I lay in a sensory deprivation chamber. I find this is best to keep distractions away and focus on the music. I have to be careful though. One time a CD of african drums and percussion played as i was deep in meditation and i turned into a primitive cave man and ran around the streets of New York on the hunt.
Another time some psychedelic music started playing and i found myself in the shape of a black hole with a galaxy swirling around me. I focused on one planet after another looking for signs of life. I found none.
I usually browse audio forums and the internet. Or i play video games, I really like Ark Survival Evolved. But when really good music starts or the sound quality gets really good i just sit back close my eyes and focus on the music.
I keep meaning to rip my movie collection. I even bought two external hard drives about nine months ago. I sit there cycling through Netflix, Amazon and Shudder and can’t find anything to watch. In my office I have almost 1,000 DVD’s of movies that I love (or used to), but I just can’t waddle that far to grab a DVD.
I do likewise as sometimes the metadata for me has weird notes on who appeared as a backup singer or played drums or something along those line. Mostly for stuff that I have that predated the internet. Or just simply to keep an original album cover rather than an updated album cover that was on the album after it was remastered or something like that.
For all my cd’s I ripped them with eac only keeping album, artist, and track number encoded. So not alot of things to manage and sort by but I like that.
If I’m listening at my desk I’m usually paying bills or browsing forums to learn more about whatever is interesting me at the moment. Sometimes if the music is just right it puts me to sleep, then I just drool on myself till a snore wakes me again…rinse, repeat. Sucks to get older.
I used to use EAC but i had a lot of problems with it. it was kinda buggy. I use dBpoweramp now and i find it works a lot better. also their perfect tunes app is good to. I save all my files in WAV format so i dont have any metadata
Thank you for mentioning this. I’m going to grab this immediately after I get off work. MediaMonkey used to be fantastic for editing when ripping an album. But for actually managing a database or doing multiple edits at a time, it’s rather time consuming.
I like keeping it simple and manageable as well. I’ll stretch myself at most to add extra info like Album Artist. This is mostly common with all the Japanese doujin music circles, where one artist can appear on several different labels or CD’s. Plus it looks neater while looking at the list in foobar. Just those small things that pleases me.
God forbid the times I actually went on places like what.cd. I have never seen tagging OCD taken to such levels of clinical madness. Good heavens if you even tried to submit anything yourself. You needed more receipts, test results and papers than the French government. Kind of ironic given that their servers were seized by the French, lol.
They’re gone now, for better or worse. It’s a shame really for the vast music library that it was, but damn I couldn’t stand the community and the standards they set up.
It depends, I might either do a dedicated listening sessions where I don’t do much and just enjoy myself or sometime (and this only goes for a VERY specific selection of tracks), I listen to music while doing other productive things like programming or reverse engineering a game (I mostly do it for speedruns research).
For the later, I use tracks that loops easily (they are all VGM after all) and I tend to keep one on loop for a while until I change it depending on the mood. They also need to not be TOO impactful because I want them to kinda fall in the background. Due to how my brain works, it actually helps me to concentrate a lot to do this so this is why I am very picky which tracks I select for this purpose, but yeah.
