It has been almost two and a half years since I bought a Zune. Almost three hundred and eighty nine thousand plays. Nineteen hundred and thirty four listener badges. After all this time I finally got a gold badge.
A gold badge is acquired when one accomplishes five thousand listens of a specific band or song. In my case it was the Silverlake, CA based band My Ruin. Understandable since they are one of my favorite bands of all time. What took so long?
Five thousand plays is barely 1.25% of my total listens. With so many plays one would possibly think I would have a crap load of gold badges.
I probably would but I have a philosophy or a belief. A belief their is to much good music out there to simply listen to a single album over and over. It was the simple thing to do when I was a kid. Move that record player needle back to the beginning of whatever side of the record album. Cassette players, 8 track players, and CD player could be set to play their reels/disc over and over. Today with digital technology it is easy to listen to loads of albums. Though I don't simply have every album loaded on to my 120 GB Zune.
If I was simply going to do a random play from every song it would cut the impact and not allow a song to grow on a me. Sometimes when you first hear a song you miss stuff with that first quick impression.
On the go I have 20 albums on my Zune most of the time. Usually a mix of ten albums around a theme and another random ten albums. For example, a good number of months I was mixing albums named in the Terrorizer magazine essential 200 list with whatever. Currently I have noticed my recommended choices from Zune to be rather stagnant after digging through all that metal so I recently been using the theme of electronic music (mostly in the industrial vein) in hopes of changing this and hopefully discovering some new bands.
20 albums isn't an overwhelming number. With it I am able to give albums a good chance and really listen to everything. I switch an album out once I earn a badge. That is the reason I have so many badges especially bronze badges (200 listens).
Otherwise when it comes to the home I have a number of play lists I switch between each day. I have a silver album one where I play what I consider to be classic albums, a random fifty track list of 'hearted' tracks, hundred random tracks from my whole collection, and a lot of others to keep things fresh and exciting.
I have nothing against those who can listen to things over and over again. If you enjoy it go for it. I am lucky enough participating in radio I am getting new music constantly. It can be overwhelming and my listening habits is one of my ways of doing music justice.
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