RAW: I finally got my CDs ripped today. I need to not procrastinate on that so much. A couple only ripped after MUCH reluctance
Jay: Your CD's?
Jay: Trying to put everything on mp3?
RAW: Yeah. It's my policy
Jay: For break-ins?
RAW: And so I can sort my own CDs
Jay: Ah, I see.
Jay: So you can see what you have?
RAW: So I can get rid of tracks I don't want and put them in a more suitable order :)
Jay: I like having the other ones on there, just in case.
RAW: Other ones on there?
Jay: Other tracks on the CD...and usually the order given suits just fine.
RAW: I don't want songs I don't like to listen to on CDs that I listen to. I'm funny that way...
RAW: AND I can make the CDs longer than a piddly 45-50 min!
Jay: I just skip over 'em
Jay: yeah
Jay: I dunno
Jay: I'm fine with switching 'em out
Jay: Call me non-progressive.
RAW: Reactionary.
RAW: Oh well, I like how my way is just so completely superior to yours. It makes me feel better about myself [nodnod]
Jay: I imagine so
RAW: It depends on the artist. For some I'd be just fine listening to the CDs through.
RAW: But for others I only like about half their songs
Jay: True, true.
Jay: I usually find a smattering of the songs I like and make a disc of it (a la Frank Black and Pixies)_
RAW: For my part, once I have that 80-minute good-song format going, I start liking the plain jane CDs less, so I start collapsing them. It's kinda neat how 2 CDs fits into 1 pretty well for most good artists. 3 CDs fold into 1 for hit-and-missers or 2 CDs if they're really good
RAW: The only problem I've run in to are those with more than 3 CDs... I never know quite what to do. That's why I have no CDs burned for some of my favorite acts (Phil, Great Divide, Counting Crows, etc.)
RAW: It's depressing sad.
RAW: Just not in a way that makes my way of going about it anything less than utterly superior to yours.
Jay: Why don't you just make more than 1 CD with them on it?
RAW: I do... for instance, 3 CDs by a good artist get welded into 2 CDs (Matchbox 20 and Blue October are good examples)
RAW: But once there are four, it gets more spotty
RAW: I could make two 2-1 folds
RAW: I've been mulling that over for Great Divide
RAW: But then you have artists like Phil and TMBG, whose material changes a lot over the years and two sequential CDs may not match eachother particularly well
RAW: And then there are live CDs... oh man, those things screw up EVERYTHING!
Jay: You think about this entirely too much.
RAW: EVERYTHING
[RAW explodes]
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The phrase "I haven't bought a CD in three years because music just bored the hell out of me" comes to mind.
Hmmm, I don't expect music to ever bore me. Certain styles certainly do after over-exposure. There's kind of a cycle to such things. I find a new kid of music, listen to it non-stop and like every band that does it, then start getting tired of it and only like the best, then find a new kind of music and start listening to that.
The only time I re-ordered tracks was centuries ago when I replaced my 8-track of The B-52's first album with a CD. I was used to listening to the 8-track, where the songs were re-ordered into equal-length chunks, and I couldn't stand listening to them in any other order. At the time (way before CD burners) I just re-programmed the player every time.
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