in an earlier post i bored you all with my strategy to wrangle my music library to fit onto my ipod. here i will share the preliminary results of that experiment.

the hot side is hot

the biggest surprise i found is that, i had music in my library on my desktop, that i liked, but i had never listened to in itunes. it just didn’t show up in the colossal shuffle before. what an awesome surprise to re-discover tracks you like, AND make sure they get included in your ipod sync.

the cool side is cool

a lot of dusty, crusty, and musty stuff that actually WAS getting synced to my ipod, i never listened to anymore. since playing my <1 play, <1 skip playlist until it was empty, i registered skips for the stuff i no longer care for.

when it comes together

the statistics for how this changed the portion of my library that gets synced to the ipod: i now have 2.71GB free on my 20GB ipod. (previously: ~35MB free).

what this means

who knows what this means? other than, i can now dig up old CDs, rip more, sort more, rip more.

it should be a little while longer now that i’ll require a bigger ipod. i hope.

Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by blog
Filed under: gadgets, music