MUSIC

[syntheticjesso]

So a while back iamcoldblue made a Summertime mix CD and sent it out to a bunch of people, including me. It's a pretty awesome mix, and I listened to it a lot. Lots of yummy musics.

But, you know what? I am not really a fan of summer. I like Fall. Well, Fall and Winter, but here in Texas, Winter is really just an extension of Fall, with a day or two of real

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[syntheticjesso]

You'd pretty much be getting one even if you didn't ask. You're on the list by default.

That reminds me, I should make a list.

[syntheticjesso]

Yeah, I did that, too. And then, in listening to it, if a transition caught my attention as jarring, I moved songs.

[sabournine]

Yay I want one! I'll email you with my address in a bit

[zartan]

I've never seen anyone put "Magic Window" on a mix before. Seriously.

How I make mixes: I pick ~70 minutes of songs for a specific person or theme, and then listen to the beginnings and endings of the songs, scooting them around in a Winamp playlist and going for a flow that makes sense (that old English Lit 101 "narrative structure" jive) or isn't jarring.

It ain't scientific; it's more like refrigerator magnet poetry.

[syntheticjesso]

:D I think it fits pretty well in there. It fits the idea of the mix, anyways.

[patrick___]

That's often how I make mix CDs as well, although sometimes I have more of method to the ordering. Sometimes I'll start out with the slower songs, and go into the faster ones, and then maybe end with slower ones again. Or sometimes, if it's all songs by the same band or something like that, I'll put them in some sort of semi-chronological order. Or do some other theme based ordering. But often I do just what you said, play around with the ordering until it sounds good. :-) Haha, on a couple occasions I've gone so far as to order songs so that their keys match up well. :-D

You may say what you're doing is unscientific, but it's actually a lot more work than what a lot of kids these days do. Now that everyone has iTunes and CD burners, a lot of people just seem to grab a handful of songs they like and burn them without really any thought about order at all! o_O

[syntheticjesso]

Oh, no no no no no, I couldn't do that. I HAVE to put them in some sort of order. I couldn't just throw songs on there at random. I'm juuuuuuuust anal enough that I couldn't possibly do that.

[patrick___]

Me too. :-D Especially when making them for other people. In fact, I'm anal enough that I almost never give the same mix CD to more than one person. I always have to make them their own unique one, even if it's only slightly different than another one. I always have to make the mix CDs kind of personalized like that. :-)