For the last ten years or so, I've made a holiday/end-of-year music mix to give to friends and coworkers. Until this year I would burn copies of a CD I painstakingly created, usually with about 20 songs, and decorated with my own track listing/CD art. The mix would be an assortment of my favorite songs released that year. But this year I've decided to do it a little differently.
I don't listen to music on CD anymore, and haven't for a long time. It feels a little weird/disingenuous to give CDs to people who also rarely deal with CDs, and don't prefer them. So it occurred to me to get a handful of USB flash drives and fill them with my favorite music from 2010, not just new songs, but older songs I've been listening to this year too (80's pop, jazz favorites, new wave, 90's indie rock classics). So far I've compiled about 60 songs into a folder, and today I'm going out to get the flash drives.
I'm really excited about it, and surprised it's taken me this long to come up with this process. I think my friends will really enjoy it, and I've certainly been having fun putting the songs together!
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