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My Music Collection on Shuffle
I love not knowing what song is coming next.
I sometimes see people posting about how broad their musical tastes are. “Ooo, look how random my playlist is!” they say when there’s a mixture of hip-hop, pop, and rock. Maybe there’s even a country song!
They don’t know what musical diversity is.
The insanity that occurs when I put all the songs in my Apple Music collection on shuffle borders on the humorous.
I have a large assortment of songs that play at Disney theme parks around the world, which I’ve collected for many years. One of the reasons I prefer Apple Music to other services is that I can upload tracks like that that are not available for streaming into iTunes and play them right alongside streamable ones. (I think YouTube Music has that feature too.) I also frequently upload my own works in progress so that I can take them on the road with me.
I will admit that there are gaps. I’m human. I have my preferences. You’re not going to find a lot of hip-hop or rap, contemporary pop is underrepresented, and though there is hard rock I don’t think I have any metal. I lean pretty heavily into the acoustic genres (folk, Americana, singer-songwriters), music from my formative era (60s, 70s, 80s), and the aforementioned theme park tunes.
