my music collection

why?

i wrote a blog post (dated nov. 2nd, 2025) that goes a bit more in depth on why i started doing this if you want to know why. the long story short is - phone makes me depressed, and the idea of picking out a cd to put in my cd player while i do stuff in my room is fun and exciting and feels more mindful and meaningful to me. so here we are. i also got an ipod more recently, also talked about in a blog post (dated feb. 15th, 2026).


hardware

i got a cool cd player off of ebay, a used yamaha crx-ts20, and it came with speakers too. i really wanted a top loading cd player that lets me see the disc spinning, so this was a fun find. it works great except the volume spinner, which was disappointing but the remote works fine so, whatever. i also want to (eventually) get another cd player for the living room. my roomate has some big speakers and a receiver that's really nice. i can also hook the yamaha one up to it but i'd have to unplug it all and move it and all that...no thanks.

for my ipod, i got a broken 5th gen ipod classic off ebay. turns out those things are really easy to work on, and replacement parts are readily available. all it needed was a new battery, but i also upgraded a new screen, front plate, clickwheel, storage, and frontplate. i got one of those transparent plastic front plates so you can see the motherboard under it and stuff :p it looks so cool.


the collection

my physical collection isn't huge, but it's definitely growing. i've been using a mix of used cds and new, all from various places. there's some cool used cd/record stores around where i live that i go check out every once in a while, and i've found a few gems around there. i've also bought some new ones, and when i travel i like to look for cd stores too (shout out easy street records in seattle - cool cd/record store that also has a cafe inside with good food).

i have these organized alphabetically by artist, and i have each album i have under the dropdowns. some of them are burned cd's by me, either mixtapes or music i bought on bandcamp and then burned. bandcamp music has been linked for your enjoyment.

under my cd collection you can find the songs i have on my ipod, which is a much larger collection of music.


cd collection

ipod music collection

i downloaded pretty much my entire apple music collection to put on my ipod. i had a ton of artists that i had one song liked, so i just went through and downloaded the entire album that the one song came from so i could try and expand my music. i figured if i liked one of their songs i might like more. even i dont know all of the songs on my ipod, but its fun because now i can always find something new lol. enjoy perusing my very random and varied music taste.