I've now burned 208 CDs to my PowerMac, and have maybe 75% of that number to go. My iPod has about 7G of space left. It ain't gonna hold it all :-(.

I had a little fun with iTunes' smart playlist feature. A smart playlist is essentially a query into your iTunes library. So, you can create a dynamic playlist based on date, genre, artist, etc. and have that playlist automatically updated with whatever fits your criteria anytime music is added to your library. For example, I added playlists for 60s, 70s, 80s, etc. jazz and popular music, and a playlist I call "Acoustic Roots".

The Acoustic Roots playlist automatically includes any music recorded by Gillian Welch, Tin Hat Trio, or Bill Frisell (the only Frisell albums I have fit into that category). I'm still not sure about having Acoustic Roots as a category - perhaps it would be better to just define a genre for that. That's the modeler in me - I'm always wondering if there's a better way to represent things.