The macosxhints Rating:
[Score: 9 out of 10]
I don't have a very long commute to work -- it's only a few mile drive each way. So I don't have a ton of radio listening time. And when I'm working at my machine, I've gotten in the (bad?) habit of just listening to the music I already own, instead of trying some of the iTunes streaming radio stations. As such, my exposure to new music is much less than it's been in years past.
All songs are stored locally in an Indy folder (and the in individual "star level" folders) inside your user's Music folder. While Indy is running, all songs are cached there. Using Indy's preferences, you can control how much drive space Indy will use for each level of rating -- by default, the one- and two-star levels are set to zero, and Indy will delete those folders' contents when you quit the program. You can independently set the amount of disk space to be used for each level.
Since you're diving into the big world of music in general, it's quite likely you'll hear a lot of stuff you don't like. At least, you will at first. I've only been running Indy for a few days, but I've noticed that more and more of what I hear is more to my liking than what I was getting at first. I've already found a few artists whose music I clearly never would have heard, and have added them to my iTunes library. I still tend to listen to my own music most of the time, but Indy has helped broaden my horizons already, and done so quite painlessly.
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050508093618214