Agreed. I much prefer listening to full albums. Even stuff I bought a long time ago as a teenager for one song, I’ve enjoyed going back and listening to the complete album.

@ValueSubtracted I hate listening to single songs — I like to hear what an artist had to say as a whole.

Yeah, and in my case, a fine example of "you don't know what you've got til it's gone". I seldom listened to tracks in order and would skip around or put my favorite song on a loop or switch CDs just to hear one song, etc even on CDs I mixed myself.

This time around I've just been putting them in and letting them play. On some albums, it is clear the artist or producer wanted you to dip your toes in with the first track, get you pumped with the second, make you think or feel with the third, give you a breather with the forth, and crack it back up with the fifth (and so on) and the last track is pretty much always the "finale". Definitely more than just throwing the tracks down and saying "come get it" and something I'm sad I didn't appreciate more when physical media was common.

Do y'all not listen to albums on your phone?

I've seen a lot of minidisc players and media on the second hand market the past year. It's having a comeback, if not in new releases.

You saying this to a guy who burned 96kbps MP3s to a CD. 96 kbps MP3s that were ripped from another CD I owned and could have re-ripped at an acceptable bitrate had I not been stuck with the shareware version of MusicMatch Jukebox which was the only software I could run to rip CDs lol

To this day, Eve 6 does not sound "right" unless it's horribly compressed and clipped. Kind of my own, weird version of "sounds better on vinyl".

But I do have much better tools today, so I can go FLAC through the whole process.

Damn, I forgot about that. Haha, my bad instead. I was thinking of the episode where Worf goes on a dangerous mission and Jadzia keeps HIS Klingon operas. And his motivation is that she's known to lose things so the longer he's gone the more likely he won't get some back.