Good post. I'm in a similar situation. I have almost 50,000 mp3's, and Random or Party shuffle are very rarely used anymore. Most of my lisening is with a conventional search by song/artist, listing to new podcasts, or I typically use smart playlists myself.
Mood tagging sounds cool, but man - it is going to take me months to tag everything.
Good article!
Nick
· 2 years ago
Jeez! 10,000 songs? Hope you have a huge hard drive :-p
Phil Bowell
· 2 years ago
I have also recently discovered Moody and have been taggin my library as I listen and in short bursts. It works really well, although it is a bit tough deciding the levels on some songs. I imagine once most of my library is tagged I will find my self using it a lot, I only wish it integrated with iTunes a little more rather than sitting on the side of it.
Matt McInerney
· 2 years ago
@Nick I have a Macbook Pro with 100gb, and I really need to buy a hard drive just dedicated to music @Phil I think Apple should think about buying Moody the way they bought Coverflow... It would be a great feature for iTunes 8.0
Daniel K
· 2 years ago
The ideal plugin/fix for me, would be to have some sort of hook-up with Pandora and their indexing working on your machine, and then have it suggest other songs from your own library. So it would be something like "Oh, your listening to 'this' and 'this' type of song, so maybe listen to this song next, 'cause it match with 'this' and 'this'" - Something like that... and have it work with both specific albums, artists and individual songs, ideally. Hopefully, it would save you from having to tag and sort all your songs manually, and be more detailed at the same time.
Oh, and 10.000 and 50.000 songs? woah... I've only got half my cd's on here (plus all the stuff from iTunes and eMusic), and I'm only at 2500 I think.
It figures out your current mood each time you run it. Skip or listen to the first few songs, and it locks on to your mood. No need to create playlists. What is really cool is it seems to lock in on stuff you wouldn't think of grouping together. Like I noticed it was playing my new music one time. Older stuff the next. It has a simple interface, but seems to be doing a lot behind the scenes.
OddJobb
· 2 years ago
You might also check out The Filter. It's an app that creates playlists based on something similar to he music genome project (what Pandora uses). You can randomly create playlists or select a song or two and create a playlist based off of those two songs. Seems to work pretty well.
slrman
· 2 months ago
If you people have that many songs, thousands, you need to get a life outside of downloading music. 50,000 mp3s? You know there are real things to do, sailing, swimming, hiking, traveling. There is a real world, try getting outside and enjoying reality.
I'm speaking as a former professional musician, so I am not a music-hater at all. I have a large and varied collection myself, but 10,000+? Sheesh!
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Good post. I'm in a similar situation. I have almost 50,000 mp3's, and Random or Party shuffle are very rarely used anymore. Most of my lisening is with a conventional search by song/artist, listing to new podcasts, or I typically use smart playlists myself.
Mood tagging sounds cool, but man - it is going to take me months to tag everything.
Good article!
@Phil I think Apple should think about buying Moody the way they bought Coverflow... It would be a great feature for iTunes 8.0
Oh, and 10.000 and 50.000 songs? woah... I've only got half my cd's on here (plus all the stuff from iTunes and eMusic), and I'm only at 2500 I think.
http://me.dnszones.org:8888/
It figures out your current mood each time you run it. Skip or listen to the first few songs, and it locks on to your mood. No need to create playlists. What is really cool is it seems to lock in on stuff you wouldn't think of grouping together. Like I noticed it was playing my new music one time. Older stuff the next. It has a simple interface, but seems to be doing a lot behind the scenes.
I'm speaking as a former professional musician, so I am not a music-hater at all. I have a large and varied collection myself, but 10,000+? Sheesh!