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by fus 4981 days ago
I have a habit of listening to a single song over and over again. I am able to do so for about 3 hours. Using such randomizer technology, this time will be dramatically prolonged...
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I recoil at the thought of that—how can you stand it? Is there something behind it that would make you want to prolong it even further?
As someone that does the same I think it's to do with "ignoring" the music. I can listen to the same song for ~3 days at a time (and the same artist for longer, up to a week) but I will often find myself not realising I have music on or be sitting in silence and not notice.

For example from October 20th to October 22nd I listened to Kanye West 200 times in a row and I've listened to "Bob Dylan – All Along The Watchtower" 717 times in total. Music directly reflects my mood so if I'm happy for 6 hours and find a song that I find to be happy then I have no problem with it on for that entire time.

Here's a graph of my listening habits from lastgraph[1] that will show big patches of a specific artist: http://lastgraph3.aeracode.org/static/graphs/graph_228708.pd...

[1] http://lastgraph3.aeracode.org