iPod nonsense
May. 22nd, 2008 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyficI love and hate the most played song feature on iTunes. It's cool to see how often I've listened to something, but once I figured out how the count was happening (it goes up when the track ends), I immediately started trying to manipulate the system. The thing is, there are some songs that have a count of zero even though I listen to them because I never listen to the end. Like In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and Layla (I love you Eric Clapton, but I'm sorry, the piano outro to that song is just too cheesy). And it's started making me listen to things on my iPod when I would not otherwise (when I would normally just play the CD, or listen to it on winamp on my work computer) so that those listens "count."
What ends up happening, even so, is that my top 25 are invariably from one or two albums I just purchased. When I get a new album, I usually listen through it ten or twenty times to get to really know the music. (One of my recent purchases has a playcount of 40, which means the top 25 playlist is pretty much that album, slightly out of order.) Then I'll go away from it for awhile, and if it's good, give it another listen every now and then. So those albums that I never get tired of, that I listen to a couple times a year, aren't on the top 25. But the album that I haven't figured out how I feel about is. This makes the top 25 playlist singularly unhelpful to me.
Perhaps I am overthinking this. Do other people use the top 25 playlist?
What ends up happening, even so, is that my top 25 are invariably from one or two albums I just purchased. When I get a new album, I usually listen through it ten or twenty times to get to really know the music. (One of my recent purchases has a playcount of 40, which means the top 25 playlist is pretty much that album, slightly out of order.) Then I'll go away from it for awhile, and if it's good, give it another listen every now and then. So those albums that I never get tired of, that I listen to a couple times a year, aren't on the top 25. But the album that I haven't figured out how I feel about is. This makes the top 25 playlist singularly unhelpful to me.
Perhaps I am overthinking this. Do other people use the top 25 playlist?