The album I'm listening to right now holds together way better, musically, if you play the tracks in the order they appear on the CD.
I discovered this by accident, having mislabeled the files, but it makes me wonder: "shuffle play" has been a feature for a long time. Statistically, how many albums are *composed* to be listenable in any order vs. only in the original order, and has that changed over time?
Zack Weinberg
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