How do you pick what you will listen to each day?

Thrasher73 wrote:

I usually listen to the ones I recently purchased,then I'll pick a few for the week that I havent listened to in a while

Same here.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Stender wrote:

...so like if I pull out a a black flag shirt sunday morning good chance ill be listening to everything black flag til next sunday.

So you wear the same Black Flag shirt all week long too? Ewww. Crusty.

yeah pretty soon people are demanding me to get new music. Actually thats how it works, its a scheme to get free music..ha.

Fat Freddy wrote:

^^^ WAY too complicated for me. ^^^

me too. Ill normally select 10 cds and take them to work with me.

My Mood decides it for me.

One thing I do when making a playlist of albums I hadn't heard in a while, is while using my media library I pick random letters of the alphabet in the artist section and see what is in that letter. For instance I'd hit 'V' then pick a Van Halen album, then hit 'H' and pick a Hammerfall album and so on until I have enough albums to last the work day.

It depends on the mood and on the online reviews i read.

I also like the playlist thread here because it reminds me of stuff I havent heard in awhile. I think the really nice thing is we have a lot of variety of music that people here listen to.

I usually get into a recent purchase. Then it just depends on the style it was. Say I bought a black metal album,I would want to listen to more black metal.

or If i just got done listening to sigh I'll go listen to some Black sabbath or some 70's-80's rock like that.

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One thing I do when making a playlist of albums I hadn't heard in a while, is while using my media library I pick random letters of the alphabet in the artist section and see what is in that letter. For instance I'd hit 'V' then pick a Van Halen album, then hit 'H' and pick a Hammerfall album and so on until I have enough albums to last the work day.

Glad I'm not the only one who does the alphabet system. I try to just pick one letter for the day. I started doing this to get more things into the listening rotation. Gives some of those neglected albums a chance. And it works perfectly for the ipod too. I've also started breaking down the days or listening situations into different genres. Monday morning cardio is an alt-rock selection. Tuesdays are thrash days. And so on. I have to admit it has eliminated a lot of my musical ADD.

Of course the mood for an old favorite or a new find will over-ride thses "rules".

if i feel like listening to new music ill usually listen to each bands discography, in chronological order of release, though sometimes i save unofficial releases or demos for last. if im just touching up a discography ill only listen to the new material usually. if im listening to music ive already heard, ill listen to whatever album or discography i feel like hearing, especially if its something stuck in my mind. usually ill listen to genres in clumps, but sometimes it varies completely (while other times i listen to one genre all day). i try to listen to new music every day.

Ah we are an anal lot, aren't we?

I usually choose things according to mood. I drive about 30 minutes to and from work, so I can get through about a CD a day in the car. I'm a teacher so I can't really listen to CDs or my iPod while I'm working, though I do listen to stuff during my free period. When I get new CDs, I generally listen to them in the car via a strict routine. I listen to each twice through to get a good feel for it, then move to the next disc. 2 times through for that one and so on. When I get to the end of the new CDs, I listen to them all again on CD changer in my car, then move on.

I've been lazy with my playlists and have been focusing mostly on one artist:

Wednesday: Alice Cooper
Thursday: Axel Rudi Pell
Friday: Jon Oliva

My mood lately. Just got separated so A LOT of Gotthard, mostly "Human Zoo". Then other times Seventh Avenue and Grave Digger. But mostly my mood.

I have quite a few CDs I haven't listened to in a very long time. I really want to rediscover and enjoy CDs I already own, so I recently downloaded a free software program called "the hat" to help me. I copied and pasted the titles of all my CDs from a spread sheet on to a text file and loaded the text file into the hat. Now, whenever I want, I can randomly draw a CD out of the hat, and that CD is my album of the day.

Depends on what I'm in the mood for when I wake up. Then I'll just grab some stuff at random that fits that mood.

My wife picked up the latest FIREWIND for me, simply because she liked the band's name

Wait, what's that got to do with the topic?

Ultimate.Nightmare wrote:

My mood lately. Just got separated so A LOT of Gotthard, mostly "Human Zoo". Then other times Seventh Avenue and Grave Digger. But mostly my mood.

good mood!!

JBall_Z wrote:

I have quite a few CDs I haven't listened to in a very long time. I really want to rediscover and enjoy CDs I already own, so I recently downloaded a free software program called "the hat" to help me. I copied and pasted the titles of all my CDs from a spread sheet on to a text file and loaded the text file into the hat. Now, whenever I want, I can randomly draw a CD out of the hat, and that CD is my album of the day.

after I digest the new stuff, I need to go back and pull out some stuff I havent heard in awhile.