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[lirazel]

Okay, I because I keep hearing people lamenting the end of the album, and it confuses me because I still mostly listen to albums??? So I'm curious about y'all.

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How do you listen to music *most often*?

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Albums
14 (36.8%)

My own playlists
13 (34.2%)

Playlists created by others
3 (7.9%)

Algorithms (of whatever kind)
0 (0.0%)

Other
8 (21.1%)

I do have some playlists that I listen to, but not nearly as often as I just put on an album.

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[vriddy]

I usually shuffle my entire collection, or all the albums for an artist, if I have a specific mood! No algorithms involved. I used to enjoy the last.fm algorithm back in the '00s though I don't remember why I stopped.

[lirazel]

Do you ever get major whiplash when the shuffle takes you from Beethoven to Beyonce or something? I can't shuffle my whole collection because it's just too much of a shift from song to song! But it seems like a lot of people do that.

[vriddy]

Not really?? I also have a very varied collection, with classical music, metal, pop and what have you in there 😂 I might occasionally skip one if it's not the right moment for it, but usually it just keeps going in the background and it's fine. At some point, I might think "Actually I would like to listen to more of that artist!" and switch to shuffling all of their albums I have.

I walk nearly everywhere and usually listen to music while doing that. It's kind of a background to my thoughts. Or sometimes, I put it very very low while I'm working on something focused.

But I'm probably half and half in terms of how often I shuffle the whole thing, and how often I shuffle a specific artist with 1 or more albums!

Do you always listen to the albums in order?? I remember hearing an artist back in the day describe how carefully they picked the song order, and feeling guilty because I usually listened to any album once in order, and then always always shuffled it after that :D