Listening to ALL your music

From my point of view life is too short to impose such a task onto yourself. While I wholeheartedly agree with you about the time wasted listening to the sound of your system as opposed to the music, don't waste more time listening to music you don't feel inclined to hear. Focus on expanding your horizons to music you haven't already experienced (I assume you've listened to all your stuff at least once). Its much more rewarding in the long run. At least it has been so for me. And, as I have said before, get the recordings while they are still available! By the way, nice system - no need to spend money there to enjoy the music.

I've found that the more software I have the harder it is to decide what to play. It's easy to go with the old standbys whether for sonics or convenience. I ask my wife what she would like to hear and playing that request mixes things up enough to send me on a tangent to various other albums. Did that make sense?? It's late. Goodnight.

I find myself listening to the same things sometimes. I usually try to force myself to root arond and find something different. If you do that I think you find some extra pleasures. Usually you bought(hopefully for at least one good song)it for a good reason, so you should find that again.

Actually,

I have been finding that I like almost everything I own! Is just that I have got into a rut. My collection is almost evenly divided between classical and jazz.

Right now, I am on beethoven, and am really enjoying hearing ALL the piano sonatas again.

Reminds me when I was in college, I used to sit in the music library with a score and headphones for hours, and study and listen....

Maybe I will go out and buy some scores.

Oh, and I have also decided to get rid of any disc that I can't listen to. So far, I am keeping the 20 or so I have gone through...

I had the same problem a few years ago and inadvertently stumbled across a wonderful solution. I ended up transferring all my digital and about half of my analog collection into an Apple Mac computer using iTunes as the interface. I have any number of playlists organizing the music, but basically I set things to random play and let the machine do the choosing. In addition to convenience this setup allows me to hear music that I already own that I would never pick otherwise. The system strongly reinforces the fact that I have great taste in music.