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Post by Chris on Jul 16, 2014 15:44:25 GMT
Can't really remember the last time I listened to an album all the way through - I'm much more a playlist kind of bloke. Time constraints and the skip button work against that. I've started this to avoid sidetracking another thread.  and I don't do vinyl. Thoughts please.... |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 16, 2014 15:48:39 GMT
Did you want me to add a poll, Chris?
Albums for me.
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Post by Chris on Jul 16, 2014 15:52:34 GMT
Eh I don't know!!? I just didn't want to sidetrack the other thread! Can I start an orange bar if I say yes or no?  |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 16, 2014 15:57:33 GMT
Hah! I'll create one for you. Don't forget to vote yourself!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2014 16:00:58 GMT
Basically - yes. I have iTunes set up in Smart playlists but have albums within them where applicable for non classical stuff. The classics are also smart playlists but then composers and works rather than albums. Can I vote both? If not I suppose playlists is first but doesn't really mean what it will say  |
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Post by Chris on Jul 16, 2014 16:11:10 GMT
Is this the first poll? Do I win a chequebook and pen?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2014 16:16:29 GMT
Is this the first poll? Do I win a chequebook and pen? No and no |
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Post by Tim on Jul 16, 2014 16:34:18 GMT
Maybe the title to this should be 'most often' as it's rather open at present as even I do both on occasion. As stated previously I really don't do playlists, in fact I positively dislike them and the absolute worst thing is shuffle play, that I can safely say I hate So always albums from start to finish, unless I'm having a party. |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 16, 2014 16:39:23 GMT
the absolute worst thing is shuffle play So very useful with classical music  |
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 16, 2014 17:41:39 GMT
Albums. Always.
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Post by John on Jul 16, 2014 17:44:13 GMT
Albums for me
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2014 17:45:30 GMT
I listen to albums but often with LPs I play one side and go onto another LP. With CD I might skip to favourite tracks after the first few. Digital can't hold my attention to the same degree as analogue sound. Voted albums.
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Post by Slinger on Jul 16, 2014 21:55:20 GMT
That's a fairly unanswerable question for me. If I've just bought a bunch of cheap CDs on Amazon (God bless zoverstocks) then I'll listen to CDs. At other times I'll pick a genre on JRiver (my genres include Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, and Al Stewart amongst others, as well as multiple "actual" genres) and cherry pick from the selections therein. Or I might just grab a CD and play that for no other reason than it suddenly came to mind and I haven't heard it in ages. If pushed, I suppose albums, which is how I've voted.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 17, 2014 8:32:26 GMT
Albums for sure
Only exception is/are my John Peel tapes which are many and various with some wonderful, accidental segways that are now fixed in my head.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 11:54:46 GMT
Another vote for albums. All of my playlists are just whole albums!
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Post by Tim on Jul 17, 2014 22:29:40 GMT
Interesting results so far, but you can only really do playlists if you are digital I guess, unless you made mix tapes? I used to love mix tapes . . .
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Post by MartinT on Jul 17, 2014 22:46:24 GMT
So did I. I still have one somewhere, made on my favourite Thats tape.
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Post by Paul on Jul 17, 2014 22:51:42 GMT
Albums
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Post by Stratmangler on Jul 17, 2014 22:58:04 GMT
I'm very old fashioned in some ways, and I grew up during the vinyl LP's heyday.
There are so many great songs on albums that never got released as a single and rarely got radio airplay as a result.
That, and the pains that were gone to to get the correct running order for an album - there was a lot of craft going on.
Crime Of The Century wouldn't work anything like as well if the songs were in a different order.
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has a perfect running order too, and it's not the way it is by accident.
Aqualung is another one.
So for me it's album every time.
Once in a very occasional while I might have a random playlist running on the Squeezebox, but it is an extremely rare event. I haven't run one for the last couple of years at least ....
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Post by Tim on Jul 17, 2014 23:08:02 GMT
Crime Of The Century wouldn't work anything like as well if the songs were in a different order. Darned right Chris - I find it sad that albums get chopped up now, the sequencing of an album is an art and artists spend a lot of time anguishing over it. Easier these days though without the constraints of 25 minutes or so each side, still very important to most musicians, unless its a pure pop record where anything goes (not that I listen to much pop). |
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