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Anyone listen to entire albums?

I assume the answer is yes since many of you run vinyl rigs, but just wondering how many around here listen to entire albums at a sitting?  In the age of instant gratification and playlists I seem to be, recently, gravitating to listening through entire albums.  I don’t have vinyl and only stream or play from a network drive so it’s easy for me to bounce around from song to song, artist to artist.  Maybe it’s a nostalgia thing but I enjoy hearing a record in it’s entirely the way the artist recorded it.  I’ve flirted with the idea of vinyl for the very reason that it seems to be a format that lends itself to listening through an entire album in one sitting.  I seem to be less inclined to make that move though now that I’ve been doing the album thing via streaming. 

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slaw
20,457 posts
 

All the time.

jimf421
42 posts
 

I do...when I play CDs,  Blu-Ray audio or vinyl, I almost always listen to the whole album...and about 1/2 the time when I stream

googoogjoob
84 posts
 

i only listen to entire albums.... and thankfully, not on vinyl. 

chowkwan
152 posts
 

When your system is good, you can't help but flip the record over to hear side two. After cleaning the stylus.

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echolane
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This is an easy question to answer, I listen only to albums. I am habituated to albums having started collecting LPs in 1956. When tape cassettes became popular I got a Nakamichi tape player and began copying LPs to listen that way to save wear on my vinyl. When VHS came available and then Laser Discs and then CDs, I collected them. None of these formats lend themselves to playing by track so it never occurs to me to listen that way. Now that I have much of my LP collection and all of my CD collection stored in digital format I spend most of my time streaming thanks to Roon. I still have my turntable, my Nakamichi tape deck, my VHS player and my Laser disc player but they are idle most of the time because streaming is so wonderful.

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