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

submitted 3 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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[–] Mesa@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Most of the music I listen to is OST, so I have a ton of those playlists where it's the full soundtrack, whether or not I like the specific song.

And then I have two other dedicated playlists. One is called "Eclectic series," which is composed of literally anything I find in the wild and like, and therefore is my largest playlist (besides one huge playlist surrounding a certain webcomic). The other is similar in inspiration, but is music that I liked and want to keep for reference but probably wouldn't want showing up in my shuffle queue. This tends to be any lyrical music that I find and like.

And then I just throw it all except the lyrical music into a third-party music shuffler.

The trade-offs with this model are that it takes a lot less effort to build up your playlist because everything goes into basically one place, and so your library and exposure grow fairly quickly, but at the cost of less control at playback, since everything is either grouped canonically or unsorted altogether.

Works for me since I don't listen to much lyrical music and can get into the dynamic flow and artistry of the music without the distraction of words, but it's probably not great for people who enjoy lyrics and poetry.

Edit: I should mention that I've been working on-and-off on a tool that automates and facilitates playback for god-lists and ant-lists alike for a while now. It's been a minute since I've touched it, but maybe I should get back to it.