tunequest

Have a graph. This chart excludes film and classical music, focusing on popular releases. The blue line shows the total number of songs from each year of release in my library. The green line shows the cumulative playcount for records released that year. Make of it what you will, but apparently 2001 and 2003 were very good years for music.

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This is the latest update of my progress, with projection to the end of the year.

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I'm a big fan of text clouds, where a list of topics, keywords, tags, etc are displayed at various sizes based on how popular those words are. the artist cloud is one example. it shows how often a particular artist has been mentioned during the course of the tunequest. Well, the other day, i was playing with some of these search engine optimization tools, one of which ...

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returned from florida today. a couple highlights: air's moon safari. that record gets better everytime i listen to it, like a fine wine that improves with age, or how the fox theatre seems to keep getting cooler just by continuing to exist. every song on that album is a masterpiece. then there was kish kash, the most recent (2003) basement jaxx album (hey isn't it time ...

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It's about a 350 mile drive from Atlanta to the florida panhandle (represent!) and it, without fail, rains in alabama every time. That's not hyperbole; i've made the drive there and back 3-4 times a year for the past 4 years and literally, it rains at some point on I-85 or I-65. as the skies went from downpour to sprinkles along the route to montgomery, my ipod ...

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been slackin this week. home improvement-related program activities have been getting in the way, so i just now got around to updating the graphs. see the link in the top nav bar if you like charts and stuff. they're blue and red. can't miss 'em.

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tunequest in review: for the week ending may 27, 2006. stats: 226 songs played over 16 hours. a further 11 were removed and 1 was added, for a net progress of 236 songs, which is a nearly 50% decline from last week's performance. well, it figures that this week's would be lackluster compared to last; i'm nothing if not inconsistent. it's not surprising though. i knew there would ...

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for the week ending may 20, 2006. stats: a superlative week here at tunequest. 394 songs played over 25 hours and 40 minutes. a further 5 songs were removed from the library for a net progress of 399, a new record. frankly, i'm surprised by the results. an afternoon braves game and a couple of extented meetings cut into my normal office listening time ...

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at 5:19 pm eastern, i officially crossed into 4 digit territory. i now have less than 10,000 songs to go before i complete the tunequest. that is of course if i don't add a lot of new songs to my library... for those who are interested, the lucky song was the first movement from dvorak's symphony no 1 performed by the royal scottish national orchestra. good ...

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