On iTunes and random play

I may be an exception, but I listen to my music exclusively by leaving my iPod (and iTunes, for that matter) on random play, set to shuffle by album not track. I don't use playlists (I find the process of making a playlist quite traumatic, actually). Before iTunes I used to listen to CDs by pulling out albums and moving between them as the mood took me, and as albums which had lain unlistened to for a while caught my eye.

• 29.6.2004, 21.15
• File under: iTunes, adaptive design, software, hackability