My current music set up is as follows. All my music lives on a 1TB external hard drive (Western Digital) and is backed up routinely to a RAID 1 Mirror hard drive at home. Music that is downloaded but not yet listened to sits on my laptop until I decide if its good enough to be kept permanently or deleted as dross. Im fully aware that I may well be discarding music I will like if given a chance, but I am genuinely only looking for new albums by artists I already enjoy and music by bands Ive never heard of but really catch my ear, and the only way they can do that is to blow my socks off from the opening tracks.
After spending most of 2013 catching up with almost 500 albums worth of new material I have become far more discerning as to the kind of music I try out.
Previously I would have downloaded anything that was in the following music category;
Doom, Sludge, Stoner, Metal, Power, Symphonic, Folk, Prog Rock, Psychedelic, Space and ambient. But after having listened to all and sundry I've limited it down to just Stoner, Psychedelic and Space. I've listened to far to much power and speed metal to know it all sounds the same, and have decided to (unless I read a good review elsewhere) to focus on those few power/speed metal bands I currently enjoy.
The main problem with so much music is that I rarely get to listen to old music I still enjoy.
I've almost caught up with my downloads of albums I've bought but not yet put onto my laptop, but now have a laptop full of music that must be listened to.
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