Back in the old days of Finetune, CDRs, and mix tapes, I'd somewhat randomly throw together a bunch of songs to listen to. Maybe there'd be a theme. Maybe not. I'd give it a catchy little title, and listen to it once in awhile til I burned it out.
Now, though... I'm stumped.
I have tons of songs on my computer. Some I know and love. Some I've yet to really listen to. Some belong only with albums (remember albums?).
I don't know how to organize. How do you organize your songs? How do you pick which group goes onto the mp3 player?
The only thing I've done so far is... Have a folder for artists. Then, I put the whole lot of his/her songs onto the mp3 player alone. In other words, off I go, and it's Elliott Smith day. All Elliott Smith. Nothing else. Or, alright, it's a Spoon night.
I'm having a hard time grouping and listening to other songs. I don't know how to group them. I'm thinking, I can stick to my old school ways, and make "mix tape" playlists. A hodgepodge grouping of maybe similar, maybe not, songs? Is this what people do? Should I try to categorize them? I think I'd go nuts.
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Still having massive problems with this. I think it's partly because...
ReplyDeleteUsed to be that I'd download a ton of songs. Pick the best ones and burn them to a CD - limited to under 80 minutes. The rest would sit on the computer til I deleted them (year, right), or (more likely) bought a new computer.
Now, though. I end up putting EVERYTHING onto the mp3 player for listening. This ends up being way too much to digest. Because my player CAN allow me to listen to more, I don't weed out.
So. I've decided to weed more out. Delete more. Keep less.
Still looking for a better solution though.
Rob's replies (sent through e-mail) are in quotes...
ReplyDelete"I heard that Apple recently purchased on online streaming radio station."
After Finetune went away, I was liking iMeem for a month or so. Then MySpace bought iMeem.
"Would you agree that the future of music is to physically own/download less and less, but instead to listen more on demand?"
Yeah. It's already happening. For sure. I loved the way finetune worked. I thought it was perfect. You pick the songs and they stream them to you. Shuffled and interspersed with ads.
"I could see just having a $15 month subscription to a virtual mp3 player that has endless selections."
Or play an ad every few songs, and keep it free.
"You just carry around a blackberry or iphone type device that is your link in. My point is by the time you have a solution, you won’t need a solution."
I'm sure you're right. That's what happens with a lot of my techie problems.
"BTW…the Pandora app for the Iphone/blackberry is supposed to be killer…going to try to download today."
(a) No iPod or Blackberry. Plain old mp3 player.
(b) Sometimes I like to listen to suggested music, but usually I have a stack of music I'm still trying to digest.
Rob - I brought my mp3 player to your house the other day, and forgot that I had. I was gonna give you a bunch of my favorite 2009 mp3s. By the next time we get together, it'll be the best of 2010. And, we probably won't listen to "mp3s" anymore. Ha!
iTunes. I know, I know. Apple is the devil. But seriously, once you use it, you'll wonder why you bothered worrying about which folder each song is in, etc.
ReplyDeleteiTune's Genius mixes, and now their DJ mixes, work pretty well when you just want to listen to songs like another, or in a genre.
I'm sure it's free. I'd suggest copying your MP3s to another drive, then let iTunes make copies and organize them however it wants. Once you get used to relinquishing control, you'll stop spending time organizing and have time to actually enjoy the music.
You're probably right. My Sansa mp3 player doesn't properly support genres. :o( I also wish I could just give Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down as I'm listening. Like TiVo. And/or quickly put into genres as I'm listening. As you know, I'm a logical thinker, I need things put into categories. I'm having a hard time with this.
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