Last year, we wrote about the Moody beta. This week, the folks at Crayon Room made version 1.0 available. The idea is to sort music by mood, rather than artist, album or genre.The first step is to tag your music as sad or happy; calm or intense (fortunately, you can tag many tracks at once). As you do, the Moody track information is stored in the "Composer" field.
Once that's done, you can keep the tiny Moody window open and click the color-coded button that represents your current mood. Other goodies include Twitter integration, support for uploading and downloading tags and the color editor for customizing those buttons.
It's a great idea; I often listen to music by "mood." Moody is donation ware ($9US is suggested) and requires Mac OS 10.4 or better.
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5-08-2008 @ 6:52PM
glebec said...
Too bad that's a complete misuse of the "composer" field. I actually, you know, care about who composes my music. For example, Vaughan Williams.
Should have used the "grouping" tag. There you can safely append any string of names without messing up a standardized and logical field. That's what it's for!
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5-08-2008 @ 6:54PM
Simon Arch said...
Amen. I'm sure there are plenty of people who don't care about the composer tag, but I'm not one of them. Otherwise it sounds like an interesting little app.
5-08-2008 @ 8:13PM
Ian said...
I agree completely. I listen to a lot of classical music; such mp3s use the composer field extensively.
5-08-2008 @ 8:50PM
Mikooster said...
After downloading the program, I see that it has an option to use the composer field because it allows you to browse the "Moods" inside your iPod... but the default is the "Comments" section.
5-09-2008 @ 12:32AM
Simon Arch said...
Ah, that makes more sense. There aren't too many options on the iPod. It should be possible to write an applescript to swap the composer and comment tags for tracks you move to the iPod. I wouldn't be surprised if Doug Adams had one could do that already.
5-08-2008 @ 7:36PM
Seth said...
Ya know, beaTunes does the same... and more... automagically. It's Java so it'll take an eon or more to burn through a *big* library but if you're looking for playlists to suit your mood, there's way better ways to do it than by hand.
http://www.beatunes.com/index.html
...and yeah, it's not free. But then, you couldn't *pay* me to go through and tag every song in my library (composer or no).
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5-08-2008 @ 7:38PM
mikekochansky said...
Just downloaded this, I'll be interested to try it out, it seems like its a great idea. And the twitter compatibility is nice!
http://www.mikekochansky.com
www.twitter.com/mikekochansky
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