Stars In Your Eyes

ITunes: Categorize iTunes tracks based on star rating

It is kinda funny that this was posted on Lifehacker today. This afternoon I got interested in using some of the iTunes Smart Playlist features due to an article about a Do-It-Yourself Smart Radio Station, so I decided to check out some automatic rating programs. They didn't really work, which sucks when there are over 10,000 tracks to rate. So now I am stuck back with unrated songs and am not sure what to do, if anything, with ratings. I am open to suggestions about how you use ratings or if you use them at all.

Zeitgeist

iTunes has announced the pre-sale of the upcoming Smashing Pumpkins album. As many of you know, I am quite the Smashing Pumpkins fan, so I clicked Pre-Order Now last night. So far I have been impressed with the Tarantula single and am anxious to hear the full album.

Along the lines of music, I have been working through my Not Listened To playlist on my iPod. When Rebekah and I merged our iTunes libraries last year (now almost 60GB strong) I had made a playlist, descriptively called Mark, of the music I want on my iPod along with a smart playlist that had all of the music from Mark that had a playcount of zero. However, I found myself listening to the same stuff over and over, so now I just sync the Not Played stuff to force myself to listen to everything at least once in alphabetical order by Artist. This has actually been nice because I am getting to listen to some stuff that is good but I forgot about (Blur, I am looking at you). I still have about 10 GB to go, but that is down from 13 GB.

Blog To The Future

I have gotten WordPress installed now and downloaded a theme so it doesn't look so blah while I work on a new one. I figure this will buy me some time to get a new design up and running. Also, I am looking for suggestions on a new RSS reader and a blog post editor on the Mac. I am considering paying for one or both of these, so I am open to all suggestions. Finally, I did move over the post from earlier today because there were some nice comments on there, so check those out too.

Don’t Tell Me What Is Important

The WordPress blog should be back reasonably soon so I have been holding off on posting, however today something bugged me enough to post. I hate when people flag e-mails they send as high priority. As the recipient of an e-mail, I decide how important the e-mail is, not the person who sends it. Things marked as a high priority usually are not and I have never had someone come up to me after I havn't responded in a couple days with "Hey, I sent you that high priority e-mail, why didn't you respond right away, " so why bother using it.