tunequest

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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&tlast week was a good week for tunequest. not only is 381 songs a new weekly best, but i achieved a new daily best on april 10. this is precisely the pace i need to keep, but in retrospect it seems i spent all my free time working on this project last week and i hope not to burn out on it. as a bit of ...

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If you feel the need or want for some good simple piano music, check out Mikhail Pletnev's quite strong performance of Tchaikovsky's Morceaux: 18 Pieces for Solo Piano. On .

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wow. a whirlwind of music the past couple days. i guess that's what happens when impending deadlines force you to stay at the office into the wee hours of the evening. who says publishing isn't a rewarding field? some great music this time around: alan silvestri [back to the future ii] christopher franke [babylon 5: the ragged edge] ...

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