Music

I am a very picky person. I just recently learned about lossless audio. CD audio is the best audio that you can get. Unfortunately, I download all of my music as MP3. Lossless audio is still compressed but the quality is so much better. Unfortunately, it takes up more memory than MP3. I have 1621 songs in my library. I probably won't re-download every single album though. It takes me about a year to listen to my whole library at once. I picky about the organization of my music too. I have to download albums in their entirety. It is absolutely necessary to download music like this. You can't just download a few songs by an artist. Even if I don't like a song on an album, I'll listen to it. I don't always listen to albums in order though; sometimes I can't decide on an album and just listen to random stuff. I won't re-download my whole library since the size of each album is very large. However, there was a time were I re-downloaded my whole library. I downloaded some lyric app that end up corrupting some of the music files. It would corrupt some files on my albums, but not the whole album. However, I had to re-download every album still. It took a very long time but it was very worth it. It took no energy from me, since it was something I was willing to do.
If I'm actually willing to accomplish something, I will work very hard.
My pickiness in music helped me become an autodidactic pianist. I started playing piano 9 years ago. I took lessons for 5 years. Lessons did not really help me. The teacher told me what I was doing wrong in the pieces I was playing. There's only so much a teacher can teach you. Recently, I was told that my piano playing had improved. The person was surprised that I didn't take lessons but also agreed with my feelings about piano teachers. When I play piano, I just play without thinking 90% of the time. When I am practicing, I try very hard to make sure I am play the way I want the piece to sound. There is a discrepancy in the way you think you are playing and the way you are actually playing (this was the topic for my college essay). I'm very picky and anal about phrasing, staccato, rubato, etc. At the end of the day though, whatever piece I'm learning or writing improves. I hate playing classical and baroque music. I only like to play music from the romantic period and from modern Russian composers, especially Rachmaninoff. I've improved more in the 4 years I've taught myself than the 5 years I took lessons. However, this only happened because of my desire to play piano. I love to play piano and am willing to work hard at it. Everyday, I will play freely without thinking. Sometimes, I will go in phases of strict improvement. Improvement takes a lot of the fun out of piano. However, since I know that I'm getting better, I know that it is worth it. I'll eventually be able to play Rachmaninoff perfectly. When I play his music now, I do not play it correctly at all. However, I enjoy playing pieces that I cannot play correctly.