime soon...

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I can't see how anyone can ever be caught up with their music. For me most of the time I can listen to different sets at work, I just plug the ipod into the stereo and able to enjoy for the next eight hours. But when I find a set I or my co-workers really like than it get more play and more I get behind. Also when I home it seems like I'm shuffling music around more than I listen to. There could be worst things out there to behind on, this I don't mind at all. 8)

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Perfect timing Pickles.

A good mate of mine (fellow Prog lover and MN'er alike) were just chattin' the other day about how behind we were on our music and how hard it is to listen to a good set more than once all the while trying to keep up on the plethora of fresh stuff you are d/l'ing.

My strategy is adopting my iPod as a graceful body part (my third arm as i call it) and always having it on play and on shuffle. 60gigs allows me to still explore my listening enjoyment outside of PROG (however 99% is prog!!!)

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basicly i listen to music as i work, so when i'm off from work i download the sets, burn them to mp3 cds and play them next day

Right now I'm eternally grateful that I'm still in school. On Mondays and Wednesdays I'm there for about 7-8 hours so packing the iPod definitely helps. Being the one to queue up downloads each week it becomes even more tough because I HAVE to listen to what we'll be hosting in order to provide you guys with some objective feedback. Don't know what I'm going to do when I have to get the 9 to 5. I'll have to make my morning and evening runs that much longer.

dont worry ska, when you get a 9-5, just hit me up and we'll share the load

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Same here...on the streamer a lot of DJ's ask what I thought of their set, and of course I don't wanna let them down and take a listen. Or I get sets from guys applying for a spot, which I have to review as well. Fun to do, but sometimes I'm just like...BRRLALALAAAAAAAAAA!!! Found out one thing though: listening to a lot of sets will make you find the special ones easier, since that will be the set turning your head to the playlist halfway through to see 'whose fucking great mix this is?"

:wink:

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This is a good topic! I take a quality over quantity approach. I had been trying to listen to everything that crossed my path, but I found I wasn't connecting enough with the music and I was listening to too many sets that didn't interest me.

So I'm back to being more selective and stick with sets from my favorite top DJs and the Kiss Guest Mix, which I find is a good way to get exposed to someone new, for instance the Alex Dolby mix was a nice surprize.

I prefer to give each set AT LEAST 2 listens, unless I had trouble getting trough it the first time. I'll also still listen to classic sets from a year or 2 ago, if it's a good mix I really like to appreciate every last detail.

Either way I am really appreciative that I'm lucky enough to have such a pleantyful and economical source for my favorite music. Think of those poor bastards buying top 40 CDs! :roll: :lol:

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Throttle your net connection and play all your music double speed 8)

I always make time for music, especially listening to the best sets more than once, even if it means I don't sleep for weeks.

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everywhere I go I have my music on. jogging, in the car, on my motorbike all day in work and at home when theres fuck all on tv. And even with the ammount of time I have on my hands i still dont get to listen to it all. But I get to what I dont hear eventually. When new stuff is available other stuff I havent listened to gets put on the back burner to make way! Generally though I listen to a set once unless its amazing like the so called digweed from fabric set. I still have that in the car.

good topic

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[quote=Yao]Found out one thing though: listening to a lot of sets will make you find the special ones easier, since that will be the set turning your head to the playlist halfway through to see 'whose fucking great mix this is?"[/quote]

Agreed 100%. Not only do I burn DVD backups of everything I download, but any mix that turns my head gets thrown into a separate "Quality" folder for mp3 cd burning, then is stored in my car. My 200-cd cd book in my car is packed full of the Quality mp3 cds, which probably evens out to about 500-600 quality sets that I have absolutely no time to ever listen to again. :?

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[quote=Kobe]So I'm back to being more selective and stick with sets from my favorite top DJs and the Kiss Guest Mix, which I find is a good way to get exposed to someone new, for instance the Alex Dolby mix was a nice surprize. [/quote] I'm very selective too... I usually only download about 50% of the MS downloads each week, and maybe 10% of the MS&R forum sets, but I'm still so far behind. I have a desk job, but lately haven't had time to listen to music. I just need to make the time at work again.

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I can't listen to music at work, between keeping the volume so low I can hear the bass, to the constant interruptions, there is no way to give anything an honest listening. Car time is beat time for me, I have a 30 min commute each way.

i start my days with an album and a 45-minute cup of coffee 8)

do you guys waste alot of time watching TV?

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Every week I try to listen to Digweed's show and the guest mix. And the Essential mix. So there goes four hours. I will look at the special downloads, and if there is a big buzz on the boards I will check them out.

I work at home, so as long as I am not on the phone I can have music running most of the day. I listen to cds, downloaded sets and other things.

I don't listen to the radio very much, unless I am driving. But half the time it will just be a cd.

At night I will listen to cds on the stereo or mp3s on my iriver.

I also review cds for Exclaim magazine. This can be a problem. Each cd needs a good listen, then a second listen for the ones that are worth reviewing. This can take a lot of time, especially when I get the cds close to deadline.

I do watch a few tv shows, I don't watch or go to the movies.

To answer your question, I barely keep up. Sometimes I rue not giving albums a second chance, and sometimes I do actually get to hear things more than once. I find releases I buy have the best chance of being heard more than once.

Recent releases that have captured my attention: Royksopp - The Understanding Chris Fortier - Balance 007 Damian Lazarus - Suck My Deck Jamie Lidell - Multiply Richard Devine - Cautella the Ricardo Villalobos special downloads

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pretty interesting article about this [url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1854]here[/url]

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Ricardo Villalobos special downloads? was that from a while ago, if so i think i got it, if not i NEED IT ;)

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thanks for the read pel, defo a good one.

HE'S ME! :shock:

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I feel your pain man..I've got a total of about 250 Gigs of music...5-10% of which has been listened to. :?

I just deleted about 30 Gigs of sets that had just been sitting on my hard drive...some of them for [b]years[/b]!!! I just listen to to many different kinds of music to catch up on one particular kind. I just take it as it comes and try to listen to something different as often as I can. I can't listen to music at work and I haven't bought and iPod yet, so it's pretty much while I'm sitting doing this or driving...which it seems I don't do that much of anymore.

But hey, when it comes down to it...too much is better than too little. :wink:

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I tend to skip through my downloads and delete the duds. Every morning when I wake up to finished downloads, I transfer the fresh sets onto the iPod, listen to them on the way to work and at work. I put on the more banging fresh sets on the shuffle to listen to when jogging. I listen to the sets at home when I'm on the computer (which is all the time, barring meals--wow that sounds bad).

So I'm basically listening to music all times of the day except for showers and meals . Even so, I listen to sets one time, and if they're particularly good, I give them another spin. But for long sets like Zabiela or Digweed, I tend to listen to them only once (no matter how good they are).

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it is just too difficult to leave a hot liveset/album (esp. if it is you fav. dj) you've just listened to a few times, for instance, Digweed live at gg2005.

i've tried to listen to something else in my hdd, but within 10 minutes of listening to that something else...i will think about listening to the Digweed set again and i end up going back to it.

it is a never ending story.

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[font=Helv][size=2]I have the same problem as you lots..... i try my best to get to listen to every thing ....but i cant keep up .... but i defo appreciate the fact that i have access to all this music for Free ...dasbooyah ...it took me couple of weeks to get Digweed GG2005 out of my car Mp3 player !!

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It's interesting that so many of you will only listen to a set once or twice no matter how good it is. My entire goal is to find that set that I can listen to over and over.

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To me , music is one of the essentials of life. I don't stock pile water in my garage,(except during hurricane season!) I don't have enough food for a month in my freezer. Why do I have more music then I'll ever be able to listen to in one life time? The answer is: Cause it's there and it makes me happy. I like to share it with others too. If it means half as much to others as it does to me, then they should have it too. Want a set and can't find it: look me up on slsk (rms3k) i might have it, and your welcome to it. It's all a part of good Karma. I am one of those that get farther and farther behind in listening, because I get stuck on something I like and listen to it over and over. I have to force myself to take the cd out of the car and put a new set in there to try. Beats are oxygen to me. Can never have enough. I won't try to get current on my stuff but I will continue to D/L if not for me, then for the next guy who might want it.

ps where can i retrieve my avatar from the other site?

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:DoMe:

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[QUOTE=peloquin]Ricardo Villalobos special downloads? was that from a while ago, if so i think i got it, if not i NEED IT ;)[/QUOTE]

Ricardo Villalobos at Phlegmatic Dog, Russia April 21, 2005 Ricardo Villalobos at Awakenings, Amsterdam April 16, 2005

Five hours of wicked techno :!: I think they were hosted in June.

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i am a bit of a glutton when it comes to music . and no way could i listen to what i have stored on drives . i get lots of music i don't realy like but i still keep it on drives incase a mate or fellow sharer wants it . i have probably listened to the first and last track of every set i have downloaded and i have way more than 2000 sets on drives those that get me interested get listened to all the way through.. the others i leave

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[QUOTE=bart_smastard]i am a bit of a glutton when it comes to music . and no way could i listen to what i have stored on drives . i get lots of music i don't realy like but i still keep it on drives incase a mate or fellow sharer wants it . i have probably listened to the first and last track of every set i have downloaded and i have way more than 2000 sets on drives those that get me interested get listened to all the way through.. the others i leave[/QUOTE]

i can attest that bart has more music than he could possibly listen to in the nest 10 years. still wondering how many drives he has......

ffs, 13,000 shared items.:shock:

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Probably yes. I listen to music all the time. Whether trying to find new tracks for a set or looking for the newest diggers set. It usually has something to do with music. Then I work the other part of the time.

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I live in LA. The only way to make traffic pleasent, is putting on a new set, of couse from mercuryserver.

So thanks....

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Its very difficult...I listen to music all day at work and all night when I get home...and I barely keep up...

I am in the process now of re-evaluating my cd collection and rating the sets on a scale of 1-10...with and 11 being pure peak time.....

that way i can throw out all the garbage sets.....

Id have to say that it is becoming harder and harder to find Good Quality music anymore....the productions are just not where the once were....

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i dissagree with the quality issue . i started a thread about ipods spoiling our appreciation of music a bit back and the common consensus was that because we accumilate and hear so many sets per week it is impossible for a dj to put out a totaly fresh set containing great tracks no-one has heard before . your ears have been spoiled and takes something realy special to excite them

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[QUOTE]your ears have been spoiled and takes something realy special to excite them[/QUOTE]

it has always tak'en that for me. and it is not because of l o a d s of music.

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I tend to go in waves with downloading/listening to new music. I seem to get stuck on certain styles and albums for a while, and then start downloading new stuff like crazy. My friends and I have this discussion all the time though, too much good music to keep up with!8)

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i only listen to sets for about 5/6 hours a day - that's why i look forward to weekends then it's until i pass out

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ah.....easy only download the music that i know i will like :roll:

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^I try.

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[QUOTE=chuckc]Id have to say that it is becoming harder and harder to find Good Quality music anymore....the productions are just not where the once were....[/QUOTE]

I'll agree to that. I put in Jimmy Van M's Bedrock from 2001 the other day and was like "Man, shit was just [b]better[/b] then." It's all about these dance floor bangers these days. I liked it more when DJs would strech out and play something a little more laid back, more open and atmospheric. It all kinda sounds the same these days.:?