Sunday, August 04, 2002 i've got my new CD Burner today!
i've burned about 2 cds worth of "commuter music" so that i won't spend 20 minutes trying to select what to listen to that day. It was fun trying to think what qualifies, what doesn't. I'm also reminded of Hornby's High Fidelity when the guy was going on about the numerous rules by which one must abide in order to make a tape. That is, the person must not lose interest after Track One; there shouldn't be 2 tracks by the same artist one after the other, unless you are doing the entire thing in pairs. There must be a theme of couse and pains must be taken to fulfil that theme. oh you get the point.

I was sort of thinking about that, when I was making my selection of songs. But then I suddenly realised that I'm making a CD and not a Tape. The difference therein is that if I come across a track that for some reason i don't fancy at a particular point of time, all i have to do is to press the "next" button. But you can't do that for a tape, cos if you are fast forwarding it, chances are that you will definitely "overshoot" the track. That can be a pain in the arse.

I would imagine that in a tape, the track listing is extremely important. But in a cd, one can either play it linearly or on "shuffle" mode. I don't think that will discount the experience of listening to the CD at all.

posted by Sharon K at 6:15 am