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ventaRight, let's see if anyone's daft enough to play this game :)
At work, I listen to music. I almost always listen to my own mp3s (in complete albums), with occasional diversification into various streaming audio sources (last.fm, Xfm, 6Music, launchcast, etc).
However, I reckon now's my chance to get down with the cool kids, and have a random play list. I could just bung Winamp on shuffle, but where's the fun in that ? You're invited to choose my tracks. But, obviously, you don't know what music I have to hand (about 20Gb of mp3s).
So, you are invited to choose a number, of the form x-y-z.
The x chooses the artist, and should be a number between 1 and 262 inclusive, where 1 is the alphabetically first artist in my collection.
The y chooses the album. So, in general, it should be quite a low number, as I often have only one or two albums per artist. Albums are numbered in ripping order. If you choose a number greater than the number of albums I have by the chosen artist, I'll just take that to be the highest numbered album I've got.
The z chooses the track. So, in general, it should be a number between 1 and about 12 or so. I do have albums with over 20 tracks, though. If you choose a number greater than the number of tracks on the chosen album, I'll just play the last track.
So, as an example, 262-1-10 would be Remember Me, which is the tenth track off the first Zutons' album (The Zutons are the alphabetically last artist I own).
I'll do it as a poll to make life easier, but feel free to comment your number instead. Or feel free to tell me to stop being so damn lazy and make my own playlist. If anyone's interested, I'll post the resulting playlist later this afternoon.
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At work, I listen to music. I almost always listen to my own mp3s (in complete albums), with occasional diversification into various streaming audio sources (last.fm, Xfm, 6Music, launchcast, etc).
However, I reckon now's my chance to get down with the cool kids, and have a random play list. I could just bung Winamp on shuffle, but where's the fun in that ? You're invited to choose my tracks. But, obviously, you don't know what music I have to hand (about 20Gb of mp3s).
So, you are invited to choose a number, of the form x-y-z.
The x chooses the artist, and should be a number between 1 and 262 inclusive, where 1 is the alphabetically first artist in my collection.
The y chooses the album. So, in general, it should be quite a low number, as I often have only one or two albums per artist. Albums are numbered in ripping order. If you choose a number greater than the number of albums I have by the chosen artist, I'll just take that to be the highest numbered album I've got.
The z chooses the track. So, in general, it should be a number between 1 and about 12 or so. I do have albums with over 20 tracks, though. If you choose a number greater than the number of tracks on the chosen album, I'll just play the last track.
So, as an example, 262-1-10 would be Remember Me, which is the tenth track off the first Zutons' album (The Zutons are the alphabetically last artist I own).
I'll do it as a poll to make life easier, but feel free to comment your number instead. Or feel free to tell me to stop being so damn lazy and make my own playlist. If anyone's interested, I'll post the resulting playlist later this afternoon.
[Poll #442090]
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Date: 2005-02-22 03:57 pm (UTC)Yes, where the original selection method does include bias: each of
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Date: 2005-02-22 04:02 pm (UTC)It was meant to. I have, for example, five directories of New Model Army mp3s, and only one directory of Baader Meinhof.
This does not mean I want Baader Meinhof to appear in the playlist only one fifth as often as NMA does.
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Date: 2005-02-22 04:07 pm (UTC)Which _may_ have been a desirable attribute of her original method, of course. Venta may wish to have her "random" playlist contain an even mix of artists and not be biased towards an artist she has a lot of. Although usually the most represented "artist" in a collection is "VARIOUS ARTISTS" (ie compilations) and so this probably isn't the case.
Which, er, I think leads me to conclude that the big floppity list is well suited to producing this random selection.
I wonder if Venta ever wonders why she bothers starting these threads. ;-)
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Date: 2005-02-22 04:10 pm (UTC)I wonder whether she ever wonders how to stop them. :)
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Date: 2005-02-22 04:16 pm (UTC)Hey, I only start them, you don't think I read them, do you ?
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Date: 2005-02-22 04:56 pm (UTC)