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At present, I am on the bus on the way to school, updating my iPod.I found this software the other day. It’s called Moody. It’s basically a whole new way of creating playlists in iTunes. I am a closet neurotic. I like things (especially computer/tech-related things) to be a certain way. Which is why I don’t really let anyone touch my stuff. Ever. So, naturally, my iTunes library tends to follow the same sort of trend. I have 11,412 songs. If you exclude audiobooks, comedy shows, and videos, that number is about 10,560. Lots of anthologies, and loads of accumulated tracks, the result of the efforts of an audiophile who been in the biz for eight years. Needless to say, figuring out what to listen to is a welcome chore, but still a chore. I have used the iTunes 5-star rating system, but it doesn’t really get the job done. Before I accidentally deleted my playlists on my PC, my 5-star rating playlist was over 1500 songs. Not exactly easy listening. Moody brings things to a new level. It is basically a 16-square grid arranged by color method. The bottom row goes left to right, sad to happy. The left column from bottom to top, calm to intense. It also has a nifty feature that allows you to spend some quality time with your music, skipping to the next track in a playlist as soon as you rate it. Or you can simply play your music how you want, and rate as you go along. Because my collection is so damned immense, it’s going to take forever to get all my music rated. But once I do, it should be pretty amazing. I’ll do my best to not seem so thoroughly impressed by a color-grid. But I can’t hide my excitement…