Music times
Aug. 22nd, 2021 12:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressSo like I mentioned in passing yesterday, I've been way more serious about listening to music lately, and that is _such a good thing for me_.
I have a gabzillion songs in my library (approximately) so you'd think I'd actually be good at listening to music, but I assure you that is often not the case. It's...just...routinely forgetting that I can add music to whatever other fuckery I'm up to on the computer? And also routinely forgetting that my brain actually works _distinctly_ better if it's had a lot of music in it recently.
Some of the problem is that I don't bring my lappy to school usually, so at work tends to just use whatever YouTube gives me, which is _kinda_ like being serious about listening to music but also really not. Like, my regular library on shuffle has a similar vibe of not knowing what I'ma get, but the algorithm makes certain choices that I don't ever actually support.
Anyways. Today I listened to all of Starlight Express! Because trains! I dunno, because one song popped up and I went all "I will listen to all of this now", which is somehow how musicals work for me. I also got to listen to the crazy-songs of Next to Normal because I was...kinda deep into some complicated feels? Delightfully, I was actually able to crazy-listen to it, because the sort of feels/crazy I was having was *not* the sort of crazy that would be bad-exacerbated by N2N.
This is not always the case, which is a little unsettling. So little of my music has the potential to make my brain _worse_. Not just "I don't feel like listening to this" but "ah, this is making things in here worse". Honestly, pretty much just N2N and That One Song What Still Belongs To My Rapist Ex. (Unwell, by Matchbox 20, which is a shame as it's a pretty good crazy song).
The other fun music thing has been having a _new set of music_ on my phone to listen to while I'm biking five miles. To elaborate, I basically hadn't updated the tunes on Ida for like...probably a couple years *before* my mac died in Sep2019 and I lost the ability to update her entirely. So I dumped a bunch of artists onto Jannykeel and while there's some overlap, the bulk of the tunes are ~different~ than I've been biking to for the past four years.
It does mean I have a new fun game called "how fast can I ID the boy-artist?" (Girl artists are no problem --I know both Vienna and s00j's voices forwards and backwards so even the tracks I don't know well are immediately pinned, and if it's neither of those, it must be Kate Nyx). If it's a mashup it's from one of NeilCic's mouth albums, if it has horns it's W/IFS, if neither of those it's probably Tally Hall?
Anyways, I am pleased to be enmeshed in songs again, and maybe my next step should be to collate my CD collection with my mp3 collection and make a giant stack of things to import sometime soon.
What've you been listening to lately?
~Sor
MOOP!
I have a gabzillion songs in my library (approximately) so you'd think I'd actually be good at listening to music, but I assure you that is often not the case. It's...just...routinely forgetting that I can add music to whatever other fuckery I'm up to on the computer? And also routinely forgetting that my brain actually works _distinctly_ better if it's had a lot of music in it recently.
Some of the problem is that I don't bring my lappy to school usually, so at work tends to just use whatever YouTube gives me, which is _kinda_ like being serious about listening to music but also really not. Like, my regular library on shuffle has a similar vibe of not knowing what I'ma get, but the algorithm makes certain choices that I don't ever actually support.
Anyways. Today I listened to all of Starlight Express! Because trains! I dunno, because one song popped up and I went all "I will listen to all of this now", which is somehow how musicals work for me. I also got to listen to the crazy-songs of Next to Normal because I was...kinda deep into some complicated feels? Delightfully, I was actually able to crazy-listen to it, because the sort of feels/crazy I was having was *not* the sort of crazy that would be bad-exacerbated by N2N.
This is not always the case, which is a little unsettling. So little of my music has the potential to make my brain _worse_. Not just "I don't feel like listening to this" but "ah, this is making things in here worse". Honestly, pretty much just N2N and That One Song What Still Belongs To My Rapist Ex. (Unwell, by Matchbox 20, which is a shame as it's a pretty good crazy song).
The other fun music thing has been having a _new set of music_ on my phone to listen to while I'm biking five miles. To elaborate, I basically hadn't updated the tunes on Ida for like...probably a couple years *before* my mac died in Sep2019 and I lost the ability to update her entirely. So I dumped a bunch of artists onto Jannykeel and while there's some overlap, the bulk of the tunes are ~different~ than I've been biking to for the past four years.
It does mean I have a new fun game called "how fast can I ID the boy-artist?" (Girl artists are no problem --I know both Vienna and s00j's voices forwards and backwards so even the tracks I don't know well are immediately pinned, and if it's neither of those, it must be Kate Nyx). If it's a mashup it's from one of NeilCic's mouth albums, if it has horns it's W/IFS, if neither of those it's probably Tally Hall?
Anyways, I am pleased to be enmeshed in songs again, and maybe my next step should be to collate my CD collection with my mp3 collection and make a giant stack of things to import sometime soon.
What've you been listening to lately?
~Sor
MOOP!
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on 2021-08-22 05:22 am (UTC)There are a few options for making one's music library available via the internet so it's accessible from other devices, if you aren't already aware! (lmk if you want tips on that front)
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on 2021-08-22 02:21 pm (UTC)Given that my new phone takes SD cards (!), if all else fails I'll just put the collection on there and listen to it thusly.
~Sor
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on 2021-08-22 02:33 pm (UTC)Oh yeah no I don’t recommend that; I meant options that make/upload a copy of your library. But sounds like you’re all set anyway :)
Starlight Express
on 2021-08-22 11:07 am (UTC)Re: Starlight Express
on 2021-08-22 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2021-08-22 11:53 am (UTC)no subject
on 2021-08-22 02:24 pm (UTC)~Sor
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on 2021-08-28 05:29 pm (UTC)Not enough -- I realized just the other day that I also haven't been listening to enough music, and that's bad for my head. I'm starting to get back into the habit.
I tend to do Massive Shuffle: my music is mostly broken down into a few playlists by rating. The four-star list, which is basically "fun enough that I can listen to it any time" is somewhere over ten continuous days at this point.
But I've fallen behind on ripping, and there are still hundreds of CDs that don't exist on my phone yet. I need to get back to that...