Dervish said
I actually like CDs in a way, because listening to an album in its entirety often tells a story. It's way too tempting with MP3s to just put everything on shuffle, which isn't necessarily improper, but sometimes you lose the impact of the music that way.
It's interesting - my parents have spoken before about how songs have changed because of the format they're listened to. Songs used to be a segment of a deeper, ongoing story, told through the whole album, as they were all listened to in a row. It was an art to transition one song to the next, one piece of the story to another. That art has largely been lost now, when each song is written like a single, intended to be listened to in a self-contained way rather than as part of a larger whole. Maybe that's why people feel the quality and degree of meaning in songs has decreased. The connection has to be made in minutes, not an hour.
