Whats ur experience driving home with CD then finishing off the CD with hifi?

If I got into the music in the car it would be very dangerous for other road users, as I would certainly be driving with less than 100 per cent concentration.

Therefore I only listen to music when the consequences of it could not put others at risk.

Much the same as it makes no sense to opperate heavy plant on a Friday afternnon after drinking three pints of stout with my pub lunch!

Now that seems a quaintly old fashioned idea nowadays doesn't it?

ATB from George

I know exactly what you mean. The same goes for Radio4 in the car.

I sometimes find that I park up, and sit out the end of a track with the keys in the ignition. Not a whole album though.

Sometimes I pick the album at the point I was at, on the Naim, often I have things to do, so I start again.

With 'Just a Minute' or 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' I run in to the flat as fast as I can, preferably between rounds.

Being distracted by the music, there is one piano solo on Tommy Chase 'Groove Merchant' that a friend and I have both been observed doing with our left hand on the dashboard. Generally I concentrate on driving, but just occasionally I know the music distracts. No Tommy Chase near schools when driving.

As for text speak, a similar pet hate, that I sometimes see on this forum, is referring to songs or albums by their acronym. Apparently Pink Floyd did an albums called DSOTM, WYWH and I would add A, Yes songs called CTTE, AYAI, GOD, GFTO, and Orbital TGWTSIHH. Admittedly Jethro Tull did do an album called 'A'.

i won't listen to music while driving.

I would say very little orchestral, or classical, music can be listened to when driving, and the volume fluctuates so much that it either can not be heard, or blasts at you.

Beethoven Symphony No. 7 is an exception, and very good on the M1.

Rick, jazz, pop, etc. is far more car friendly. I think it also depends on if you drive alone most of the time, which I do, and long distances, without music I would probably concentrate less in the long run, as the time would weigh on me.

I arrived for an appointment early on Thursday and was more than happy as I sat in the car until the end of the disc! I would have hated to have interuppted it.

I tend to fill the auto changer with a selection of CDs and they stay in the car until I get bored with them. There is just too much hassle involved in extracting any of the CDs so even if I am having a devine moment in the car, I don't try and extend it into the listening room. I have sat in the garage waiting for a track to finish however...

Saved me a post there Brad ,I would have posted the same almost word for word!

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Originally posted by Blueknowz:
Saved me a post there Brad ,I would have posted the same almost word for word!

Any time Jim BTW isn't it about time for a session?

KR

Brad

For a drive to Manchester and back yesterday, I think I had around 15 albums to choose from. Around an hour each way, but there might have been some waiting in the car, which didn't happen. I played three in the end.

For round trip drives of 400 plus miles, 40 CDs are often in the car. I don't know what mood I will be in two days hence. Ambient is as likely as metal, as is jazz or prog rock. Only Classical tends to not get much of a look due to the volume changes.

I had a lovely moment six months ago driving through Hampshire country lanes listening to a very filmic piece by Redshift from an album I had bought at a gig of theirs the day before.

I will be due for a new car in a few months, and then I hope to have an MP3 player input, to stop wear on CDs, the auto loader does mark them occasionally. Then I will have hundreds of albums to listen to, and the car is the only place I would use MP3s to listen to anyway. 214Kbps minimum.