I find that my tolerance for shuffling variations has really relaxed over time. I used never to want to shuffle any classical or baroque music with any other kind. Now I really dig some old flamenco from, say, La Niña de Los Peines, mixed with some seventeenth-century lute tunes and some Thelonious Monk. And I didn’t always like this combination.

Sometimes I like listening to whole albums at a time, but a lot of the time I like to be surprised and see if my ears can learn to like the unexpected transitions.

I would make a good poster girl for the Shuffle, eh?