Re: Mixtapes
  By: August Abolins to Kurt Weiske on Tue Jul 25 2023 08:41 pm

 > I had a Sony cassette deck that had a "random" setting, and a
 > programmable one. I could preselect the tracks in any order and
 > it would seek-n-find to play accordingly. Random was pretty
 > wild to witness too, but most of my mixtapes only had the LP
 > tracks that I wanted to audition the most anyway.
 > 

I am not a fan of random playlists. They make it easy for you to lose track of
what you are listening to (pun intended). If you get a new CD as a birthday
gift and play it in random mode you are less likely to know which song is which
in the end.

Just an observation. I play albums straight so after a couple of goes I know
the good songs are the second and the 5th, so I can look them up in the list at
the back of the album. May father just dumps five albums in the same mix and
plays them random, so when he discovers he likes a band he has more trouble
finding out the name of the band he likes and the track number of his favourite
songs.

The fact he rips music with filenames such as 01-Unknown Artist - Unknown
Song.ogg does not help.

I sincerely hope I am adopted.

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