Although the term music mania is composed of the Greek words melos (“singing accompanied by music”) and mania (“madness”), this condition is rarely considered harmful, dangerous or a disease.

Music lovers simply focus their interests on music consumption, that is, buying and listening to records, collecting and classifying recordings. In some cases they learn to play instruments and in others they simply treasure the experiences they have had through music.

For this reason, someone who enjoys and knows a lot about music is a music lover, although in a technical sense there is a distinction between music mania and audiophilia: an audiophile is interested in the recording and reproduction of sound, especially music, but also the human voice. It is common for a music lover to also show traits of audiophilia, or for an audiophile to tend towards music mania.

Diego Carranza Rodriguez