Fair Play?
Mar 4th, 2006 by Jason
I like his iTunes rating system:
- All songs start at ✭✭✭ when I import them.
- As I listen, they’re adjusted up and down according to the following:
- ✭ — Bad import (dirty/scratched CD or other issue), needs to be re-imported or otherwise replaced.
- ✭✭ — I don’t like it, and don’t particularly want to listen to it.
- ✭✭✭ — Good general listening. Won’t complain if/when it comes up in random rotation.
- ✭✭✭✭ — A favorite. Better than most. Don’t mind hearing it more often.
- ✭✭✭✭✭ — Almost impossible to get tired of. Also almost impossible to resist singing along to or dancing to when it pops up.
seems like a good system. I just think it requires way too much effort to go song by song and rate them all. If I could find a way to create a neural connection to the ipod it would be much easier
Rate them as you listen to them.
I made a SmartPlaylist that only contains unrated songs, and I limited it to 2GB. Two or three times a week, I try to remember to play that PlayList when I have some free time and just rate the songs as I go along. You don’t have to wait for the song to finish playing before you rate it, so you can actually scoot thru a lot of songs quickly if you’re up to it!