I used to collect a lot of MUSIC back in the good old days of MP3 Invention. Those days... having a collection of MP3s in GBs was a thing to boast about....
I personally had a 13GB MUSIC collection out of a 40 GB capacity; Seagate Baracuda HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
Owning a 40GB drive itself was one of the priciest possessions considering back in those days... to be precise.... June 2002 when others mostly had a 20GB HDD max and then even to get to hear about a 40GB drive was quiet a headturner.
Having a collection of 13GB MP3 tracks would feel like... on top of the world.... supreme in a sense...
I would go to the extent of collecting all sorts of MUSIC from all different sources.... any and all genres...
I had Bollywood, Hollywood, Pop, Rock, Metal, Psychedelic, Trance, House, Reggae, Instrumental, Party Tracks, Hip-Hop, Jazz, RNB, Lounge.... and even Indian Classical MUSIC for that matter.... I remember having a rare collection of Pundit Bhimsen Joshi's tracks...
Those days I could bet on any random person to ask for some musical track to play on my desktop computer and I would play it for him/her in seconds... thanks to Winamp! the MUSIC software which was a boon during those good old days.
Would love to share an anecdote on the same lines.
One day a random guy in his late 40s had visited my place who had come along with one of my close friends. I casually asked him "would you like to listen to some MUSIC..." he rejected at first however on my insisting again he asked whether I had some tracks of this marathi singer named - Suman Kalyanpur... I tried my luck and searched in winamp and to my greatest surprise I actually had a few tracks of that singer!
I further asked... particularly which track... to that he replied some title name and that day lady luck seemed to be pretty benevolent and she did showered her blessings on me... I got lucky for the second time... I played the said track for him and let me tell you! that satisfaction in his eyes... to get to hear the track of his choice... did put a smile on his face and it also gave me... immense pleasure!
