iPod Has your iPod reduced your music attention span?

[jamaiken]

I listen all the way through, and always use shuffle. I guess now that I can hear the favorites whenever I want, I'm more excited about hearing the good ones that are heard less often. Through satellite radio and the iTunes radio, I have discovered lots of great music that never (or seldom) made the FM airwaves.

 

[mad jew]

I only listen to songs all the way through if I'm jogging because too much track-changing freezes the iPod sometimes.

I think I'm up for a new one anyway. It's just crashed iTunes and it lost all my songs (despite saying it only has 900MB out of 40GB left) and it wont sync properly.

 

[Jedi128]

I don't think I skip songs often. The reason is becuase since I've got my iPod I have become obsessed with the play counter. I look at what songs are in the "top 10" often and have a smart playlist with the top 10 most often played songs on my iPod. I have actually stopped listening to songs I like becuase I don't wanted them to get any higher on the play count rank. Then sometimes I'll try to force myslef into listening to something else that I want to be higher. Does anyone else do this? I am very driven by my play count as to waht I listen to.

Anyways back to topic, skipping a song would mean that it doesn't get counted by the play counter, so I never do. What a crime to listen to a song yet not have it be counted. Unless of course I don't want that song getting any higher in the top 10.......

 

[pubwvj]

No, not really. At this point I have almost all of my music in iTune/MP3 player. I still have favorites but sometimes I want to listen to something different. Before it was harder. Now it is easy.

 

[Tahko]

My music attention span has improved... I'm a closet-classist, so I don't really prefer to listen to Mozart & Arnold when my friends are close or when my family is near. That means I would have otherwise very little time to listen to it.

And then there's these new bands I find, which I first like to listen throughout in my own peace to decide is it good or not to play aloud for others. iPod grants me those two abilities when- & where ever, making it actually one of the best music related purchases I've ever made.

 

[crazzyeddie]

Since I usually listen to music in album format, I prefer to listen all the way through. I guess my music attention span has actually leangthened, because now I listen to albums as opposed to songs...

I second that. An interesting evolution of my musical tastes.