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Music libraries, and the sorting thereof
14 years ago
Having recently acquired an invite to Google Music Beta, our brave hero finds himself sorting through his music collection at 4 in the morning to decide what music to make available offline, not remembering that just around the corner lurks the dreaded Father's Early Morning Doctor's Appointment! And it's sibling, Father's Afternoon Doctor's Appointment! Will our hero survive his upcoming ordeal??? Tune in next week for the shocking conclusion!
In all seriousness, though... Google Music is quite awesome. I have decided that, since I now possess the ability to seamlessly stream any and all of my music collection to my phone or any browser on demand, I should go ahead and clear off of my phone's SD card all but the music I play most often, the better to create oodles of free SD card space which I shall never use again!
To my often disturbingly obsessive mind, this necessitates a complete review of my music library. There is a not-insignificant problem with this idea.
When it comes to music, I tend to be a bit of a hoarder. If I hear a track that I like, I will often acquire the entire album, only to find that I appreciate just a few of the other tracks... If any of the other tracks at all. Now, see, a normal person would likely just delete the tracks which did not meet with their approval... Normalcy is not one of my defining traits.
I tend to just flag the tracks with a 1 or 2 star rating and forget about them. This has caused my music collection to reach, oh, let me see... 7438 items.
7438 items that I now feel compelled to examine the title of to determine their worthiness as "available for offline" items.
And I know I won't be satisfied until I've evaluated every last one of them.
In all seriousness, though... Google Music is quite awesome. I have decided that, since I now possess the ability to seamlessly stream any and all of my music collection to my phone or any browser on demand, I should go ahead and clear off of my phone's SD card all but the music I play most often, the better to create oodles of free SD card space which I shall never use again!
To my often disturbingly obsessive mind, this necessitates a complete review of my music library. There is a not-insignificant problem with this idea.
When it comes to music, I tend to be a bit of a hoarder. If I hear a track that I like, I will often acquire the entire album, only to find that I appreciate just a few of the other tracks... If any of the other tracks at all. Now, see, a normal person would likely just delete the tracks which did not meet with their approval... Normalcy is not one of my defining traits.
I tend to just flag the tracks with a 1 or 2 star rating and forget about them. This has caused my music collection to reach, oh, let me see... 7438 items.
7438 items that I now feel compelled to examine the title of to determine their worthiness as "available for offline" items.
And I know I won't be satisfied until I've evaluated every last one of them.
One of the nice things about the Google Music Beta setup is that my entire library is accessible from anywhere, so if I come across a song that I feel simply must be made available offline, I can mark it and the music player will download it to my SD card for permanent storage.
In other words, I don't have to worry about that much, because once I'm done with this endeavor, I can micromanage in the future with ease. :)