May. 14th, 2012
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A TV question.
May. 14th, 2012 09:34 pmAnyone out there in readerland watching the TV A Game Of Thrones, without having read the books?
Musical Audience Participation Day!
May. 14th, 2012 10:05 pmOpen your music playing application of choice! Load your entire library. If it does not keep statistics, uh, DO NOTHING. Play some music or something. But if it tracks things like "most played" and "date added" and "times skipped" and you maybe rate tracks to make ones you like come up more often, keep going!
1. What's your Most Played song? How many times have you played it?
2. If your app tracks the number of times a song comes up and you skip it, what is the most-played song that you have never skipped? How many times have you played *it*?
3. If you rate tracks, what's the most played track that DOESN'T have the highest rating available?
4. What is the track with the earliest "date added"?
5. Most Skipped: What is it, and why do you keep it around?
6. What other interesting kinds of stats can you think of pulling from this kind of data?
For me:
1. Most Played: Apoptygma Berzerk, "Love To Blame". 53 plays since 2008, last played Jan 18. Skipped 4 times.
2. Most Played While Never Skipped: Judas Priest, "Worth Fighting For". 44 plays since 2008, last played March 7. Second overall.
3. Most Played While Not Highest Ranked: A TIE! Mastodon, "Sleeping Giant" and Motörhead, "Teach You How To Sing The Blues", 25 plays each. Tied for #34 in the most-played list.
4. Earliest Added: A several-hundred-way-tie for 3/3/2008, since that's when I got the grandfather of my current computer and my library stats got lost before that. Since then, I back up, but y'know. The actual oldest file in the bunch is Danzig (with Alice Cooper), "Five Finger Crawl", circa 1999, which I remember because I spent about 45 minutes on "sz danzig.mp3" and then "sz winamp.exe" on a 14.4K dialup connection.
5. Most Skipped: Dokaka, "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Played once, skipped 17 times, last played all the way through April 13 2008. Why do I skip it? Because it's... uh... a Japanese beatbox guy doing an a capella cover of Nirvana. That's not something I want to listen to very often. Why do I keep it? Because it's a JAPANESE BEATBOX GUY DOING AN A CAPELLA COVER OF NIRVANA. Seriously. If you don't see why I love this track despite almost never wanting to listen to it for long, you must be new here.
6. Other Questions: If I had other questions, I'd have added them already.
YOUR TURN! Either comment, or post it yourself and link to it in the comments!
1. What's your Most Played song? How many times have you played it?
2. If your app tracks the number of times a song comes up and you skip it, what is the most-played song that you have never skipped? How many times have you played *it*?
3. If you rate tracks, what's the most played track that DOESN'T have the highest rating available?
4. What is the track with the earliest "date added"?
5. Most Skipped: What is it, and why do you keep it around?
6. What other interesting kinds of stats can you think of pulling from this kind of data?
For me:
1. Most Played: Apoptygma Berzerk, "Love To Blame". 53 plays since 2008, last played Jan 18. Skipped 4 times.
2. Most Played While Never Skipped: Judas Priest, "Worth Fighting For". 44 plays since 2008, last played March 7. Second overall.
3. Most Played While Not Highest Ranked: A TIE! Mastodon, "Sleeping Giant" and Motörhead, "Teach You How To Sing The Blues", 25 plays each. Tied for #34 in the most-played list.
4. Earliest Added: A several-hundred-way-tie for 3/3/2008, since that's when I got the grandfather of my current computer and my library stats got lost before that. Since then, I back up, but y'know. The actual oldest file in the bunch is Danzig (with Alice Cooper), "Five Finger Crawl", circa 1999, which I remember because I spent about 45 minutes on "sz danzig.mp3" and then "sz winamp.exe" on a 14.4K dialup connection.
5. Most Skipped: Dokaka, "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Played once, skipped 17 times, last played all the way through April 13 2008. Why do I skip it? Because it's... uh... a Japanese beatbox guy doing an a capella cover of Nirvana. That's not something I want to listen to very often. Why do I keep it? Because it's a JAPANESE BEATBOX GUY DOING AN A CAPELLA COVER OF NIRVANA. Seriously. If you don't see why I love this track despite almost never wanting to listen to it for long, you must be new here.
6. Other Questions: If I had other questions, I'd have added them already.
YOUR TURN! Either comment, or post it yourself and link to it in the comments!