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posted by janrinok on Sunday October 25 2015, @04:22AM   Printer-friendly

Commander Kelly says "Music is a huge part of life in space. Here's my @Spotify playlist of a #YearInSpace".

"A year really is a long time...a long time to never be able to go outside, or feel the sun on your face, or to see your family through anything besides a computer screen. But a mission to Mars is even longer, and the work we're doing right now is a huge leap in reaching the goal of sending humans to walk on the Red planet.

Music has touched cultures all over the world since the earliest times in human history. It has long been a meaningful staple in life. It is a huge part of my life back on Earth. But when living in a place isolated from the rest of the world like here aboard the International Space Station, it becomes more significant. I imagine music will be equally as important to future space travellers as we go further beyond our global sphere.["]

Ask Soylent: I don't have a Spotify account and I am behind a firewall to boot, what is CDR Kelly listening to?


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2015, @05:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2015, @05:48AM (#254251)

    I bet his favorite music? I don't have a spotify account, I guess I'm very old skool lugging along my storage device of the year with a copy of my mp3 collection, since halfway of the 90's. Right now it's 238GB, average 160kbps and has stuff I rip from my own vinyls and cd's as well as downloaded music. I usually listen to it with XMMS. The collection is nicely categorized by using the properties of the hierarchical file system and all files are read-only. I would never let anything else except the OS or XMMS touch it, or allow any software to catalog or organize or do anything 'smart' with it in any way at all. I know my way around in this collection like I know my way around in my physical media collections and it has practically all the music I have ever listened to in my life, plus things I still need to check out as well.
     

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