Music is a major part and love of my life. I began playing a trumpet at 9 yrs. old. My grandfather and uncle had a big influence on my music preferences. On my own, I became a lover of jazz. Later, due to the influences of my uncle and grandfather I became a fan of classical & opera. My teenage years were filled with current pop, buying 45's, 78's, eventually vinyl records and playing trumpet in several small bands. My radio was constantly listening to WNEW and WBGO (NYC and Newark). I began attending "big band" concerts in our local concert hall in Asbury Park, NJ and jazz clubs in NYC. Most of my youth was filled with music, playing in bands and collecting recordings.
In 85' I bought a PC. Eventually I began exploring the internet. I also learned to convert my CD's to mp3 files. Concurrently, I became a fan of Napster (people to people networking) which offered free downloads of other's music files. I'd download many hours of flies in the evenings. After Napster, I did the same on LimeWire. I downloaded thousands of files.
In 2018 I began to download and convert music files to mp3 and store in my music folder. I had many subfolders of artists, music periods, styles... I continually add to my downloads of music files via Youtube and
www.mp3million.com. (a very reasonable and voluminous source of albums and tracks). Currently I have approximately 150,000 music files, many are albums.
I have an SSD devoted to music. I've made many playlists of various music periods, styles and artists. I continue to download audio files from Youtube and convert to mp3 format.
I recently upgraded my Sonos Arc system by adding two additional speakers and a subwoofer. Via Sonos' app on my iPhone and PC, I have full access to all my music files stored on my PC. I use MP3Studio to download and convert audio files from Youtube. It's one right click on the video and it immediately downloads and converts the music audio file to mp3 and stores it to my choice of folder(s) on my PC.
In my car, I simply copy any of my music files to two flash drives and connect to two USB ports. I have more music on two flash drives (one for my wife who loves Country as well as classical Pop and jazz) than I can ever listen to while driving.
In essence, I listen to music frequently and often on a daily basis and it is always the
choices I want, when I want it. I usually have my headset on while perusing and contributing to UHH each morning.
I thought I'd share my music experiences with my UHH friends.
Mark