tunequest

I probably should have thought of this sooner, but I didn't have this nifty new WordPress plugin that let's me easily embed audio files into my posts until the other day. Of course, the primary premise of Tunequest is that I'm spending the year listening to all 14,000+ songs in my iTunes library. Until recently, I didn't really have a way to share some of that ...

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Another depressing graph. Basically the blue line needs to be in the green area. It's not. Boo.

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With all my excitement surrounding the symphony, I completely over looked the fact that I broke the five digit mark on the tunequest. That's right, since the first day of the year, I've listened to more than 10,000 individual songs. Hooray for me. However, things still look a little grim for reaching my admittedly arbitrary goal listening to my entire iTunes library by the end of the year. ...

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a new 'best week ever' for the tunequest: 439 songs worth 25 hours of music. to celebrate, here's a graph! the trendline still shows me being off target at the end of the year, but if i keep up the same pace, i'll finish early.

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just a note to say that i crossed the half way threshold for song count this afternoon. the lucky song was nine inch nails' 'terrible lie' from all that could have been (halo 17). of course, as i add and remove songs from the library, that metric will change. but for now, let's all congratulate our winner.

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I reached another tunequest milestone today at 7:48 pm, officially crossing the halfway point of this journey. Pictured above are screenshots of the playlists i use to keep track of my progress. even though the song count is off by 364, you can see that the total time for the played group is slightly higher than the songs remaining. Unless I end up adding significantly more ...

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So today, July 22, marks the half way point of tunequest in terms of calendar days. And while I'm a little behind overall, it doesn't look as bad as I was projecting a couple weeks ago. The count shows a deficit of roughly 500 songs, which seems like a lot. However, the time count shows about a 10 hour deficit. Some quick math tells me that the ...

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my ipod loves it some sonic youth. and beck. and pearl jam.one of the recurring subplots here at tunequest has been the tracking the seemingly non-randomness of the selections my ipod chooses to play and lately it's starting to draw my aggravation. you see, part of my goals for  tunequest is to get to know some of the vast swaths of under-appreciated tunes resting in my ...

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this is the most definitive progress report i've been able to give to date, and it's rather grim. july 22 will mark the halfway point, chronologically speaking, of the tunequest. it makes sense that i should have listened to 50% of my songs by then to be on track to listen to every song in my library by the end of the year. well some quick math ...

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