Cleaning Out Your Music Player For The New Year!
If you weren’t too busy over the holidays of the last few weeks, you may have caught our list of the 75 most anticipated albums of 2011. You may have your own list of bands coming out with new music that you just to have in 2012. If you’re anything like me, your music player of choice (mine is the iTunes player on my computer and the iPod Touch that it connects to) may have so much stuff on it that you can’t find what you really want to listen to!
Every few weeks or months I have to organize my iTunes player just so that I can find the music that I actually love, discarding all the junk that I receive for free or just don’t really like any more. I know that there’s so much memory on my computer that I don’t really need to get rid of stuff, but why have it in my playlist if I’m never ever going to want to play it? So I go through a purge (along with making sure I have all the cover art attached because it just looks pretty, doesn’t it?) and I see that there is a ton of music that I already own that I want to listen to while I’m waiting for the next big thing to hit.
So let me ask you, do you do something similar or do you let things build up without a worry? Or are you like me when I was in high school and just listen to the same album every day for three months and not worry about such things?
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I mostly just listen to one album at a time for awhile, so I leave it all on my ipod in case I have a craving for some older music.
I keep everything backed up on data disc (as well as the original CDs if I have them), and am thinking about transferring them all to my extra laptop as well for easier access. But on my main laptop and mp3 player I keep things fairly widdled down to just what bands/genres/songs I’m in the mood for at the moment. If not I get to overusing the skip button and my laptop goes into a storage crisis.
I have a lot of room on my computer but I hardly listen to music on it unless it’s Spotify. My listening source is an 8gb iPod nano so for me it’s all a matter of deciding which album goes when I get a new album downloaded on it.
Sadly since my iPod has been full for so long it’s getting harder to choose which album goes cause with time I’ve replaced all the mediocre music. Even sadder is David Crowder*Band’s new album is 100 mins long so that meant I had to oust roughly 100 mins of music from my iPod. So long Children 18:3 and This Beautiful Republic.
Noooo!! not Children 18:3
I know! Honestly though I’m not a punk fan I just had them on there because they really are super good.. not because I like their music so much.
I listen to whole albums on my Zen. For new stuff, its usually 5 times before it gets removed. Older stuff gets a spin or 2 depending on what it is and how I feel after the first. 95% of what I listen to is new. I’m always rotating music. Good thing the Zen only holds 2Gb of music or it could get hard to remember what I’ve spun and how many times.
Recently, I’ve been listening through my whole iTunes library, starting with A and going to down to Z, and not skipping any songs, no matter how much I’m tempted. I now have a new appreciation for some of those songs.
That takes A LOT of discipline but that’s actually a pretty good idea. I have certain artists I didn’t love at first then when I go back I wonder what I didn’t see before.
Mae and Andrew Peterson are two examples of artists I had in my library for the LONGEST time before I began to love them.
I have about 30 gigs of music on my computer, after having deleted quite a bit. My iPod is 8 gigs. My iPod is strictly my favorite albums plus somewhere around the 5 newest albums I’ve bought.
My iTunes can get messy and I’ve been thinking about purging it for some time. There’s way too many albums I’ve gotten for free that I never listen to, or don’t like. I have KJ-52, Relient K, John Reuben, Abandon & Switchfoot’s entire discography, yet I like none of those artists.
I am doing this right now. I use a 120gb Zune (I like their UI the best) So far it can still fit my whole collection
. And right now I am going through and purging my collection as well as updating all my album art to the best available and making sure the tags are correct. It is a HUGE undertaking!
is this is a flashback post from 2004?
i dont get the joke
I try and organize all my music, but I have a huge amount of extremely varied music, and I like or listen to most of it. CD art is a must-have though. It’s awesome.
What my sister and I do is have a playlist of stuff that we sink to our iPod because we find it easier to keep that updated. We just have a Shuffle that holds 2 gigs. That playlist has all the stuff we are currently listening to, and we have to remove things from it as we add to it, which can be hard at times. We usually listen to that playlist on shuffle, but sometimes, we also listen to our whole library so we can listen to older stuff, too. We are currently tryign to clean out our whole library, though. we can’t see very well at all, though, so album art isn’t important to us.