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.

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[shadowflyer.livejournal.com]

Serendipity of Shuffle coming right up!

Divide your music list - by song title, not by performer - into alphabetical blocks giving you five roughly equal lists. Call A-E Monday, F-I Tuesday and so on, or whatever arbitrary thing you want, the point of the exercise being rotating the lists through the Pop Tart on anything from a daily to a weekly rotation depending on how your spirits are moving.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I have actually kept the shuffle going without resetting for nearly half of PopTart's library (you can do this when it's recharged via wall or car charger and not by connecting to the desktop). That's not the issue.

The issue is MAKING ROOM.

Of course, I just discovered, for example, that I have four identical copies of All Time Low's "Coffee Shop Soundtrack," because it was on three compilations in addition to the album, so that's three tracks that can go away.

I'm finding... a lot of that.

[shadowflyer.livejournal.com]

Maybe I wasn't clear, sorry - I meant clearing out the iPod so that only that day/week/arbitrary segmentation's quasi-random list was on it, then wiping all of that list and loading in the next.