Constantly Gardening
March 1, 2009
I invested an hour this morning and finally finished the long and methodical process of paring away all the duplicate tracks from my ipod playlist. Along the way I’ve eliminated some of the more awful pieces that turned up, as well as purging all xmas music (if I want it back, I’ll put it back in November at the earliest). Finally, my playlist has shrunk from a bloated, unwieldy 1,002 tracks to a svelte 770 tracks. While this is still more than two days worth of music, there are no “wasted” tracks now, and everything is neatly ordered by artist and title. I feel like I can move on from here.
My next step, I think, will be adding music from my cd collection onto the playlist, while discarding the remaining dross. I know there are some of the less tolerable parts of Ty’s legacy lingering in there, and I have grown sick of certain items acquired in the frenzied pillaging of my youth as well. The difference is, eliminations will be made now purely on the basis of taste, not the need to clean up my filing system.
