tunequest

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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Well, not that bitter actually. Because... Success! At 4:55 p.m. Eastern Time on December 31, the tunequest was completed! In early February, I set out on a mission to listen to every song that I had collected over the years, cutting those songs and artists that I'd outgrown, celebrating those I continue to adore, and rediscovering those I had neglected, all by the end of 2006. And I did ...

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So Webomatica tagged me and I guess I'm now "it" for the five things chain blog that's been making the rounds. The idea is for a blogger to post five items of potentially new information about themselves. I guess it's to help readers gain more insight into the writer. So, I'm game. Number One I back-date my songs in iTunes' Date Added field. If I'm encoding a CD ...

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Pretty much a straight line all year. Though at this point, it's looking like I probably won't have all the songs listened to by New Year's Day. So I'll be preparing for tunequest overtime.

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Early tunequest page So I was in the middle of putting together a little write up about a couple pieces of Star Trek music, when two notable events occurred here at tunequest. In progress news, I crossed the sub-1000 songs remaining threshold yesterday while listening to Joe Hisaishi's score to Spirited Away. Hisaishi has composed music for nearly all of master Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's animated masterpieces. ...

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This comes as a mild surprise to me insert shallow smirk, but my traffic logs and feed reader tell me that tunequest has been accepted into 9rules. What this means for the site, I don't know yet. I must admit that I've not devoted as much time to the community as I know I should have, because it seems like a most excellent place. I'm sure I'll ...

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Who doesn't like free music? No, no, I would never be so gauche as to advocate illicit file transfers though, who am I to condemn you for it. But you see that light blue Feedburner badge in the sidebar? I'd like to see the number on it start increasing. So here's the deal: sign up for the Tunequest RSS feed, and on a regular basis, I'll point out ...

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Here's the latest data from my tunequest performance. I'm fairly confident at this point that I will beat the life-of-project trendline as shown above. The question at the point is whether I will out-perform it enough to actually meet the goal of listening to all ~14,200 songs in my iTunes library by the end of the year. For this graph, the right edge represents the last ...

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