I never used vinyls in my life lol
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On most records you can see where the tracks are divided up, there’s a clear ring created by the silence. Can be a bit harder if there’s transitions between songs and no silence.
There are deeper visible groves in between songs. So you can see where one song ends and the next begins. On the cover is a list on which order the songs are so you just place the player needle in the corresponding groove and enjoy your song ^^
The groove for the silence between songs is very noticeable when looking at the record, so you just count those breaks between songs and place the needle where you want to start.
you can see the silence between the songs, so you just count and move the pickup to the start of the one you want
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Another thing commenters aren’t mentioning is that lots of people just don’t pick specific songs. Even with digital playing methods I’m in the camp of almost always listening to full albums from beginning to end as my preferred way of listening to music.
Selecting individual songs wasn’t really as much of a thing then. You’d just listen to the whole album usually.
If you did want to listen to a specific song, it’s pretty easy to see where the needle is when that song starts. Like you’d know that the song is about 1/3 of the way through the album, so that means it’s about so far from the edge of the record. Pick a spot and you’re probably pretty close.
Well, what you’re referring to as “vinyls” are probably long plays (LPs), which as their name suggests are primarily designed for playing each side (half the total album) in full. As others have pointed out, you *can* see the grooves etched in the vinyl itself if you want to drop the needle at a specific song, but that’s not necessarily the intended use. The hardware lends itself to starting with track 1 and playing through from there, you have to go out of your way to do anything different. And for the most part musicians took that into consideration with how they wrote the songs and sequenced the album.
If you heard an individual song on the radio that you wanted to have by itself for your turntable, you would probably buy it as a single — a physically smaller vinyl disk that only held one or two songs per side. The single would be on Side A, and Side B might have a different song from the same album, or a track that didn’t make the cut for the final album, or an outtake like an alternate version of the same song. Hence the term “B-Side,” which still gets used sometimes to describe bonus tracks.
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I have always been someone who listens to one song on repeat while I do something for hours on end.
Did people such as myself have any recourse back during the days of album record players? Were needles ever able to be rigged or programmed in some way to make them stop and reset at a specific point?
If you look at a vinyl record, you can see the grooves that are cut into it. Between tracks, there’s a visible gaps with a groove that moves between tracks, so you can pick up the play head and move it to one of those.
Tracks go from outside to inside, so if you look at the list of songs on the album cover, you can figure out which track is which song. To play track three, you pick up the play head and move it to the space between the second and third track from the outside.
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