What should I put on my iPod?

[R4L]

Or iPodLinux.

[evenwolf]

do you have to reformat all your songs to add new firmware?

[Darth Mandarb]

And what on earth are Smart Playlists? It sounds like those word-lists on cell-phones. I don't understand how I managed without them.

Smart Playlists were added in the newest version of iTunes.  It's a way to take normal playlists and make them "smart".

For example:

I have a smart playlist called "Forgotten Favorites of Yore ..." which are all the songs I've given a 5 star rating to, but haven't listened to in over 6 months.  Once a song is played, it's removed from the list.  If a song has a 5 star rating and hasn't been listened to in 5 months and 3 weeks, then 1 week later it's added to the list.

I have another called "When Love & Hate Collide" which are all songs with either the word "love" and/or "hate" in the title

The potential just goes on and on for the creative stuff you can do with Smart Playlists.

[SpacePirateCaine]

I've got a few bands that I throw on to my MP3 player often. A few of them, I've written about on my MOG, such as The Herbaliser (mostly for their jazzy instrumentals) and Clazziquai Project (primarily for sentimentality, and that they're just pretty good K-pop). It all depends on what kind of music you want to listen to. If you want to hear some good music, I'm on a Cinematic Orchestra kick, right now. Their newish album, Ma Fleur is pretty damned good, in my humble opinion. Depending on my mood, or what I'm doing, I listen to a lot of different music - I was listening to Hybrid the whole time I was running in the park tonight, but I listen to Silje Nergaard's Be Still my Heart on repeat while doing artwork a lot of the time, recently. I also listen to Ne-Yo if I want something a little more funky, or Earth, Wind and Fire if I want something a lot more funky.

The way I find most of my new music is through that very same music-blog site I've been referencing, MOG. You can blog if you want, or you can just use their MOG-O-MATIC software to track your own music listening habits, and get some (surprisingly accurately good) automatic recommendations.

You may wanna check it out. It's kinda nice.

[Babar]

You have an 80Gb iPod?

Forget music, backup (among other back-ups) your Hard-drive's cool stuff on it! AGS Games, artwork, the good software you use, etc.

As for music...well....Music is music. Get what you like. Get what you think you'd like. Get what is good.

I am somewhat surprised to see 50Cent, G-Unit and such in the collection of a fellow(s) who is one(?) generation up.

[Chrille]

Nice list, evenwolf! Many of those are among my favourite artists.

Threw together a folder of some of my past and current favourite albums (still like 'em all though). If someone could name the artist behind each album without looking I'd be very impressed!

[Tuomas]

How about some music for a change?

What the hell are you talking about?  He's got Clapton, The Eagles, and Pantera on there.  I'd say those three, at the very least, qualify as music.

J/K man.

Also, I've got 26 Jethro Tull albums altogether, so that makes enough for a playlist Oh, and add Rush there too vict0r


@ Chrille

Spoiler

Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Close to the Edge - Yes
Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen?
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Permanent Waves - Rush
Discipline - I sure hope it's King Crimson
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Cluthing at Straws - Marillion

[close]

I'm disappointed in how I didn't know most of them

[Chrille]

Hehe, all are correct so far. I'm surprised you didn't spot the other obvious ones though!

[deFineLicht]

How about Electric Light Orchestra? I wasn't even born when they were big, but to me it seems that they were great, and created a huge amount of good songs.

And if you got so much space to fill you must have some Beatles, especially their later albums, from 1965 and forward(I see that Chrille mentioned one album)

[veryweirdguy]

Hehe, all are correct so far. I'm surprised you didn't spot the other obvious ones though!

By "the other obvious ones" do you mean

Spoiler

Revolver by The Beatles
The Velvet Underground and Nico by The Jackson 5. No wait.
and Odelay by Beck?

[close]

as those were the first three to jump out at me in paticular.

I also feel I should know "Fun House" but all I can picture is Pat Sharp and go-karts.

[Chrille]

There are at least 5 self-titled albums in there! Most have been guessed by now though.

[veryweirdguy]

The more I look at it, the more I get, and the stupider I feel for not getting them before, so much so that I won't bother actually making a list of them just to pretend I am smart.

[Tuomas]

Hehe, all are correct so far. I'm surprised you didn't spot the other obvious ones though!

yeah, I only know the ones I own