Topic: All in or selective?

[ober]

I'm talking play lists, people.  Do you take your entire music collection and dump it into one giant list?  Do you have a bunch of playlists for different moods?  Or do you just load up whatever you're into at the moment?

I personally dump almost my entire collection into the mix and just put it on random.  If it gets to a group or a song that I like, I'll take it off random and listen to a few until I get bored and put it back on random.

I was just curious what everyone else does.

[Perspective]

I have a list of my favs, i either play random through that list or random through the whole collection.

[Canuck]

I dont have one big playlist, I have a playlist for every album.  Every album has its own directory, each of which has a playlist, so depending on my mood, Ill just select something to play.

[groovitude]

I either set up a very specific playlist (either a single song on loop, or a bunch of very specific songs), or, most often, I just listen to albums.

[charlie]

Both. At home, I have one huge playlist, but I don't use it that often. At work I've got several depending on my mood, and even though I don't play music that often there, the lists I play the most often have only a handful of songs on them.

And the lists are always randomized. If I want to hear more of a song or artist, I just move the songs around until I get an order that sounds good to me.

[Stephen]

I never listen to albums. It's either Best ofs that I make (ie. best of Weezer or best of Ben Gibbard, etc.), mixes that I've made for friends, or mood playlists (either genre-wise or actually mood-wise -- I have some folk mixes, some pop-punk mixes, some classic rock mixes, but I also have some upbeat mixes, some low-fi mixes, some acoustic mixes, etc.). It's at the point where I've got such a wide selection that it's ridiculous.

[jkim]

For the most part, I'm on random with all of my music.  Once I hear an artist or album I'm in the mood for, I'll listen to that.  I do have specfic playlists, but those get less play.

[[stealth]]

When I had a home PC (I don't anymore) I used to have a playlist of say, metal/rock, one for dance/rap/hip-hop music etc.  Just went with the flow.

Currently rocking out to Megadeth though...\m/

[Rob]

What's a playlist? I put a physical CD in a physical CD player. TBH, unless you have no choice MP3's pretty much suck.

[ober]

Ok... but honestly Rob... that's not practical for most cases.  I listen to music all day at work.. I listen to music while I'm working at home... I listen to music in my living room.  I'm not going to haul my music around all over the place and bother with CDs... that's such a fucking hassle. 

What if you got into an album and then decided you wanted to listen to something else?  I'd have to stop what I was doing, find a different cd, go to the player, eject, insert, play, get comfortable again.  Fuck that.

MP3's really aren't that bad if you have them encoded at a decent rate.  I've heard that argument waaay too often and I think it's total bullshit.  I just want to listen to music.  As long as it sounds half decent, I'm not going to notice the difference in clarity.  Your ears adjust to what you're listening to. 

[Rob]

Each to their own I guess. TBH, I can't listen to music and work* - I've tried. I envy people who can, but I find I can't have music as background, I have to listen.

Sucks to be me .

*As in work work, or studying.

[ober]

depends on the work... I always listen to music while programming... in college I couldn't listen and read at the same time, but classes like Calculus/physics/electronics required music to keep me sane.

[[stealth]]

I used to listen to classical when I did study.

[groovitude]

I can't listen to anything but Mozart while doing my German readings... ** shrugs **

[Stephen]

Yeah, I understand that. When I study Spanish, I can only listen to Mariachi.