{"id":2070,"date":"2011-06-13T15:17:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T22:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2011-06-13T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T22:17:11","slug":"song-rating-spergatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/song-rating-spergatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Rating Spergatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still live in the dinosaur era of digital music management, in that I download and store full albums on my computer. None of this &#8220;cloud&#8221; silliness. Not yet, at least. All these downloads start to add up, so for the past 5 or so years, I&#8217;ve &#8220;actively&#8221; listened to my music; that is, I rate my music as I listen to it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/car\/2008-09-22\">This comic from 2008<\/a> details the basics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 &#8211; A song I could listen to over and over.<\/li>\n<li>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 &#8211; A song I would play at a party.<\/li>\n<li>\u2605\u2605\u2605 &#8211; A song I&#8217;d listen to on-the-go, but not with other people.<\/li>\n<li>\u2605\u2605 &#8211; A corrupted or misnamed file. I&#8217;ve got a smart playlist which acts as a to-fix list for these.<\/li>\n<li>\u2605 &#8211; A song I don&#8217;t want on my iPhone, for one reason or another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Out of 100GB of music in my library, only about 300 songs have a 5-star rating. There just aren&#8217;t many songs I could listen to repeatedly, and even then, they might get stale, prompting me to downgrade some to 4 stars.<br \/>\n4-star songs that I used to think were cool often get downgraded to 3 stars, because my taste in music (or taste in friends) has changed.<br \/>\n3-star songs are downgraded to 1 when I realize I get zero enjoyment from listening to the song.<br \/>\nI try to keep my library at 100GB, which is more than any music hoarder should ever need in the era of instant song querying via Google\/YouTube. When I go over that amount, I take a few minutes to look at my iTunes smart playlist that contains songs whose album has an average rating of 1, and delete entire albums that contain no redeeming tracks.<br \/>\nOn my iPhone, I make sure to automatically load any songs I haven&#8217;t yet rated. The remaining space is filled up by 3-, 4-, or 5-star songs with the oldest &#8220;last played&#8221; date. This ensures that my library remains &#8220;fresh.&#8221;<br \/>\nAt home, I tend to play my entire library. That&#8217;s basically the only way I ever &#8220;upgrade&#8221; any songs from 1 star in case my tastes have changed.<br \/>\nMuch like most of the content in this blog nowadays, I&#8217;ve written this here just so I can refer to something that doesn&#8217;t fit within 140 characters. So there we go. Feel free to chime in with any other music management suggestions if you got &#8217;em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still live in the dinosaur era of digital music management, in that I download and store full albums on my computer. None of this &#8220;cloud&#8221; silliness. Not yet, at least. All these downloads start to add up, so for the past 5 or so years, I&#8217;ve &#8220;actively&#8221; listened to my music; that is, I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/song-rating-spergatory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Song Rating Spergatory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,55,68,71,91],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-iphone","tag-itunes","tag-music","tag-organization","tag-shame","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}