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Playlist patterns

[BEAST]

Whether it's your MP3 player or your CD changer or just your set out albums you've got planned to listen to.....  You have any patterns you like to do?

For example,

I like playing a Megadeth album immediately after a Metallica album.  Usually two from the same era. 

I also like to listen to a discography from start to finish (or sometimes the other way, newest to oldest) with random albums thrown between.

I also grab a handful of CDs in alphabetical order for each playlist so that eventually I will have listen to all my CDs.  (If I come across a CD I can't bear to listen to then it goes into my tradelist).

And as for random, I often roll dice several times to get to a section of my collection or use a random number generator on the Internet.  This is when I don't know what mood I'm in.  I figure if it's in my collection, then it deserves to be listened to.

[Venom]

I may start listening to bands from an entire genre for a day or a bands back catalog

[Protag]

What? You 2 don't listen to albums/artists depending on the season? Shame on you! 

[Carl Wood]

Wow Beast, you sound like you'd be awesome at D&D character generation. 

As for my own personal patterns, my most obvoius one these days is clicking on related links while listening to tracks on YouTube.  From there, I usually end up scouring the internet for all available information regarding any interesting bands I come accross.  ... this pattern can last for hours.

 

[BEAST]

Wow Beast, you sound like you'd be awesome at D&D character generation. 

As for my own personal patterns, my most obvoius one these days is clicking on related links while listening to tracks on YouTube.  From there, I usually end up scouring the internet for all available information regarding any interesting bands I come accross.  ... this pattern can last for hours.

 

You tube linking can lead to all kinds of weird and strange places.   

[Auciello]

Boring as it is, mostly, I just follow my moods.  And if there isn't anything that calls out to me, I'll look through what I have and put on something I haven't played in quite some time, perhaps even years.

[COFFINCAR!!]

What? You 2 don't listen to albums/artists depending on the season? Shame on you!  

 

Oddly enough, my usual habits of seasonal listening haven't been quite so prevalent recently (like, in the last year or more).

Years ago I created playlists for just about any genre/style I listen to ("Denim and Spilled Beer" is my thrash playlist, "Unite the Dead" is deathmetal, "Cloves and Foliage" for bands like Type O and Paradise Lost, etc) but I can't remember the last time I actually bothered with any of them. Now I pretty much just pick bands or albums by mood and/or craving.

[zekeyou]

I go through bands where I listen to complete albums; this usually changes as I'm prepping for a live show, the listening will increase and then remain at a high level for a week or 2 following the show.

I also make playlists on the Ipod of the setlists of memorable shows I've attended.

Other times I just ride shuffle for a few days at a time, or something newsworthy may spur a spree-- with the Skynyrd death anniversary a couple weeks back, I've been spinning their stuff with some regularity.

[Release]

Nope.  Whatever song or album pops into my head I'll find it and play it.  The rest of the time its usually on shuffle.  No "seasonal" bands for me either.

[Klschmann]

My pattern is that I listen to Iron Maiden and sometimes other bands on occasion. 

[Snamu]

Boring as it is, mostly, I just follow my moods.  And if there isn't anything that calls out to me, I'll look through what I have and put on something I haven't played in quite some time, perhaps even years.

+1

[Protag]

Last year I bought an excellent 2cd anthology by The Kinks & this year I got a 2cd retrospective of Foreigner that just has a ton of songs that keep playing in my kanoggin! 

[BEAST]

The rest of the time its usually on shuffle. 

I don't have all my albums on my MP3 player because I only have a 1 Gig.  So rolling the dice to find a CD to put on my computer and then when I'm done listening to my previous playlist twice, I replace it with whatever I've collected on my computer since.  I then listen to the playlist from start to finish.  Besides sorting out the albums in what looks like a good order, this is my way of listening to my albums on "shuffle". 

Maybe one day when MP3 players are dirt cheap I'll buy one with enough Gigabytes to place my whole collection on it then I'll try out a shuffle on the songs. 

[zekeyou]

 

Maybe one day when MP3 players are dirt cheap I'll buy one with enough Gigabytes to place my whole collection on it then I'll try out a shuffle on the songs. 

While $250 isn't cheap, I think it's pretty reasonable-- the 160GB IPOD is awesome-- some of the best money I've spent.

3080 albums loaded so far with another 100 or so to go...