I make mix CD’s, lots of them. I guess it is a function of spending so much time in a car and listening to music on my ipod. I am in the constant search of the perfect summer, winter, new music, international, mix.
Over the years I have taken to the process of listening to my music on shuffle and if I feel like I hear a song that would work on a mix I would mark the track with a star. I Currently have three concepts mixes going on on my ipod. The one star tracks are songs for the summer mix, two stars is the International mix and three is new music.
At home I have itunes set up with smart play list, a play list that collects only tracks marked with one star, another for the two stars and the third for three. Now when I sync my ipod I have play lists that I can work with and create, hopefully better mixes.
Well, to my surprise today, I noticed, that Apple some time in the last year has added a really great feature that allows the smart play lists to dynamic change on the ipod. This means that I do not need to sync the ipod to itunes to have the play list updated. If I mark a song one star it goes into the one star play list immediately.
Now I can edit my mixes and play around easier with sound combos creating that monster summer mix. Keep mixing, keep listening…
