Comments on: Better iPod Management Through Journaling

By: Elkit

Elkit — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:57:55 +0000

I think our brains are related. My method is very similar, all the way to my “Flavor of the Month” playlist.

By: Feaverish

Feaverish — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:49:20 +0000

This is excellent! I’ve got a similarly-themed but much less thorough system going, and my main hesitation with taking it further was that I didn’t want a huge Source list. With the new Playlist Folders in iTunes 5 I think I’ll give your system a try.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:06:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing with us Buzz. I have been trying to think of a way to do this and started on a similar path, but I didn’t have anything as fleshed out as you.

I realized after I got my iPod shuffle (which is basically just a portable playlist) that I was going to need something like this. I recently took a trip to New Zealand and made a playlist of music I thought I would like while snowboarding. It turns out it was all my favorites for now (even though I didn’t use it snowboarding) and now that I’m back I want to tweak it, but the relationship to the trip is still there for me. I love your description of associating your music selection with a time and place.

I’m not sure exactly how I’ll work this since I flip from wanting songs to wanting albums a lot, but I thank you again for showing us what you do.

By: Reactuate

Reactuate — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:45:06 +0000

iPod Management

Sci-Fi Hi-Fi just posted an explanation of how he keeps his iPod mini full of the good and interesting stuff, when all his stuff won’t fit. So I thought I’d talk about how I do it.

Back when my old first gen iPod filled up I had to deci…

By: DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:06:48 +0000

Cool advice. I do almost the exact same thing, except my playlist is called, “iPod mini”, to distinguish it from the list for other iPods. This is necessary because different iPods can hold different numbers of song.

I also do one more thing for my mini — I set it to autosync the Recently Added playlist directly. Since I tend to buy new music fairly regularly and listen to it almost exclusively via iTunes and the iPod, this ensures that I don’t accidentally forget to spend time with a new album (which used to happen more often than one would imagine).

What I really should do is create a smart playlist that a) takes as much of Recently Added as it can, and b) fill the rest with whole albums from “iPod mini”. And it’s interesting — unlike what you described, I am definitely album oriented. I can’t stand having one song but not the rest of the album. In fact, the #1 feature I am hoping for in iTunes 5 (downloading now), is the ability to build a smart playlist of “n” GB’s of random albums. This would be perfect to fill up the iPod if there is ever any room left over.

Cheers,

-DeWitt