DTVT I've got a question that I guess is off topic, but when you purchase a large amount of CD's like you have here how do you listen? Do you listen to one for a while then move on to another or do you do one after another.
Well, I have the luxury of listening to music on my iPod at work, as long as I'm not teaching a class; so I like I said somewhere recently (it might have been another thread), it is quite easy for me to get 50+ hours of music listening in a week between work, car, and home (cook/clean/reading/web surfing). I order everything online because the closest music store is an FYE that is almost an hour away so I tend to get things in large batches. When I make an order from somewhere, the music will fall into 5 catagories: 1) Order triggers (the CD's I ordered because I wanted them ASAP and are thus reasons to get things from other categories. Usually established artists.); 2) order riders (things I throw in the cart that sit until I want enough stuff to justify placing the order, usually artists I am completing discographies from or my first purchase from an artist), 3) stuff on sale (I order a lot from CMDistro and laserCD, so I keep an eye on stuff that goes on sale there. Usually similar to stuff from the previous category, or bands I heard of but haven't heard anything from); 4) complete flyers, which don't happen too often but I find that I seem to have incredible luck with these; and 5) random grabbags at CMDistro and Nuclear Blast. I have a hit rate of about 3 out of 10, with usually 2 or 3 others being duplicates of albums I already own and can sell at a music store, and the rest duds - but the hit rate is enough to justify the price.
Order triggers are always the first things I listen to, and with intent since I was looking forward to them. Other ones I'll listen to while I'm busy doing something else, and a quick metric of how heavy of a rotation it will get is how well does it grab my attention (for the right reasons) when my attention is elsewhere. If it does, it will likely move towards the top of the queue when second listens come around. If it doesn't grab my attention after two or three spins, I'll give it a dedicated listen to see if that solves the problem. I end up with surprisingly few duds, although sometimes bands just seem to crap out (FALCONER), and others just don't offer anything that justifies further investigation when I have hundreds of albums I do enjoy, I usually keep 2 or 3 of these in my car for the few times I forget to grab the iPod. For whatever reason I don't let go of the duds just in case. It took me two years for BtBaM's Colors to click, but once I "got them", I fell in love with them, so there is always a chance I'll discover them late - but that's only happened with BtBaM and PoS, and PoS was back when my collection was closer to 250 albums 7 years ago, not closing in on 900 like it is now.
Topic: Shuffling Your iPod (Try it!) (Read 1654 times)