tunequest

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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stats: 262 songs played for 19 hours and 22 minutes of listening time. 6 songs were added this week (new tracks from stereolab's fab four suture) and a whopping 81 songs were removed from the library, for a net progress of 337 songs, which is excellent progress indeed. the graphs have been updated for the week, and for the first time, the projections actually ...

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stats: 344 songs played for a total of 20hrs 53min 26sec of music. 24 additional songs were removed from my library for various reasons while i added none, for a net progress of 368 songs. i'm actually surprised by the amount of progress i made this week. i didn't get the chance to listen to anything last sunday and friday wasn't much better. the rest of the ...

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Things are looking better on the graph front.

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Hello everybody. Starting today, tunequest is being served with WordPress, a very very cool content-management system/blogging tool I discovered while working on one of my day jobs. The previous tunequest site had been manually coded using Adobe Golive CS2. It's a nice enough program (though prone to crashing), but it was tedious for maintaining a journal-style site. Golive will continue to be used for the static ...

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the flaming lips [ego tripping at the gates of hell] the faint [danse macabre remixes] david bowie [earthling] the clebanoff strings [exciting sounds] saint etienne [finisterre] they might be giants [factory showroom] chris cornell [euphoria morning] cq soundtrack ...

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so i broke the 3000 mark recently (which incidentally was the posies 'open every window' from the legendary dgc rarities compilation), and it occurred to me just how big a project this is and just how large, in practical terms, my iTunes library is. yeah, i know 14,000 songs is a lot, but really, in my head, it's just been a number. though i am prepared ...

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