Quandary With Music and iTunes

[darthhomeyg]

Hey Yall',

I am bit of a perfectionist and like everything organized. When I put songs on iTunes, I get an artist's Greatest Hits CD. However, on many of the albums there are songs I dont even bother listening to. My friends reccomend that I should check the songs that I enjoy. The thing is that there are some albums where I like every song. The perfectionist side of me tells me if I should check/ uncheck songs I will disorganize my iPod with uneven amount of songs for each artist. Also, sometimes I ponder onto a song I don't recognize by name but I do by listening to it. Doing the process would remove that option. The other side of me says, "look how much memory you could save." What do you think?

- Gene aka DHG

[crimson_basser]

just put everything on it

you never know when you might want to listen to it
hell, you might discover you actually like some of the songs you didnt originally
or, you might discover a song you never gave a chance

also, you never know what song you might need in the right moment
my friend has just about everything known to mankind on his ipod
some songs that have only ever been payed once

but, there are moments when something is just needed
and youll punch yourself for not having it

(im talking about the entire star wars soundtracks for blasting at unsuspecting passerbys downtown late at night)

[lemur821]

The perfectionist side of you doesn't have an issue with listening to songs totally out of context? In other words, consider replacing your "greatest hits" albums with discographies. Unless you're running out of space, fill 'er up.

[tplyons]

Yep, if you throw it on shuffle, you may have to hit the skip button once or twice. The only thing I don't have checked is stand up comedy.

[warwick.hoy]

I voted yes, but if you have a big one, then put it all on there.

I only have an 8g and I'm pretty much out of room on it. What I do is leave whole albums on there for a while and then I go through and anything that has a low play count, meaning I don't listen to them....I delete off the ipod. I leave them on itunes should I want to put them back on there.

I hate the auto sync, I prefer to manage the content myself.

[sarcastro83]

I'm in the "throw everything on" camp. I've had a 30g for a couple of years now that I've almost filled up. I'll go back and edit when I'm in the mood for new music.

[dave64o]

Wow, that's way too much thought over an iPod!

I'd put entire albums on it and if you don't have a big enough iPod to do that get a newer one with a bigger capacity. I've ripped about half of my CDs onto my 40 GB iPod, have close to 4000 songs on it, and it's still only eating up about 18GB. I never think about how much space I'm using on it because I figured out that's already far more space than I'll ever need.

The other thing I figured out is that I should rip CDs at a relatively low sample rate, like 128 Kbps. Since I only listen to my iPod on PC speakers or through ear buds, I have no reason to waste space on my iPod with high sample rates. If you tend to listen through a high end audio system, then you might want to use the higher bit rates, but if that's how you usually listen then you'd probably be better off ripping to a lossless format rather than MP3's. But for my purposes, low bit rate MP3s are fine.

[Jeff Martinez]

OCD's a b****, ain't it?

I say just load everything and go with it. You'll find yourself getting into songs that you would have passed by if you over-thought the process.

[GrooveWarrior]

Leave everything checked, but do what I do, and rate every song you put in iTunes. Then I have a Smart playlist for 5 star songs, 4 & 5 star songs, etc. That way I can have all the songs, but go to the 4 & 5 star playlist to get the songs I really like.

[Beno]

Keep them. You'll end up listening to songs you didn't know you had.

[baba]

Originally Posted by Beno

Keep them. You'll end up listening to songs you didn't know you had.

Yes. There are many songs/albums/bands that took a few listens to grow on me. If I never gave them additional listens, I would have never enjoyed them.

[warwick.hoy]

Originally Posted by dave64o

<Snip>I'd put entire albums on it and if you don't have a big enough iPod to do that get a newer one with a bigger capacity.<snip>

It only took me a year to fill up the 8G nano. I'm pretty much ready to move on to a bigger one and let my wife have this one. Her tastes are Tool and that's about it.

[hbarcat]

If you were really a perfectionist you would forget about iTunes and purchase your music from a store in a high-fidelity format.







I'll leave now. . . . .

[BurningSkies]

I have a 160 gig. I have whole albums on my piepod I haven't listened to.