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I just finished rating the last of my unrated songs in iTunes. I’d done this back in 2005, but since then another 1000 or so songs made their way into my library¹. Those are now rated as well - I guess it’s time to rip some more of my CDs.

I blame Geof Morris for his generous gift of bootleg CDs and getting me to experiment with torrents. [back]

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Posted February 20th, 2007 @ 11:20 AM

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Erik J. Barzeski adds this Comment:

I have a playlist in iTunes called “Unrated/Unplayed” that lists all of my songs which are either unrated or unplayed. I routinely set my Party Shuffle to play from that list. Combined with Synergy, this makes staying on top of my ratings quite easy.

February 20th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Alex adds this Comment:

Yes, I do the same thing - there’s a discussion on that in the comments of the previous post (linked above).

February 20th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Erik J. Barzeski adds this Comment:

Yeah, I just noticed that. Derrr.

February 20th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Chris Hubbs adds this Comment:

You’ve got to watch out - once GFM gets you started on bootlegs and torrents… well, it’s like quicksand. Nearly impossible to get out.

February 20th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
stephen o'grady adds this Comment:

first bootlegs, then torrents, next Hype Machine?

February 20th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Alex adds this Comment:

I’m just torrenting legal bootlegs so the first two there are pretty much the same.

If I were looking for discovery, I’d be using Pandora, I was impressed with it when I used it briefly a little while back.

February 20th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Geof F. Morris adds this Comment:

Chris is right, Alex: My friends call me “our musical crack dealer”. It also helps that I always have about five CDs from my library in someone else’s hands at all times.

That said, you didn’t say how many tracks were in your library. I’m curious … but also glad that you’re not starting a penis-envy thing here.

Torrenting legal bootlegs is the 21st Century of tape-swapping amongst Deadheads and their ilk. It always astounds me when an artist forbids all taping. [I get not allowing SBD patches, and frankly, I’ll take a good AUD over most any SBD.]

Okay, okay … I’m going to shut up now, because otherwise, I could write an entire entry here in the comments. Besides, I have another bootleg to publish.

February 20th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Alex adds this Comment:

…you didn’t say how many tracks were in your library. I’m curious…

A little over 3000 right now.

February 20th, 2007 at 6:12 pm

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