While I’ve been reorganizing my music for an eventual move to Google Play Music from iTunes. I was thinking that I might need to change how I rate individual songs. Currently it’s on a five star system like this:

• No stars – Still getting acquainted with the track
• ★ – Song really, really sucks. I don’t want to listen to it
• ★★ – Song sucks, but I guess I’ll listen to it for variety
• ★★★ – Good song
• ★★★★ – Great song
• ★★★★★ – This song is a classic. Probably candidate for a My Fave Songs blog if I ever get around to it

Now I’m thinking a better system might be this:

• No stars – Still getting acquainted with the track
• ★ – I never want to hear this song
• ★★ – I don’t want to hear this song unless I’m super bored with my library
• ★★★ – This is a good song, so should come up randomly on shuffle
• ★★★★ – This is a great song so should come up more often on shuffle
• ★★★★★ – This song is a classic but I don’t want to hear it too often just because it’s rated the highest

I’m not sure I can actually achieve this sort of control over my playlist, but at least I can mark songs in this way. It’s going to be a lot of work (and probably not worth it) to re-rate everything though.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: music, obsessivecompulsive