re: How often do you listen to an album from beginning to end?

All the time. I have tons of jazz and other records that I enjoy listening to the way the artist put them together. I also listen to lots of albums that are put together to be listened to in a particular order like The Trip and Late Night Tales series.

But then again I'm weird and maintain a very large collection of music and mostly avoid streaming services.

With Plex I get aural music matching (scans so your music for similar styles, etc) and do listen to certain genres on random or artist radios.

Damn I love plexamp.