Over the years I've taken to buying a lot of box sets. I have individual cds too but somehow I seem to have plunged for the big sets quite often. In the beginning I would just play the disks one by one and maybe look at the discography a bit. Later I decided to rip everything to hard drives and other storage and play everything on computers and other devices. I used to be an IT database and systems guy so I just treat my music the way I used to handle data and have backup scripts etc. This arrangement means I can break up the box sets into digital playlists. Whenever a set has lp size albums on it, I break them out into single album playlists. I usually add a number in the playlist name (and sometimes a set abbreviation) so that the playlists for the albums in each set sort and show up in chronological order. There is a significant amount of curating work in doing all this and some might ask wouldn't it be easier to just buy the individual albums? No answer for that. I guess I just like the completeness of having the sets. Mosaics and some others have good sound, I suppose...
How do you approach listening to these box sets and what do you think of the whole box set thing?