Your mp3 player: songs or full albums?

Boxset/Compilations and Bonus Tracks.

Edited by MFP - May 06 2010 at 09:45

full albums baby!

Full album
because I usually find the exact album for the mood at listen to it. Usually four or five tracks at a time.

I always listen to full albums all the way through.

On my iPod, I only have full albums which I listen to in their entirety about half of the time --  other than that, I just shuffle my whole library.

I've just bought a modern mobile telephone, with touchscreen, mp3 player, video & photo camera, etc. I supposed this was going to provide a great improvement over my old mobile and my mp3 player (both over four years old), but I was wrong. It seems like it can't read folders, so I have to move the mp3 files all together in the same place. I've named them pedantically: Track Number / Artist / Album / Track Title in order to have the tracks from the same album stick together, but then, it seems like it can't really put them in a logical order, because it can't read tags or something and most tracks appear with altered names like TR8%L# for a track by Transatlantic. This is worse considering that, not having folders, I have to navigate and search for tracks in a track-by-track manner using the < and > key, at a speed of 1 second per track. Also, the transfer rate via USB is very low, at around 0.7MB/s. My old mp3 payer was better on all counts, even though it was a no-name piece of cheap plastic four years ago! 

So I suppose I'll be listening only tracks, not albums.


Edited by harmonium.ro - February 26 2010 at 18:04

I almost always listen to full albums. When I put it on shuffle most of the time after one song, I want to hear the song that's supposed to come next on the album... also, some songs work better in their context (especially in prog).

I have full albums uploaded onto mine, but I tend to shuffle around with the songs from time to time.

I have a 30GB Zune and fill it with albums, never just songs. 80% of the time I listen to full albums start to finish. 20% is songs by classic rock, or straight rock, R&B, jazz artists where I will pick out certain songs, although I have all these type loaded on genre playlists. When my wife and family are enjoying their reality TV shows, which I can't stand, I sit on the sofa and listen to albums start to finish.

I put both,,sometimes I listen to full albums but most of the times I listen to shuffled songs from different bands of different genres under prog...