Before I Kill You, Mr. Playlist
I realized recently that I'm bored with my iTunes playlists. All of them. And not just bored. I'm weary. Jaded. Sick of them.
Adding new ones does not help. A new playlist is over-listened within days, even faster than a new CD can be over-listened.
It occurred to me that I should delete all of my playlists and start over with entirely new ones. When this idea first popped into my head, I was horrified. Delete all my playlists, are you fucking mad?! But the more I think about it, the more I find the idea insanely compelling.
I wonder whether I'd wind up re-creating the same old playlists, consciously or unconsciously.
I also wonder whether using words like "horrifying" and "compelling" to describe a dilemma about whether to delete playlists means that I've lost any shred of life perspective I might have once had.
I think I'd be more likely to carry out this plan if I could convince other people to do it, too. Like a support group. And I'm pretty sure that assembling a support group to delete playlists does, in fact, mean that I have lost any shred of life perspective I might once have had.
So, deleting all your playlists. Who's with me?
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I recently did this by default, when switching from Mac to PC as my main computer, I didn't bother transferring a bunch of my MP3s from the Mac before I did so. I'd burned a lot of CDs to the Mac, but honestly I can just burn them again if I want to. I have some iTunes-purchased music that I want to go excavate eventually, but since August it's been All New Playlists for me.
Don't be afraid! A shake-up is good for the musical soul!
Am I the only one who adores Party Shuffle? It's like a new playlist every day! (Actually, every 40 minutes or so...) I keep it running constantly, and if it starts to serve up a big chunk of songs I'm not keen on, I'll go in and do some pruning.
Plus, if you're running Quicksilver, "Play Next in Party Shuffle" is one of the actions you can use - so if a song pops into my head I've just gotta hear next, I can add it without having to switch to iTunes.