Things to do in 2009: Listening to all the songs in the iTunes library

I have around 6,000 songs in my iTunes, which probably makes up a medium sized music collection. That is means I can listen to 16 to 17 songs per day, without repeating a single over a year. In general, of course I listen only to a much smaller set of songs, new ones and those that I especially like. However, my music taste changes over time, so it makes sense to listen to songs again that I haven't touched in a long time and maybe adjust the rating. That's why I make it a project for 2009 to listen to all songs in my library. This is pretty easy to do in iTunes:

1. Create a smart playlist
2. Restrict it to all songs that haven't been played after 1/1/2009
3. Add some more restrictions, such as exclude videos, audio books or seasonal music.
4. If you have video in your library, you can exclude it by adding the clause 'Kind contains audio'

This playlist then will show me which songs I haven't heard yet in 2009. By playing this playlist randomly by song or by album I will re-discover music that I haven't heard in a long time. And it breathes life again in stale data that clogs our hard disks.