Sun, 20:43: Every once in a while I find myself in the midst of a weeks-long project I cannot stop focusing on until it's done. In 2005, when I wanted to be able to store all of my full history of photos as digital copies on Flickr, I scanned about 20 years' worth of printed photos from my 14 or so photo albums.
In 2006, when I got an iPod for the first time, I ripped all 400+ worth of CDs I then had in my collection.
In 2021, I digitized 12 years' worth of old home video archives, also to upload to my Flickr account—38 video cassettes' worth.
So, what did I just finish? Well, a few years ago I made the boneheaded mistake of trying to move all my music files to an external hard drive, which seriously fucked up my music library, and especially my Apple Music (then iTunes) playlists, as did Apple's own transition from iTunes to Apple Music. There's a lot more boring detail and rigmarole to that story, but suffice it to say I finally finished cleaning up, correcting and recreating all of my many precious playlists.
I didn't even realize what a massive number of playlists I have created and maintained over the past 15 years. I now have 333 of them. A lot are just playlists of favorites by a certain band or singer, but others are put into fun themes ("Apocalypse," "Pandemic," "Rain," "Sex," etc) or even a combination of the two ("Madonna #1s," "Madonna Dance Party," "Madonna Greatest Hits Live"—I have 24 Madonna playlists alone). I have playlists dedicated to people ("Shobhit Playlist," "Barbara," "Laney Party!"—"History of the Goons" is dedicated to my history with Gabriel) and playlists dedicated to cities ("New York," "Los Angeles," "Las Vegas," "Seattle"). I've gotten so carried away with this that some of them are a little ridiculous: one playlist is called "Cake." It's all songs about cake!
You name it, I've made a playlist for it. I'm open to suggestions!
