iTunes tip
If you have tons of unrated songs, create a smart playlist with all of your unrated songs, and enable live updating. Then, (here’s the tip) use that playlist as a source for party shuffle. This way you can rate the songs as you hear them, and party shuffle won’t automatically quit playing your song and remove it from your playlist once you rate it. Since party shuffle keeps the last 5 songs you listened to, if you miss one you can catch it later. When your rated songs scroll off the top of the screen, they never show up again, and if you miss some or want to defer rating some songs until later, they’ll show up again in party shuffle, eventually.
January 24th, 2005 at 4:15 pm
Brilliant! I’ve just been listening to my generic playlists and trying to remember to rate songs that are unrated. Now I know all the songs I’m listening to are unrated and I can just rate them straight off. Now I just have 186 Electronica/Dance tracks to rate! (ugh)
January 24th, 2005 at 8:02 pm
try 10212 tracks. rating tracks would be an undertaking i’m not prepared at present to make.
January 24th, 2005 at 8:06 pm
hmm, thats about 1316 new addition if I’m not mistaken
January 24th, 2005 at 9:54 pm
that’s not counting lettie’s albums i put on today.
January 26th, 2005 at 10:35 am
Ahhhh, now I see what you’re saying, John. I hadn’t looked at the Smart Playlists. I’ve been doing this by hand, but this is far better!