What's On Your iPod/Other-Personal-Digital-Music-Thingy

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:15 pm

...and do you know a better way of easily formatting an iTunes song list / playlist into something vaguely precise (vaguely precise?)?

Here's my current, all-purpose playlist (I have others but this is sort of like the Daily Specials List) in all its messy glory; it's been cobbled together over a very weird week....

The Magnificient Seven 5:33 The Clash Sandinista! (Disc 1 of 2) 1980

Evil And A Heathen 2:05 Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better 2005

Keep On Truckin' (Part 1) 3:34 Eddie Kendricks Soul Train: 1973

Got Carried Away 3:48 The Trash Can Sinatras Weightlifting 2004

Beautiful 3:54 Loveless Gift To The World 2003

I Just Want To Have Something To Do 2:43 The Ramones Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology (Disc 1) 1999

Saddest Quo 3:32 The Pernice Brothers Discover A Lovelier You 2005

Bad Penny 3:21 Cat Stevens Buddha And The Chocolate Box 1973

Go On Ahead 2:53 Liz Phair Whitechocolatespaceegg 1998

Oh Well, Okay 2:33 Elliott Smith XO 1998

Fools Work 4:23 Inara George All Rise 2004

It's Not Up To You 5:08 Björk Vespertine 2001

The Moth 3:49 Aimee Mann Lost in Space 2002

Great Expectations 5:05 Elbow Leaders Of The Free World 2005

Baby, Let Me Follow You Down 2:44 The Band The Last Waltz (Disc 2) 1978

lawngnome · Post by **lawngnome** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 2:30 pm

I just filled my dj (15gb) with everything I had lying around the house on one massive playlist. Its very entertianing to see the strange combinations it throws at me.

Extreme Honey · Post by **Extreme Honey** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 3:18 pm

No Elvis on your playlist?

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:10 pm

No, not at the moment. I've been listening to his music for about 28 years, I don't need to hear him every day.

Lawngnome, give us a wee sample!

lawngnome · Post by **lawngnome** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:34 pm

Trackwise? Well, todays early morning walk was:

Lovable. EC (London 1986)
The Deamers. David Bowie
Imitation of Life. REM
Acrobat. U2
I Want you. EC (Meadowbrook 05!!!!- you can hear me screaming in this track, if youre curious)
Luquid Looks. Steve Nieve
Andante, Andante. Abba
Day Tripper. Beatles
Sweet Jane. Lou Reed (Live on Letterman- bootleg, not album version)
Starman. Bowie at the Beeb.
and the first half of Hey Jude

I dont have track time or anything. That should be about 40 minutes, judging by what time I got back. Its rather shocking that there's hardly any live stuff. Most of my collection (1/2 to 3/4 is bootlegs).

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:50 pm

I almost always just put my my smartlist of songs that are 2:45 to 3:45 long on shuffle...

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:23 pm

lawngnome wrote:The Deamers. David Bowie

Dreamers? I have to confess, with 32 years of pretty full-on Bowie fandom that I can't place that. Am I just very tired? (Too tired to Google it anyway!)

I'm impressed by your time-travelling capabilities ('06'!), and not only that, but you have recorded evidence.

I'd gladly settle for that on an iPod. I don't own one or equivalent, though. Just iTunes on the computer (Tower of Ron, as mentioned elsewhere, Seem To Recall makes its lovely presence felt) and a CD player at my bedside (I only fall asleep to the strains of Elbow right now).

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:53 pm

Hello It's Me Todd Rundgren The Very Best Of Todd Rundgren
This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us Sparks Kimono My House
Lillywhite Cat Stevens Mona Bone Jakon
Wear Your Love Like Heaven Donovan The Great Donovan (Disc 2)
See My Baby Jive Wizzard Singles A's & B's
Beatnik The Clean Anthology
Baby You Should Know Joy Zipper American Whip
Anima Sola The Magic Numbers Word of Mouth - June 2005
I Am The Cosmos Chris Bell I Am The Cosmos
Till The Morning Comes Neil Young After The Goldrush
Blown A Wish My Bloody Valentine Loveless
In Need of a Friend Cowsills We Can Fly
Just Like Tom Thumb Blues Nina Simone To Love Somebody And Here Comes The Sun
Galveston Glen Campbell Glen Campbell: 20 Greatest Hits
V-2 Schneider David Bowie "Heroes"
Pain Train The Guess Who Live at the Paramount
Walzing's For Dreamers Richard Thompson Action Packed: The Best Of The Capitol Years
Life Is A Long Song Jethro Tull Living in the past
Fallin' In Love American Spring Pet Projects: The Brian Wilson Productions
I Can Hear The Grass Grow The Move Hits & Rarities: Singles A's & B's (Disc 1)
Twisterella Ride Going Blank Again
Life In a Northern Town The Dream Academy The Dream Academy
Shades Of Scarlet Conquering Joni Mitchell The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Pretty Mary K # 1 Elliott Smith Figure 8 Demos
Wouldn't You Miss Me (Dark Globe) Syd Barrett Opel (Disc 3)
Needle Of Death Bert Jansch Dazzling Stranger (Disc 1)
Dear Angie Badfinger Best Of Badfinger
Do It Clean Echo & The Bunnymen Ballyhoo-The Best of Echo & The Bunnymen
Will To Love Neil Young American Stars 'n Bars
Death & the Maiden The Verlaines Juvenilia
I Used To Be A King Graham Nash Songs For Beginners
Eldorado Electric Light Orchestra Eldorado
Solar System The Beach Boys 15 Big Ones / Love You
Never My Love The Association The Association's Greatest Hits
Overnight Sensation The Raspberries Greatest Hits
Out in the Woods Leon Russell Carney
Let Me Roll It Paul McCartney & Wings Band On The Run
Tribal Gathering The Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Glamour Boy The Guess Who The Guess Who: The Ultimate Collection
D. W. Suite Lindsey Buckingham Go Insane
Afterglow Of Your Love The Small Faces The Great Small Faces 2
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Live) Bob Dylan Dignity
You Wear The Sun The Delays Faded Seaside Glamour
Don't Let Me Down Again Buckingham Nicks Buckingham Nicks
Where The Colors Don't Go Sam Phillips Cruel Inventions
No Time The Guess Who Live at the Paramount
Gudbuy T' Jane Slade Sladest

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:54 am

Lot's of Playlists for different situations. I'll reference two only:

Road Music (to fight fatigue on long drives to visit customers): [KickAssTravel]
Mirror int he Bathroom - English Beat
Paperback Write - The Beatles
E-Pro - Beck
Where Its At - Beck
America is Waiting - Byrne and Eno
The Jezebel Spirit - Bryne and Eno
I'm So Bored With the USA - The Clash
White Riot - The Clash
Born to Slow- Crystal Method
The Imposter - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
High Fidelity - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
So Young - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Beyond Belief - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Lipstick Vogue - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Lovers Walk - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Natural's Not In It - Gang of Four
American Idiot - Green Day
Inertia Creeps - Massive Attack
Dissolved Girl - Massive Attack
Go For It - Stiff Little Fingers
Vertigo - U2
It's Nearly Africa - XTC

And an Upbeat Jazz/Rock Compilation [CoolUpJazzyDD]:
Tutu - Miles Davis
Bahai Do Sol - Passport
Ju-Ju Man - Passport
Infinity Machines - Passport
Medieval Overture - Chick Corea and Return to Forever
The Dancer - Stanley Clarke
Birdland- Weather Report
You Know What I Mean - Jeff Beck
The Cool, Cool River - Paul Simon
Further To Fly - Paul Simon
Incident at Neshabur - Santana
Doctor Wu- Steely Dan
So What - Miles Davis

lawngnome · Post by **lawngnome** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:49 am

Its from 'Hours..' and I meant 05. I'm sorry, I've had a long weekend. I'll go change it.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:57 am

Maybe I'm of an age that always thinks in terms of chunks of 8-20 or so songs as a unit, but I love seeing these lists. More please!

Or do most of you just put your whole collection on shuffle when you're not listening to actual CDs or the digital versions of them? I have a bunch of playists-- a few by mood, one for my son (most songs by his request), but there's always a 'hot list' that changes constantly, which I listen to on my commute and in the car (though not always).

Otis you will love having an iPod, especially its capabilities to play stuff via your car radio.

Other people?

Post by **BlueChair** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:02 am

I've got a total of 5298 songs on my iPod right now, and the only playlist I have setup right now is the My Top Rated one cause it's easy to set it up while listening to songs. At the same time it's got 436 songs right now and I usually listen to it on random.

Here's a random selection:

"Fifty Years After The Fair" - Aimee Mann
"Didn't Think It Would Turn Out Bad" - Jon Brion
"Paul's Song" - M. Ward
"Near Wild Heaven" - R.E.M.
"Sweet Old World" - Emmylou Harris
"If You Gotta Go, Go Now" - Bob Dylan
"I'm A Drifter" - Johnny Cash
"Never Like This Before" - William Bell
"Is That Love" - Squeeze
"Next Time Round" - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
"Burning Airlines Give You So Much More" - Brian Eno
"Stage Fright" - The Band
"Picture Book" - The Kinks
"What A Wonderful Thing Love Is" - Al Green
"Until You Came Along" - Golden Smog
"Heavy Metal Drummer" - Wilco
"Stop, Look & Listen" - Belle & Sebastian
"Free Man In Paris" - Joni Mitchell
"Thirsty Love" - Ron Sexsmith

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:07 am

I have an iPod that I don't get to use very much, as I work from home and do not seem to be traveling so much recently.

I would like to get a transmitter for the car so that I can use it on weekend road trips. Mostly I just use iTunes, and let it do the choosing of what tracks it wants to transfer to the iPod when I hook it up, as the library is just too large to fit in its entirety on the 15GB iPod. I think it gives priority to music that you have been playing recently, or at least it seems that way to me.

That being said, I will be bringing my iPod over the UK in December, so maybe I'll put together a playlist for that.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:39 am

Who Shot Sam? wrote: I would like to get a transmitter for the car so that I can use it on weekend road trips.

I love my iTrip, but apparently there's something new and better?? Hard to believe...

Blue we have some decent ovelap!!

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:42 am

selfmademug wrote:I love my iTrip, but apparently there's something new and better?? Hard to believe...

Do you know what it's called? And does it work with earlier-generation iPods?

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:53 am

Tallulah told me about it. Maybe it's the Belkin one... dunno. Will poke around. Maybe this?

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/W ... 5.7.11.2.3

The bottom line is, with the iTrip, you only get radio-quality sound, but if you don't mind that in your car, $35 seems like a damn bargain to get instant access to your whole library. Though you need to buy a power adapter really, too, so maybe it's more like $55 total in the end? Still love it.

I guess the Belkin connects via any aux connection (including cassette deck) which would give it better sound, theoretically. And it's true, there is occasionally static with iTrip, but even in a frequency-bedevilled place like Boston (after 20 years of frustrating trial and error, it took a $200+ Tivoli radio to get reliable clear signals for my few fave stations in my house) I can usually just switch to another frequency and volia, there's my stuff loud and clear.

If you get the iTrip, here's an important tip that I think a lot of people miss in the manual: you have to keep the volume on the iPod somewhere between 60-75% or it sounds like crap (you can then re-adjust the voulme via the radio)-- it's not hard to find the 'sweet spot,' as it's quite large. I suspect that what many users report as static or poor sound quality is really just failure to understand that that is a basic necessary setting for the iTrip to work.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:09 am

selfmademug wrote:Tallulah told me about it. Maybe it's the Belkin one... dunno. Will poke around. Maybe this?

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/W ... 5.7.11.2.3

The bottom line is, with the iTrip, you only get radio-quality sound, but if you don't mind that in your car, $35 seems like a damn bargain to get instant access to your whole library. Though you need to buy a power adapter really, too, so maybe it's more like $55 total in the end? Still love it.

I guess the Belkin connects via any aux connection (including cassette deck) which would give it better sound, theoretically. And it's true, there is occasionally static with iTrip, but even in a frequency-bedevilled place like Boston (after 20 years of frustrating trial and error, it took a $200+ Tivoli radio to get reliable clear signals for my few fave stations in my house) I can usually just switch to another frequency and volia, there's my stuff loud and clear.

If you get the iTrip, here's an important tip that I think a lot of people miss in the manual: you have to keep the volume on the iPod at about 75% or it sounds like crap (you can then re-adjust the voulme via the radio). I suspect that what many users report as static or poor sound quality is really just failure to understand that that is a basic necessary setting for the iTrip to work.

Thanks. Will definitely look into it. I'm currently shuffling CDs back and forth between the car and my office. If I want something that I haven't listened to in a while, I have to dig through the CD racks and boxes in the attic. It would be so much easier to just bring my iPod along.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:55 am

don't have an Ipod (I am so not one of the Cool Kids), but this is part of my Halloween playlist

Hellbound Train – George T
Mystery Dance – EC
Spirit of the Streets – The Business
Vampire Blues – Neil Young
There She Goes – John Prine (regular Dr. Jekyll)
Send Lawyers, Guns & Money – Warren Zevon
The Righteous & the Wicked – RHCP
Who Killed the Cheerleader –
Jump, Jive and Wail – Louis Prima
Complicated Shadows – EC
Freak Show – the Pietasters
Raised by the Graves – Scott Miller
Dark of the Matinee – Franz Ferdinand
Turd on the Run – Stones
Spanish Pipedream – John Prine
Shallow Grave – EC
Mack the Knife – Bobby Darin
Cracking Up – Nick Lowe
Hoodoo Voodoo – Billy Bragg & Wilco
Dead Flowers – Stones
This Is Hell – EC
Rich Girl – Gwen Stefani
Mediocre Bad Guys – Jack Johnson
I Predict A Riot – Kaiser Chiefs
Black Lagoon – Dave Edmunds
Holy Roller Novocaine – Kings of Leon
Daddy’s Little Pumpkin – John Prine
The Beast in Me – Nick Lowe

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:53 pm

Some great lists there. Mike: yours is killer. Some lovely unexpected ones.

selfmademug wrote:Otis you will love having an iPod, especially its capabilities to play stuff via your car radio.

I ride a bike though! I would love to listen to music on long car rides alone (as I used to ad nauseam in Spain when I used to drive thousands of miles a year in my job), but pretty well never do that. When I do drive, it's normally the weekend and football's on, or something good on Radio 4, and often there are hordes of rowdy kids in tow. I would like an iPod for bedtime use, as a way of not loading up my hard drive with millions of tracks in iTunes, and for driving holidays. I love the idea of shuffling though.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:56 pm

lawngnome wrote:Its from 'Hours..' and I meant 05. I'm sorry, I've had a long weekend. I'll go change it.

Shame! It was more fun when you were time-travelling.

Bugger me, closing track of Hours and I absolutely couldn't place it. I played Hours about twice, such a dull record. I heard enough of the better songs on live programmes on TV, which I taped and watched a few times, and I love the version of Seven on the excellent BBC bonus CD from 2000 that came with Bowie at the Beeb. Will have to check out that song to check out what you're listening to.

alexv · Post by **alexv** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:41 pm

my daughter and I share the I-pod. I generally download records, not just songs, so I clog the damn thing. Here's my current list (she avoids everything below except: Marley; Green Day, Fountains of Wayne, Timberlake, and, strangely enough, Curtis Mayfield (RIP):

difford: I Didn't Get... (heavy rotation)
Marley: legend
Brian Wilson: Smile
Celia Cruz and Sonora Matanzera: Greatest Hits (heavy rotation)
Benny Moret: Greatest Hits
Charles Brown: All my Life
Diana K: Live in Paris
Dwight Yoakam: This Time (Pocket; 1,00 miles,Try not to look; this time)
EC: Almost Blue Rhino second disc
EC: Kojak Variety ditto
EC: KOA ditto
EC:TDM
EC: PFM
EC: MLAR (Selected)
EC: PTC(Selected)
EC: North (heavy rotation)
The Finn Bros: Everyone is.... (not feeling it)
Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interestate and Utopia Parkway
Tilbrook: Transatlantic PingPong
Green Day: Boulevard
Harry Connick: Blue Light
Jamie Cullum: Twentysomething
Jimmy Scott: All the Way
Luis Miguel: Romances
Madeliene Peyroux:Careless Love and Dreamland
Nick Lowe: The Impossible Bird
Paul Simon: The Rhythm of the Saints
REM: Around the Sun (not feeling it)
Ron: Retriever (heavy rotation)
Sam Cooke: The Man and his Music
U2: How to Dismantle (not feeling it)
Bare Naked Ladies: hits collection
Timberlake: Justified
Chrlie Parker: With Strings
Chris Isaak: Heart Shaped and Baja (selected songs)
Curtis Mayfield: New World Order
Frank Sinatra and Sextet: Live in Paris (heavy rotation)
Joe Jackson: Laughter and Lust
Joe Lovano: I'm all for you
Lyndsay Buckingham: Out of the Cradle (selected)
Brazil Classics
Pedro Luis Ferrer: Rustico (heavy rotation)
The Smiths: Louder than
Van: Magic Time

Marshall Cranshaw will soon be substituted for the Finns, U2 and REM.

A quick survey shows that everyone is over 40 or dead except for: Timberlake, FOW, Green Day, Cullum, Madeline, Ron and Diana (I think).

Oh Well.

Post by **BlueChair** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:07 pm

Ron's boyish looks have you fooled! He and Diana are actually the same age, believe it or not: 41 (although according to my source Diana has yet to have her birthday)

lawngnome · Post by **lawngnome** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:16 pm

Otis Westinghouse wrote:
lawngnome wrote:Its from 'Hours..' and I meant 05. I'm sorry, I've had a long weekend. I'll go change it.
Shame! It was more fun when you were time-travelling.

Bugger me, closing track of Hours and I absolutely couldn't place it. I played Hours about twice, such a dull record. I heard enough of the better songs on live programmes on TV, which I taped and watched a few times, and I love the version of Seven on the excellent BBC bonus CD from 2000 that came with Bowie at the Beeb. Will have to check out that song to check out what you're listening to.

I'm not really a huge fan of Hours either. I havent really had a need for such *bleah* music. I like this track and Pretty Things.. and thats about it. The rest are buried very deeply on my computer somewhere, as I enver actually bought the album...

alexv · Post by **alexv** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:09 am

[quote="BlueChair"]Ron's boyish looks have you fooled! He and Diana are actually the same age, believe it or not: 41 (although according to my source Diana has yet to have her birthday)[/quote]

Damn those youthful Canadians!! I assume the Ladies are over 40 though? That means that 32 of the 37 acts on my pod are over 40/dead, with the dead at 9 and counting. Enter my I-Pod at your own risk!!

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:56 pm

Jamie Cullum is a waste of space. Lawngnome, however, is cool.