How To Find That One Song Out of 415,721 In Your iPod

Alright, so maybe it isn’t exactly possible to have that many songs in your iPod (yet), and yes, those were just numbers that have been randomly typed, in order to exaggerate a point. In any case, let’s lower the count down to, say, 500. Honestly, how quickly can you find that one specific song out of everything that you’ve managed to cram into that 60GB drive? And by the time that you do find it, are you actually still in the mood to listen to it?

Well fear not, as one brave individual who just can’t bear to be made to wait for his dose of music, has developed a system to further optimize the way you navigate on your iPod.

The basis of this system is actually rather simplistic: set-up 26 alphabetical smart playlists by artist, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet. For artists beginning with “The”, just set up a separate smart playlist that begins with “The _A” and so on and so forth. And for groups who are just too cool to use the alphabet or numbers? They can get assigned to the lovely “@” playlist.

Give it a try. After all, who knows…maybe your playlist will get famous one day. You wouldn’t want reporters to see all that clutter on your pod, now do you?

Via LeftBrained

Alright, so maybe it isn’t exactly possible to have that many songs in your iPod (yet), and yes, those were just numbers that have been randomly typed, in order to exaggerate a point. In any case, let’s lower the count down to, say, 500. Honestly, how quickly can you find that one specific song out of everything that you’ve managed to cram into that 60GB drive? And by the time that you do find it, are you actually still in the mood to listen to it?

Well fear not, as one brave individual who just can’t bear to be made to wait for his dose of music, has developed a system to further optimize the way you navigate on your iPod.

The basis of this system is actually rather simplistic: set-up 26 alphabetical smart playlists by artist, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet. For artists beginning with “The”, just set up a separate smart playlist that begins with “The _A” and so on and so forth. And for groups who are just too cool to use the alphabet or numbers? They can get assigned to the lovely “@” playlist.

Give it a try. After all, who knows…maybe your playlist will get famous one day. You wouldn’t want reporters to see all that clutter on your pod, now do you?

Via LeftBrained