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Heard a guy at the record store say my playlist was too predictable

Heard a guy at the record store say my playlist was too predictable. I was flipping through bins at this small shop in Portland last weekend and this dude behind the counter overheard the shuffle on my phone. He goes, 'You got a playlist that's just all the hits, huh?' without even looking at me. It bugged me at first but then I looked at my main driving playlist and he was right. It was like 40 songs I pulled from the Top 100 charts from the last few years with nothing weird or deep. I spent the next hour digging through old B-sides and local band stuff he recommended. Now I'm thinking I gotta rebuild the whole thing with more variety. Anyone else get called out for having a boring mix?

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robinson.leo•1mo ago

My running playlist went from 23 songs to 312 after a failed 5K in March

So I signed up for this 5K back in February thinking I was ready. I had this tiny playlist with 23 songs, mostly classic rock, and I figured that was enough. But about 1.5 miles in, I hit this wall where every song felt like it was dragging. I actually stopped and walked the rest because I couldn't take the same 4 songs looping. That night I went crazy adding stuff from every genre I could think of - country, indie, even some 80s pop. Now my playlist has 312 songs and I rotate them by tempo for different parts of my run. Has anyone else had a race or event totally change how you build your music lists?

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