Do you guys PAUSE your music halfway?
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Topic: Do you guys PAUSE your music halfway?
Posted By: darkshade
Subject: Do you guys PAUSE your music halfway?
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 11:22
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What I mean by that is: If your listening to an album, especially one that takes up most of a CD (up to 80 minutes), so you pause the music somewhere half way? I don't do this regularly, but sometimes, especially for long albums, if I remember to do so, I'll pause it when I feel a half way point has been reached. 3 good reasons to do this are: 1 - you get an idea of what the album would be like if released in the 70s on vinyl (if it was, then there you go). 2 - you get to give your ears a break, which helps keep the music, for the second half of an album, fresh. 3 - bathroom breaks  Does anyone else do this? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 11:24
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yes. I feel bad about it sometimes, though. ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 11:24
| Yes. I even pause movies and books. |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 11:26
Why? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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frippism wrote:Posted By: The T
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 11:26
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No. I totally submit my bladder and intestines to the mandate of whoever decided to put 80 minutes of damn music into one single cd. ------------- 
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Posted By: MillsLayne
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 11:50
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Yeah, I do. Sometimes for a bathroom break or even to listen to other clips of music on Amazon if I'm shopping online. ------------- http://gamercards.exophase.com/xbox/user/MillsLayne/" rel="nofollow">  ht |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 11:50
I sometimes pause books for several months. I wish I didn't have to pause as often but since I use headphones and I often can't have 80 minutes of undivided attention I pause frequently. |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 11:53
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Yea, headphones for 80 minutes or more can be much, I sometimes will get a earache or something. With speakers I can go a lot longer.
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Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 11:55
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Yes , for all kinds of reasons.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 11:58
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Yeppers. Doing it now. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 12:00
How do you figure you're halfway through a movie (besides looking at the time?). Books are obvious.
Like what? And we're talking about pausing halfway, obviously everyone pauses music in general. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 12:07
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No. I pause as needed. I don't intentionally pause around half way. ------------- 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 12:09
 Oh, and I don't deliberately pause anything halfway, I just pause at any point I feel like pausing in. |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 12:09
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 12:12
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'Hello'.........'Hello' ...........'Who is that?'.... 'Oh, Hi Dad.....' 'Sorry I can't hear you I'm listening to some music' ..........
'What was that?....'
'Can't I turn around? Why would I want to turn around?
'Oh, turn it down! God no I never turn my prog down'
'What's that?'
'Lick sh*t on Draws?' 'THere's no need to be rude!' 'I never heard that kind of language from you before!'
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 12:12
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 12:25
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I'm lucky if I can get through an entire song without pausing, stopping, going to another genre, whatever. I'm prone to weird mood swings, musically. One minute it'll be Yes, then suddenly I need to hear the Swans. And because I have 10,000 songs with me at all times, I'm all over the place.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 12:28
I like a little sketch now and then. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 12:29
Well, it's very easy to check if you're using iTunes or WMP. Just highlight the songs and see where the halfway point is. If you have a 80 minute CD with 8 tracks, and the first 5 are about 40 minutes, you'd pause after the 5th song. Again, I don't do this on the reg, but occasionally I'll do this for some minor entertainment. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 12:32
Well I feel bad for not giving an album the "full" experience, not getting into it fully, but eh, not all can listened to. ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 12:38
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Mostly not, I even schedule listening music in my free time and in such way that I get to listen to a certain number of full albums within that interval of time.
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 15:33
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 15:40
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One of the cool things about recorded music is that you have the option. Also one of the things about DVD or the older technology VHS that I really appreciate. And unless you're a pig who trashes you own bathroom, you get to excrete your personal waste products in peace somewhat.
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 15:41
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That's why vinyl rules........after 23min or so
1) I go pee..or #2
2) I get another drink
3) I get another bowl of cereal....Cookie Crisp
4) I go upstairs to see why everyone is calling me
5) I answer email/VM/Post on PA
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 15:58
Good point. When I'm listening to vinyl, I almost always play the whole side through, and sit and listen to it, very different from when I'm listening to the iPod (when I seem to have A.D.D.). It's more a sense of occasion when you put a record on. Quite often, though, I will only play one side of the record and not the other. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 16:18
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^ So your #6 would be
Flip vinyl -------------
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 18:21
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Yeah, damn shame, if only you could pause a CD somehow after listening to an LP's side worth of music.
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 19:07
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I see this isn't a very popular thing to do. I don't know, I sometimes wish to experience the vinyl age, even with new music, but I don't have the means to play vinyl right now. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 19:24
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I have children and many other elements of my life that take precedence over listening to music.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 19:26
Um, or in the CD age, you can, like, pause after any track you like and do any of those things.  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 19:33
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Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 19:39
Yes, sir. My Dark Side of the Moon experience (through the ages): Age: 5: -Hear 'Money' playing on parents' stereo in background -Play a video game 9: -What the f**k is a Rogered Waters? 13: -Listen to 'Money' on Youtube -Go play a video game 16: -Listen to each song from beginning to end without interruption late at night perfectly 21: -Listen up to the clocks in 'Time', but just as the song properly begins... -Get up and make offspring a sandwich -Listen from 'Time' to 'Breathe (Reprise)' -Take out the trash -Listen from 'Breathe (Reprise)' to 'Us and Them' -Clean the living room -Listen from 'Us and Them' to 'Any Colour You Like' (awfully frustratingly) -Wash the dishes -Sit down, get ready to pick up halfway through 'Any Colour' but... -Wipe a child's ass and come back to shut the machine off in frustration -Play 'Money' on youtube -Go play a video game Funny how inexplicably complicated things become with age.
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Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 19:50
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 19:58
You are starting to scare me. I hail from the vinyls age and have two non functioning turntables. The best one's I've had had a lever to lift and drop the needle so indeed you could pause but I always almost immediately recorded my vinyls to cassette to keep them from potential needle damage and again pausing was a simple matter. But to answer the question, no. I never tried to deliberately PAUSE halfway. It would have been coincidental. More likely a quarter in or a quarter left to go. I was doing stuff like you can do with the digital ripping on cassette many years before that came into being. Copying my stuff to cassette for portability. Making assortment tapes (playlists anyone?). ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 21:36
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I agree with Scott.
I don't think about when I should pause something. (Probably obviously, but I prefer not to pause if I can help it) ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: March 01 2012 at 21:55
Twoo'...but my rugrats are old enough now I can sit and enjoy for hours on end.......I go downstairs and come up for air when I need more drink or Cookie Crisp...
 My sytstem is setup for vinyl, I have all the needed components to make it sound pretty nice if I must say so. And my last pc of equip I just purchased makes all my digital and CD's much warmer and analogueee.
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: March 02 2012 at 01:57
I can't say Ive done it deliberately either, just something I might do if I realize there's a 'break' in the album, and I need to use the bathroom or get a coffee. Ive done this a couple of times, but, I've made playlists of an album, splitting the album up as if it were on a vinyl that could hold 40 minutes on each side. This isn't something you can do with every album, you don't want to mess with transitions if there are any. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 02 2012 at 01:58
| Yes. It's nice to stand up halfway the album and get some coffee and chocolate or something else to eat, and be happy that there still is a second half. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: March 02 2012 at 02:24
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I only pause to turn a vinyl album over.......... altho I occasionally pause if I am reviewing so I can write the idea down before moving on. ------------- 
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: March 02 2012 at 04:30
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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: March 02 2012 at 05:41
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I just told my wife that i found a whole bunch of people who tries not to pause their music like me!! She said oh no.... |
Posted By: TheJet
Date Posted: March 02 2012 at 05:59
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This reminds me of Ummagumma. How the album is up to 80 minutes and such, Yes I pause it sometimes. But when I go for long drives that are 3 hours or more, I like to listen to the entire album.
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 02 2012 at 06:37
If this isn't a word, then it should be  ------------- 
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: March 02 2012 at 06:40
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