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Mine was A-Punk by Vampire Weekend. Used to annoy me to no end, but it turned out it was a "feature" of the car stereo to just default to playing alphabetically. Buying a new car fixes that little issue. Easy!

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Add a custom song `AAAAAAA` that's just 60 minutes of silence?

Then after your hour long drive it happens? Great!

I figured more than 60 minutes might take up a lot of disk space. But maybe compression solves that.

It needs to be at least 320kbps or the silence will contain audible distortion.

I'm sorry, but I only listen to silence if it's stored in 24-bit hi-res lossless FLAC.

Real audiophiles demand uncompressed WAV.

So you don't know what FLAC is, bit of a wasted joke

A real audiophile can hear the difference between FLAC and WAV.

A real audiophile is still waiting for their $4000/ft oxygen free speaker cables.

And did you see Goldmund's $240k preamp? https://www.wired.com/story/goldmund-preamp-costs-more-than-...

Perhaps 60 seconds of silence and then the bass intro of Seven Nation Army kicking off at full volume.

I used to have a copy of the THX theater intro sound effect as the alphabetically first track in my library for this purpose. Not quite 60 seconds, but starts off quiet and served as a reminder to either choose a track or shut the music off.

That's the song I'd get docking my iPod in my stereo like 15 years ago. Strong memories.

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