Set your media player (wmp is actually quite good at this) to random
drag say 25 to the burn window. It'll spill over into 2 cds. You get 3 same-artist deletes (2 songs by the same artist? Pick one to remove) and the overspill moves up onto your CD. Then you get 2 "I want this song featured so I'll take another one off" swaps. Then you arrange what songs you've got into a nice thematic order and burn 5 of the suckers.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 10 May 2011, 22:25, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I don't think I arranged them well,
but there seemed to be a few themes, namely pirates, identity crises and a couple of sad 'end of a record' tracks
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 10 May 2011, 22:27, Reply)

I made a couple of compilation CDs a few years back
and the first one got a pretty muted reaction, and for the second I arranged the tracks mellowest/slowest to heaviest/fastest and got positive feedback from several people. So I try and do that now, or start rocking and gradually mellow out, or have a silly song at the start and at the end....
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 10 May 2011, 22:31, Reply)

usually I have a theme
which, unsurprisingly, is usually based around whatever the main theme in larp is that year
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 10 May 2011, 22:34, Reply)