tunequest

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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As of today, my active library contains 15,601 songs. Of those songs, 7,501 have been given star ratings, leaving 8,100 unrated. So, just as I spent last year listening to every song in my library, I will spend the rest of this year working to completely rate my library and assign stars to as many songs as I can. The effort I'm putting into this is substantial, ...

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The bribe is that, if you subscribe to the tunequest feed, I'll use that medium to point you toward free music downloads that are worthy of your attention. I had been using WordPress' "Optional Excerpt" to point to the links whenever I wrote a post. But that was proving cumbersome. It unnecessarily tied the posting of links to my own erratic posting schedule and it was requiring ...

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When I began the original tunequest in February of last year, I had ~6000 songs in my iTunes library that had a play count of zero. Part of that list consisted of old CDs that just hadn't been played since they were digitized. A good number of them were the result of over-zealous music collection and exploration. That was one of the reasons I decided to ...

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Even though the finale of the actual tunequest was a foreseen event, the end itself turned out to be quite abrupt. One moment there was music to listen to, the next I was all done, staring at an empty playlist. I took a day to revel in the accomplishment, then I ran into an interesting side-effect. What's next? For nearly eleven months, I had abdicated my ability to ...

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A post full of arcane trivia and statistics about my very personal iTunes library. Compares and contrasts the state of the library at the beginning of my musical journey as well as some numbers about my progress throughout 2006. Archived here for posterity. Library Stats Pre-tuneqeust Songs: 14812 Time: 42:18:11:39 Avg Song length: 4:09 Total Play Counts: 25457 Top 10% of songs account for 49% of play counts Post Tunequest Songs: 14084 Time: 40:23:37:18 Avg Song length: ...

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