It never occurred to me to rate a song in iTunes! Why would I?
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Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
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lisah - Mar 09, 2011 8:01:22 am PST #27196 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Theodosia - Mar 09, 2011 8:02:43 am PST #27197 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Because then you can use the Smartlists to automagically give you playlists where your favorite songs pop up more often?
DavidS - Mar 09, 2011 8:04:06 am PST #27198 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Why would I?
So you only listen to five star songs?
I don't rate my songs because I'm always just making my own playlists which I burn to play in the car.
Even when I could play the iPod in the car, I preferred my own playlists, though then they could be open ended and as long as I wanted. But I prefer to have a finite playlist. Eighty minutes is good.
I do use the Genre field a lot to make Smartlists though. And you can make up your own categories there, so if ita wanted to have Spoken Word, Fiery Declamations or something she could.
tommyrot - Mar 09, 2011 8:04:48 am PST #27199 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Because then you can use the Smartlists to automagically give you playlists where your favorite songs pop up more often?
This.
Also, I have about 17,000 songs in iTunes. With so many songs, it's easy to have a song I like a lot that I just forget about. I use smart playlists to bring up songs I've given, say, four or five stars to but have only played a few times.
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2011 8:05:00 am PST #27200 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That includes a special smartlist that picks up on all the non-starred songs that I've played more than once and keeps popping them up every other day until I get around to rating them.
Right now I'm going through everything that's tickyboxed, because I don't want to only listen to new stuff--I like the variety of favourites popping up randomly. But I'm making sure to rate everything that comes across the wire. Which will take approximately forever. But I've already found so many great songs I'd forgotten I had for one reason or another.
It never occurred to me to rate a song in iTunes! Why would I?
Most of my playlists are smartlists based on ratings and some other criterion. So I have playlists by decade and rating, for instance--everything 1980-1989 three stars or over. So it's on me to make sure those stars are accurate. I'll also listen to, for instance, "Good Prince" or "Good Reggae" or whatever.
Zenkitty - Mar 09, 2011 8:12:20 am PST #27201 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I don't even know where my iPod is.
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2011 8:12:56 am PST #27202 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How do you listen to music????
sumi - Mar 09, 2011 8:15:08 am PST #27203 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
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flea - Mar 09, 2011 8:20:02 am PST #27204 of 30001
information libertarian
I don't listen to music, except classical on Pandora at work when someone is talking and I need to concentrate.
Zenkitty - Mar 09, 2011 8:23:18 am PST #27205 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I listen to music in the car. Sirius or CDs. There's an iPod dock in the car, which I thought would be great, but I've never bothered to even make a playlist, and the random shuffle would annoy me... yeah. I don't listen to music much.