The mysteries of iPod’s shuffle mode
The New York Times has an amusing article Tunes, a Hard Drive and (Just Maybe) a Brain on the vagaries of the iPod’s shuffle mode.
For Mr. Angus, though, Shuffle can be a workout killer. He said that while working out at the gym, his portable music player invariably drifts toward the Billboard Top 40.
“It really likes Ruben Studdard,” the winner of “American Idol’s” second season, Mr. Angus said. This, despite the fact that he only has one song of Mr. Studdard’s - the soulful ballad “Sorry 2004″ - stored on his 20-gigabyte player. “There’s nothing worse than when you are having an intense workout and Ruben comes on,” he said, “but it seems to always happen to me.”
I use a lot of Smart Playlists instead, as I’ve previously discussed here and here. My current big playlist is all 3 star songs not played in 12 months, all 4 star songs not played in 70 days, all 5 star songs not played in 14 days, and all unrated songs.
At the moment that’s 4,660 songs for a total of 12 days and 21 1/2 hours. Make that 4,659 songs….
“Four thousand six hundred sixty songs on the playlist, four thousand six hundred sixty songs! Take one down, play it around, four thousand six hundred fifty-nine songs on the playlist!”
