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Poll Question: How do you fill and use your portable music player?
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    Posted: January 17 2010 at 15:16
Of course each choice should also say "mostly", but the word didn't fit in (there's a length limit for poll choices).

So, what listening type are you? I'm a 1 ... Big smile


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I don't have an mp3 player anymore, but when I did, I mostly listened to full albums.
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Unlike the mainstream slime these days, progressive music is meant to be listened to in the form of an album in the order the songs come in.
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I fill it with full albums and I try to listen to full albums as many as possible, but I don't always get the chance to. I mostly used my Ipod in the bus ride to my school, which is just too short to listen to full albums. Also because of the loud noise the bus makes I can't hear soft moments of albums at all. I don't listen to music anymore in the bus though, and I rarely use my Ipod now.
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Originally posted by floydispink floydispink wrote:

I fill it with full albums and I try to listen to full albums as many as possible, but I don't always get the chance to. I mostly used my Ipod in the bus ride to my school, which is just too short to listen to full albums. Also because of the loud noise the bus makes I can't hear soft moments of albums at all. I don't listen to music anymore in the bus though, and I rarely use my Ipod now.


I used to have the same problem but now I can blast my iPod through my own car speakers.
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I have a cheap 1GB mp3 player and whenever I travel I fill it with albums (never songs) and listen to albums Approve
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Originally posted by aapatsos aapatsos wrote:

I have a cheap 1GB 512MB mp3 player and whenever I travel I fill it with albums (never songs) and listen to albums Approve
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Albums, but I tend to shuffle them sometimes.
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I fill it with full albums, though I sometimes skip tracks when listening.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I fill it with full albums, though I sometimes skip tracks when listening.

This. I usually listen to an album, but sometimes I'll just go through tracks I feel like listening to.
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It is extremely rare of me to listen to just songs from an album (having to do with sampling, previewing, can't-get-out-of-my-head happenings, or being hooked by a gem, in an exceptional way).

So it's "full albums", in any condition. When I do that, I don't shuffle, skip or interrupt the listening.


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I rarely listen to my mp3. I listen to CD-R copies of full albums on my car stereo.
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Albums, since you did say they should say mostly. Of course, as many have said it's difficult sometimes to listen to a full album for example in a car ride. That's when shuffle's great.
 
Of course, I do sometimes pick individual songs. As a recent example I've been listening to "Hyperdrive!" from Devin Townsend nearly nonstop, and quite honestly all the other songs on the album haven't gotten a chance.

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I only use shuffle to find something I'm interested in hearing at the time, and then I go to the full album and listen to that.
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Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I fill it with full albums, though I sometimes skip tracks when listening.

This. I usually listen to an album, but sometimes I'll just go through tracks I feel like listening to.
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Since my player can hold my entire collection I love turning it into my personal prog radio station with the shuffle.  I shuffle the whole collection sometimes and also maintain playlists of last 50 and 100 albums which I will shuffle on most frequently.  It's a capability I now have, so I figure, why not use it?  I still listen to albums in their entirety frequently as well.  I have a scheme for keeping the entire collection in circulation. Big smile
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I used to fill it with albums and then listen to random tracks since walking to class/riding the bus/going to the gym didn't lend itself to 36-70 minute albums.

Nowadays, I just add songs I know I like in order to avoid incessant skipping.
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Points: 1003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2010 at 09:47
I usually put full albums on, but sometimes I'll skip through songs depending on how much time I have.
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Points: 66205 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2010 at 09:54
Full albums on, and I mostly always listen to the full album.  I used to have an iPod shuffle on which I could only listen to albums on shuffle, but ever since I got a real iPod, I almost always listen to the full album.
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I'm almost always listening to full albums. About twice a year I might use the shuffle option or sometimes when I'm traveling and there's not enough time to listen to a full album I might skip some and only listen to my favourites. I think all music on my Ipod are full albums except three cases when there are a couple of brilliant tracks on an otherwise mediocre album. I'd like to keep the whole albums, but the space is limited even in a 74GB player.
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