[A] The routine is I put music on when I get up, and I play more music until I get tired and go to bed. That's about 16-18 hours per day, maximum, of which I lose 2-5 hours to things that don't allow for background music, like watching tv, working around the house, going out on errands, socializing, etc. -- things I don't do much of, but they take chunks of my time. I've been living like that since the 1990s, when work finally permitted me an office where I could play CDs, although if you count radio it's possible I spent that much time listening to music in the 1970s.

When I'm on or near the computer, I try to play things that are new -- usually from Spotify or Bandcamp, but I get 6-10 promo CDs in the mail each week, so those are options. While I'm listening, I'm usually also writing or researching, which I interrupt to take the notes I present as reviews. They're really just an annotated log of what I've listened to. But rather than just bragging about my pleasures, by focusing on unknowns I've turned that into a job, offering my notes as a public service. And while my writing has very little effect in the world, it is appreciated enough that I feel compelled to keep doing it. While I have very little esteem for capitalism, I did somehow grow up with a work ethic. So I keep going, although age and infirmity are taking an increasing toll.

So to get back to your question, it's basically a function of time and attention, or the residue after everything else in life has taken its share. I have a lot of time, because I don't have much else going on in my life. And I can cover a lot of records because I generally don't have to pay very close attention in order to write the sort of trivial reviews I've allowed myself to write. In my daily grind, I basically face two questions: Should I play a record again, or am I satisfied with what I've just learned? And what should I play next?

Those are complex questions, and my own answers are unlikely to be very useful to you. Or so I'm guessing, based on one piece of information -- you're a musician, so you will hear things I don't hear, and care about things I don't care about, but to do that you'll need to focus more intensely than I do -- and one surmise: that you're much younger, which puts you at a different stage in your career. Presumably you'll want to focus more on music that is directly relevant to yours. But I'm also tripping over the word "schedule." I don't like to think in those terms, although if you do, I can imagine some satisfaction at being able to check a task off as done. I'm haunted by the notion that nothing I ever do really gets done.