the relationships between music/bands/songs/genres/eras, etc.), which could include integrating with large patterns of listening behaviour that companies such as last.fm, pandora seem to be doing (but based on your own music collection.) I’m guessing Apple are or could be doing some work in this area. In the future I’d like to see more complex analysis of music (i.e. I agree with Thibaut that you really want to listen by emotion. I also make the effort to rate my music whenever I can, so the fillers tend to disappear over time. I’ve created versions of these which are all limited by disk size and I use them to ensure I have a mix of the good stuff and things that are relatively undiscovered whenever I’m going portable. I have playlists for unrated, least played, top rated, popular, etc. So I’ve been using smart playlists for a while to make my music more accessible and also to get a useful selection of music onto my iPhone/iPod nano.
I have been tempted to start afresh but haven’t cleared out my library as I don’t want to lose some of the metadata that isn’t stored in the song file itself. I’ve had a similar feeling of being overwhelmed by my 50Gb of music. When your media collection gets too big, intelligent discovery mechanisms are a very elegant way of dealing with the mass of information. It’s simply a solution I found to a similar problem. Before people make judgements, this is not mindless shilling for my company. I liked the tool so much, I went to work for MusicIP.
It discovered my old music for me, and gave me nice cohesive playlists of music I wanted to hear, based on the acoustic properties of the songs themselves. It hooked into my library, synced up, and gave me a way to create simple, easy to understand playlists on the fly. Instead of stripping down my collection (which is something I’m more prone to doing with physical items than with digital content), I used the MusicIP Mixer as a quick little front end for my music. Shuffle left me wondering where my music had gone, and the range of my collection left me with shuffled playlists that sounded like schizophrenic DJs had invaded my computer. I was faced with a similar crisis when it came to my music library: it had simply grown too large for me to manage. Wait for the itch, and start cherry-picking your own small music collection. Just copy ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/ to your Desktop and rename it “Music”. You don’t need a hard drive disaster to replicate this tip.
SUPERSYNC MAC 6. ARCHIVE
And since that “Music” folder only takes up 48×48 pixels on my Desktop, I’ll leave it there as long as I want as an Archive in case a rare itch hits. Two weeks later, I have a beautiful hand-picked selection of Albums in iTunes. When a craving hit, I opened my Music folder on the Desktop, found the Album I wanted, and dropped it into iTunes. I set it to Album View to replicate my CD shelf of yore. I opened iTunes and kept it completely blank. I found the iTunes Music Library folder on my backup and copied it to my Desktop as a folder named “Music”.Ģ. And my hard drive crash was the perfect chance to test it on my overgrown music collection.ġ. After a couple weeks of unpacking only what you need, you discover the rest of the pile is prime material for donations or the dumpster. Then you take things out one-by-one only as you feel the need for them. The idea is you dump all the packed boxes into the middle of the living room. This reminded me of a tip Jason told me for unpacking from a move. You can cargo cult and just move everything from point A to point B, or you can take the opportunity to reevaluate what you should keep and what you should toss. Restoring from a crash is like moving to a new apartment. But an unexpected event suddenly gave me an opportunity.Ī couple weeks ago, my hard drive went belly-up and I had to restore everything from backups (thank you SuperDuper). While I felt the frustration growing, it seemed like too daunting a task to actually filter through 60 gigs of music.
SUPERSYNC MAC 6. FULL
Plus I missed that feeling I had when I was 14, with a shelf full of maybe 50 CDs, each of them dear to my heart. Scrolling through my library was a memory exercise instead of a quick path to an ear massage. My iTunes library got so big recently that I didn’t trust Shuffle mode anymore.
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