iTunes has a Queue-like functionality in the iTunes Dj. You can even add to the queue-thing using an iPod touch, iPhone, etc.

I replace cars only when they are beyond hope. I am not the sort of person who replaces a car voluntarily, never have been.

I feel you. I drove my Mirage for three years after I rolled it. Yep, the entire roof was covered in giant pock marks. But that sucker was paid off and I was broke.

But one thing I love about iTunes is it keeps track of how many times I play a song, when it was added and when I last played it - I use that data for many of my playlists.

I do like that (and I use iTunes for my Shuffle), but I get my data from Last.fm anyway.

What's a queue?

When you choose the next song(s) to be played when you're on Shuffle.

And why do you need to stop, versus pause? Where do you want the audio cursor to be reset to?

Permanent pause makes me twitchy. I want the song to be STOPPED. Reset. Back to the beginning. Don't just sit there one second before the end of the song for all eternity. Ergh.

I think it's funny how differently people listen to music. I almost always listen to full albums. So I tend not to do rating and playlists. I just pick which albums I want to hear. Or sometimes the entire artist's catalog, and just have that going all day.

How do people who use earphones transport them? I broke an expensive, but very good, pair that I bought from Verizon for my phone just by carrying them around in my pocket and I am cranky about it. Because I don't really use them that often. Mostly I have full control of my listening environment. At home in the office I have it cranked into the ceiling speakers. On the road I'm jacked into the aux port.

So I only use the headphones for warming up my vocals backstage from my phone or as a mic set for Rosetta Stone practice on the laptop. For that it's not really worth buying a nice new pair if I'm only going to break them again.

Permanent pause makes me twitchy. I want the song to be STOPPED. Reset. Back to the beginning. Don't just sit there one second before the end of the song for all eternity. Ergh.

Not that you mention it, that bugs me too. I had thought at first I just didn't know how to stop it.

I almost always listen to full albums.

I do this when I'm working, usually. And I still listen to CDs! Right on my laptop.

But I make my own playlists for the most part.

I replace cars only when they are beyond hope. I am not the sort of person who replaces a car voluntarily, never have been.

This is me! I'm only on my 2nd car. Living in places, Boston & SF, where I didn't need a car helped. I got my first car (an '86 Corolla in 1995) when I moved to NC for grad school. I've had my current car (a '99 protege) for 10 years. It's got over 165,000 miles on it now and I'm definitely having those cost to fix vs cost to replace conversations when things go wrong. So far, knock wood, it keeps running on.

When you choose the next song(s) to be played when you're on Shuffle.

How is that shuffle? You're violating the entire principle!

I almost always listen to full albums.

But you might still have to listen to a sucky song! Alternately, who still buys albums? (uh, me, but apparently some of the Lifehacker commenters didn't get that)

Don't just sit there one second before the end of the song for all eternity. Ergh.

You're totally making me look sane here.

When you choose the next song(s) to be played when you're on Shuffle.

I had forgotten how that worked. The iTunes DJ does exactly this.