tunequest

So the tunequest is now powered by a new 5.5th generation iPod (80GB). His name is "Gustav" (after Mahler and Holst); let's all give him a warm welcome. At long last, I can fit all my remaining tracks in my pocket, none of that "2000 songs sorted alphabetically by album" crap. That's pretty awesome. However, I'm slightly dismayed that I still can't take my entire library with ...

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Another new feature of the newly-minted iTunes 7 is that the program now features a built-in back up system, similar to that originally found in iPhoto. The function allows you to copy either your entire library or just your iTunes Store purchases. However, you are limited to backing up to either CD or DVD, no external drives and no networks. Select "Back up to disc..." from the ...

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In addition to all the hullabaloo about the new iTunes 7, here are the minor enhancements and changes I noticed while exploring. Album Artist There's a new music tag called "album artist." I'm not sure what it's used for yet, but it could be for compatibility with windows media files. UPDATE: From glancing around the interweb it seems as though album artist is in fact used by wma ...

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Anyone who has been reading the tunequest for a while knows that statistics, numbers, figures and graphs have played a large part in its progress. In fact, it was the discovery that 10% of my songs were responsible for 49% of my total play counts that prompted me to set out on this endeavor in the first place. To this day, I'm still surprised by the lack ...

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According to Super Analyser for iTunes, the most common word in the song titles of my library is "love." Unfortunately, the program doesn't tell how it generates that number. Does it include variations like "lovely," "loves" and "lover"? Probably not. It's probably a straight-up word-pattern match. Still, that result surprises me. Certainly it filters out "a," "an," "the," "that," etc, but I would have expected some kind of ...

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This would be interesting. UPDATE: Turns out this was an attempt at parody. Apple is NOT buying last.fm Oh well. It's a nice wishlist though. I still think GenreFolksonomies are cool. And even though I don't put together many playlists manually these days (viva randomization!), SmartTransitions is an intriguing idea. I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing: GenreFolksonomies No longer will iTunes tracks be chained to single categories. Users will be ...

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There's a new program in town (for Mac users) to help you gather more nuggets of information about your listening habits as reflected by your iTunes library. it's a nifty little piece of donation-ware called iTunes Statistician and it analyzes your library data to calculate your top 100 songs, artists, albums and genres, based on playcounts (and optionally weights for star rating as well). additionally, it ...

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As if to prove my previous post for me, the tunequest-pod offered me these selections today (in order): pearl jam-live at the fox theatre in atlanta (which i skipped because i had just heard a live show yesterday) vince guaraldi's oh good grief (a decent jazz album) sonic youth experimental jet set trash and no star (my ...

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I've talked about this before, but it keeps happening and I need to remind myself that nothing nefarious is going on. For the fourth time since I started the tunequest, I've had to question the randomness of my ipod. first, there's cex's being ridden and being ridden instrumentals, which were played pretty much back to back. Then there was Danny Elfman's Batman scores. more recently, the device ...

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