Whenever I get a new album, I listen through in order a couple times, but after that, I just add a bunch of songs but not all to my main shuffle list and go from there.

Yeah me too, shuffle is a great way to figure out what you might be in the mood for and also remind you of albums you haven't heard in a while or never paid enough attention to. That's one of the reasons I shuffle my huge library at home on the weekends. So much to choose from, and it gives me ideas for the week.

Full album usually whenever I'm listening on the computer. When I have my MP3 player it tends to be song-by-song.

Personally I think bands that have a shuffle mentality ruin music. They tend to be more poppy commercial bands, and are the reason people like Lady Gaga and Miley are so popular. Forgive me if I offend but **** those people.

I usually put albums on shuffle, actually. Or put a certain artist on shuffle.

I don't really make playlists anymore.

Edit: and obviously I listen to albums normally, as well.

I asked because my friend said she never listens to full albums. I gave her an album and when I aksed her if she had listened to it she had said she hadn't cause she doesn't listen to full albums. She asked me to tell her a few songs to listen to.

I can't understand that mentality, but I couldn't come up with any real argument against it.


That's why I ask.

I think you could've found a better way to ask. More options poll-wise perhaps.
I'll have to go with a bit of both.
I listen to full albums predominantly; but lately I've been having trouble deciphering the mood I'm in, and shuffle is great for that. There's nothing wrong with shuffle.

I try to listen to full albums but the majority of the time I end just being bored so shuffle it is.

Whenever I buy an album for the first time (or listen through an album for the first time) I always do it from start to finish in the correct order. After I've listened through it once or twice as a whole, I pick the songs I like from it and then stick them into various playlists on the computer and just listen to them from there. I see no sense in repeatedly listening to songs you don't like just because they happen to be on an album you like.

Right but honestly one or two full listens to an album isn't enough time to get to know it. Many of my favorite songs throughout my life weren't the ones that initially caught my attention.

Still, to each their own, some people don't have any patience.