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I challenge the geezer who made this to re-do the video with Vordhosbn by Aphex Twin as the music.
Love it.
Aha!
In reference to my rambling post below, I think I may have found the answer... This is a plug-in for iTunes on Windows XP that allows you to listen to your music via mood. So... it's less random than a shuffle - but still gives you the variation that you need, which is why you listen to music in shuffle.
It's good so far, creating interesting playlists and I find that the 'mood-matching' works. Generally I start listening to a song that summs up my mood (like the fabulous Soldier Jane from Becks new LP) and it will build me a mix round this... When my mood changes I select a new song. All Good.
Last time I blogged about a plug-in Apple bought it and included it with iTunes 7, so watch out for this in iTunes 8!
Get it from www.thefilter.com
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Cooool. I've always wanted a computer that plays music based on how I'm feeling or my mood. But usually my feelings and moods are so hard to quantify that I don't think any plug in would be able to handle it. :)
Three years ago this week I left home for University, and in the process of moving out – ripped all of my CD collection to my iMac HD via iTunes. It seems to be quite a poignant moment for me, disregarding all the money I had spent on albums in my childhood and giving them to my sister. Since then I’ve kept my music completely digitally, preferring to download rather than buy new albums because the irritating cheap plastic covers get stood on (you should see the battered Leftfield case in my spare room – plastic shards everywhere.)
Having an enormous amount of digital music on tap at the press of a button is obviously an absolute joy, but I’m constantly at battle with myself over how I should enjoy it all? Do I patiently listen to all the albums like a proper music fan, or press the big shiny shuffle button and skip any tracks that I don’t like?
These days most new bands will get signed on their ability to produce cracking singles, and therefore achieve radio play and rotation on MTV and other such things. There isn’t a recent record in the RS top 200 except for U2’s All that You Can’t Leave Behind. From most of the recent ‘good’ albums I’ve bought by bands such as Islands and Broken Social Scene, I’ve fallen in love with a couple of tracks – but haven’t been able to grasp the album as a whole.
When listening on shuffle mode I have developed a growing appreciation for Elliott Smith, a songwriter who writes fantastic individual songs – but when all these songs are played one after the other don’t have the same incredibly strong effect.
Shuffle certainly helps me consume the most amount of music in such a short amount of time, but really – it can’t be healthy. We’ve got artists and musicians slaving away in studios across the world and half of the people who get their record will only consume it via the random approach of shuffle.
Late last week, feeling I was cheating my music collection I decided to put on a whole album and listen to it. That album happened to be a double album. And it was... The White Album. It’s fantastic, and something I could have only enjoyed by listening it as a whole piece. If my music just shuffled onto ‘Piggies’ I would have probably gasped and skipped it onto the next song, cursing the shuffle button at being too random.
So, I’m going to undertake a highly scientific two week experiment. I’ve got a whole bunch of new music on my computer that I haven’t devoted enough time to listen to properly. So, for the whole of next week I’m going to listen to music only via shuffle mode and wait and count how many new artists and songs I end up discovering.
The next week I’m going to only listen to my music collection via complete albums, and write down every time I really dig an artist that I was unfamiliar before.
I think that I will enjoy the album experience more and manage to discover more artists, even though the shuffle mode should allow me to absorb the most music...
Here’s to science!
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Yeah, I'm sure music lovers from the 70s will hate shuffle, but it is how I listen to my music almost all the time.
I have my entire library digitized and it' massive. If I'm going to ever hear the songs I love, I don't have time for the filler on the albums, unless I like that too of course. Of course I create smart playlists for all the different genres, eras, etc... that I'll ever want to listen to.
I'm sure you'll have some people post passionate about only listening to entire albums though...
I usually put the 12 changer in the car on shuffle....need the variety there. But once I hear a song that strikes a chord with my mood I usually shut off the shuffle and listen. Sometimes albums take a listen or two before you really get into them. I know recently with the Frames that was the case with me.
Yea, I know what you mean man. I do have all my stuff on itunes, but I am slowly going away from that. That's why I hooked up my stereo so I could put the cds in to let play so I cant just click to another song.
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I've seen another animated movie like this -- I wonder if it is by the same artist or whether there is a whole genre of animation that invents Rube Goldeberg automata for virtual performances of synthesized music.
And this video also has it's own urban legend and page at snopes.com
From snopes: