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Mr ProgFreak 
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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 ... 
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Vompatti
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Posted: January 17 2010 at 15:18 |
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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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NJCat_11
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Posted: January 17 2010 at 15:19 |
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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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The Sleepwalker
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Posted: January 17 2010 at 15:22 |
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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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NJCat_11
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Posted: January 17 2010 at 15:25 |
 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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aapatsos
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Posted: January 17 2010 at 15:40 |
I have a cheap 1GB mp3 player and whenever I travel I fill it with albums (never songs) and listen to albums 
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Posted: January 17 2010 at 15:44 |
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
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Posted: January 17 2010 at 15:50 |
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Albums, but I tend to shuffle them sometimes.
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Logan
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Posted: January 17 2010 at 16:03 |
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I fill it with full albums, though I sometimes skip tracks when listening.
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progkidjoel
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Posted: January 17 2010 at 17:07 |
Logan wrote:
I fill it with full albums, though I sometimes skip tracks when listening.
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This. I usually listen to an album, but sometimes I'll just go through tracks I feel like listening to.
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Posted: January 17 2010 at 17:13 |
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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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Posted: January 17 2010 at 17:24 |
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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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topofsm
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Posted: January 17 2010 at 18:44 |
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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Posted: January 17 2010 at 18:55 |
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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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Posted: January 17 2010 at 19:02 |
progkidjoel wrote:
Logan wrote:
I fill it with full albums, though I sometimes skip tracks when listening.
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This. I usually listen to an album, but sometimes I'll just go through tracks I feel like listening to. |
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Posted: January 18 2010 at 02:31 |
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.
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: January 18 2010 at 02:53 |
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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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Posted: January 18 2010 at 09:47 |
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I usually put full albums on, but sometimes I'll skip through songs depending on how much time I have.
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Posted: January 18 2010 at 09:54 |
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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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Pekka
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Posted: January 18 2010 at 10:24 |
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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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