tunequest

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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I think I may have decided to start adopting parts of the genre labeling system that's in use at discogs.com. I say this half-heartedly because I don't relish the idea of re-tagging all 14,000+ songs in the library and I'm not sure it would be an improvement. But at the same time, I must acknowledge that my existing scheme is arbitrary and borderline fubar. Part of the ...

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When it comes to organizing for iTunes and iPod, classical music is an entirely different animal than the "pop" formula the program is primarily designed for. Why tie yourself to an inefficient and illogical "album" model when classical works were never meant to be treated that way? iTunes allows you to appreciate individual works as they were conceived and executed: as individual, stand-alone works. :: Example of my ...

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