My album club has convinced me to stop the shuffle
Never shuffled or skipped tracks on an album, ever.
I did remove āthe girl is mineā from my download of Thriller. To save me skipping it 
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Iāve never shuffled an album but I do shuffle playlists. Not sure why anything needs to be banned when you can just regulate your own action.
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I never use shuffle and time permitting will listen to an album from beginning to end. Maybe itās because Iām an old fogey who grew up with vinyl and just got used to listening to albums. But if people want to shuffle itās their choice, even if it means some nobody Times journalist considers them an ignorant pleb.
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I will always listen to a track from start to finish.
But I see no problem, just playing the best tracks on an album. Very few albums are consistently good from start to finish. I usually listen to an album from start to finish. Sometimes listening to a whole 80 minute CD is a slog.
I often listen to single tracks form various albums, making up a playlist as I go along. Sometimes I appreciate a single track taken form an album more.
I never shuffle tracks, indeed I vehemently dislike the concept. Nor do I randomly play tracks from different albums. I suppose a lot depends on the type of music to which people: to me no issue perhaps shuffling a ābest ofā album, nor music where tracks are unrelated, but a symphony with movements in random order, or an opera or a prog rock concept album with the parts of the story rearranged? Even other albums not infrequently have an order chosen carefully by the artists and work best that way.
I mostly play complete albums, and if I have to cut short for any reaso. I wait till the end of a track. Just occasionally I fancy playing particular stand-out tracks from different albums/artists, e.g with a group of friends taking it in turn to pick a track, but that is experiencing the music in a different way, almost party like, rather than my norm of listening to and getting drawn into the musoc.
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A handful of albums have one or more tracks I canāt stand. With these I have deleted the offending track from the album in my collection.
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65 year old grows up playing whole albums on vinyl and CD.
Now almost always plays shuffle and rarely do whole albums.
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I had to look it up Lindsay, you are far ahead of meš
Will shuffle playlist but not if i choose to play an album.
A popcorn thread - how much will be needed?
Seriously, this is both personal preference and with playlists, a great way to listen - given that playlists often have different artists.
Radio is nothing more than a āshuffleā, so those who have a strong view against, no doubt donāt listen to radio. While beeb R3 publishes a playlist, it is updated after the track has started or even finished.
Sure an album regardless of format is listened to, end to end, or rather beginning to end, alternate choices; et alors quoi?
If the entertainment tub of choice is a tin of chocolates in some form - blind choice or pull out the favourites first leaving the duds behind? Iāll get my tin hat!
I shuffle many of my albums when I feel like it. Others not so. Depends on the nature of the album. Obviously.
Not sure why itās seen by some as an utterly forbidden act which is against the natural order of things.
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Iāve never understood the purpose of a playlist other than for a party or similar. I like to play whatever appeals to me at the instant, not something Iāve predetermined.
This might be of interest:
That. Also, if Iāve listened to an album straight through 50 times, I may shuffle as a change of pace.
Rules are different for classical. I donāt shuffle movements, but if I feel no need to listen to e.g. Chopinās waltzes in the order on the album (often chronological).
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Why ban something you can choose not to use?
I have never used one intentionally, accidental use rarely.
I donāt save playlists either, I will create one of a few tracks long now and again but usually will listen to the whole album. I think mix tapes put me off them, you think the song order is good on the day you make it and then you decide it isnāt so have to start again and I feel the same about playlists.
Ban the skip button AND the stop button too!
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I think the writer of the article has confused āshuffleā which surely entails an element of randomness with āskipā, a conscious decision not to listen to a particular track. To me, those are quite distinct, but perhaps not to a Times journalist.
Roger
When playing vinyl I always play every song on every side of an album. Itās how the artist intended it, and helps you recognise a great album as opposed to a great track.
I will skip or select individual tracks when streaming though. I never use shuffle though. Always end up with the tracks I donāt want to hear.
Ban the Shuffle Button!
ā¦never used it and find it an abomination!
If the artist wanted the songs in a different order, he/she/they would have done so.
Have a nice day! 
Not really, more how the music best fitted 25 mins per side.