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[haptalaon]

Mock me, if you wish, for having taken such a long soujourn from the modern moment to be delighted and astonished by this, but:

I've just discovered my music player (Clementine) allows me to tag tracks or albums with a Grouping, and then will make a Smart Playlist based on any criteria; and so I've put all my sacred albums on there (all 4 days 3 hrs of it) and then I pretend it's a radio. I know! i know. I've just rediscovered 'putting songs on a playlist and hitting shuffle', but there's something about the workflow I guess that calms me...I don't have to keep track of the playlists or albums or tags, and the operation of chance makes me feel like the music is coming from another place.

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[goatgodschild]

I have no reason to mock you. This seems quite practical, although I tend to not enjoy a "shuffle" manner, because it makes me jumpy and fussy -- two songs always seem to end up incorrectly paired, or reveal the course of a new project by their combining too well.

For me at best, it's all about the rigorously curated playlists, moving from one mood or character to another in a specific spectrum. Unfortunately, because my mp3 croaked back in March/April, I have taken to Spotify, and since that automatically shuffles on mobile if you don't pay up, the best way to trick it is to have a short list and line it up by artist. They tend to shape up all right then.