The Art of Listening
I’ve often talked about my CD collection on this blog . It’s large, its cumbersome and it takes up a lot of space at home. So much so that I've had a tidy up recently. Every track has been converted to an MP3 file and either added to my iTunes, or saved to an external hard drive. The discs have been packed away into a travel case the size of a large book, which takes up significantly less shelf space, and the CD cases have been put into a huge box which, with much difficulty and some swearing, is now in the loft. On reflection, it made me feel quite sad. The CD's aren't just those I've purchased over the years. A good chunk of them have been given to me after people I know had passed away. It felt, in some ways, like I was continuing their collections. But the world has moved on, and CDs are largely a thing of the past, with downloads and streaming services the current most popular means of listening to music. And the more I think about it, the more I realise that the s...
