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I do something slightly different. I create a new playlist every month, sometimes songs carry over from the previous month, sometimes not. New songs come in, old songs go out. I can go back to any month since late 2011 and see what I was listening to at the time.
Really like this idea. The archive is automatic! Do you have to organize into folders etc. or just one big list.
Cool idea. One thing the author might like: if you sign up to lastfm, it tracks all of your music plays. So you can go through the data and see what you were listening yo each month/week
I have a similar system but it's a bit more ongoing. Since March 2018 I've created a new playlist "[Month Year]" on the 1st of every month, and every time I listen to a song I enjoy (whether it's new or old or whatever - no rules) I add it to that month's playlist. In fact the only "rule" is to never remove a song once it's added. Then at the end of the year I make 24-song a "Best of [Year]" playlist where I go back…
do you share your top-24 anywhere?
There were a couple of months this year where my kids wanted to listen to Sesame Street “Letter L” and “The Word is No” while commuting. Hearing those songs on a playlist would remind me whatever was happening, but would have absolutely no significance to you.
This is all separate from my ever-changing genre-specific playlists that I like to maintain and listen to.
However, there is one major flaw. I’ve found that treating music as a key to unlock memory from certain periods means I tend not to revisit that same music casually because I know that each time I listen to music it gets re-encoded to current events in time.
I can’t remember where I read that (some study from ages ago) but basically if there was a song you listened to a lot as a kid and then you hear it again it will remind you of that time in your childhood, but if you keep listening to it then the song also gets attached to current memory and in 20 years when you hear it again you will have a mix of childhood and adult memories flooding back - or some diluted memory.
It might not work that way for everyone but I’ve found it to be true at least in my own personal experience.
I had the same idea a little while back and ended up creating playlists by year going back to the mid 90s. It’s a great way to deep dive and create “keys” to memories. However, there is one major flaw. I’ve found that treating music as a key to unlock memory from certain periods means I tend not to revisit that same music casually because I know that each time I listen to music it gets re-encoded to current events in…
I think the main reason is it's really hard to re-listen to a piece to the same intensity as when you first heard it. I used to put Backstreet Boys on repeat for a whole week at times, and also sat through some of their sub-par pieces. Now I only listen to their best-of-playlist, in about an hour, maybe once a year.
I have a similar system but it's a bit more ongoing. Since March 2018 I've created a new playlist "[Month Year]" on the 1st of every month, and every time I listen to a song I enjoy (whether it's new or old or whatever - no rules) I add it to that month's playlist. In fact the only "rule" is to never remove a song once it's added. Then at the end of the year I make 24-song a "Best of [Year]" playlist where I go back…