Do you rate your music?

[TrappedOnEarth]

Originally posted by Giaguara
why would i rate _my_ music? like i didn't know if i like it or ..?

Well... You can like something in varying degrees. By rating your music, you can create specialized Smart Playlists that may include your favorites or just your ultimate top favorites, etc. It is very handy when dealing with thousands of songs and perhaps you just want to listen to your favorites of a certain artists or genre, etc.

[MikeM]

I use ratings to make 'Best of' playlists by artist and genre. I could make them manually, but its much harder to make adjustments and I often forget to update my manual lists.

With the ratings, I just import a cd, rate the tracks, and they are automatically stuck into various lists that they meet the requirements of.

[oleg11]

im to lazt to rate my music and if i did i would give it all 5stars cause i only have my favorite music on it.

[Giaguara]

Originally posted by TrappedOnEarth
Well... You can like something in varying degrees. By rating your music, you can create specialized Smart Playlists that may include your favorites or just your ultimate top favorites, etc. It is very handy when dealing with thousands of songs and perhaps you just want to listen to your favorites of a certain artists or genre, etc.

i use "mood" playlists. so i create playlists for how i feel. i can have heavy and classical music in the same list, if they are the same FEEL. so, some examples ... salsa (as a mood), white (as relax), world music (anything of any language), mecano (as mood), dave brubeck kind of things etc.

[legofreak769]

there is really no point in rating the music if all the music you listen to is music you like!

[MikeM]

Originally posted by legofreak769
there is really no point in rating the music if all the music you listen to is music you like!

Are you saying you like every song equally?

I dont know about you, but when I buy a cd there are always some favorites, some songs that are okay, and some that stink.

[AussieLeigh24]

I have five different Smart Playlists for "moods", which are based on ratings:


** Chillout Mix
*** Wandering Around the City Mix
**** Happy Mix
***** Favourites Mix

If I need to delete the song once I get back on iTunes, I just rate it one star. I find just rating the songs as i Listen to them is a much faster way to create playlists, than fiddling around with iTunes and adding songs manually.

[AussieLeigh24]

By the way, I've been wondering this - if I need to reformat my computer, is there a way I can back up all of my ratings?

... and when I plug my iPod full of music back into the reformatted computer, will it see that there's nothing on my hard drive and delete all the songs on the iPod to match it?

[Phoenix]

yes..... it's one of my ways to do the smart playlist

[iPodFreak]

it is a cool feature.. but i'm just too lazy.. and it's hard to rate without having to think :P

[Doug Gilmour]

can you make smart playlists using Ephpod as well or is it just iTunes?

[SouthsideIrish]

MC9 makes smartlists too, but it can't be done on ephPOD.

Bill McNair

[liam_oasis_2k2]

yeah u have to rate your songs as the smart playlist are brill!!!

[BlitzDDR]

Yep. I rate my music. 1-5, 1 being worst and 5 being best like many others.

[iPod Master]

I have a weird system. i need to say something before I tell my system. I only have about 600MB of my own stuff. so i listen to SOME of my dad's stuff. (He has alot of bad stuff, but i am in the process of cycling through all of it.

5-Keep on iPod, Very Favorites
4-Keep on iPod, Favorites
3-Keep on iPod
2-Dad's Stuff that seems ok, but I havent really listened to it yet
1-Take off iPod