Celine Dion in French is much less annoying.
The Arts: August 2004 Archives
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.
In a note unrelated to my iPod quandry, I need some headphones that aren't hot and sweaty. I currently use a pair of Koss TD-61 headphones, purchased mainly on the basis of price. I think that the sound is ok, but my ears get too hot. It's enough to make me think that people are talking about me somewhere.
Would any of my two loyal readers like to make a suggestion?
I noticed that the itunes store was giving away speeches given at the DNC. I went to download one and noticed that the "Listeners also bought" info was shown as well giving an interesting demographic look at what music is listened to by the folks interested in Kerry's speech.
Anyone want to take bets that folks interested in RNC speeches will have different music/audiobook tastes. I'll bet the Grateful Dead won't show up for one.
Anyone want to take bets that folks interested in RNC speeches will have different music/audiobook tastes. I'll bet the Grateful Dead won't show up for one.
