is pausing your music rude to the music

uhhh

Fuck the music imo

I've found myself not pausing music because it seems like. Rude. Not in the character of music to be paused. I leave it playing when I walk away to the bathroom.

Gotta show the music who's boss.

Xpost Think u may be taking a certain Rihanna song a bit too literally

Pausing for a minute and then restarting is not so bad, but I feel disrespectful to the music if I have to completely stop a song before it finishes.

I don’t know how any Rhianna songs go

I feel like it's disrespectful to the late GG Allin's persona to not abort his albums partway thru

this is tempting fate imo

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Haha. Yes! I assumed I was alone with my weird reluctance to pause mid-track. Even on, say, 37 minute orchestral movements.

I have known people who, if they were stopping, pausing, or changing music, would meticulously fade out what was playing first so as not to create a jarring experience. While I can appreciate this mindset on some level, I think it is way too precious for daily life. I saw pause away, the music won't mind.

let the music pause
he might be santa claus
this groove he will ignore
and bring you coal forever more
(let it pause)

the CD player at the record store I worked at had a a sweet “fade out” option that would fade semi-quickly before stopping. I wish that feature was more common.

I’ll feel weird if I stop at a certain point in an album, and don’t come back & play the rest of it (even if I come back to it a long time later, I’ll try to stop where I “left off”).

it would be cool if the pause function didn't actually stop the music but just held that particular note / chord / sound until you released it and let it go on its merry way again

That’d be great let’s get top men on it

i mean, pausing a dvd doesn't turn the picture off, why should pausing a record turn the sound off?

Sustaining a tone is (obviously) not equivalent to freezing an image

Why are you trying to poke holes in this (obviously) great idea

Foobar2000 does that on my computer if I open the CD drawer while a disc is playing. I don't think this is intended as a feature.

it is too. like you should be able to take sound photos that capture the exact totally of the noise around you at the moment you press the button xxp

Well to go down this route, an image can be momentary but audio works in time so there needs to be some duration involved. You could take maybe a tenth of a second and smear it so it's like a wash.

Images are still captured over a measurable length of time, albeit usually, perhaps, one that’s too short for meaningful sound perception?

Clearly this must be solved. I feel like it might be the sudden silence that's most regrettable (sometimes almost painful) more than the interruption per se.

great I'm .002% more neurotic now

XXP

I suppose colour requires duration (albeit very high frequency) but you also have whole spatial dimensions.

Whereas all audio is is changes in energy over time.

you know what's the most rude to the music is shuffle, i'm listening to some jean francaix adagio and then boom right into some fuckin' dogntank, that shit ain't respectful or polite

i always stop the music right before the guitar solo, so the little man inside the cd gets frustrated that once again, he doesn't get to shine.

I have known people who, if they were stopping, pausing, or changing music, would meticulously fade out what was playing first so as not to create a jarring experience.

Yeah, my brother does that. I always found it a little weird.

i do that when i'm switching to a new track - smooth .5 second fadeout, change track, back to normal volume just before it starts
i call it the uni-fade

I have a lot to learn about mixing. I tired it for the first time and the first two songs met together nicely but the second and third sounded like a train wreck

I'm all about shuffle, I'll shuffle all over the place from one genre to something completely different. I simply have no respect for the music.

I'm all about that play
Bout that play
No shuffle

It’s rude to the vibe, man

Taking a dump on the cd/vinyl halfway thru a GG Allin album then playing the rest is the correct way to get the most of the artist-specific aural ambience

The not so faint fecal waft really adds to all that creamy mid range warmth, something you’ll never know how you done without

hey the audiophile thread is over there, this is the panpsychic mp3 thread

I know I am old because even though my source is 100% digital, I still stop my music player before turning it off, despite there being no difference whatsoever between "stop" and "off" in terms of what happens... this reflex is from the era of music sources having physical transports and reading mechanisms that could actually be damaged by suddenly cutting power to them.

I do most my “quality” listening in the car, and it’s pretty common that I’ll have to stop a track in the middle, when I reach my destination (I rarely there idling, waiting for the track to end).

The music is dutifully waiting for me later, like an eager puppy, no harm done!

what's really rude is when music pauses me, from what I am doing

when I reach my destination (I rarely there idling, waiting for the track to end).

Nor I, because I will have taken an extra lap around the block to let the end of the track play out!

I will have taken an extra lap around the block to let the end of the track play out!

I do that all the time - though when walking not driving, not so much of a big deal when you slow down to make sure you get to the end of the track.

what's really rude is when music pauses me, from what I am doing

― imago

i can't think of anything i do that's more important than listening to music

Music pauses you? Only in Soviet Russia, comrade.

A bear walks into a bar…

i like to wait until the end of the track if possible but not at the cost of extreme inconvenience

^^^

"sorry Boss, gonna be late to work. Oh, no, I'm here in the parking lot, but the title track to Lizard just started"

my cd burner used to leave one second gaps between tracks and by god I cannot believe I didn't smash it.

you know what's the most rude to the music is shuffle, i'm listening to some jean francaix adagio and then boom right into some fuckin' dogntank, that shit ain't respectful or polite

things which prove I am old: I hate that every Android music player I've tried defaults to shuffle, keeps reverting to shuffle no matter how often I follow the (multiple, irritating) steps to play a whole album in order, and doesn't make it easy to tell whether shuffle is on or off in the first place

I find pausing music less disrespectful than wandering off and not listening to it while it continues to play, I guess - although sometimes when listening to a mix or an archived radio show it feels like the latter might be closer to the original spirit of listening

Wandering away is the original fade out, completely devoid of the technological trickery we are so inundated with these days.

I got in trouble in college for wandering away from my music

But that might have been due to it being Mortician and being played at maximum volume when I left the room

VLC on Android has never started shuffling on me unbidden.

I'm so rockist I nearly always listen to while albums all the way through.

so do i. because albums are the ultimate musical statements, man

/ I will have taken an extra lap around the block to let the end of the track play out!/

I do that all the time - though when walking not driving, not so much of a big deal when you slow down to make sure you get to the end of the track.

tho to answer the question i think pausing and restarting is the worst experience of all for me. i’d just prefer to stop it and not return. there is an accumulation of sorts through the track, apart from those tracks where you have a favourite bit and you’re really only listening out for that.

I only listen to the best 30 seconds of any track. I have a little paper index I've written in each CD case I own of which 30 seconds of any individual track are the most important 30 seconds to listen to. Listening to the whole track is a waste of time, you get the idea within half a minute if you pick the right spot. No disrespect to the music intended

I actually do have Post-Its on many of my Girl Group comp CDs, indicating which are the key tracks (tho I know that’s not the joke you’re making).

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What's rude is walking off in the middle of the music and withdrawing your attention from it.

In college I briefly convinced myself it was unnatural and unfair to the artist to not finish an album once I started it. Listen to enough back halves of albums from the Dirty Projectors/Fiery Furnaces/twee artists Pitchfork pushed in the early to mid 00s and one will naturally dispose of such inanity.

I feel like it's more rude to myself than to the music (assuming I'm enjoying the music)

stranded on the horns of a dilemma when I pull up in the car and a good track is playing and I can’t turn off the engine without turning off the music so do I burn carbon or disrespect the artist?
I go through some version of this every day.

when I lived in uni halls of residence, I accidentally left a copy of Atari Teenage Riot in my CD player and went away for the weekend. My CD player was also my alarm clock and I'd left it cranked to top volume. I made friends

Idk I have music playing all the time, I really can’t be bothered unless I’m doing some hyper focused listening I guess, in which case I’d be more inclined to just start the track over if I had to interrupt the listening session

I guess that’s more rude to the music. Making it start telling the story all over from the beginning.

I played Brutal Truth's "Prey" for about 10 of the 23 minutes before I had to stop it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX9e3ABDLzg

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"What?' was robbed.

please don't pause the music

i don't hesitate to pause it, but i do feel bad about it after i do

when i was a kid i convinced myself that my broccoli would be sad if i didn't eat it

broccoli otm

In college I briefly convinced myself it was unnatural and unfair to the artist to not finish an album once I started it. Listen to enough back halves of albums from the Dirty Projectors/Fiery Furnaces/twee artists Pitchfork pushed in the early to mid 00s and one will naturally dispose of such inanity.

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Idk which DPs you're referring to here, but the closers on Rise Above, Bitte Orca and Swing Lo are all among their best songs!!

it's completely rude and I apologize to the music.

honestly though I hate restarting albums after long pauses. it feels hard to get back into it if I peaced out for 20 minutes to shower and want to come back to Exile on Main STreet, the music feels like it's judging me.

I’ve decided it’s ok to pause if there is an actual silence in the track; no instruments are harmed, only the silence suffers

Not rude but too easy

Better in fact to live in the moment and let the music ride on in real time

You cant pause life

Why pause music

If you were at a concert could you pause the band? No.

(Been a long day)

Don’t pause
Don’t pause the beat
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Won’t pause
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Go!