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Just curious - of those of you who use an MP3 player do you have individual tracks or entire albums? I tend to have only entire albums on mine and was just curious about others?
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Re: What do you put on your MP3 player - tracks or albums?
For me, it's mostly albums. I don't have a huge range of bands that I'm really into, but for bands I do like, I try to collect at least most of the discography. But I do have some individual tracks (maybe 150 or so) that I have arrainged into 60s 70s 80s and 90s - 2000s
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Re: What do you put on your MP3 player - tracks or albums?
Albums.
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Re: What do you put on your MP3 player - tracks or albums?
Mostly albums, although I do have random tracks from albums I wasn't to fond of , but enjoyed a few songs.
Currently I have 3000 songs, 1 movie and 3 tv shows on my ipod.
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Re: What do you put on your MP3 player - tracks or albums?
Albums. I don't have any home made collections of tracks. I listened to the entire Rolling Stone top 500 albums on my mp3 player. Nearly took a year.
Now I find myself not knowing what to put on it. :S
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Re: What do you put on your MP3 player - tracks or albums?
When I get a new album, I will listen to the whole album for a few days, but normally my ipod is on shuffle.
Oh and DarkerProjects has some awesome audio to download.
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Re: What do you put on your MP3 player - tracks or albums?
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Thanks for the tip on DarkerProjects - looks cool.
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Re: What do you put on your MP3 player - tracks or albums?
For my Ipod it's probably 80-85% individual tracks with the rest whole albums.
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Re: What do you put on your MP3 player - tracks or albums?
I owned a few hundred CDs before the digital revolution (mp3 players) and eventually ripped them all. So mostly albums, but I suspect if I were younger it would lean towards tracks.
Nowadays, I look at individual tracks as a try out and if I like them enough, I usually get the whole CD, unless its one of my favorites, then I just get the whole album.
Like Beck...when The Information came out, I didnt hesitate and got the album.
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I agree. The music industry I believe has truly lost it's way. They're thier own worst enemy. I don't buy much music anymore but if I was going to buy an album, I definately would want to have a physical copy. Yes it is convienent to be able to only buy one track if that's all you want. However, I have always kind of thought you are cheating yourself if you do that. If you like a track from a band, shouldn't you be interested to hear what else they have on the album. Hell, even in the days of singles on 45s you got a B-Side track. In many cases the song that gets released on the radio it far from the best song on the album.
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Since my MP3 collection is almost exclusively ripped from my CD collection, I'd say 99% of the music in my iTunes library is album-based. Some of that is from multiple-artist greatest hit collections, though, like "Rolling Stones 25 Years of Rock & Roll" or a Motown collection, for example. So, I am not sure how you count that.
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I'd count them as albums. I got some boxsets on mine like Nuggets. I think of them as albums, not single tracks. Single tracks would be better catagorized as you creating a folder called "Dance" music, and then plunking in titles all willy nilly from albums.
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99% albums, 1% tracks.
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Re: What do you put on your MP3 player - tracks or albums?
It is interesting that albums is the consensus here so far. I was expecting the opposite. The comments regarding the craftsmanship being lost in the making of albums today is probably true for the most part although you run across the occasional gem still, example latest output of the Foo Fighters - excellent album by one of the hardest working musicians out there, Dave Grohl. Music is still in the ear of the beholder so, what I may think is music for the ages, is quite different than what my 14 year old thinks - I have to admit I find myself enjoying some of the music she is buying, though. Panic at the Disco comes to mind.
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Yeah, there have always been people who just want the song they play on the radio and nothing else. And there has always been a singles market before digital. But, digital just makes it all that much easier for those types of people ignore the album as a whole.
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If you like The Moody Blues, and have not done so already, I must recommend that you pick up "To Our Children's Children's Children" That album insists that you to listen from start to finish (especially with good headphones)
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You won't be sorry. But, the first time you listen to it, don't have the volume cranked up too loud when you start it, especially if you are wearing headphones.
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Re: What do you put on your MP3 player - tracks or albums?
Thanks for the Darker Projects link, great stuff.
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Re: What do you put on your MP3 player - tracks or albums?
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I've never been an album guy and have always made my own mix tapes, CDs, and now playlists to avoid having to listen to filler.
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Same here. Lots of tracks, few if any albums.
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Re: What do you put on your MP3 player - tracks or albums?
My mp3 automatically creates albums for me and it also lets me choose from a complete alphabetized song list so I guess you could say both.
Never cared for entire albums, either, only 2 or 3 (if i'm lucky) songs on it that I like and the rest I could do without.
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