#Microblog Monday 548: Cleaning Up the Mixtape
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Josh and I both have ongoing mixtapes on our phones where we capture new songs we like or old songs we remember. We mostly listen to his mix, but every once in a while, we play mine instead.
I’ve been adding to the list for years, and my current list (because I had one before this that reached 2.5 hours of music before I started over) ran almost 12 hours. 12 hours!
I cleaned it up this weekend, moving all of the songs I normally skipped over to a new “things I used to like” list. I didn’t want to forget them entirely, but I wanted to bring the list down to things I would be happy to hear. It ended up at a trim 8.5 hours of music.
It feels wrong to delete songs off a mixtape. I never did that in the past; they were a time capsule of what interested me at the moment. But the current list feels better. I may even cut it back a little more.
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It’s funny to think of a “mixtape” on a cellphone! lol I still have one (on a cassette) I made for myself, back in the day, and I think I still have one that a British penpal sent me back in the late 1970s/early 1980s.
Mixtapes also used to be no longer than 1.5 hours, so there’s that. No need to delete when you just make a new one with maybe some of the same songs. (Which is what you’re doing anyway, in effect.)