It was December 26, 2008 and Christmas was over. It was a wonderful holiday with my wife, young kids, and family. I had been thoroughly enjoying my iTouch (which I bought earlier that year) and it slowly dawned on me that I could use iTunes for Windows to organize my growing music CD collection.
iTunes was an excellent piece of software then. It not only imported music CDs with high quality bitrates but also allowed you to organize your CDs in the manager. I could then transfer music between iTunes and my iTouch and listen to music with my earphones. Portable music was not new to me but combining music listening with the iTouch's other features was amazing.
Then I discovered how listening to music with my iTouch and then refreshing my music with more songs updated my iTunes database with statistics like number of plays and the date the song was last played. Wow! I am a sport stats nut so seeing iTunes doing something along those lines was very exciting.
So I decided to create a music listening process where I would:
1) import my growing CD collection into iTunes
2) add the new imported songs to a unplayed playlist
3) transfer that playlist to my iTouch
4) listen to that playlist on my iTouch at least twice
5) rate each individual song that I listened to
6) refresh my playlist by connected back to iTunes
7) rinse and repeat the steps above
I became a iTunes/iTouch music listening fanatic. I was systematically listening to music in my collection, starting to sort out my favorite songs from various albums, and slowly began to understand what I loved about music.
Next, I'll post my first year of iTunes listening statistics from 2008 to 2009. I am not sure how interesting this will be, but I'm wanting to experiment to see if this has some utility.
iTunes was an excellent piece of software then. It not only imported music CDs with high quality bitrates but also allowed you to organize your CDs in the manager. I could then transfer music between iTunes and my iTouch and listen to music with my earphones. Portable music was not new to me but combining music listening with the iTouch's other features was amazing.
Then I discovered how listening to music with my iTouch and then refreshing my music with more songs updated my iTunes database with statistics like number of plays and the date the song was last played. Wow! I am a sport stats nut so seeing iTunes doing something along those lines was very exciting.
So I decided to create a music listening process where I would:
1) import my growing CD collection into iTunes
2) add the new imported songs to a unplayed playlist
3) transfer that playlist to my iTouch
4) listen to that playlist on my iTouch at least twice
5) rate each individual song that I listened to
6) refresh my playlist by connected back to iTunes
7) rinse and repeat the steps above
I became a iTunes/iTouch music listening fanatic. I was systematically listening to music in my collection, starting to sort out my favorite songs from various albums, and slowly began to understand what I loved about music.
Next, I'll post my first year of iTunes listening statistics from 2008 to 2009. I am not sure how interesting this will be, but I'm wanting to experiment to see if this has some utility.
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