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Post by Bam Neeley on Feb 7, 2014 15:58:10 GMT -5
Yes. It's time for the monthly "I wonder if I'm getting old" thread.
With streaming media, playlists and ability to buy only the good song on iTunes getting more popular I'm wondering if people here consume their music in "albums"(physical or not) or whether everything is in randomized playlists of maybe you crazy kids even use those services which feed songs solely based on other songs you have liked.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Feb 7, 2014 16:02:05 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2014 16:16:16 GMT -5
I very rarely buy singles.
Most of my purchase are entire albums (usual from BandCamp or AmazonMp3).
If people can't put together at least an EP worth of good stuff then they're probably not worth my time.
I used to put Pandora or something on when I was doing stuff around the apartment, but now I just flip on netflix and play an old movie just to have it on in the background.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Feb 7, 2014 16:25:03 GMT -5
Yes,mostly from Amazon.
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Post by Bam Neeley on Feb 7, 2014 16:39:33 GMT -5
Oh. It seems I need to clarify. I mean "albums" as a concept. So when you log into Spotify do you start listening to an album or a playlist.
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Post by Blindkarevik on Feb 7, 2014 16:41:32 GMT -5
I do playlists by default, as if I have all this music at my disposal... I end up getting bored of one album after a few songs.
When a new album comes out, though.. I'll listen straight through, and sometimes I'll get a craving for an entire album. But, more often than not, I just go right to my playlists.
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Post by Chip on Feb 7, 2014 16:44:28 GMT -5
Album, always an album. I find listening to randomised songs to be completely unappealing, to me it's like loading up a bunch of movies and watching scenes from all of those movies in a randomized order, it sounds ridiculous to most of you but that's just me.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Feb 7, 2014 16:59:45 GMT -5
Oh. It seems I need to clarify. I mean "albums" as a concept. So when you log into Spotify do you start listening to an album or a playlist. Oh, in that sense, no. I'll download/stream entire albums, but I usually chop them up into playlists afterwards. |
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Post by Snowman on Feb 7, 2014 17:01:53 GMT -5
I only use Spotify now, but I still mostly listen to full albums rather than playlists.
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Post by Banecat on Feb 7, 2014 17:03:30 GMT -5
No. I use Youtube mostly.
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Post by Krazee on Feb 7, 2014 17:08:37 GMT -5
i love listening to full albums
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Feb 7, 2014 17:10:31 GMT -5
Full Albums all the way.
Many a time I have purchased an Album for one specific song and ended up falling in love with 2 other songs instead.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2014 17:15:55 GMT -5
Nah, sure there's a big investment in mini-albums and EPs these days, as well as the inevitable easy to push out one song at a time function but I've found that most people who listen to music for 3 hours or more a day tend to be album consumers.
I am too of course, always good to consume new records in full before deciding if it's good/bad/average.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2014 17:18:50 GMT -5
I only use Spotify now.
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Post by OldDirtyBernie on Feb 7, 2014 18:11:05 GMT -5
I normally listen to an entire album a couple times. After that, I'll listen to individual songs if I don't feel it detracts from the album as a whole.
Example - I don't like to listen to songs from The Ocean's last three albums individually. They're all concept albums, so I feel it takes away from the experience.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Feb 7, 2014 19:05:38 GMT -5
been listening more to albums, since i have to really ..... i have a backlog to hear  but i do pick out the betters ones that a like and dump them in the single song folder on my mp3 player |
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Post by Mayonnaise on Feb 7, 2014 19:10:48 GMT -5
I'll download albums, listen to them all the way through two or three times and then they usually go into the library where I end up shuffling stuff. There are a few albums I listen to without shuffling (mainly the Stone Sour HOGAB series since they are set up like a story or FFDP's Wrong Side of...set).
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Post by Raskovnik on Feb 7, 2014 19:14:08 GMT -5
There are certain albums that I can ONLY listen to in album form like Frances the Mute or Dilla's Donuts just to name a couple but I'm not an album-only guy, especially if there are only one or two songs I really like on the album. Like how Dramamine from Modest Mouse's first album is the only song that I really like on there so I'll just listen to that and skip most of the rest.
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Post by Lila on Feb 7, 2014 19:19:16 GMT -5
Yes. If I like a song, I'm going to get the entire album that song is on.
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Feb 7, 2014 20:01:22 GMT -5
I do. My town is so old school there are still 2 record stores in it. I just got the new supersuckers album there not to long ago. I like buying cd's getting the album art and all that good stuff.
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