How many albums did you go through today? - Music

HoldenM

To Pedantically Split Infinitives

Gender: Male

Age: 31

Mmm... Depends on the day. Usually, I only listen to a few albums. When there's new stuff, I listen to two a day, but I listen to them over and over so I get used to it. Generally, I take my time. There's no rush.

Kiki

I've dropped the ball. I have done 0 albums for a long time. 🙁

Norman Bates

Gender: Male

Age: 53

Location: Paris, France

An astonishing 7, plus one I couldn't finish due to the general audience's veto. Very rare score these days.

quincytejani

Usually 1 or 2 new albums a day and then a couple of the old favourites added in also

Romanelli

Bone Swah

Gender: Male

Location: Broomfield, Colorado

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The Poe wrote:

I think the number of albums is a bit weird. What if I listened to, say, 10 ten-minute EPs and 5 forty-minute albums? That's about 4 hours and a half of music. OR, let's say, I listen to 2 compilations that are each about 4 hours long. Only 2 albums, but holy shit, 8 hours!

But, I tend to try about 10 albums, up to 15. That can often mean just 15 minutes of an album before deciding I'm bored and want to listen to something else...

More likely, 10 is a lot, and 15 is unreasonable. If you want to count 10 minute EP's (which are basically singles) as albums, then your definition is, to me, skewed. And 15 minutes in, bored, on to the next one...should that really count?

Giving the benefit of the doubt, let's go with an average time of 45 minutes per single (not doubles) album. What it was more during the days of all vinyl than the increased time (60-75 minutes) when CD's came about. At 45 minutes per album, you're talking about 11.25 hours of music. This means that if you woke up at 9AM (assuming that if you listen to this much music you don't have a job), and took absolutely no breaks whatsoever, and never once turned off your music, you would be listening from 9AM to 8:15PM. Let's say you take an hour break for lunch. And another hour for meeting with people, taking a walk maybe, things that have to do with life...we're talking music listening from 9AM to 10:15PM.

This is based on 45 minute albums. An average album length of an hour seems more realistic. Wake up at 9AM, listen non stop to 15 albums means you are done at midnight.

I don't know if I can buy into 15.
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Romanelli wrote:

More likely, 10 is a lot, and 15 is unreasonable. If you want to count 10 minute EP's (which are basically singles) as albums, then your definition is, to me, skewed. And 15 minutes in, bored, on to the next one...should that really count?

Giving the benefit of the doubt, let's go with an average time of 45 minutes per single (not doubles) album. What it was more during the days of all vinyl than the increased time (60-75 minutes) when CD's came about. At 45 minutes per album, you're talking about 11.25 hours of music. This means that if you woke up at 9AM (assuming that if you listen to this much music you don't have a job), and took absolutely no breaks whatsoever, and never once turned off your music, you would be listening from 9AM to 8:15PM. Let's say you take an hour break for lunch. And another hour for meeting with people, taking a walk maybe, things that have to do with life...we're talking music listening from 9AM to 10:15PM.

This is based on 45 minute albums. An average album length of an hour seems more realistic. Wake up at 9AM, listen non stop to 15 albums means you are done at midnight.

I don't know if I can buy into 15.

I think the most I've ever listened to in a day is six, and most of then were just over a half hour, like Revolver. I don't listen to that many albums a day unless they're shorter albums (around twenty-five minutes to a half hour), and even then I typically only clock in 2 hours a day.\

Actually, last month I played five hours of albums in a day.

JMan wrote:

I got through three albums yesterday, all Zeppelin. How the West Was Won (2 and a half hours), Physical Graffiti, and Led Zeppelin III.

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Romanelli wrote:

I don't know if I can buy into 15.

If I tried 15, that most likely means I didn't finish about half of them, which goes back to why I find the number of albums weird.

How many hours a day do I listen to music? It depends. Over the past two weeks, I've slowed down quite a bit to listen to more my favorites. But before that, I'd listen to maybe... 8 hours a day, more or less. If the average album was 40 minutes, that's 12 albums.

alelsupreme

Awful.

Gender: Male

Age: 28

I usually go through maybe 4-6. At least one or two of these will be first listens.
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Dingerbell

Gender: Male

Age: 29

In the holidays I can do over ten albums in a day. Weekdays it'll probably be 1 or 2 albums, at school, then 1 or 2 albums at home. Weekends I'll usually go between 5-10 albums.

rayword45

Gender: Male

Age: 28

Bumping this for Valentine's Day.

Albums listened to before midnight