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Tag Your Tunes by Mood with Moody
Posted by Adam Pash at 12:00 PM on December 6, 2007
Windows/Mac only: Tag your iTunes music by mood with the freeware, colour-based tagging utility Moody. While your music is playing, just pick a colour for the song with Moody's 16-color scale (sad to happy, calm to intense). Once tagged, Moody writes the mood to the comments of your song's metadata (it'll look something like MoodyC3). You can either use that metadata to create mood-based smart playlists or just use Moody to fire up a playlist based on your mood. It may sound a bit tedious, but if you put Moody in quick tag mode, you can tag a lot of music pretty quickly. Moody is freeware, Windows (with .NET) and Mac OS X only.
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malnourish
Posted 8:37 PM 5/12/07
Is there something like this for Foobar2000?
malnourish
startswithone1
Posted 9:03 PM 5/12/07
that would be awesome
startswithone1
pingpongboss
Posted 11:37 PM 5/12/07
Check out moodbar for Amarok on linux.
pingpongboss
MikeLovely
Posted 11:10 PM 5/12/07
They have a feature like this in Media Monkey, but its not color tagged. Sweet
MikeLovely
fotoflo
Posted 3:36 AM 6/12/07
Yall should check out [musicovery.com], its mood and genre tagged web-2.0-radio deal. pretty sweet.
fotoflo
Scott
Posted 7:39 AM 6/12/07
I'm happy to see someone has done this! Unfortunately, they restrict it to iTunes, which I don't use. I'm pretty sure I mentioned this idea once here on Lifehacker... Is it possible to search Lifehacker comments? I looked at my Profile page, but it doesn't list all my comments. I also ran a couple searches, but didn't find it. I'm not looking to say "it was my idea first," I'm just curious if I did, in fact, mention it here...
Scott
kaushalmodi
Posted 8:46 AM 6/12/07
Wow, I never knew such thing existed since more that 202 days. I just happened to know because the moody page has a digg button and it was submitted to digg that time back.
kaushalmodi
bobbo33
Posted 7:58 AM 6/12/07
@Scott: Try using the site operator using google:
site:lifehacker.com "search phrase"
Google doesn't index daily, so it only works for things posted more than a few days (or weeks) ago.
bobbo33
clicknathan
Posted 9:06 AM 6/12/07
I wish iTunes would support plugins...I hate having the Last FM program and things like this showing up in my dock when really they're only being used with relation to iTunes.
weak!
clicknathan
Ninehand
Posted 10:58 AM 6/12/07
I like, [hey does anyone know if it is possible to use the mac universal Ipod dock with an Ipod Nano 1st Gen. ? It doesn't show it on the list of supported but mine came with the dock adapter and the remote for the docking station says that it works with the 1st gen. So If you know send me a message. Thanks!]
Ninehand
MonolithTMA
Posted 10:47 AM 6/12/07
I saw the graphic and thought I was actually going to be able to color code tracks or play lists in iTunes. I don't know why Apple doesn't add that functionality. Moody looks cool though. I'll have to check it out.
MonolithTMA
iTunes mood tagging with Moody on core77.com's design blog
Posted 11:25 AM 6/12/07
iTunes mood tagging with Moody on core77.com's design blog