tunequest

Happy birthday tunequest! It slipped my mind until this very moment, and I meant to commemorate it at the time, but tunequest is two years old. On March 1, 2006 I launched a small website to log my musical adventures as I listened to every last song in my ~15,000 song (at the time) iTunes Library. It was a modest post that simply stated what I had listened to that ...

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The other day, I was perusing the ol' server logs, doing my periodic behind-the-scenes examination of this site. Mostly it was the usual stuff: popular URLs, a couple image hot-linkers and an ungodly amount of Googlebot crawls. But then something caught my eye: a new and intriguing referring site. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Empire_(soundtrack) I checked it out, trying to find the connection to here, and discovered a lengthy and detailed encyclopedia article on the ...

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As of today, my active library contains 15,601 songs. Of those songs, 7,501 have been given star ratings, leaving 8,100 unrated. So, just as I spent last year listening to every song in my library, I will spend the rest of this year working to completely rate my library and assign stars to as many songs as I can. The effort I'm putting into this is substantial, but not as ...

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My new file storing powerhouse. I like to keep my eye on on the price of hard disk storage. More storage more better is my philosophy. Not only can I never tell when I'll need an extra gigabyte or two for projects, but I'm justifiably paranoid about data failure and have become something of fiend for backups as a result. So I've been watching with interest as the price of ...

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The bribe is that, if you subscribe to the tunequest feed, I'll use that medium to point you toward free music downloads that are worthy of your attention. I had been using WordPress' "Optional Excerpt" to point to the links whenever I wrote a post. But that was proving cumbersome. It unnecessarily tied the posting of links to my own erratic posting schedule and it was requiring me to bookmark ...

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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 choose for myself ...

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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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