I own a 40GB iPod, and right now it's completely full (9396 songs). I'd say that probably 1/3 of this music isn't mine . . . it's ripped from my friends' CDs . . .

So anyway, since it's full, I was going over what I wanted to delete (the songs are all on my computer's external HD too). Well, in doing so, I noticed two things:

1) I don't listen to hardly ANY of these songs (the ones that aren't in my CD collection). Sure, I listen to a few here and there, occasionally . . .

2) Most importantly, I don't feel right anymore having these songs. Not that I'd ever get caught, but I feel sorta guilty on a "karmic" level of right-and-wrong.

I've decided to delete anything that isn't mine, my sister's (we live together) or my girlfriend's. It's a hard decision, but I think I'll feel better afterward.

Then, I think I'll rip my music a little bit higher bitrate (closer to CD quality) and fill the iPod up that way.

Anyone else go through anything like this? Am I being paranoid, or just overthinking this "digital music" thing?

i'd say your over thinking this thing a bit toooo much

Well, I started . . .

I deleted 2.36GB of music . . I began with the stuff from others that I NEVER listened to . . .

That's it for now - I'm going to listen to some of the others and decide what to do next.

If you've got iTunes, you can always put the removed tracks back on your iPod when you get a hankerin' to listen to them.

namepeace said:

I have iTunes, and (for now) I have all the tracks on my external hard drive back home (in Michigan, I am in California).

What I'm trying to do is to is ween myself off of "borrowed" music, and have only music that I own. It's hard to do . . . I'm sure I could just DO IT and not look back, but it's not that easy . . .

I got a good start though. I've just felt guilty recently for having all this music that I didn't pay for. That's all. Not "turn-myself-in" guilty, just "doesn't-feel-right" sorta.

namepeace said:

Cool avatar -- reminds me of Spaceballs. The desert scene . . .

LOL

Se7en said:

Funny.

I just read this article that said downloading music isn't what making record sales slump, it's the music ..... :rolleyes:

Another Thing is I think the media did a good damn job making people feel guilty for downloading music, I remember back in the days when it wasn't a big deal and people where doing free of guilt, i would love to have those days back.

I think if it wasn't for kazaaa downloading music freely would still be around and people would be sharing music. I download music a lot, I think for those guys would had a thousands files on there computer kind of screwed up for everybody else, but really y'all people who download music r not the reason for record sales.

It's the company's fault and they want to blame it on the little guys.