NEW: Side Splitter

Back in the day, LP record albums were experienced as pairs of "sides", right?

A decent record side was about 22 to 27 minutes long. And so we got used to listening to chunks of music of this duration. These time constraints on a record would often affect how the album was programmed, such as the song order and perhaps other conceptual factors.

If you spent a lot of time listening to record albums this way, you may remember the convention of "flipping the record" after the first side was finished in order to hear the other side. It only took a few moments to do so, but this pause in the action is the sort of thing you don't experience much with CDs and virtually never with hours-long playlists.

I wondered what it would be like now to experience some of my classic digitized albums with a deliberate pause between the last song of one side and the first song of the next side. So, here's Side Splitter.

It will copy a selection of tracks into separate user-designated "album side" playlists (by placing a checkmark next to the last song of a "side") and then offer to auto-play them; when a "side" playlist stops, the script will offer to play the next "side" playlist, which you acknowledge by clicking an "OK" button the script shows in a dialog. When the entire album has played this way, the script will offer to delete the playlists.

It actually brings back that feeling of playing individual record sides.

Side Splitter is free to use with a donation nag. More info and download is on this page.