Adventures in iTunes land

This is my first post to my first blog.  I ordinarily write about my work and review shows that I see around school.  Unfortunately things are really slow at work so instead I'll take the opportunity to conduct a little experiment I've been thinking about doing for a while.  I am  embarrassed to admit (but I'm sure I'm not alone) that I have no idea what half of the music in my iPod is.  I typically put it on shuffle and skip through a majority of the songs it picks.  I've been debating whether I should just start deleting the songs I never listen to from my library.  But, before I start purging, and in the interest of learning something new about music and myself, I want to really sit down and give all of my music a good listening to. According to iTunes I have about eight days worth of music. So I'm figuring it will take a couple months to go through it all.  

Before I begin there are a few decisions to be made.  The first is whether I should listen to my iTunes library, or my iPod; the second is how I want to go through the songs.  I'll go with the ipod, because of the two that is the more complete collection of music.  The only remaining question is whether to organize my listening by artist/ album, or to simply put it on shuffle or song for a more random listening experience.  It was pointed out to me that a good album should be listened to as one unit.  The key word in that statement being "good", and I can't say how many of the albums I have could be considered good. I doubt any of them are even complete!  At the moment I'm leaning towards shuffle just so I'll have some variety to my listening.  Well, since I forgot my iPod today, I'll sleep on it and see what I feel like tomorrow.  Oh, and if you're wondering about the picture, it's the cake from the baby shower my co-worker's threw for me.  How awesome is that?!