I used to think that someday I would have something that would play me all my favorite songs automatically, but I have never seemed to manage that. The automatic ratings couldn't tell the difference between "really likes this song", "listen to several times in quick succession because it was so boring she couldn't remember if she'd listened to it yet" and "was obsessed for two weeks because of a fandom and now doesn't care." Plus I have a lot of stuff I like but only in context, like Broadway soundtracks and holiday music, or only in a certain mood, like avant-gard electronica.
Every so often I would sit down and go "I am going to do manual ratings of everything" but then I would get distracted listening to stuff I couldn't remember if I liked or not, and never got very far. Or I would try to put together a playlist of just stuff I always like, but those do very badly at transferring between devices and software - for awhile I was playing mp3s on three different devices which all needed different ways of loading a playlist.
...and then the computer all the ratings and playlists were on died and I lost even that much progress. Maybe you have to use iTunes or the cloud for that to work? Or have more consistent taste than me.
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Every so often I would sit down and go "I am going to do manual ratings of everything" but then I would get distracted listening to stuff I couldn't remember if I liked or not, and never got very far. Or I would try to put together a playlist of just stuff I always like, but those do very badly at transferring between devices and software - for awhile I was playing mp3s on three different devices which all needed different ways of loading a playlist.
...and then the computer all the ratings and playlists were on died and I lost even that much progress. Maybe you have to use iTunes or the cloud for that to work? Or have more consistent taste than me.