repetitive listening to parts of songs etc...

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Musical echolalia topic

Yup

Absolutely.

Yes, I always do this, which is one of the reasoans why I stopped buying CD's

The DSM may compartmentalize people but nature doesn't. There are lots of people like me who have a trait here and there that could be called Aspie but it's seems to be the whole pile-up of traits that gets people a diagnosis. I'm NT. My husband is NT. Our daughter is LFA. There shouldn't be any overlap between NT and LFA, yet everything she does that got her the diagnosis seems to be like things we do times 100. Maybe "times 100" is the actual problem. I can listen to a loop of a song snippet over and over and my husband likes to listen to the same CD many, many times. But when that's not an option, that's ok. She doesn't just enjoy doing this. She needs to do it and if anything interrupts her doing it she gets agitated and can't recover and just do something else. She gets stuck. I don't get stuck. Maybe that's the difference.

Yeah I've Done This Before.

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Fascinating^^

I listen to the whole song, but I can listen to it many times in a row. I don't rewind or skip to a certain part, I just listen for it. Certain melodies can leave me entranced. It takes me a while to get used to a new song. I can like almost any song after I listen to it enough times. I start out disliking nearly all of them I hear.

I do this too. I play the same playlist over and over again. Sometimes even the same song several times in a row.

I've also played the same part of one song several times in a row. A perfect example would be the track "The Battle" from the Gladiator soundtrack. The opening 30 seconds of that tune are amazing. The rest not so much.

There are literally thousands of songs in "the jukebox" - that always-playing, emotion-regulating musical repository in my brain that has been accepting contributions for over 40 years now. A great many of these songs are "landmarked", meaning that I know the exact times when certain notable passages or memorable lyrics occur. This landmarking is sort of a compulsion and is an integral part of accepting a new song into the jukebox, imprinting it with specific sensations and feelings that will remain unchanged through time. I am much the same way with movies. I frequently repeat songs or playlists - "changing the record" about every two months or so. I almost never repeat parts of songs, as any disruption or imperfection in the complete start-to-finish reproduction of a song is distressing and not well-tolerated. Movies are different - while some require uninterrupted start-to-finish viewing, with others I will go right to the start time of certain bits and just watch them (repeatedly, of course).

I never like a song the first time I hear it. I'll turn it off after the first little bit, then the second time a bit longer, etc. until I'll listen to the full song (if I start to like it). Then, I'll get hooked on certain songs and listen to them repeatedly, 4-5 times in a row, for weeks. Eventually I'll get tired of the song and stop listening to it, but if I really like it, it will come back..

Ah yes, guilty of this.

I'll repeat my favorite part of a song over and over again in my head, but it annoys me to actually hear it repeated.

Songs, parts of songs, or movies, TV shows, etc. I never thought of it as a stim, but I suppose doing this, which I've been doing since the 70s (back when vinyl records were the only option) should be counted.

I do this quite often. Many times it's a particular line in a song that hits me a certain way, and I play it over and over in my head, but I usually don't play it over and over in my CD player. I will often have certain songs on repeat, however.

Anecdote: When I was in high school I used to do remixes. Keep in mind this is well before the rise of the home studio, or even digital recording. I did it using a double cassette deck. One I particularly liked was a remix I did of Depeche Mode's "Fly on the Windscreen" where it kept repeating the line, "Death is everywhere" for 10 minutes (Um, let's just say my tastes were somewhat morbid in high school).

yes, I do it also! I listen to the same song over and over again, 20 or 30 times in 1 day, kind of thing.
Then I rewind the songs to a certain spot over and over, is this some sort of stim??

I don't do that much with other people's music, though I often notice little bits of it that seem a lot more important to me than the rest of it.

But when I'm recording my own music, I think nothing of repeating every bar of it numerous times until I've got it right. I just put the recording machine into "cycle-record" mode and do loads of takes of each little bit. I hardly ever feel any sense of boredom doing that.