Why can I listen to radio for hours but when I listen to music I actually like I feel exhausted after 1 or 2 albums?

https://lemmy.world/post/3078455

Why can I listen to radio for hours but when I listen to music I actually like I feel exhausted after 1 or 2 albums? - Lemmy.world

I hope this is the right community to ask. Are radio stations doing something to songs? Or is it the playlist they use? Or is it me? Can I achieve the “radio effect” for any music somehow?

Maybe you like variety. When you listen to an entire album all the way through, you’re getting a bunch of songs that are (most likely) the same genre, the same singer, possibly the same tempo, etc.

Radio stations aren’t going to play a bunch of songs by the same artist over and over (unless it’s some sort of programming block), so you get a variety of sounds and voices. Even a radio station that sticks to a specific genre will play a bunch of artists each with their own unique style.

Listening to an album front to back can be fun experience, but also there’s merit in a big shuffled playlist of various songs from multiple artists you like.

…and then there’s prog music, where pretty much anything goes