How do you listen to your music?

[XA04]

Do you pick and mix your songs or listen to an album, then the next album?


I prefer to pick and mix, but sometimes you just have to listen to a full album

[machinist]

I have a folder on my hard drive with loadsa albums, I right-click that folder, select 'Play in WinAMP', then choose random, et voila

As Forrest Gump once said, "Winamp random function is like a box of chocolates, you never know which one you're gonna get"

[Kaine (AoD)]

Have fair amount of music i like to listen to, around 2 days back to back play time so if i just left it on random on the whole thing i wouldnt really get much out of it I have the many many sounds split up in to around 40 - 50 different playlists which i choose from but they are alot of mixed songs, theres not many of the play lists with a full album from one band/group/DJ/what ever they wanna be called

[Grey M@a]

Album by album when I am on the computer and just skip to other tracks when I feel like it, its a win win situation though the majority of the time as 99% of my music is metal

Same for the iPod, I do it album by album as I have so much metal I keep hearing albums I forgot I had

[Kaine (AoD)]

Originally Posted by Grey M@a

as I have so much metal I keep hearing albums I forgot I had

I did that the other day >_< found my Coal Chamber album ive not listened to in years! use to love them, good it listen to again after so long but I kinda spread my taste of music alot so I dont think ill be listenin to it all the time but its always good to go back every now and again added one or two of the songs to my existin play lists and left it at that

[Norky]

Albums of course. Pet Sounds should really be released as a single track.

[Funkstar]

Yeah, albums all the way. it irritates me when i'm going any distance with a particular friend in the car. she insists on changing CDs and skipping about all the time.

[Lee @ SCAN]

WMP11 Random shuffle for me

Got all my music on my backup drive as theres some rare live mixes from various clubs round the world.

I've got about 10 playlists (total playing time is roughly a week if I went and press play 24/7) in total ;

1) ALL MUSIC
2) House
3) Trance
4) Drum & Bass
5) Live Mixes
6) Mashup's aka 2 manj dj's that sort of stuff
7) Electro
8) Indie/Rock/Misc
9) 5 star rated
10) Cheesey stuff

[Workaholic]

Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN

WMP11 Random shuffle for me

Is that out yet? on WMP10 - the shuffle always goes to the same tracks everytime (not much of a random generator) and I've found in my large collection of music by doing this it skips out 60% of my other music....

Anyway back on topic, I listen to new albums in sequence then change to shuffle after its played a few times (especially on my small capacity mp3 player as I usually start humming along to the next song before it even starts... hmm.....)

[unreal]

Organise by date on iTunes.. for the iPod I don't usually do that though for some reason, I just rape my custom playlists

WMP11 is teh suck, I still prefer itunes

[Lee @ SCAN]

Originally Posted by unreal

I still prefer itunes

even with the processes it wacks into your PC on startup?

[noah]

winamp 5 for me, 2.91 on the lappy. keep it simple

albums at the min and when i first get them, but sometimes on random. i've a fair amount of tunes so rarely get bored.

[ajbrun]

I listen to a CD in full when I get it, but from then on, it's generally random all the way. I do occasionally pick and choose though .

[Yohji]

I normally listen to a whole album, or most of it.

I have a main library list on Foobar2000, and then a playlisy I occasionally use to pick and mix. I generally prefer albums as a whole, as I have a fairly diverse music collection, and having it on random can mean some weird changes in style...

i.e. chillout > folk metal.

So yeah, albums all the way.

[Kelly]

I'm prone to flicking through my songs when i'm listening to my iPod.. i often like to create playlists every few weeks with the songs that im liking at that time in.
Occasionally ill get the urge to listen to an album or artist, in which case i will.
I love the "shuffle songs" function on my iPod as well, the whole Forest Gump thing again

[kasavien]

generally album by album. But i listent to the radio alot, so get a lot of random songs on there, which gives me ideas of the next albums to get - currently muse, eagles of death metal, wolfmother, and thievery corporation