I’ve been having some problems lately with finding music. Not with finding new music to listen to, but with finding where the music I have is. And I blame technology.
I’ve got something playing pretty much any time I’m awake. At the office, I’ve got my iTunes on nonstop, in the car it’s either the radio, more often than not tuned to UMass Dartmouth’s WUMD, or CD’s—my car’s from that magic period where it’s new enough to have seat warmers, but old enough for dual CD/cassette players—and at home it’s still mostly a mix of CD’s and records.
And that’s the problem! I’m going to be in the car for a few hours today so I just downloaded the new CHVRCHES and The Julie Ruin albums and then burned them to CD. My boyfriend bought a physical copy of the new Janelle Monáe, so there’s that, too, although I’m more likely to play that at home than to burn it to my computer to listen to at work…
Am I the only one that finds this all very frustrating? I know people in big cities, who tend to live in tiny apartments and not drive, were the first to swear off CD’s, and I almost feel a little bit like an old-timer when I put one on. But a lot of the time, I find digital just doesn’t make sense!
Part of me just wishes we could go back to olden times, like the seventies. Speaking of which, here are audiophiles and Playgirl models Pierre Asselin and Richard Burke Davis. They knew how to listen to music.
– Lawrence
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Or you could 1. get a new car stereo with an aux cable or ipod jack to listen to your digital music collection in your car 2. visit a local car stereo installation place and see if they would be able to install an aux cable to your current stereo. won’t help you play your vinyl, but all cds could be converted to mp3 format and put on an mp3 player of your choice (or in my case phone).
I have way too many digital tracks to listen to them all. Every few months I burn a new “hits disc” that has the 20 songs that I want to hear in heavy rotation. I play this CD in my car and I also play it at home. I also have an ipod that I listen to on shuffle at the gym with hundreds of songs on it, but my hits discs are more fresh and current and I can’t get enough of them. I just finished one and now I am working on deciding what 20 songs will go on my next hits disc. It usually takes a few months for me to like that many new songs.