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What am I going to listen to?

Started by brentspore · 9 months ago

Guest Author: Matt McInerney
Hello, my name is Matt McInerney and I have a confession to make: I have more music than I know what to do with in my iTunes Library. My glass is not half full. It is completely full and spilling over the rim. Yes, I’m approaching 10,000 songs% ... Continue reading »

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  • Chris Johnson

    2 years ago

    Matt;

    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!
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  • Nick

    2 years ago

    Jeez! 10,000 songs? Hope you have a huge hard drive :-p
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • Chris Johnson

    2 years ago

    I was wrong. Its around 80,000 songs :)

    http://me.dnszones.org:8888/
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  • tunesfan

    1 year ago

    Check out MoodShuffle from http://www.moodshuffle.com

    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.
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  • OddJobb

    1 year 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.
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