How do you keep track of the new music you put on ur IPOD?

Jan 21, 2008 at 6:09 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 32
kwitel

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I add maybe 5 new albums a week and a couple of days later, ive already forgotten what ive added.
I like to have a like a "recently added albums" list that I can just add and subtract names from and keep updated. Not a playlist, rather a list that I can just refer to once in a while, to remind myself of what ive added to my library.

Really just a Notepad.

Any ideas?
 
Jan 21, 2008 at 6:33 AM Post #2 of 32
I have a couple smart playlists that accomplish this, like you're saying.
1. "Unwrapped" - It's only albums that I've added in the last week, and when listening I shuffle by album.
2. "Fastball" - It's a list limited to 200 songs with a playcount lower than 5 that haven't been played in the last month. I will shuffle this by song, but to be honest, I only use this playlist when I am very bored with the music I have with me.


Keeping a list though, that'd be interesting. I bet we could write an Applescript to pull info out of the XML file associated to a "recently added albums" playlist and then have it automatically write it to a note and save it on the iPod, that wouldn't be too hard...
 
Jan 21, 2008 at 6:37 AM Post #3 of 32
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Originally Posted by Denver Max /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I have a couple smart playlists that accomplish this, like you're saying.
1. "Unwrapped" - It's only albums that I've added in the last week, and when listening I shuffle by album.
2. "Fastball" - It's a list limited to 200 songs with a playcount lower than 5 that haven't been played in the last month. I will shuffle this by song, but to be honest, I only use this playlist when I am very bored with the music I have with me.


Keeping a list though, that'd be interesting. I bet we could write an Applescript to pull info out of the XML file associated to a "recently added albums" playlist and then have it automatically write it to a note and save it on the iPod, that wouldn't be too hard...


Ive owned an IPOD since the first gen and I dont think ive ever used a Smart Playlist. Not sure I know what it is.

As to your second remark-if the IPOD can handle contacts and calendar events synced from Outlook, it should be capable of handling the (for example) "To Do" list as well. This would work fine for me, although I do only know very little about the programming end of it.
 
Jan 21, 2008 at 6:44 AM Post #4 of 32
I also rely on Smart Playlists for this. I have 3 lists:
1. last 30 days
2. between 30-60
3. last 3 months

Nice thing on the new iPod Classic is that it displays both track name and artist name when you're looking at the list, which helps you figure out which albums you're looking at.

Just go to File -> New Smart Playlist. You'll figure it out from there.
 
Jan 21, 2008 at 7:05 AM Post #5 of 32
What is a Smart Playlist?
 
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:06 AM Post #6 of 32
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Originally Posted by kwitel /img/forum/go_quote.gif
What is a Smart Playlist?


It's an automated playlist based on user-defined filter(s). Go to iTunes, find the "add playlist" button on the lower left, press option, notice button turning into a cogwheel, click it. Up comes the SPL dialog. You can later have the iPod sync with that list if you wish. Go wild.
 
Jan 21, 2008 at 9:30 AM Post #7 of 32
My good old Rio Carbon takes care of that with several ways of playing new music (added in last day, week and month) ...

I haven't done this with one of my higher-capacity players yet, but one thing you could do would be to simply designate the genre of each new song as "new music," play songs in the "new music" genre when that's what you want to hear, and then revert to whatever you want for the genre for a particular song whenever you no longer wanted it in "new music." I'm fairly hands-on with my music on my computer and my players, so not a big deal for me -- something like this works great with files dragged and dropped onto small flash players, in folders titled "new music," for example. However, this solution, while simple, might not be for everyone.


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Jan 21, 2008 at 11:22 AM Post #8 of 32
kwitel,

What I did is created a tag with Mp3Tag for the genres I listen to. You can do the same. Create a new tag "recently added albums" for all the recently added albums and you should be set.

Edit: The advice above is not entirely correct. Scratch that.

Heres the two steps to do it the right way:

1.Set Genres ON in your iPod,
2.Use Mp3Tag to tag the Genre column of your mp3s with the words `recently added albums´

I think theres other ways but this should work.
 
Jan 21, 2008 at 6:50 PM Post #9 of 32
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Originally Posted by moriez /img/forum/go_quote.gif
kwitel,

What I did is created a tag with Mp3Tag for the genres I listen to. You can do the same. Create a new tag "recently added albums" for all the recently added albums and you should be set.



Do not know what "Mp3Tag" is.
 
Jan 21, 2008 at 9:08 PM Post #10 of 32
Kwitel - your question was about iPod, so ignore responses involving other players or mp3tag. It doesn't sound like you want to deal with Rockbox (to anticipate your question, Rockbox is an alternative firmwear for the iPod), so your only solution is smart playlists in iTunes. If you can figure out how to put headphones on, you can figure out smart playlists. They are really quite intuitive, and are extremely versatile.
 
Jan 21, 2008 at 9:42 PM Post #11 of 32
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Originally Posted by kwitel /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Do not know what "Mp3Tag" is.


Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2)

You dont have to ignore this cause it works. If you need more help let me know
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Alternatively, iPod has a notepad function. Dont know how that works but im sure you can find that out.
 
Jan 21, 2008 at 10:33 PM Post #12 of 32
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Originally Posted by Oliver :) /img/forum/go_quote.gif
It's an automated playlist based on user-defined filter(s). Go to iTunes, find the "add playlist" button on the lower left, press option, notice button turning into a cogwheel, click it. Up comes the SPL dialog. You can later have the iPod sync with that list if you wish. Go wild.


What is this "option" you speak of?
 
Jan 23, 2008 at 2:55 AM Post #15 of 32
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