With all the music I listen to, I spend many hours wondering why I like certain tunes more than others. It's really hard to explain. The beat? The music? The instrumentation? The vocals? The harmonies? I mean really, what is it that draws you in to enjoy a song?

For me, most of it is based on either the melody, refrain, or bridge.

The melody is sometimes referred to as an "earworm" - you know what I'm talkin' about. Write a great melody and most everyone will start humming it all the time. Be it simple or complex, the melody…

I stumbled across an interesting article located here…

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Both agreed that the {any MP3 player name} had encouraged people to dig into their record collections, and reinvigorated interest in music.

"People are re-familiarising themselves with their old record collections and not buying new music," said Kennedy. "I hope there will come a time when people say, 'enough old music, how about some new music?'"
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After reading the article, I have a few questions for you:

01. Has the invention of the MP3 player (yes, the iPod was referenced in the article *sigh*) encouraged you to revisit your…

How much time do you spend looking at your music?

I think I spend way too much time with iTunes and my iPod. I am constantly ordering, reordering, tweaking, updating, swapping tunes off and on the iPod, making a variety of playlists and smart playlists.

I've seen many versions of this type of sorting on various last.fm Users pages. Being a little bored and curious about the results, here are my Sorting results:

Alpha sort by song name:
First: Abandoned Masquerade / Diana Krall
Genre: Jazz
Last: 9 AM / Crash Season Remedy
Genre: Emo/Pop

Alpha sort by artist name:…

Listening to music is big part of my everyday activities. In the bathroom, in the kitchen, in the truck, in the backyard, in the livingroom, in the basement…wherever I can and as often as I can.

On any given day I will likely listen to my music approximately 10-11 hours at a time. Most of my listening occurs at work (natch!) through a modest set of speakers. Throw in a couple of hours of listening during my commute and a couple or three hours after I get home and you can easily see how much time I spend each day.…

Tags! Who needs them anyway, huh??

I have become quite involved with updating the tags for my MP3 files and I discovered that my involvement with "filling in the blanks" is more time consuming than I think it should be…is that a bad thing?

If the artist or label WEBSite that I download from doesn't fill them in properly, why should I? When I introduced my MP3 collection to iTunes and acquired an iPod, I became even more concerned that my files were NOT right. After all, when I use iTunes to organize my files, I realize all…

I've gotten used to the fact that I listen to my portable MP3 player more than my stereo. Although that saddens me a little, I realize I'm on the go more often these days than not.

I've setup my vehicle to allow MP3 playback via a local FM transmission device. Not exactly the strongest signal, but it's much better than listening to the crap on the radio. However, with bandwidth at a premium on the radio, and due to the glut of radio stations (good and bad), I've been forced to setup several "channels" to overcome the bleed-through and drifting…