I never used vinyls in my life lol
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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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