Do You Reprogram Your CD's When A Bad Track Comes On? Or Do You Listen To Them All The Way Through "Like The Artist Intended?"

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That's the one area, IMO, where CD's kick ass over vinyl...where you can reprogram or even resequence the disc so you don't have to listen to The Token Bad Song On An Otherwise Great Album. I admit, I will skip tracks on a vinyl LP as well, if it's not all up to par, but I gotta GET UP to do that! With CD's I can hit the "program" button a few times and just let it ride. (I also learned you can turn an iffy two-star CD into a five-star desert island disc if you eliminate the filler.)

But a friend/coworker doesn't believe in personal reshuffling. He figures that every album, even if it's a compilation, deserves to be listened to all the way through. I have nothing against playing a disc from start to finish...if it's good. Or if I'm in the mood to hear it all. But not all albums stand up to front-to-back scrutiny.

Where do you guys stand? Do you eliminate the lesser tunes from a disc or do you just press "play" and deal wit' it?

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck an artist intended.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

I disagree that programming is less work than occasionally moving a needle.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

F#@k no!

I particularly skip "Dreams Reoccurring" or "Reoccurring Dreams" from "Zen Arcade"

― I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit (I say we take off and nuke the), Friday, 20 October 2006 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

i have been known to burn CDs sans crap tracks just to avoid them. (especially if the label already ruined them cf. power, corruption, lies)

but that's the ole neuroses actin' up 'gin.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 20 October 2006 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'll also take classical collections and burn each separate piece on separate CDs so i can hear them in one sitting.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 20 October 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

"I disagree that programming is less work than occasionally moving a needle."

It IS less work...if you're doing something involving, like reading a good book or cleaning house, and you don't want nothin' to disturb your groove while you're doing it.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

it depends. Now that I've gone digital and am selling all my CD's, my music listening has become very slapdash and haphasard. Having something like 17,000+ tracks in my MP3 collection means that I spend an awfully long amount of time sitting in front of my computer and constructing enormous playlists, reorganising everything into alphabetical and date order, playing a track and then interrupting it half way through so as to play a completely different track instead. This can take HOURS and is a lot more time consuming than sticking on a record or CD and listening to it all the way through.

I guess previous to my personal MP3 revolution I was a big fan of listening to albums all the way through as the artist intended. Why? Partly because I like the concept of albums as a whole. You wouldn't want to swap round or get rid of certain notes and sections in a song and therefore you wouldn't want to fuck with the layout of an album.

The other reason is down to a fear of become complacent with my listening. It's very easy, if you have the power, to only play your favourite tunes off of an album and to neglect tracks that maybe you didn't realise you liked. There might be a magnificent earth-shattering coda on a track I previously thought wasn't all that. Or maybe I just didn't "get" the tune on first listen.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think there's still some value to taking the rough with the smooth personally...

― Moderation Request Line (fandango), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

The troughs accentuate the peaks.

In other news, wtf Charlie?!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

I don't reprogram, but I will hit the skip button if a track I don't particularly care for comes on.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

You wouldn't want to swap round or get rid of certain notes and sections in a song and therefore you wouldn't want to fuck with the layout of an album.

By "You", you really mean "I", right? :)

Personally, I'd embrace the option of doing a little editing of my own - removing obligatory tedious unaccompanied bass solos from jazz performances and so forth. I'm with Hurting.

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

(Not that all bass solos are necessarily boring, y'understand...)

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

that's the one area, IMO, where CD's kick ass over vinyl...

On the contrary, it's one more area where vinyl kicks ass over CD's

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

I never reprogram CDs just because I don't want to get in the habit of always skipping a particular track. Some of my favorite songs were ones that didn't really make a good impression for quite a long time.

This doesn't mean I never skip a track, it just means I usually don't plan to skip a track in advance.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I skip through unless it's a band I'm passionate about and feel like it's my fault I'm not "getting" whatever the track has to offer.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 21 October 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

depending on my mood or the record itself, i'll either be happy to let the whole thing play through or i'll just listen to individual tracks. i haven't used the reprogram function in many years

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Saturday, 21 October 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

"that's the one area, IMO, where CD's kick ass over vinyl..."
"On the contrary, it's one more area where vinyl kicks ass over CD's"

what, just 'cause you gotta work harder to avoid the dud track on a vinyl record, that makes it greater? hell, i STILL buy vinyl on the regular and even I dont get THAT statement!

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Saturday, 21 October 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

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