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Hey folks. So I picked up one of Apple's new MacBook Air notebooks. I had been wanting a more portable computer than my trusty tote-able 2008 MacBook Pro and the new 11.6" form factor was mighty tempting. I did spring for the BTO 4GB RAM upgrade, but I opted to stick with the stock 64GB hard drive. My first impressions are, like a lot of other reviewers, ...

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This year's end summary is going to be a little shorter than in the past, for two principle reasons: 1) 2008 was a lot busier for me than recent years, so my opportunities to explore and listen to new music were more limited, and B) I spent a lot of the free time I did have listening to audiobooks and podcasts rather than music. Indeed, 2008 ...

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Here's a pretty neat visualization of Debussy's best known work, Clair de Lune from the Suite Bergamasque. It was composed in 1903 and is quite famous. Though I generally prefer string arrangements of this piece, this solo piano version is more faithful to the author's original intent. Plus it's easier to visualize and still sounds pretty cool. Enjoy. This music and video was put together by Stephen Malinowski ...

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A rambling, self-indulgent, inconsequential post about habits, statistics, speculations, accumulation and missing data. :: I can't help but be disappointed that I can't see lifetime stats for my music listening habits. In these days of play count-tracking programs like iTunes and websites like Last.fm, it's easy to get caught up in the musical trends of your life. It's especially interesting when you look at the numbers and discover ...

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I spent part of the past weekend doing some basic statistical analysis of my iTunes Library. I've been collecting music for 16ish years now, so I decided to see what kind of historical trends I could find. One task I assigned myself was to look at the variety of the time span of the releases in my collection. Now I don't have to do any fancy ...

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Happy birthday tunequest! It slipped my mind until this very moment, and I meant to commemorate it at the time, but tunequest is two years old. On March 1, 2006 I launched a small website to log my musical adventures as I listened to every last song in my ~15,000 song (at the time) iTunes Library. It was a modest post that simply stated what I had ...

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In my last post, I detailed the ten albums that earned the highest ratings from me during 2007. But while I did find them each to be fantastic recordings, ratings don't necessarily reflect popularity. That is to say that the most highly rated albums might not have been the most often played. Indeed that's not the case. I took data from the past year and ran it ...

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Seriously, I don't mean to be neglecting this place. And perish the thought about it being abandoned. Things have just been busy around tunequestlandia lately. I've not had much time to read this month, much less write about anything. So, how about a quick RatingQuest update? Of the 16,282 songs in my library, 8,775 have received a star rating. That's 53.9% Only 7,507 to go for the whole ...

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The other day, I was perusing the ol' server logs, doing my periodic behind-the-scenes examination of this site. Mostly it was the usual stuff: popular URLs, a couple image hot-linkers and an ungodly amount of Googlebot crawls. But then something caught my eye: a new and intriguing referring site. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Empire_(soundtrack) I checked it out, trying to find the connection to here, and discovered a lengthy and detailed encyclopedia ...

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