But I think the fundamental change in how we listen to music (picking individual tracks on a whim or at random, rather than albumsWhich is sick and wrong!
It's "wrong" when applied to many albums of the Age of the Album, let's say broadly early 1960s to very early 21st century, which were conceived to be played in a certain order. Most obviously so with prog rock albums where all the tracks merge into one (but most of those are better left behind in the great recycling bin of history anyway). It's right with anything released as a single and with albums made before and after that era. It's wrong if it means playing movements of classical symphonies out of order but right when applied to classical music that's only been put on an album together because it's "great piano concertos" or "famous German composers" or whatever. But it also runs the risk of turning any music at all, of any genre, into what telephone call centres do with Vivaldi's Four Seasons, which makes it very, very wrong (and sick).But I think the fundamental change in how we listen to music (picking individual tracks on a whim or at random, rather than albumsWhich is sick and wrong!
To be fair, most 21st century music sounds the same, so it doesn't matter what order you play it in :PCongratulations, here's your Old Buggers Bus Pass and a lifetime subscription to the Daily Express!
To be fair, most 21st century music sounds the same, so it doesn't matter what order you play it in :PAnother basic error if you're listening to anything post 2000.
Does any remember Real Player?
When I found out that Apple were going to discontinue the iPod shuffle (the tiniest one they ever made) I bought about half a dozen of them (no display - a bit bigger than a postage stamp)
I have an iPod Classic which I haven't used in a while.Good titleage there. The last (my bold) is, I presume, tracks by the Shangri Las and similar girl groups.
When I found out that Apple were going to discontinue the iPod shuffle (the tiniest one they ever made) I bought about half a dozen of them (no display - a bit bigger than a postage stamp)
Each one of them currently holds music under one of the following titles:
Drum n' Bass (this works exceptionally well when travelling by train, ever since they welded up all of the joints in the railway tracks)
Classical to fall asleep to.
Classical to ride into battle with.
Music to smash up furniture to.
Spaced out and Ambient.
You get the picture.
MiniDisc was an excellent design, and a worthy successor to the compact cassette. Its heyday could have lasted a bit longer if Sony hadn't been more concerned about music piracy than making useful products. But like everything else, it was doomed when Moore's Law started applying to flash memory, even if it survived that episode of Bugs.
Sony in 1993: "No of course we can't make a data drive that can use our robust 140MB magneto-optical discs, people might use it to copy music with their computers."
Omnes: "Bastards!" *Buys Zip drive* *loses data to click-of-death*
Sony in 2004: "Hey, who wants to buy a drive that can write to our Shiny! New! 1GB MiniDiscs?"
Omnes: *listens to MP3s of crickets*
So what you're saying there is that nowadays everyone is listening to Radio 4, just under a different name. :oYes. 4Extra.
Still got a 1st gen shuffle (the white stick thing, rather than the MKII postage stamp). Lives in the car and is plugged into the AUX socket. Much easier than pissing around with CDs.I have a Sansa Clip that lives in the car, attached to the usb port. It allows the car system to control it.