As the Pod Fills
Yes, it has finally happened. My iPod is no longer capable of holding my entire music collection.
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t holding the whole collection anyway; I’d configured it not to copy unchecked songs, which is how I manage duplicate copies of the same track. However, it eventually reached the point at which, even with duplicates removed, and even after heroic re-ripping of stacks of CDs into 128kbps AAC instead of 160kbps MP3 (hey, that’s 25% more music I can cram on)…the day has come.
I’ve now set up a series of playlists (see also previous playlist discussions) that are intended for copying to the iPod, leaving the rest out.
The net result is that the iPod contains the following:
- all 5 star songs
- all 4 star songs
- all 3 star songs not played in the past year
- no 2 star songs
- no 1 star songs (except the iTrip Stations files)
- all unrated songs
This has the useful effect that I’m going to be listening to 3 star songs faster than they come out of the 1 year “shadow” for quite some time, meaning that I’m effectively gaining space on the iPod each day.
