playlists

I have been spending far too much time lately playing with music playlists. Most of the time I have always listened to albums, using random when I wanted more variety. Some music begs to be listened to this way.

My trevails with my MP3 car deck caused an interesting side effect. I burned a CD with a lot of songs on it. I could do this as the deck only works with 128 kbp tracks. The software I was using to burn the CD added digits to the track titles indicating the album order. Since I burned them all into the root directory, and the deck plays tracks in ascii-betical order this meant for some very interesting combinations as track 1 from a number of artists were then played back to back. This is what got me interested in creating more ambitious play lists.

I am really curious to see how other people will react to my playlists. Am I the only one who thinks that "Lay, Lady, Lay" by Bob Dylan is a great lead into "No Woman, No Cry" by Bob Marley? Will I irritate people by mixing Norah Jones and Bob Seger on the same playlist? I have questions, but no answers yet.

"To the usability lab Batman!"

By no means I am I the only person developing this kind of obsession.