{"id":89,"date":"2003-11-05T15:46:41","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T20:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2003-11-05T15:46:41","modified_gmt":"2003-11-05T20:46:41","slug":"the-obligation-of-smart-playlists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"The obligation of Smart Playlists."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, now I&#8217;ve got this &#8220;Un-Rated&#8221; playlist on my iPod (as detailed in an <a href=\"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?p=87\">earlier<\/a> post).  Now I feel this compulsion to listen to all of my unrated songs and assign them ratings.  <\/p>\n<p>This is a bad thing because I have approximately <strong>4000<\/strong> unrated songs (excluding Audio Books) on my iPod.  However, this is also something of a good thing because I&#8217;m listening to my music collection a song at a time (instead of as general background noise) and running each song thru a simple, mental, rules-engine that looks something like?<\/p>\n<li>Do I hate this song? = 1 star (not 0 stars as this would leave it in the un-rated playlist)\n<li>Do I not want to hear this song again, but don&#8217;t hate it? = 2 stars\n<li>Would I not mind listening to this song again, but wouldn&#8217;t seek it out? = 3 stars\n<li>Do I want to listen to this song again soon?  And probably again soon after that? = 4 stars\n<li>Would this be one of the songs I would want if I could only listen to 100-odd songs for the rest of my life? = 5 stars\n<p>You can see that I&#8217;m making this whole 5-star range cover a <strong>very<\/strong> wide range of emotional response.  As you can probably guess, there are a lot of 3 star songs out there!\n <\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, now I&#8217;ve got this &#8220;Un-Rated&#8221; playlist on my iPod (as detailed in an earlier post). Now I feel this compulsion to listen to all of my unrated songs and assign them ratings. This is a bad thing because I have approximately 4000 unrated songs (excluding Audio Books) on my iPod. However, this is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pointless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}