I havent done exactly that, but do have a few large, curated lists. About 2016 I started saving Discover Weekly and other "found" songs on lists in 2-month increments, so I started with say, 16NovDec (or whatever), and I'm currently on 24MarApr. I just dump whatever I like in there as sort of a time capsule. I can pop back to whatever list and it immediately takes me back to my headspace or timeline at the time.
From those lists, I have maybe a dozen lists for moods, like "Winning at Life" or "Cry Don't Know Why" or for running or cuddling, yada yada.
Oh man, I do almost exactly the same thing! I break up my main playlists in two month increments with the months and year, and I also have a “maybe” playlist that I’m good about adding to and then go through to either remove the song or move it to the new current playlist. It’s a great system!
Has your Discover Weekly not improved that much over the years?
I have also been using for 8 years, and while for the first 2-3 years I was making a playlist only once every few weeks, and occasionally skipping every song (but always listening), starting with year 3 I would make a playlist every week, saving an average of 15/30 songs. Some might be short like 30 minutes, others closer to 2 hours. Then 2.5 years ago it went like complete chaos mode (like seriously started freaking out and would update songs as I was listening in the middle of the week). But once it settled it started sending me like 30 tracks a week from two different genres/styles/moods (15 tracks each) and then it is just my job to separate them correctly (which can be hard when the genres are related) and remove the 0-2 "bad" tracks.
I make 100 playlists a year now (with no signs of DW letting up), and they all have distinct feelings or moods, outside of the genre, like you describe, but I dont have to constantly curate each one. If I do have a meta-theme it will be something general like "obscure 60s" or "obscure soul".
It has really always varied ... and they go through phases. Sometimes I like almost every song, and sometimes I wonder what Spotify was smoking to give me a list - I only like 2 or 3.
These days I've been using Daylist a lot - but those are starting to get WAY repetitive. (Although the one right now is good ... the names though! hahaa: "future bass melodic dubstep wednesday afternoon.")
I wonder if it went wonky for you when they rolled out the "Spotify Enhance" where they add recommendations in to your playlists (since replaced by the "smart shuffle," which toggles between off, normal shuffle, and smart shuffle (songs are added).
Also, do you know about the playlist feature to "Exclude from your taste profile" -- I noticed when I made my mom a playlist with music that wasn't my typical stuff, that DW was feeding me those songs, so now I'll often exclude certain playlists from my "taste profile."
It sounds like you have many more, but shorter playlists. I have REALLLLY big ones, like my "Stuff I dig" is 600+ songs and 44 hours, but some of my smaller themed ones are just a couple hours. Just depends :)
I'm CONSTANTLY seeking new ... like to the clinical degree ... lol. I think it goes with my addictive tendencies and whacked out dopamine receptors --- but that's another sub :)
Interesting theory about Spotify enhance. It really was crazy, like I made an entire indie gospel one week. Even have a "lost playlist" where all the songs were replaced between Tuesday and Friday so I never got to listen and save!
No, I never exclude from my taste, I feel like I want everything I listen to to be used. And over the last 1.5 years in particular it has become pretty wide ranging in terms of genre and time period. Everything it used to give me could be classified as "indie", and almost all from the post streaming era. Now it can be anything from progressive world to [space punk](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3oXSHjy9C11x1maQAqvTFe) and from any decade from the 60s onward (even getting some stuff from the 50s lately).
I certainly love discovery too, but 25-30 news songs a week, of which 10-15 are from groups I don't know is more than enough for me. There are a couple genres it doesn't hit (hip hop and metal/hardcore) so I have to search that out on my own (and hopefully it also influenced my discovery!).
I do something similar! My playlists are based on the seasons, so every 3 months I make a new list of the songs I currently have on rotation. Have this all the way back to 2013.
I find it’s impossible to get a truly no skip playlist that isn’t genre or mood focused once you get to a certain size just because sometimes you just don’t want a random black metal song to pop up.
So like an all time favorites playlist can get tricky
I agree with this. I've a playlist for all the songs I truly love. It's about 1200+ songs big. But I constantly have to skip songs because even though I love them, they just don't fit a particular mood I've at the moment. I seriously need to make mood playalists.
It's like if you're at a party and someone puts on Only Ones Who Know by Arctic Monkeys.
Also, Seal's Kiss From A Rose would be an interesting one at a part. Because it would either kill the mood or everyone would start singing
One day at a party I wanna see the likes of We’ll meet again come on and everyone get up arms locked swaying and singing then everyone leaves. Just once.
Kiss From a Rose is a perfect “party is winding down and we all know it, now everyone is just relaxing” song.
Particularly if you all made it to sunup.
haha ... I have a "cool music, bro" playlist that's kinda obscure, but then a "party music for normies" that has more relatable, semi-mainstream tunes.
My Liked songs list primarily serves in this role. I did create a "From Then until Now" Playlist but it needs some attention and love.
I also have multiple time capsule playlists of when I started listening to individual songs on Spotify. Or songs that were my favorites from specific years.
I'm constantly listening to music so whenever I listen to an album and I belive a song to be an 8/10 or more, I give it a like. In about 1 ½ years I've reached 3339 songs and honestly it's so nice being able to press play on it
I do this too, in addition to having multiple themed playlists.
I then also have a superduper-liked playlist of about 100 songs, any of which I would be happy to have played at my funeral.
A part time hobby of mine is making playlists for various genres and moods. I get a kick out of the journey, and I always find new music and always come across lost favorites that I forgot about. I can make a cocktail in the evening and burn a ton of time enjoying myself with music.
I've made a playlist I called 'Best Songs Ever' that kind of goes in this direction, one problem I have is that while I like all of the songs, I've listened to some of them a lot in my life so I actually do want to skip them, haha. But I'm up to around 300, or 23 hours.
( [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Z9bQcwa6MWVgx5En4S7bw](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Z9bQcwa6MWVgx5En4S7bw) )
Do you have a Last.FM? Based on this (especially the Kate Bush, Beatles, Massive Attack, etc.) I feel like we’d have super high similarity. Several of these picks are in my all-time playlist as well.
No, haven't used [last.fm](http://last.fm) in quite a while, I never stuck with it for long. But cool to hear that it's still around!
I also like The Elder Scrolls, btw, lol
This reminds me of a similar project I undertook years ago, where I went through every album and every song that I had in my digital collection. At the time my collection was ~20,000 songs.
If a song deserved a star, I assigned it one. If it deserved five, five. If no, zero.
At the end, I was left with around 3,200 songs with at least one star. That playlist quickly became my go-to for walking, for the car, etc. Over time some songs have fallen off, and I've added others.
My self-imposed limit is to not go over 3,500 songs, which is around 10 full days of music. Just an arbitrary number that feels right to me.
I still listen to new stuff, and revisit old albums, so I'm not limiting myself to just my playlist. But whenever I put on "3,500", I feel happy. All my favorite artists and albums represented without filler or skippable songs.
One of the best things I did on iTunes was remember to rate everything I loved 5 stars. My 5-Star Frogsplash (for those who get the reference) Playlist is completely schizophrenic on shuffle of course (Sinatra, Slayer, Sinead O'Conner) but I love that for me, lol. I also like to say "oh yeah! this song rules" for every song, as if I am surprised my favorite songs keep coming on.
I love a mix of artists that way ... I have a "muy stoner chill" list with All Them Witches, Fink, Elder Island, Rare Earth, Pell, Beats Antique, Johnny Cash ... It's a hit at bonfires :) ... people of all ages are like, duuude, what IS THIS!
I love this, my iPod did this for me back in the day. I had a five star playlist which was only for my top notch tunes. And then I’d play it on shuffle and was great to be reminisce.
Also I too made sour dough, watched tiger king, bought random crap online and hoarded TP during covid too 👌👌
I have been building my master playlist on Spotify since around 2010, it's currently at around 9400 tracks. These are all manually added based on whatever tracks I enjoyed listening to over the past 14 years. It's impossible to have so many tracks and no skips based on mood or inclination, but it's pretty damn close to no-skip.
There are pros and cons to this new streaming era of music, but one of the pros is definitely building playlists. People used to make mix-tapes and CDs, but being able to make lists with such a vast library at your disposal is really fun. Also, the experience of shuffling a massive tracklist is awesome, like listening to the perfect radio station.
I’ve done this with my Apple Music. Started at the beginning of 2022. Decided to only favourite songs that I absolutely love. I star-rate every song in my library. 5-star songs don’t necessarily get a favourite and I have some 4- and 3-star songs that I’ve favourited. I have thousands of songs in my library, only 200 favourites so far. My Apple Music favourites playlist is exactly what it’s named.
I used to make one every year with mp3s, when I finally moved to Spotify and manually transferred it over I stopped making new ones and just kept adding to it as I went. My ‘music I enjoy’ playlist is 572 hours of music and my ‘no skips’ is 177 hours. It’s what I put on 99% of the time.
That’s the no skips above ^ called #94 for no other reason than it’s 94th playlist I made on Spotify. I say no skips but it does depend on mood. I stand by every song on it though!
Do you limit it based on genre/vibe at all? Idk how much I could tolerate a playlist that bounces between a somber indie folk song, ignorant hip hop club-banger, 10 minute ambient song, heavy metal, etc etc
I've got a list like that, significantly shorter at 40 hours, but I'm constantly skipping through songs still. But like, sometimes I'm really feeling a certain type of music. It has pop songs and post-hardcore stuff on it, because I really love both. But I'm not always in the mood for Billie Eilish and I don't always want to listen to Bear vs Shark.
Sometimes I'm feeling super nostalgic for some Streetlight Manifesto, but I don't always want to listen to them. Do you genuinely just never skip going through that playlist? I can't imagine it really. Maybe mine is too short then.
I will skip songs that come up a bit more frequently on the playlist. I always play it on shuffle but I swear it tends to favor certain tracks. Every once in a while I'll just not be in the mood for a certain song and skip that. So yeah, it's not like 100% no skip. Maybe more like 95% no skip. lol!
I do a similar thing but I just dump albums and let it play on shuffle. I put shit I've never even heard before in there, basically my rule is if I like the song, I put the whole album in the playlist so the playlist itself is pumping me fresh music always. It has like 7,000 songs in it or something, it's simply called "heavy" and is nothing but the most unlistenable death metal and grindcore, it's the best thing I've ever made.
I also use YouTube music which is SEVERELY underrated, cause you can put YouTube uploads in the playlists, and the shuffle algorithm is so much better in every way than Spotify, it feels like it actually learns from my listening instead of just being like "oh you like this shit that's basically nothing but distorted noise and tortured screaming? Here's Led Zeppelin." like Spotify does which is really annoying. The song I jump to in the playlist actually results in similar things being played, and it gradually throws more shit around it but keeps the overall vibe. If I choose slow and heavy, it plays slow and heavy, if I choose fast and abrasive, it plays fast and abrasive, and almost always knows exactly what I want to hear, from just this one playlist. The fact you can put videos on it means I can have bands that only like 5 people have even heard of in it, which gives it so much more freshness and variety than anything else, except maybe bandcamp but you gotta pay for every album individually on that. You never hear the same thing twice in a session.
I'm organizing my collection now. Last year I ripped the 200 or so CDs I have and I have them neatly organized in a folder. Then there's the 100gb or so of stuff I downloaded since Napster days, lots of random formats, folder names, etc... Working my way through cleaning it up now and deleting junk. My plan is to put it all on my plex server and use plexamp to listen whenever away from home. I've been thinking of how to treat the star rating system in the app, if I have the music it's probably because I like it so while 1 star online might mean junk, to me it means "meh it's ok"... not sure if the app will think I hate 1 star items though.
I've had big playlists before but my goal is similar, I want to get 5 star playlist of no skips, of which I'm sure I'll end up skipping a few lol
[https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/100/pl.u-JPAZ06ZIAkW3d](https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/100/pl.u-JPAZ06ZIAkW3d)
Genres are all over the place. It leans rock for sure.
My Covid - “End of Times” play list is 1,500+ songs strong and is almost a musical diary chronicling my feelings over the course of 2 years. From despair to a glimmer of hope. It’s weird to listen to it now
[I’m ALWAYS listening to old unknown rarities obscurities but I recently made a no-skips too and yes, it’s lovely to just love every song for a change…even if I did limit it to only one song per artist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2sBq9jO8y0CCByyQqy0dJj?si=HbTPBMz8SdWJi2GqE3ZBSg&pi=u-FIJKLGUsREib)
Yeah, it's amazing. My favorite song playlist is up to 3,405. Then I have another Chores & Chill playlist with 825 songs that are great too. And then I have an Never Ending Ambient Hell playlist with 704 songs.
Between the three of those, I'm covered. And then it's also fun to grab a random song and have the AI create a radio playlist off of that just to hone in on a sound or genre.
I started in the lockdown as well, but for different reasons.
Back then, there was a procedial generated playlist radio, and i listened to that all day. I very soon realised it was hard to find songs i heared there so i started liking songs i really enjoyed so i could add it playlists later (i didn't but kept them in liked) and i still do that do this day.
Even though the radios have gone to shit imo, i still find the occasional gem and put it in like. I can tell you exactly what manhwa (korean manga) or game i was reading/playing when you pick a song from my liked songs.
I do sometimes skip songs cus i'm not in the mood for them but i usually put on the liked songs list and, even if i rarely know the song name or artist, i know almost all the lyrics.
It's around 700 songs and growing.
I do this to and it's been great. I do my favourite tracks from each decade. I started in 2020 doing a list from 2010 to 2020 and I've since gone back and done 2000 to 2010 and have a live work in progress for 2020s but unfortunately I haven't been listening to very much music lately so it's a bit spotty.
The hardest for me will be 90s because I was super into a wide range of genres.
I have been adding to one of these since like 2008, though I guess I have forgotten to add things often the past few years. Just every song I would say I “love” 10/10 or maybe 9/10 songs.
It started in iTunes and has since made its way into Spotify, google music, and now lives in Apple Music using a combination of the same old iTunes library of local files along with streamed songs.
I have sorta done this with my master playlist. Sometimes I need to remove new tracks I have added when I have been drunk or something. Great for playing in the car/work/gaming
Sounds like a good idea to make myself a playlist like this for days when I just want to get back to the songs I love. Thank you for the post and the idea
Every playlist I make is album length and focused entirely on mood... it isn't even about how much I like the song, but about whether or not it fits.
I don't think I'd ever listen to it again if it was too long... 60 minutes is ideal.
Nice! I just did the same thing recently. I started a "Top 500" play list a couple years ago...but then realized music is too subjective for me to actually rank the songs. So I just started adding songs to it that I don't skip. It is currently 1,235 songs and over 24 hours long. A fun little project for sure.
I did this in 2020 as well and called it a master playlist. I’m at around 1500 songs and it’s perfect, it’s like my own radio station where I never want to change the song
For songs, not full albums, currently three are most important for me:
„all time favorites“, totally mixed up and unsorted, filled up since 2007 (first iPod).
„In rotation“, new songs I like, but not yet on „all time“ status.
„Sad music makes me happy“, self explanatory.
Also some genre specific, but not so well curated… and played. Top 3 are enough.
Nicely done. As others have said, I couldn’t do that. What flavour of music I want to listen to changes on mood, what I’m doing and what I’ve just listened to.
However, I’ve done something similar but different. Late 2019 I listened to a podcast where a guy was setting up playlists for individual years. So I started at the beginning of 2020 with songs I had heard for the first time that year and continued through to the current day.
I can now go back to these and remember things from these years with better clarity. Much like the mix tapes/cds from when I got my first car there’s some good memories that can be unlocked.
I try starting playlists like that all if the time but what stops me is how to order the songs. Ie., do you put them in the order as if you were a DJ playing in a club and what would sound the best best to each other or did you do it by artist? Talk to me. I’ve started sooo many lists .
I havent done exactly that, but do have a few large, curated lists. About 2016 I started saving Discover Weekly and other "found" songs on lists in 2-month increments, so I started with say, 16NovDec (or whatever), and I'm currently on 24MarApr. I just dump whatever I like in there as sort of a time capsule. I can pop back to whatever list and it immediately takes me back to my headspace or timeline at the time. From those lists, I have maybe a dozen lists for moods, like "Winning at Life" or "Cry Don't Know Why" or for running or cuddling, yada yada.
Cry Don’t Know Why is so real
Yeah, it's not really depressing, just more "lots of feels" vibe.
This anything Sigor Ros to me.
I have a “Heartache and Sorrow” playlist made of some of the saddest country music songs i remember from growing up/can find.
Oh man, I do almost exactly the same thing! I break up my main playlists in two month increments with the months and year, and I also have a “maybe” playlist that I’m good about adding to and then go through to either remove the song or move it to the new current playlist. It’s a great system!
Has your Discover Weekly not improved that much over the years? I have also been using for 8 years, and while for the first 2-3 years I was making a playlist only once every few weeks, and occasionally skipping every song (but always listening), starting with year 3 I would make a playlist every week, saving an average of 15/30 songs. Some might be short like 30 minutes, others closer to 2 hours. Then 2.5 years ago it went like complete chaos mode (like seriously started freaking out and would update songs as I was listening in the middle of the week). But once it settled it started sending me like 30 tracks a week from two different genres/styles/moods (15 tracks each) and then it is just my job to separate them correctly (which can be hard when the genres are related) and remove the 0-2 "bad" tracks. I make 100 playlists a year now (with no signs of DW letting up), and they all have distinct feelings or moods, outside of the genre, like you describe, but I dont have to constantly curate each one. If I do have a meta-theme it will be something general like "obscure 60s" or "obscure soul".
It has really always varied ... and they go through phases. Sometimes I like almost every song, and sometimes I wonder what Spotify was smoking to give me a list - I only like 2 or 3. These days I've been using Daylist a lot - but those are starting to get WAY repetitive. (Although the one right now is good ... the names though! hahaa: "future bass melodic dubstep wednesday afternoon.") I wonder if it went wonky for you when they rolled out the "Spotify Enhance" where they add recommendations in to your playlists (since replaced by the "smart shuffle," which toggles between off, normal shuffle, and smart shuffle (songs are added). Also, do you know about the playlist feature to "Exclude from your taste profile" -- I noticed when I made my mom a playlist with music that wasn't my typical stuff, that DW was feeding me those songs, so now I'll often exclude certain playlists from my "taste profile." It sounds like you have many more, but shorter playlists. I have REALLLLY big ones, like my "Stuff I dig" is 600+ songs and 44 hours, but some of my smaller themed ones are just a couple hours. Just depends :) I'm CONSTANTLY seeking new ... like to the clinical degree ... lol. I think it goes with my addictive tendencies and whacked out dopamine receptors --- but that's another sub :)
Interesting theory about Spotify enhance. It really was crazy, like I made an entire indie gospel one week. Even have a "lost playlist" where all the songs were replaced between Tuesday and Friday so I never got to listen and save! No, I never exclude from my taste, I feel like I want everything I listen to to be used. And over the last 1.5 years in particular it has become pretty wide ranging in terms of genre and time period. Everything it used to give me could be classified as "indie", and almost all from the post streaming era. Now it can be anything from progressive world to [space punk](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3oXSHjy9C11x1maQAqvTFe) and from any decade from the 60s onward (even getting some stuff from the 50s lately). I certainly love discovery too, but 25-30 news songs a week, of which 10-15 are from groups I don't know is more than enough for me. There are a couple genres it doesn't hit (hip hop and metal/hardcore) so I have to search that out on my own (and hopefully it also influenced my discovery!).
What’s your spotify
Not sure whose you were asking ... my Spotify username is idahogrrlz.
I do something similar! My playlists are based on the seasons, so every 3 months I make a new list of the songs I currently have on rotation. Have this all the way back to 2013.
I find it’s impossible to get a truly no skip playlist that isn’t genre or mood focused once you get to a certain size just because sometimes you just don’t want a random black metal song to pop up. So like an all time favorites playlist can get tricky
I agree with this. I've a playlist for all the songs I truly love. It's about 1200+ songs big. But I constantly have to skip songs because even though I love them, they just don't fit a particular mood I've at the moment. I seriously need to make mood playalists.
It's like if you're at a party and someone puts on Only Ones Who Know by Arctic Monkeys. Also, Seal's Kiss From A Rose would be an interesting one at a part. Because it would either kill the mood or everyone would start singing
Haha yes
One day at a party I wanna see the likes of We’ll meet again come on and everyone get up arms locked swaying and singing then everyone leaves. Just once.
Kiss From a Rose is a perfect “party is winding down and we all know it, now everyone is just relaxing” song. Particularly if you all made it to sunup.
I have a "songs everyone likes" list. Mainly for when I just need to put something on, and wanna play it safe.
haha ... I have a "cool music, bro" playlist that's kinda obscure, but then a "party music for normies" that has more relatable, semi-mainstream tunes.
My Liked songs list primarily serves in this role. I did create a "From Then until Now" Playlist but it needs some attention and love. I also have multiple time capsule playlists of when I started listening to individual songs on Spotify. Or songs that were my favorites from specific years.
I'm constantly listening to music so whenever I listen to an album and I belive a song to be an 8/10 or more, I give it a like. In about 1 ½ years I've reached 3339 songs and honestly it's so nice being able to press play on it
I do this too, in addition to having multiple themed playlists. I then also have a superduper-liked playlist of about 100 songs, any of which I would be happy to have played at my funeral.
A part time hobby of mine is making playlists for various genres and moods. I get a kick out of the journey, and I always find new music and always come across lost favorites that I forgot about. I can make a cocktail in the evening and burn a ton of time enjoying myself with music.
I can go for hours too ... If it's 10pm or so, I'll tell myself I'll explore until midnight ... and then it's 2am.
I've made a playlist I called 'Best Songs Ever' that kind of goes in this direction, one problem I have is that while I like all of the songs, I've listened to some of them a lot in my life so I actually do want to skip them, haha. But I'm up to around 300, or 23 hours. ( [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Z9bQcwa6MWVgx5En4S7bw](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Z9bQcwa6MWVgx5En4S7bw) )
Do you have a Last.FM? Based on this (especially the Kate Bush, Beatles, Massive Attack, etc.) I feel like we’d have super high similarity. Several of these picks are in my all-time playlist as well.
No, haven't used [last.fm](http://last.fm) in quite a while, I never stuck with it for long. But cool to hear that it's still around! I also like The Elder Scrolls, btw, lol
This reminds me of a similar project I undertook years ago, where I went through every album and every song that I had in my digital collection. At the time my collection was ~20,000 songs. If a song deserved a star, I assigned it one. If it deserved five, five. If no, zero. At the end, I was left with around 3,200 songs with at least one star. That playlist quickly became my go-to for walking, for the car, etc. Over time some songs have fallen off, and I've added others. My self-imposed limit is to not go over 3,500 songs, which is around 10 full days of music. Just an arbitrary number that feels right to me. I still listen to new stuff, and revisit old albums, so I'm not limiting myself to just my playlist. But whenever I put on "3,500", I feel happy. All my favorite artists and albums represented without filler or skippable songs.
One of the best things I did on iTunes was remember to rate everything I loved 5 stars. My 5-Star Frogsplash (for those who get the reference) Playlist is completely schizophrenic on shuffle of course (Sinatra, Slayer, Sinead O'Conner) but I love that for me, lol. I also like to say "oh yeah! this song rules" for every song, as if I am surprised my favorite songs keep coming on.
I love a mix of artists that way ... I have a "muy stoner chill" list with All Them Witches, Fink, Elder Island, Rare Earth, Pell, Beats Antique, Johnny Cash ... It's a hit at bonfires :) ... people of all ages are like, duuude, what IS THIS!
I love this, my iPod did this for me back in the day. I had a five star playlist which was only for my top notch tunes. And then I’d play it on shuffle and was great to be reminisce. Also I too made sour dough, watched tiger king, bought random crap online and hoarded TP during covid too 👌👌
I have been building my master playlist on Spotify since around 2010, it's currently at around 9400 tracks. These are all manually added based on whatever tracks I enjoyed listening to over the past 14 years. It's impossible to have so many tracks and no skips based on mood or inclination, but it's pretty damn close to no-skip. There are pros and cons to this new streaming era of music, but one of the pros is definitely building playlists. People used to make mix-tapes and CDs, but being able to make lists with such a vast library at your disposal is really fun. Also, the experience of shuffling a massive tracklist is awesome, like listening to the perfect radio station.
I’ve done this with my Apple Music. Started at the beginning of 2022. Decided to only favourite songs that I absolutely love. I star-rate every song in my library. 5-star songs don’t necessarily get a favourite and I have some 4- and 3-star songs that I’ve favourited. I have thousands of songs in my library, only 200 favourites so far. My Apple Music favourites playlist is exactly what it’s named.
I used to make one every year with mp3s, when I finally moved to Spotify and manually transferred it over I stopped making new ones and just kept adding to it as I went. My ‘music I enjoy’ playlist is 572 hours of music and my ‘no skips’ is 177 hours. It’s what I put on 99% of the time.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1vjaQ6yuLKCucB58O4xDee?si=LBtQwwf_SnOlJ1jApU_GOA&pi=a-I0jTSyfRR82L Just in case anyone’s interested.
What's the name of the no skips playlist?
That’s the no skips above ^ called #94 for no other reason than it’s 94th playlist I made on Spotify. I say no skips but it does depend on mood. I stand by every song on it though!
Do you limit it based on genre/vibe at all? Idk how much I could tolerate a playlist that bounces between a somber indie folk song, ignorant hip hop club-banger, 10 minute ambient song, heavy metal, etc etc
I've built a library of idk 20000 files to make my own playlists. I agree it is satisfying.
I've got a list like that, significantly shorter at 40 hours, but I'm constantly skipping through songs still. But like, sometimes I'm really feeling a certain type of music. It has pop songs and post-hardcore stuff on it, because I really love both. But I'm not always in the mood for Billie Eilish and I don't always want to listen to Bear vs Shark. Sometimes I'm feeling super nostalgic for some Streetlight Manifesto, but I don't always want to listen to them. Do you genuinely just never skip going through that playlist? I can't imagine it really. Maybe mine is too short then.
I will skip songs that come up a bit more frequently on the playlist. I always play it on shuffle but I swear it tends to favor certain tracks. Every once in a while I'll just not be in the mood for a certain song and skip that. So yeah, it's not like 100% no skip. Maybe more like 95% no skip. lol!
I do a similar thing but I just dump albums and let it play on shuffle. I put shit I've never even heard before in there, basically my rule is if I like the song, I put the whole album in the playlist so the playlist itself is pumping me fresh music always. It has like 7,000 songs in it or something, it's simply called "heavy" and is nothing but the most unlistenable death metal and grindcore, it's the best thing I've ever made. I also use YouTube music which is SEVERELY underrated, cause you can put YouTube uploads in the playlists, and the shuffle algorithm is so much better in every way than Spotify, it feels like it actually learns from my listening instead of just being like "oh you like this shit that's basically nothing but distorted noise and tortured screaming? Here's Led Zeppelin." like Spotify does which is really annoying. The song I jump to in the playlist actually results in similar things being played, and it gradually throws more shit around it but keeps the overall vibe. If I choose slow and heavy, it plays slow and heavy, if I choose fast and abrasive, it plays fast and abrasive, and almost always knows exactly what I want to hear, from just this one playlist. The fact you can put videos on it means I can have bands that only like 5 people have even heard of in it, which gives it so much more freshness and variety than anything else, except maybe bandcamp but you gotta pay for every album individually on that. You never hear the same thing twice in a session.
I'm organizing my collection now. Last year I ripped the 200 or so CDs I have and I have them neatly organized in a folder. Then there's the 100gb or so of stuff I downloaded since Napster days, lots of random formats, folder names, etc... Working my way through cleaning it up now and deleting junk. My plan is to put it all on my plex server and use plexamp to listen whenever away from home. I've been thinking of how to treat the star rating system in the app, if I have the music it's probably because I like it so while 1 star online might mean junk, to me it means "meh it's ok"... not sure if the app will think I hate 1 star items though. I've had big playlists before but my goal is similar, I want to get 5 star playlist of no skips, of which I'm sure I'll end up skipping a few lol
What genres does the playlist have OP? Care to share it with people? I’d like to check it out and steal some music for my own playlists
[https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/100/pl.u-JPAZ06ZIAkW3d](https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/100/pl.u-JPAZ06ZIAkW3d) Genres are all over the place. It leans rock for sure.
My Covid - “End of Times” play list is 1,500+ songs strong and is almost a musical diary chronicling my feelings over the course of 2 years. From despair to a glimmer of hope. It’s weird to listen to it now
[I’m ALWAYS listening to old unknown rarities obscurities but I recently made a no-skips too and yes, it’s lovely to just love every song for a change…even if I did limit it to only one song per artist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2sBq9jO8y0CCByyQqy0dJj?si=HbTPBMz8SdWJi2GqE3ZBSg&pi=u-FIJKLGUsREib)
Yeah, it's amazing. My favorite song playlist is up to 3,405. Then I have another Chores & Chill playlist with 825 songs that are great too. And then I have an Never Ending Ambient Hell playlist with 704 songs. Between the three of those, I'm covered. And then it's also fun to grab a random song and have the AI create a radio playlist off of that just to hone in on a sound or genre.
I started in the lockdown as well, but for different reasons. Back then, there was a procedial generated playlist radio, and i listened to that all day. I very soon realised it was hard to find songs i heared there so i started liking songs i really enjoyed so i could add it playlists later (i didn't but kept them in liked) and i still do that do this day. Even though the radios have gone to shit imo, i still find the occasional gem and put it in like. I can tell you exactly what manhwa (korean manga) or game i was reading/playing when you pick a song from my liked songs. I do sometimes skip songs cus i'm not in the mood for them but i usually put on the liked songs list and, even if i rarely know the song name or artist, i know almost all the lyrics. It's around 700 songs and growing.
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I do this to and it's been great. I do my favourite tracks from each decade. I started in 2020 doing a list from 2010 to 2020 and I've since gone back and done 2000 to 2010 and have a live work in progress for 2020s but unfortunately I haven't been listening to very much music lately so it's a bit spotty. The hardest for me will be 90s because I was super into a wide range of genres.
I have been adding to one of these since like 2008, though I guess I have forgotten to add things often the past few years. Just every song I would say I “love” 10/10 or maybe 9/10 songs. It started in iTunes and has since made its way into Spotify, google music, and now lives in Apple Music using a combination of the same old iTunes library of local files along with streamed songs.
I have sorta done this with my master playlist. Sometimes I need to remove new tracks I have added when I have been drunk or something. Great for playing in the car/work/gaming
Sounds like a good idea to make myself a playlist like this for days when I just want to get back to the songs I love. Thank you for the post and the idea
Every playlist I make is album length and focused entirely on mood... it isn't even about how much I like the song, but about whether or not it fits. I don't think I'd ever listen to it again if it was too long... 60 minutes is ideal.
I’ve been trying to make a playlist for every year of my life and every decade before, along with a playlist for ever 3ish years of my life.
Nice! I just did the same thing recently. I started a "Top 500" play list a couple years ago...but then realized music is too subjective for me to actually rank the songs. So I just started adding songs to it that I don't skip. It is currently 1,235 songs and over 24 hours long. A fun little project for sure.
I did this in 2020 as well and called it a master playlist. I’m at around 1500 songs and it’s perfect, it’s like my own radio station where I never want to change the song
I mean, isnt this just a long winded way of saying I save songs that I like to my playlist? Literally everyone does this
Imagine how much money you must have spent on all those songs. I'm sure the corresponding artists all thank you ... And downvotes in 3, 2, 1 ...
For songs, not full albums, currently three are most important for me: „all time favorites“, totally mixed up and unsorted, filled up since 2007 (first iPod). „In rotation“, new songs I like, but not yet on „all time“ status. „Sad music makes me happy“, self explanatory. Also some genre specific, but not so well curated… and played. Top 3 are enough.
Nicely done. As others have said, I couldn’t do that. What flavour of music I want to listen to changes on mood, what I’m doing and what I’ve just listened to. However, I’ve done something similar but different. Late 2019 I listened to a podcast where a guy was setting up playlists for individual years. So I started at the beginning of 2020 with songs I had heard for the first time that year and continued through to the current day. I can now go back to these and remember things from these years with better clarity. Much like the mix tapes/cds from when I got my first car there’s some good memories that can be unlocked.
Did you literally never skip any songs? Because knowing myself, I couldn't do that. Even my favorite songs would get skipped on some days.
I try starting playlists like that all if the time but what stops me is how to order the songs. Ie., do you put them in the order as if you were a DJ playing in a club and what would sound the best best to each other or did you do it by artist? Talk to me. I’ve started sooo many lists .
I tried to save your playlist and once again, not enuf bloody storage. Thanks Apple.