Jitterbug Playlists, Take II

The speakers are finally hooked up throughout the Jitterbug, and PlayMySong is up and running. Woohoo! Haven’t put much music on the iPod attached to it yet, since in the meantime I was just streaming kexp or Pandora on a dock speaker, and it’s time to load it up. I’ll be adding a bunch of songs and albums this weekend (and thank you everyone for your suggestions last time around), but I was thinking it might be fun to feature some playlists from all my favorite WordPress people. So, say, someone could come in and listen to Ipstenu’s playlist while we troubleshot their broken blog, or Jaquith’s playlist while digging into some custom code. Even better, since people could potentially submit multiple playlists, someone might choose from Ipstenu’s Rock Out playlist, Ipstenu’s Relax-o-meter playlist, Jaquith’s Morning Mix, Jaquith’s In the Code Zone playlist, whatever.

Your challenge: Put together a playlist of about 90 minutes (20-30 songs depending on their length) that has a common thread to the songs, be it genre, tempo, cheering-up-factor, memories from your senior year, whatever. Basically, make a perfect mix tape. Give it a name. You can make as many of these as you want!

Put it/them in a comment on this post, or if you are shy, you can send it to me using the contact form on this site (or email me). Playlists MUST be about 90 minutes in length. Lists of albums or too few/too many songs will not be considered a playlist. I would love to have playlists we could put on from all the people I see at WordCamps, people who backed the Jitterbug, and people who are contributing to the WordPress project. My personal musical tastes bear some weight here, so know that I am unlikely to put death metal, contemporary country, or Christian rock in the rotation. (Punk, Americana/old school country, or gospel would be okay, though!)

Playlists, playlists, playlists!

And yes, once everything is all loaded up, you would be able to activate your playlist from where you live using the app. 🙂

Jitterbug Jukebox

Hooking up a 32GB iPod to speakers. Time to build the playlist. Leave a comment and suggest up to 10 songs and up to 10 albums.

Will Work For Music*

Note: This was originally posted on an internal work blog. Then I remembered that my co-workers aren’t the only people with digital music libraries.

Tomorrow morning I will get into a 16′ rental truck with a broken radio and begin a drive that will be a minimum of 17 hours over 2 days (with my mother driving in her car behind me). Not having anticipated this, I have the wrong laptop with me — no music on it — and my iphone only has a playlist on it from my last drive with Morgan (in other words, mostly Glee soundtrack, ouch).

If anyone is bored today and wants to throw together some music and put it on dropbox or some such for me so I could download it tonight and make a tiny dent in the driving monotony tomorrow and Monday, that would be awesome, and I’d owe you one. I’ll love just about anything except contemporary country, Christian rock**, death metal, or obnoxious top 40 like Ke$ha.*** Bonus if anyone does a playlist that encourages singalongs (it’s a good way to stay alert on the road).

Once I get today’s packing/loading done I will be on an expedition to find a place within 60 miles to buy a decent portable speaker (oh, x-mini, why did I leave you in my car at home?) and an ipod I can use for the trip (so my phone won’t die out, will need it for internet and phone), so I will have gigs and gigs (well, probably 16) of room to fill.

Anyone?

If you want to send me music, you can email a link to your dropbox file to me at jane at wordpress.org. Or, if you have music to share but no dropbox space left, I could give you access to my folder.

Many thanks!

* In exchange for road trip tunes I will continue to do my part to keep WordPress pretty and useful.

** Though actual gospel music is okay — did you know that once upon a time I sang tenor in a gospel choir?

*** G6, my a$$.