Ever wanted to play some music but didn’t know what to play? Organizing music by moods is a great way to be able to quickly play or change music based on what you want to hear.
This quick guide uses iTunes however you can apply the same principles to most media players, or even use windows explorer
How to do this
The simpliest way to do this would be to create a series of playlists. To do this click the plus button at the bottom left of the screen, after renaming your playlist you can now select any music you want and go add to playlist.
A more versatile option is to use genres, the problem with genres these days is that they often very unorganized and vary a lot; you may only like one bands slow songs, there may be miss labels or many diffent genres spelt differently (for example rock and rock(new)). To combat this we can clear all genres and start again labeling the genres as moods rather than the type of music. Here are the first steps for doings:
- Select all music (ctrl-a)
- Right click and select get info
- Tick the genre box but leave it blank
Now all your music has no genre; you can use the same method selecting songs individually, by album or however you want and add them to a particular genre. Don’t forget you can use Ctrl to select multiple items.
Some suggested moods
The beauty of it is you can create any type of mood you want; the main idea is that it collects together similar songs. Some example moods are relaxed, calm, chillout, happy, excited, dreamy, melancholy. You can also organize your genres based on events; i.e. going out, cleaning, running or a mixture of events and moods
