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Music collections have evolved over the years. People started off collecting vinyl records, and then later switched to 8-tracks. Eventually these cassettes became smaller and more compact, but only to be replaced by CDs later on. While CDs are still popular, more people have switched to simply getting unlimited music downloads for their personal music devices. This not only provides people with a great collection of music, but it is easy to store and pass on to friends as well.

Buying a CD is a great way to collect multiple songs at once from any given artist, but many CDs are purchased because of one or two particular songs. Most CDs have an average of 15 songs on them, which then means that many of the other tunes on the album don't get listened to. With the price of CDs today, it's often cheaper to download the desired song.

Songs can be downloaded from various sites online for a very small fee per song. This price actually makes collecting music more cost efficient, since each song downloaded is usually a favorite of the person doing the downloading. Collecting music this way will prevent money from being spent for songs that won't get listened to.

Searching for sites to download music from can turn up a couple of types; ones that charge a fee per song and ones that charge a one time only fee. Besides being a fantastic source of music, with collections of billions of song to choose from, they are relatively safe too. These protected sites enable users to have 24 hour tech support, high-quality mp3s to download, and no viruses.

While collecting CDs can be a great pastime, gathering songs from multiple artists on a music download site can be a quicker way to expand one's collection. Some sites might charge for every song that is downloaded, while other sites offer an unlimited number of songs for a flat fee. This method of collecting music can also be cheaper in the long run.

The amount of space needed for a large collection of CDs, records, or cassettes can be intense, if the person doing the collecting is an avid music lover. Not everyone can devote an entire room to their endless number of albums. Having music contained only on formats that need to be physically searched for songs also makes it a time-consuming process to find a certain song.

The only way around this would be to have a highly organized collection. There are quite a few people who are able to keep their collections maintained in an organize manner, whether it be by alphabetizing the collection according to song, artist, or album, or by placing each genre together.

Having a collection via a variety of unlimited music downloads enables all songs to be quickly organized and easily stored. Most computer programs used for storing songs have a search box for easy location of any song included in the collection. This feature alone makes downloading and storing songs a more time efficient process as well as cost-effective.