playlists

[roguepuppet]

Now that I have ripped every CD I have owned and organized all of my digital music into a single library( stuff from eMusic, stuff from Amie street, etc..) I can carry all the music I own in the palm of my hand on my iPod. It is not that I have only a small amount of music, it is that the new iPod has this deviously wonderful storage capacity.

Comments

[vcmorris]

Playlist? iPod? What are you talking about?

*sets needle to scratchy vinyl and sits back to enjoy the tunes*

[roguepuppet]

I still mourn the tons of vinyl I gave away about 5 years ago....

[surelars]

I'm a geezer, you know. I never got into using playlists, so i still mostly play by albums. I probably should try playlists, but the problem is that I'm often quite specific in what I want to listen to (Dylan songs from Blood on the Tracks or a particular recording of La Traviata or whatnot), so I suspect that I wouldn't use them much.

I also have a bit more music than you, it seems. I've ripped all my CDs, and that plus other digital stuff runs to maybe 2000 albums? Something like that. More than I can carry around on a device - heck, it won't even go on my laptop. On top of that there's the 1500 vinyl albums that I haven't even started digitizing yet.

Anyway - I might start looking into playlists. I tend to listen to the same stuff over and over for periods of time, and doing playlists for that would likely be useful.

[roguepuppet]

hmmm...I have to admit having only 48 gigs of music helps... but with audiobooks, some video and roughly 200 podcasts on the iPod, I tend to run right at about 65 gigs loaded on it.

I am horrible about getting into musical ruts, but even worse about remembering which album which song is on. For me, having playlists helps me re-discover music. It will be interesting to see if having a visual display of the songs while they are playing helps. Back in the vinyl days,when I used to lay on the floor with the album cover in my hand while it was playing, I was much better at this.

[roguepuppet]

oohh.. I would love the link, thanks.

are most of your lists manual or smartlists?

I have been thinking lately of creating a list of silly showtunes.. mixing avenue Q with funny girl, for example....