I'm my iTunes, on my home desktop, I have a playlist called "Play" where I add anything new to me that I want to listen to. Usually it's mostly new 2026 releases, but also is for anything from any year I haven't listened to yet. Album, single, whatever. I have a personal rule that every first listen of an album or song should be on my desktop computer with my good speakers. I primarily listen to music from this playlist when I work from home Monday, Thursday and Fridays. I have four main playlists on Spotify: "Work" which is what I listen to at the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. This is any/all genre, things I want to listen to, discographies I want to revisit, stuff I know I like, etc. "Car" is for playing in the car when I'm with my wife and/or kids. It's stuff that I like, but leans more towards the upbeat side of things and usually a bit more pop focused. A lot of repeat artists and albums for everyone to enjoy. "Outside" is basically for when I'm in the car alone and turn up the volume too loud. This is my primary commute playlist, as I drive 3-4 hours each day on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. This also gets use when I'm running errands, etc. It's my top favorites and the albums I want to sing along to, listen to loud, etc etc. "Walks" is mostly more chill leaning stuff, singer songwriter, vibey, etc. This gets play for 30-60 minutes every Monday, Thursday and Friday as I walk the kids to school and make breakfast. All playlists aren't confined by year, but after my first listen of anything new, I'll put the albums that I like or live into each playlist, or multiple, and keep rotating forever and ever
I watch 150-200 movies a year, read 20ish books, watch a handful of shows and listen to a decent amount of new music or new to me music but at some point it becomes exhausting. There is only a finite amount of time in a day. I don't rewatch a ton of stuff unless it really resonated with me but music is different. I need to hear something 3-4 times to fully have a grasp on it and then if I liked it I want to continue to listen. I truly don't understand how someone listens to an album once and forms a full opinion on it, besides thinking this isn't for me.
I’m that way with music more than movies, I can’t tale criticism seriously by anyone that misses context, but then again I’m just not a movie guy because I can’t get them to fit into my life
There’s a lot of stuff outside of the userbase’s core genres I often want to post but I tend to refrain from doing so as I fear it’ll get unnoticed.
I listen to new music, but with films and especially books, I suffer from the opposite issue...that I engage with pretty much exclusively old stuff. I don't read new fiction at all because as soon as I consider it, I look at my bookcases and remember I need to go back to Middlemarch, and I haven't read all of those Chekhov short stories, and I want to re-read that Borges story, and if I read a bit of Tolstoy it's almost impossible for me to read anyone else that same day because it'll suffer pathetically by comparison, and I haven't made my mind up about Hemingway yet, and I'd like to memorise more Shakespeare sonnets etc etc. I do watch new films at the cinema, but I mostly find myself gravitating towards films from the mid-20th century and earlier.
I don’t know about where you guys live but going to the cinema here feels like going to a a business halfway through a bankruptcy auction, it’s depressing
Share it bruh. I’m out here sharing Balinese gamelan orchestra recordings in the Recommendations thread to zero likes but I stand on ten toes saying that shit rules.
Generally people are now more interested in letting other people know they did a thing more than to do the thing. It is people falling to their death taking a picture at the Grand Canyon or people recording concerts on their phone to post to Instagram. With younger people Letterboxd has become very much an important part of cinephile culture. I know that they often have a lot more free time than I do but it does seem like they are trying to accumulate as many movies as possible.
I feel like I am more toward quantity because when something gets rec'd to me or is on a list on a site i respect and I click and listen to 30 seconds I am almost always like this is cool I want to listen to the whole thing and that just builds and builds. I don't want to miss something because I don't recognize the name so I don't give it more than that 30 seconds, or maybe there's a moment hidden on track 4 that will recontextualize the whole record for me. Like the goal of the quantity is to find the quality on a level I can only get to from a full listen, which maybe is still less than 4 listens gives but its so much more than I feel like a snippet or single song gives me
I only got a Spotify a few months ago and apparently I am doing it wrong because I just play my liked songs.