Originally Posted by
BarracksSi
I've set up a smart playlist that only contains tracks I've never played (that is, after I ripped them onto my computer -- never played them all the way through on it or any of my iPods, either).
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I used to load my Shuffle with this playlist, which in turn introduced me to one of the hottest pieces I've got (IMO), Richard Strauss's Don Juan, served up by the wind-powered brass weaponry of Solti-era Chicago Symphony. I think that Farkas, Herseth, and Jacobs were on that crew. Holy cow...
I used to do pretty much the same thing. I set up a playlist that contained songs I hadn't listened to in at least a year and would autofill my shuffle from that. I discovered a lot of great "lost" tracks that way.
BTW: if you like Don Juan, you need to get your mitts on the Solti/Nilsson/Vienna Philharmonic recording of Elektra. That's something awesome right there.