To me, the order of tracks on an album is sacrosanct and I always listen in
strict sequence, even when it's a CD, unless I just want to play a single
track. Anyway, it seems there are two schools of thought now that downloads
are all the rage and tracks are stored en masse on MP3 players. See the
phrase "The £12,000 speakers were revealing little nuances of sound that
some of us had not heard before." in this interesting article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12209143


What goes around, comes around! :-)