Well, I’ve successfully rated 42 songs in my iTunes music library. #42 is “Here Comes the Sun” on Abbey Road by The Beatles. Yes, I’m still on the B’s. And I have like 5 more Beatles albums to go. And I don’t care if I said I would do 30 a day over 2 weeks ago, 42 is a big achievement, ok? I will rate all of my music. Eventually. I promise.
But the really great thing about this, is even though I’m only on the B’s, this is forcing me to listen to all of that music I rejected and always used to skip over, and (surprise!) it’s actually really good music! Who would’ve thought?
For instance, most of the stuff on The Band’s greatest hits album is actually pretty good, in fact… they’re pretty great. Who would’ve thought there’d be such great music on a greatest hits album?????
I don’t rate my iTunes music as much as I should, partially because I don’t listen to the majority of my music. I’d say that approximately half of my music is (was) rated, and that it’s about that much I have actually listened to. Then, only about a quarter of my library do I actually consider even thinking about listening to on a daily basis.
Then, today, my ratings were lost when iTunes had a hiccup and I had to re-import all of my music. No problem, I just had to tell iTunes where all my files are again. But I lost all my playlists and ratings. (This is like the 10th time this has happened to me, and this time I’ve actually found a backup solution… to use for next time.)
So I am going to re-discover my iTunes music by going down the list and listening to and rating everything in my library. Starting with “Take on Me” by a-ha and ending with “Valerie” by The Zutons. I figure that if I listen to two albums, or approximately 30 songs a day, it will take… 2083/30=69.433333333333333 days.
That’s a little over 2 months, and I won’t do it completely some days so I would give this 2 or 3 months until it’s finished. Of course, in order to make this work I can’t add any new music so I won’t be distracted. So I won’t be done until the end of July. Wow. School’s almost over, yay!
I figured that if I posted this public self-promise on my blog and spent the time photoshopping the picture above I might actually do it. Or maybe not. We’ll see.
