It Is To Laugh

[madshutterbug]

Listening to the change-ups on the iShuffle, and chuckling at the programming which sets them up... Hearing one piece, which wraps and then applause from what is obviously a live recording including an introduction to another artist, followed immediately by Santana, so not the artist just introduced. And why would just the intro be considered a whole, complete recording?

Comments

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

1) I've got a couple of live albums which have the intro to the next song at the end of the previous track. It seems counter-intuitive to me, but a friend who works in radio says that it's for the convenience of having the track start with the beginning of the actual song.

2) Maybe the intro is a separate track so that you don't have to load it into your iPod!

3) I understand that it is possible to tell iTunes to rip 2 tracks together as a unit. I haven't experimented with that yet, but I need to because there are a couple of pieces in my collection which need to be handled that way. You don't notice that they're separate tracks when you're listening to the album, but when it's on shuffle the effect is... jarring.