Do you like listening to music in the form of albums and playlists, the shuffle feature on your audio device, or the randomness of radio?
Sorry for the typo in #3!
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Do you like listening to music in the form of albums and playlists, the shuffle feature on your audio device, or the randomness of radio?
Sorry for the typo in #3!
I shuffle the iPod except when I'm in the car, when I play CDs in the proper order. Sometimes I do playlists on the iPod, about once a month. Every November I play every Glenn track I have on the iPod, shuffled, for his birthday.
I need an All Of The Above choice. It depends on my mood. I do a lot of playlist on my iPod but I listen to Sirius satellite more than anything lately so I chose the radio choice.
Yeah, that's why I put the word favorite in there. I know how you Borderers are, always wanting to pick more than one answer! ;-)
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Good poll question, PM!
I like the shuffle feature on the ipod of the artist I've chosen most of the time.
It depends on if I'm home alone. If so, I blast the Bose playing CD's that are not on my ipod. If hubby is home, it's ipod and earbuds -- usually on shuffle -- just to mix it up.
I love music so everyday I usually play music in our house or anywhere. I shuffle the music in my Ipod and play it everyday but sometimes stick on the arrangement of my music in my list and play it as it is.
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I wish there was an All of the Above choice, too, TBF!!
I'm a "serial shuffler" though...I have been known to painstakingly line up songs for mix tapes & discs, only to hit the Shuffle button frequently!! :hilarious:
Although all three have their appeal, my favorite seems to be the same as Brooke's - shuffling my favorite artist at the time. Sometimes I shuffle my entire iPod library. Occasionally I'll hear a song come on and I'll rush over to skip it, then I wonder why I have it on there in the first place. :rolleyes:
Oh, and welcome to The Border Moniquebliss!
I voted for option 1. I listen almost exclusively to CDs both in the car and at home. Actually, I'm one of the 10 people left in the world that doesn't own an Ipod. Back in the day, I LOVED the radio because that was about the only way you heard new music, but now I almost never listen to it.
Dreamer, that's funny! I resisted the ipod for a long time and when I finally got one it dawned on me just what they can do for you and your music! I just couldn't quite 'get it' until I got it! :lol:
I recommend you get one.....immediately! Really!
I picked shuffle, although I quite often choose a longer playlist and shuffle that. Lately I've been using the Genius feature quite a bit, which is fun. It is nice to hear some songs I haven't heard in a while.
I know what you mean, but I find it a useful tool because I can sometimes get into a rut where I listen to the same songs over and over. As much as I love those songs, when I branch out and hear some unexpected tracks from different genres, I really enjoy it.
Do some CD players have a shuffle feature? Just curious.
Yes, they do!
That's why I used the term "audio device" in opton 2. You don't necessarily need an iPod to shuffle. :thumbsup:
What I guess I'm really curious about is this: does anyone think that there is something to my logic, that listening to albums, cd's or playlists means you tend to like order in your life, shuffling means you like to mix things up in your life and listening to the radio means you enjoy not knowing what's going to happen next?
I have to say I shuffle playlists too. When CDs first came out & they had shuffle, I was delighted. I just like the unpredictablilty of it. I really don't think that says much about me.
loud as i dance around the kitchen lol:grooving:
Definitely albums and organized. I hate surprises! I'm anti-spontaneous.
That said I do like my Pandora Radio and whatnot but generally it's albums for me and sometimes just skipping around to my favorite tracks within an album.
Another reason I like CDs is when you have a fantastic concept album, such as Hotel California, Desperado, or Strange Weather it is especially satisfying to listen to the entire album from start to finish, IMHO.
I agree Dreamer. Some albums just need to be listened to from start to finish. I remember when I was young, that was the only way to listen to music - there was no shuffle feature! To this day,when I hear a Beatle song I can 'hear' and remember the song that followed it on the album.
Yep, PM - I remember people telling me about that. Of course, I'm not old enough to remember it myself. :lie:
There are very few albums for me I can listen to front to back.
Just a few off the top of my head.
Hotel California - Eagles
Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
Back In Black - AC/DC
Toys In The Attic - Aerosmith
IV - Led Zeppelin
Second Helping - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Yes, and there used to be great agonizing over sequencing on an album. However, I'd say the importance of album sequencing started to deteriorate because of the CD, when it became MUCH easier to skip songs.
Few people hated songs on an album enough to get up and gingerly move the needle to the next precise groove (careful not to scratch or miss the spot), nor to bother with guessing how long to fast forward on your cassette to make sure you didn't overshoot and miss part of the next song. Instead, they just let the songs play, even if they didn't like them all that much.
However, hitting a skip button was (and is) easy as pie. Plus, many CD players had a shuffle feature as early as the late 80s. I know that's when I first started "shuffling" - when my family got their first CD player in 1989.
Artists miss the days when people wound up listening to the whole album in order because I think they hope that by doing so, people may grow to like songs they initially didn't. There's some truth to that, but I think the higher percentage weren't learning to love a song. They were simply tolerating the songs they didn't really like in order to get to the ones they did because it took too much effort to skip them on an LP or tape. Now, thanks to the CD and then the iPod, we no longer have to suffer through filler. The Long Run without Disco Strangler? Yes, please. lol
I like to pick the artist I'm in the mood for & then shuffle the mix. There are usually more than one album of the artist & I'm happy with whatever may come up in the shuffle. I don't mind the element of surprise.
Occasionally, I will pick the entire song list & shuffle that. Sometimes a song that I may have forgotten about comes up in the mix, so I like that.
I only listen to a full album when I get a new one, so I can get familiar with it & decide which songs are my favorites.
My most recent album is Don Felder's so I have been listening to that full album lately.
At work, I can sometimes use my ipod, so I put on the radio, just to see what they are playing:grin:
It's all good
I can only think of a handful of albums I will listen to the whole album-- The Long Run, The Cars Heartbeat City, Van Halen's Fair Warning and the whole Zeppelin discography. So I have a habit of not loading certain songs on my ipod when loading cds.
As far as record albums and skipping songs--- hubby and I bought a laser turntable in the 80s that scanned the whole album side and then you could pick what track you wanted and it would go directly to that track. You can even program it to play them in whatever order you wish. :thumbsup: I love this turntable and we still use it!
I still like listen to entire albums on the ipod and I usually listen to the songs in the order they are on the album. (cd!) I guess that's because I came from the old days of listening to vinyls. Of course, I have playlists too, but when I'm in the mood for a certain album, then I listen to the whole thing. (on the ipod, dreamer!)
Now my husband likes to pick his songs. He rarely listens to a whole album. It drives me crazy that he won't listen to them and I think he misses out on a lot of good music. He says there is too much filler. I disagree and like the deep tracks. It's an argument we've come to agree to disagree on. lol
The last time I listened to an album in sequence on the iPod was After Hours, in LA. In the car, as I say, I do listen to them in sequence (currently Expando) but even albums like Dark Side Of The Moon or Sgt Pepper or Desperado, it doesn't bother me whether they're in sequence or not.
I'm like TK. I hardly listen to an album in its entirety unless it's new. After I've learned the songs I start shuffling!
Here's an exception: Jackson Browne's For Everyman is a favorite album of mine because some of the songs flow together without a break. For example, Take It Easy, the opener, flows right into Our Lady of the Well and Sing My Songs to Me flows right into For Everyman, the closer. I really enjoy that on that particular album.
I tend to listen to the radio in the mornings on my way to work, while on the way home 'After Hours' is the order of the day most days. I don't really mnd whether its on 'shuffle' or not. Sometimes, depending on my mood I also put on the 'repeat' button. Particularly on the title track. Its the perfect antidote to a busy stressful day!
it's funny....I have never used the shuffle on my iPod....never think of it I guess
As long as I pick the artist I like the element of surprise by using shuffle. Once in a great while I will shuffle everything-then it's really a surprise!
I have random on the songs (in my ipod) so I pick an artist, and listen to it like that. I love not knowing what song comes up next, but I listen to the whole, entire list.
The only artists I have played the entire catalogue on the iPod (always on shuffle) are the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, the Eagles & Glenn. I play the Eagles catalogue around Don's birthday & Glenn's catalogue on his birthday. I suppose I should do the Rolling Stones & Elton John. I have a lot of Van Morrison but if I tried to play all his stuff I'd get tired of it. Also the artists I mention, I have their entire catalogues, whereas the others I don't.
This is a bit tangential, but it's about music formats, so here goes!
My father bought me a new turntable when he and my mom were visiting. It allows you to rip the LPs directly to CD instead of going through the computer as I'd been doing before.
At first I was excited, but then I started actually playing my records... and I had an EXTREMELY frustrating time. Inevitably, no matter how well I'd taken care of and stored an LP, it had skips and scratches. I mean EVERY SINGLE RECORD. Indeed, almost every SONG!
Meanwhile, I have CDs from 1988 that play perfectly, as do audio files I ripped or downloaded in 1999.
So, other than gazing at the nice big artwork, I found myself having a very unpleasant listening experience. "SnapCracklePopSKIPSnapCracklePop." Me no likee. Thank goodness for CDs and audio files!