11-20-2019, 10:20 AM | #1 |
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Portugal
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Do you mostly shuffle or listen to full albums?
They say there's two types of music listeners: those who shuffle and those who only listen to full albums.
...well I'm a mix of both. You see, first of all, I always try to listen to an album or two a day when I'm in a big kick for music and happen to have spare time for it. It also helps that music is something that you can listen to while doing other activities. On weekends and holidays I can listen to several albums in a day. And ofc, it also depends on how long each album is. A lot of 9-10 songs albums are like 45 minutes long at best. It's definitely doable listening to 10 full albums like that on a weekend. I rarely listen to full albums outside unless it's an album I've already heard several times before and I'm going on a long walk or gonna spend a long time outside. I rarely go on long car rides, but the rare times I do I'll definitely be listening to music on my phone along the way(no I'm not the one who drives). Anyway, outside there's usually too much noise going on and I'm focused on walking and going to my destination. So the music serves more as some sort of background noise. When I want to listen to an album I haven't heard before I pay more attention to it, so I'd rather do that at home instead of on my way to work or something. I also shuffle at times when I'm at home. Sometimes after a full album or two I'll shuffle some of my favourite songs for a while. I've gotten to a point where I listen to various genres and start missing other genres and songs after listening to a single genre for a couple of hours. And it also depends on the genre, tbh. I generally find extreme metal and jazz to work better when I listen to it by album than by single songs. While classic rock, grunge rock thrash metal, traditional heavy metal, pop and synthwave work fine in shuffle mode. Classical is a mixed bag. Some tracks work fine as standalone tracks, but others are clearly meant to be listened in the context of a symphony. A lot of progressive rock also is meant to be listened to by album. Pink Floyd being the most notable example. What about you? |
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