Does anyone have an obsession with making playlists?

[Judge]

Funny to think I seldom bothered with playlists. I went straight into manually putting each track in a certain order numerically, and then discovering that my auto sound system only recognized tracks in a particular order not based on a number, but alphabetically.

Maybe my car's software did identify a specific order of songs used through a playlist. I honestly don't know....lol. Just went to the trouble of placing a letter and underscore in front of each and every track more than 2000 times! That way the sequence of every song or album was in the order I wanted or expected.

Oh well, I organized my entire music collection on such a basis. It works, and that's all I care about now. But I can't help but ask at this point...lol.

Do playlists automatically categorize tracks in the sequence you intended when making such a playlist?

 

[kazmen17]

I used to like making playlists, but my work was trashed too often by software changes, so I just gave up, even though they have settled down. I'd like to find a program that makes it easy to make and combine lists, and lets me define the genres, but as far as I can tell, everything is written as a way for companies to get into my life.

That sounds horrible. I have used Spotify since high school, and it would cost me a lot of money to remake my playlists without it since I would either have to dedicate time to another streaming service like Amazon Music or iTunes. Both of these are not ideal because Spotify has some niche artists that I can't seem to find on other platforms sometimes.

I would like to buy some of the music I find though and back it up on my devices in case of something unforeseen. like an outage of some sort.

 

[SeanF]

I have been making lists about all of my passions, music being one of them, since I was a kid. I had never associated this with Autism, but I have no idea why I hadn't. Discovering my ASD so late in life meant I thought a lot of my oddities were eclectic, not ASD. But this makes total sense.

Personally, I have tons of playlists. Some of the ways I organize them include: by band, by mood, by tone, by genre, by purpose (workout music, writing music, zone-out music). Some sub-categories include types of singers, male/female, time periods within the genre breakdown, and sometimes even region such as East Coast vs. West Coast rap from the 90's or domestic vs. European DJs from the early 2000's. IDM/EDM with current breakbeat tracks from DJs out of South Florida.

Wow. As I write this, I am realizing just how obsessed I am with this. Am I the only one who tended to make quick impressions of a person by their taste in music? Give me a glance at their playlists, and I could often tell you if I wanted to take the time to get to know them.