Comments on: Organizing principles

By: Dorothea Salo

Dorothea Salo — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:28:18 +0000

*starts singing Belleville Rendez-vous, just to be annoying*

By: walt

walt — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:36:50 +0000

Well, there are a lot worse songs to have stuck in your head. And I’ll be nice and not mention any of them…

By: Joy Weese Moll

Joy Weese Moll — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:33:24 +0000

I had no idea of the answer to the riddle. But I’m holding you responsible for having the song “Miracle of Miracles” stuck in my head for the last four days

–Joy

By: walt

walt — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:47:46 +0000

We have a winner! You got it, Laura. The other post (which I just annotated) was for a CD-R that couldn’t have been created from LPs–because all the cuts on it were from Track 16 of the source CD. And very few (if any) LPs had 16 tracks… These were mostly compilation and box CDs, like the great “The Essential…” Columbia/Legacy 2-CD sets.

This time around, it was Track 6 (for both CD-Rs)–and if these CDs had the same track organization as LPs (not always the case, ’cause a lot of these were compilation/box CDs as well), that would usually be the last cut on the first site. Pop/folk/rock/country LPs were typically organized with special attention to the first and last cuts on each side, so a set of all cuts from the end of side 1 would likely be a great set.

I have to say that the 27 “Tracks” CD-Rs I have are probably my favorites for commuting. (Several tracks deserved two CD-Rs each; on the other hand, there’s one CD-R each for tracks 19-20, 21-23, and 24+, since you only get that many tracks on extreme compilation/box CDs.)

By: Laura Crossett

Laura Crossett — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:45:30 +0000

No, I haven’t figured it out (my best guess is that it has something to do with track numbers, but that’s really a stab in the dark)–but it sounds like a good mix. I find the Dylan & Cash recording of “Girl from the North Country” endlessly entertaining.