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This weekend, I befriended a very nice, soon-to-be neighbor at my local coffeeshop/wine bar.  We were chatting about who we are, what we did and what we are into.  She said her husband and herself were very into music and have “80 gigs in their collection”.   After awhile, I mentioned I had around 200 gigs of digitized music and she asked if we could get together and share collections sometime… of course, I have no idea what she has on her drive and vice versa.  And… what’s the policy on getting together and swapping?

It is a bit interesting to discuss a collection of something in terms of size such as a “gigabyte”, but then it’s a bit similar to saying you have 10,000 baseball cards or 5,000 comic books.  But there’s nothing very romantic or nostalgic in saying you have multiple gigabytes of music.

In the old days, it meant something very different to say you have 500 7″ singles.  There was something to be said about someone who took the time seeking them out, maintaining space for them and taking care of items which one must be careful with.

But now, it’s a question of select-all / copy / paste.  An all-too-simple process in creating a perfect digital copy of a piece of music.

How do you describe your music collection to someone these days?  Have you ever said no to someone who wanted to get together and swap?

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