Pretty Sassy

I’ve always been a music/audio book freak, in college I schlepped a huge CD(the double wide kind binder between home, work and school.  I couldn’t function without my groove and my my mix cd’s.  I also gave a lot of mix cd’s out to friends and family and my mixes(especially made for you) we’re one of my signature things. 

But then ipods got big and mixing seemed silly since you no longer had to edit.  You suddenly could carry 1000 songs in your pocket and much like this blog, no editing was necessary.  After all with the Shuffle function you could listen to every song you owned on random play. 

Except, see I’m moody.  Sometimes I’m happy, sometimes I’m melancholy and at the gym I mean heart pounding heavy metal, hip hop business.

I still appreciate the joy of the mix tape (now an ipod playlist), but I don’t always have the time to make them at the speed I appreciate.

If you are running into a new genre of music and looking for a cd-sized playlist itunes essentials are collections of songs in specific genres or artists.  It’s nice if you don’t have enough music in a genre, but what do you do if you have the songs, but not the enthusiasm?

Enter stage left, The Filter.  This is a nifty FREE application by Exabre.  After signing up for the service and downloading the application it turns on and you select several songs from your library and based on genre and beats and magic it pops up a playlist.

You can also let it random pick a list, but I prefer a little control.

Downsides?  I like big (60-90 song) playlists.  If it can’t find enough songs to fill a playlist, there will be some repeats.