Listening to albums

I have about 2,000 331/3 albums and zero singles offloaded from any online source.  I guess that tells you what I listen to.

Besides, so much of the music these kids listen to today is so inferior and so often trashy that I would not bother with 99% of it.

Most download from ITunes or its equivalent at about 99 cents per song.  They listen on ipods, smartphones, etc.  Usually make playlists of the songs they wish to listen to,  However, vinyl has made a come back.

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Even my own kids, now in their late 30 and early 40s like our old Baby Boomer music better than most of their generation's stuff.
I mostly listen to music when I'm in the car, and all my music has been copied to my computer. Hours and hours of recording off of vinyl , cassett tape, and loading all my own CDs.. I bought a Flash Drive player, that accepts a flash drive with MP3 music, and plays it thru the radio. Each flash drive will hold 144 songs. (the driver does not allow folders, and 144 is the most single files you can get on a flash drive)
Anyway, 1 flash drive can get me to the Coast, and a different one back.

Nah. I'm all single MP3s nowadays.  They last longer ( the one thousandth copy is exactly as good as the original one and it doesn't deteriorate with use like mechanical/magnetic/optical media does.)

  I never pay a cent for any music anymore.  Not when all I have to do is download the Youtube video or record just the audio off my tablet ( like we used to do off the radio with our cassette recorders in the pre-internet days, which, was and continues to be perfectly legal as long as I don't redistribute what I copy. Anyway I don't need to.  The kiddies already have that covered.). IMO anybody who pays iTunes is just wasting their money.

I never really liked albums anyway.  I used to buy music after I heard a song on the radio. It sucked to have to buy a whole album for just one or two songs.  Hence the recordings.  MP3s are much easier to cue up.  

  There's a car stereo I installed on my old Goldwing that was completely solid state. Got it at best buy for uber-cheap. It had two usb ports for flash drives, an SD card slot and an auxiliary input jack in addition to the standard digital am/fm tuner. No CD drive or any moving parts to f$#& up.  It was awesome. I could store a ton of MP3s on an SD card and just leave it in the unit.

  I haven't held a 'record' in my hands since prolly 1981 or a cassette since 1993 and CDs? They sucked from the get-go. Too fragile. I no longer own any.

Holy cow, I feel so old now.

I like listening to a whole album. Some albums every song is great. I think you miss out a little by just picking and choosing single songs you like. I don't think we ever just listen to a single song. It seems like listening to a certain musician or group gets me in that mood to listen to more.

One brother in law spent big bucks to put a fancy sound system in his car. Car was broken into and system stolen pretty quick.

I have about 60 or so albums, many from Europe.  The vinyl is about twice as thick as US ones.  About 100 cassettes and 150 CDs.  The CDs are also downloaded on Itunes with about another 50 or so songs I purchased online.  

I listen to music from the 70's mostly, really like Journey. The music from back in the day is so much better than the garbage they play these days.

My tastes are rather catholic -- jazz, classical,blues, flamenco, everything the Beatles played,  Bob Dylan and more. 

We have and listen to every type of music except country and gospel. My folks listened to classical and Big Band as I was growing up. It brings back good memories to listen to music from my formative years, the 60's and 70's.

We don't know how to MP3 or Ipod or Itune. [we still have a vcr so we can watch our concert videos.]

ITunes is rather simple -- download from Apple and setup an account (no cost).  After that, one can place a CD in the DVD drive for ITunes to download and convert to DVD.  In most case, ITunes accesses a database and automatically sets the name of each song.

Even simpler is a site called Keepvid.

Copy a YouTube address (pretty much *any* music you'd ever want is on YouTube) into the address box on Keepvid, let the java thingy install once and pick what you wanna save. Many different formats to choose from or just Mp3 audio without the video track... Hit save and yer all set. No fuss. No muss.

However, when you update java, always go to java.com as there are nasty programs that will install malware. 

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Yes, this is correct. but this is a specific plugin for Java that doesn't contain anything bad. I used it regularly until I traded the PC for the droid for primary net access. Now I use TubeMate for android. Same great taste-less filling...

Thanks for the info, I appreciate you guys trying to help me. I don't think I have java, read that there can be problems with it, asked son, he said I don't need it.

I don't have an Ipad, Ipod, MP3 player or flash drives. I don't think I do. Some of your posts look like this to me---download Greek, Greek, Greek and then Greek, Greek, Greek.

 I do know how to put a CD or album on.

Early this year I learned how to text on my Tracphone [given to me by a friend 3 years ago who felt sorry for me. I only used it when traveling in case of emergency] I very proudly texted my son to show him what I learned. He texted back "Welcome to 2006!"

Maybe 60 years ago, my uncle introduced me to Classical.  I was staying at his house, the music was always on, and rather than listen to it, I absorbed it.  I had a few 45's of the time, but my first record collections were of the Masters.  Earlier, I  could sit and relax [pretend to conduct]  all four movements of Beethoven's 9th Symphony but now I enjoy it as background music.  Except for the 4th movement.  I will try to sing along with it pretending that I have a voice and that know German.

But I do listen to classic pop/rock/country more to put me in a frame of mine.  Radio stays on all the time, but as a background mostly stopping only to clarify a verse or two.  No need to cut a classic country "album" when 105.7 plays all I need to hear.  I like to have it on while I'm working but not reading.  And my CD are mostly "Greatest Hits" though sometimes they're not entirely.  Those are good for driving.

Unless we are having a pig and guitar picking at the farm, I don't listen to music outdoors as I need ears to hear more important things involving work and play.

Usually around the holidays while family members are visiting, we think of our ancestors who settled 'round here before statehood and reflect on what they left us and their offspring passed on to us which give us an appreciation of the life they lived.  One tangible asset from their love of music in their sparse cabin was a Columbia Grafonola.  So every now and then, we turn the crank, hear the old springs grind as they wind, the whurrr of the turntable and the scratchy, raspy sounds of the steel needle making contact while adjusting the rpms and wood baffles for volume which somehow turns into the recognizable sounds of "Are you from Dixie?  Are you from Dixie?"  to "Nearer My God to Thee."  Two of my favorites are "Keep on the Sunny  Side" by A. P. Carter and the Carter Family on the Victor label.  And who can forget the Columbia label's Gid Tanner and his Skillet-Lickers with Riley Puckett "Pass around the Bottle and We'll all Take a Drink."

Listening on a cold winter night rocking by a fire and coal oil lantern light.  Smell of pine and cinnamon.

"Whispering Hope" sung by Grace Kerns and Mildred Potter released in 1915.

http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/in...90766/Columbia_A1686

Yessiree. 

I don't buy digital music. I buy cd's and the rip them into mp3's on my computer. I use those on USB sticks in the car along with cd's. 

Nice story bud. Thanks.

Usually tune in to satellite radio for their great selections.  Get the best sound system that comes with a car. That way thieves aren't inspired.  

How much does satellite service cost, dire, if I may ask? If you get it does it work in your house also or is that a different deal?