@aesthr when I set out in 2019 to do my first mixtape in ages, i thought that what i wanted was a folder full of audio files with a playlist file to determine the order. what I decided to do instead was a single mix file, for two important reasons:

1) I needed to normalize the volume across all the files
2) I found that being able to control the transitions between the songs, DJ style, added an entirely separate dimension to the work, unifying it and marking it as my own