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Using Genre or Comments to divide "his and hers" tracks |
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My wife and I use the same computer (and log-in) at our home and have some similar and some differing musical tastes. We initially used Star Rating to divide each of our favorites (three for her, two for me), but that was cumbersome and did not allow for using the star-rating as intended.
Then, I found with a comma a song can have multiple genres! So, we could each add ",HisFavorites" or ",HerFavorites" to a genre and use this smart playlist:
Genre - Contains - HisFavorites
What's really cool is that you can then make a smart playlist consisting of the two playlists common songs (good for that road trip!):
Genre - Contains - HisFavorites
Genre - Contains - HerFavorites
Nate adds: Or if you like to preserve your Genre tags, try simple and cleaner approach by adding a unique Comment Tag.
Comment - Contains - HisFavorites
or the compromise 'road trip' mix...
Comment - Contains - HisFavorites
Comment - Contains - HerFavorites
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Did you know that by going into System Preferences and creating another user for your wife, she gets a separate iTunes library with none of your music in it? This is what I did for my dad, who has an iPod but no Mac (as of yet).
Then, go into your existing iTunes library, burn all of the HerFavorites songs onto a data cd, log out, log in as your wife, copy the songs into her iTunes, log out again, log back in as yourself, and delete the HerFavorites songs.
Viola! No shared music!
Keep in mind, if you only have one iPod for both of you, you'll have to do cumbersome manual iPod management. Oh, and this sort of makes your playlists pointless...