Another way in which classical listening tends to be different from other genres is in how many tracks constitute a listenable chunk. I'm trying to figure out what to do about this.
For pop songs I may want to listen to an album, or to a carefully constructed mixed playlist, or to a random collection of songs. For classical music (other than art-songs), there is a very definite unit, which corresponds neither to an album nor to a track. If I'm going to listen to a symphony, I want to hear the whole thing, not a movement. If there are two symphonies on the same disc, I very likely _don't_ want to listen to them one after the other. Why are there even "tracks" within a single piece on a classical CD? Given that there are, should we preserve this structure in our catalogs? Or ideally would we stitch a symphony together as a single "song"? If we did, some of the other questions (like what is an "album") would go away. But also, it would be possible to listen to random "songs" in a way that more or less corresponds to a concert or radio program, rather than the unlistenable mess I get randomizing tracks. Ideas? -- tom permutt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20850 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
