Tough choices

[rikibeth]

I am approaching capacity on PopTart, my 30G iPod.

I am going to have to start deciding what doesn't need to be on there.

And this is AFTER deleting NIN's "Ghosts I-IV" (because, frankly, it SUCKED, and while it can stay on the hard drive, I don't need to carry it with me) and everything that's come up on shuffle featuring the Cookie Monster Death Metal Voice (screamo crap), because I've been tagging those with a one-star rating so I can delete them.

How would YOU go about deciding what didn't need to stay on there?

ETA: Cleaning up the duplicates gave me another GB of room without having to lose variety. My entire collection still fits in my pocket.

Comments

[thisside.livejournal.com]

My iPod is for the stuff I always enjoy listening to, the stuff that gets the most play, that I want to have handy for occasions when I'm away from my computer, or stuff that is inherently away-from-computer stuff (meditations you'd do while lying in bed, or something).

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I'm inherently away from my computer all day at work, and I want EVERYTHING!!!

I guess I have to give all the unfamiliar sampler tracks of bands I barely know some critical listening time, and dump the ones that don't speak to me, and dump the sampler duplicates of things I have on album.

[thisside.livejournal.com]

Some of this stuff is just information overload, you know? If you don't love it already, you won't necessarily miss it. So if you HAVE to get rid of stuff, get rid of that, in favor of stuff you DO love and want to have with you.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

But one of the things I value about Shuffle is its capacity to serve me songs I DON'T know by heart. That's why I have so many samplers on there!

All the screamo is GOING, though. Life's too short.