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Jessica - Mar 15, 2006 6:51:49 am PST #7570 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
tommyrot - Mar 15, 2006 5:56:55 pm PST #7571 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
More iTunes stuff:
One of the problems with this is keeping your music collection interesting. You’ll want to hear newer songs more often than older ones, yet at the same time you’ll want to make sure that the old music doesn’t get lost. You want to hear your favourite songs slightly more often than everything else, but you don’t want to keep listening to the same old tracks over and over again. As such you need to make sure your playlists have a good degree of variety as well as and a high churn rate.
The way to achieve this is by utilising smart playlists, however it can be quite difficult getting the right balance.
I do some of what this guy recommends, but I generally don't have playlists based on other playlists.
Jessica - Mar 15, 2006 6:01:57 pm PST #7572 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Huh. I just leave my iPod on shuffle all the time.
tommyrot - Mar 15, 2006 6:09:51 pm PST #7573 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I do that some of the time. But I have a shitload of songs and I generally want to hear my favorite and/or newly added songs more often than randomly selected songs.
tommyrot - Mar 15, 2006 6:27:21 pm PST #7574 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Crap. I had a solution for one of Theo's problems, but then I rememberd that iTunes is scriptable only on a Mac.
DXMachina - Mar 16, 2006 2:34:58 am PST #7575 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
but you don’t want to keep listening to the same old tracks over and over again.
Sure you do.
Sue - Mar 16, 2006 3:14:03 am PST #7576 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Huh. I just leave my iPod on shuffle all the time.
Me too.
Sure you do.
Also me.
Though I've become a little obsessed with my unheard songs smart playlist and whittling that number down. But there is a reason why some of those songs remain unheard.
That dude has too much free time to mess around with iTunes.
§ ita § - Mar 16, 2006 3:51:29 am PST #7577 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I may have a little too much free time myself, but I never listen to the whole thing on shuffle. I have all my music on there, and I don't like every track. Sometimes there are moods. Sometimes I want to listen to podcasts, sometimes it's music I adore, sometimes it's music about breakups...that sort of stuff. I've never been in the mood for "anything, honest."
Sue - Mar 16, 2006 4:09:28 am PST #7578 of 10003
hip deep in pie
My problem with shuffle is that I tend to listen to my iPod when i am on the move and want to listen to something upbeat. Probably about 60% of my music is not upbeat, so there's a lot of skipping. I do have a couple of playlists of more upbeat songs but I had to do them manually (and rarely think to update them), because I find the genres assigned are unreliable and all of one of my albums has uploaded with the bpm info included.
tommyrot - Mar 16, 2006 4:29:17 am PST #7579 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Though I've become a little obsessed with my unheard songs smart playlist and whittling that number down.
Recently I made a smart playlist of all my four-or-more star songs that I had yet to play this year. I think there was about 800. It was fun whittling that number down to zero over the course of a week....
eta: I've never messed with the BPM stuff. Seemed like way too much work, even for me. I did download a program that enabled you to calculate the BPM of a song by tapping out the beats on the spacebar, but I've never used it. It would be cool to be able to do smart playlists based on BPM, though....