Choose music by mood

So...

If I said I was feeling sad, should iTunes pick sad/slow music to reflect my mood, or happy music to pick me up?

With a little bit of planning, (playlists and/or groupings) you can do it yourself.

I think the day is still a bit of a ways off when I'd be willing to place faith in my computer's qualifications as a psychologist. (refer back to the question in my previous post)

Problem is it would only be helpful (maybe) if you had the same emotional disposition as whoever entered the information into the database.

This could be done at the record company's end. I think its entirely do-able.

What do you think the chances are that the record companies will hire those "specialized musicians" to do this for the millions of tracks that the record companies sell? Probably about the chances of the proverbial snowball in the theological place of eternal punishment. For them to do just the tracks sold in the iTunes Store would take on the order of one million person-hours of work.

But you can suggest your idea through the iTunes feedback page.

Hi,

I had a similar thought and decided to give each song I like a rating from 1-10 in the BPM field (1 slowest, 10 fastest) regardless of genre, artist etc. Then just create a couple of Smart Playlists which select ranges of BPM (or whichever field you choose) depending on the mood you're in eg the "Gym" smart playlist would have BPM between 8-10

You can also add letters into the Comments field to further select the music, so to exclude Christmas songs for example where every Christmas song has an X in the comments box, tell the playlist to ignore where Comments = "X".

It takes a long plane/train journey to assign all the values but once you've done it, and keep up doing it when adding new albums, you never really need to choose what to listen to again if you're stuck

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