For the last… I dunno, year and a half, I’ve been listening to every single song on my iPod and rating it as I go. I have completed my task – every single song currently on my iPod has a rating!* Here’s what my ratings mean:
So I have 587 5-star songs, 2519 4-star songs, and 853 3-star songs… and a few leftover 2-star songs I haven’t dealt with yet. That’s a really good distribution. Ideally everything would be 4- and 5-star, so what I’m doing now is re-listening to everything with a little bit more of a discriminatory ear and considering whether I really enjoy listening to everything – and if not, rating it down.
Yes, I know it’s really lame to pay so much attention to my choice of music like this. I just like listening to the best stuff is all. Perhaps when I get a new iPod (80GB probably) I’ll throw everything on and make use of playlists a whole lot more… but I’ll still be rating everything.
I’ll put up a table of my 5-star songs soon.
*Well, every song HAD a rating until I removed the latest 1-star songs, leaving room for a few more albums. So I have 100 more to go but I’ll just leave those in with the mix and rate ’em as I come upon them.
wow that must have taken forever. do you know about how long it would takes to listen to the entire song library non-stop?
My iPod library (4073 songs) would take 12 days and 2 hours to listen to non-stop.
My entire library (12699 songs) would take 36 days and 3 hours.
Damnit! You beat my library of ~5000 songs at 15 days (after listening to the eniter libray twice over for sorting).
Yeah – how can anybody LISTEN to so much music?!! Woah. =O
(that’s me, owner of some kind of 256mb usb-stick/player)
that’s very OCD of you.
i totally need to do that. but i’ve tried with a few songs, and i keep disagreeing with myself. i have to listen to a song like 3 times over in order to get a good understanding of it’s rating.