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How do you organise your music playlists? (midwest.social)

submitted 2 months ago by clark@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mainly aimed at those who use Spotify, Tidal, or any other streaming service like myself, but those who pirate music should still feel free to answer!

How do you organise your music library? Creating playlists is pure torture, in my opinion, because there are so many songs that overlap in genres. I've tried creating lists based on genres, but I'm the type of person to listen to multiple genres in one session so the switching between playlists kinda becomes inconvenient. Same with based on mood, I can still listen to discoesque or fast-paced songs when I'm feeling sad.

Genuinely considered hiring somebody to create the playlists for me, lol. I know having 800 songs in one list is clunky, but having everything in the same spot is a source of relief. Ugh.

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[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used to put so much time into playlists and general organizing/finetuning back when I used iTunes. Since the streaming age I just have a huge list of favorites and play that on shuffle sometimes.

I have some special playlists. One has songs I like singing along to and one has a few womens power ballads by Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion that I like to turn up on long car trips from time to time.

I also had the thought that I would like someone to curate playlists for me based on mood. I often listen to a song and think, damn I wish I had a playlist with songs like this. Then I create a playlist with one song in it, struggle with naming it, name it „Vibing“ or „Goose bumps“ or something stupid like that and then never touch it again.

[–] clark@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lmao that last paragraph hits hard. I never know what to name my stuff either. Usually "a bit of everything", "energy", "cringe fandom songs"...

Right now my setup is as follows:

one playlist for old-school bangers (40s-80s)
one playlist for exclusively Lana Del Rey
one playlist for nostalgic songs
and one last playlist which contains my other 800 random songs.

So I'll have to see what I can do about this.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Name the playlist after a powerful lyric in one of the songs. Example: For a collage class once we could get extra credit for making an audio collage; I made a mix CD about collage with songs about rearranging, picking up pieces, sifting through garbage, that sort of thing, and I titled it "Canvas Full of Touch-Ups" after a line from the Atmosphere track "Saves the Day".

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

That’s a cool idea!