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

[marydell.livejournal.com]

I sort things into genres, and only sync certain genres. My genres include things like "pop-girls-non-sucky" and "rock-crappy" and so forth, rather than the genres that are pre-assigned to the songs. And it works well for listening on the computer as well.

I also have a giant playlist called "Sync" of stuff that has to stay on there all the time because I listen to it like a crazy addict. The rest of the stuff gets changed around every week or two (my Ipod's only 20gb and I have audiobooks on there too)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Aha, you use the matociquala genre-labeling method.

So far I've freed up at least 2GB just nailing the duplicates. More than one ALBUM was on there twice, probably from originally loading it from my housemate's PC when I still had a G3 tower that wouldn't run a current enough version of iTunes to talk to my iPod, and then when I got Toaster (my dear little Mac Mini) ripping every CD I owned and bringing it over.