I try to spend as much time as I can consuming music. I just can’t get enough. When I first started building my music collection on my PC, at least 10 years ago, I listened strictly with Winamp. It wasn’t until last year that I finally bought an 80gb video iPod. While I wasn’t crazy about iTunes, I decided to give it a shot and have used it since. I have tried alternatives but in my experience, I only seem to be able to easily do what I want with iTunes. I didn’t want to just throw everything on random or pick out specific artists/albums every time. So I started learning what I could do with Smart Playlists.

I setup a few different folders to group the playlists by their purpose. These folders currently are Charts, Genres, History, Labels, Playlists, and Types. I also use letter & number prefixes on my playlist names. The reason for this? I also drive a Scion tc which has iPod support integrated into the vehicle. Unfortunately, when you pull the playlists up through the car’s stereo, it throws them all together alphabetically. By adding the prefixes, I can keep the playlists grouped (and control the order that they show up in! More on that later.)

In this first post of the series, I’ll cover the Types group as they don’t rely on any other playlists to be built.

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I’ve been holding on to a design for a tattoo nearly four years now. I had never really been interested in getting a tattoo at that point. The biggest reason being that while I had an interest in tattoos, I never had anything in mind that I’d want to have on me for the rest of my life.

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Things have been hectic. Obviously. I haven’t updated the blog again in quite a while and as you know from the front page, my baby girl has been born. It seems like I have told these stories a hundred times now but I’ll try to throw it down one last time.

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