{"id":814,"date":"2010-05-09T18:58:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T17:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=814"},"modified":"2010-05-09T18:58:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T17:58:40","slug":"a-month-of-music-listening-to-my-entire-itunes-music-library-in-order-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/814","title":{"rendered":"A month of music: listening to my entire iTunes music library in order – part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

A year ago I made a post:
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\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why not listen to my entire iTunes music library, sorted by track name, and see how long it takes?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/p>\n

I actually listened to all the music in my library again last November and December, not sorted in any way, I just made sure I listened to everything within a month. <\/p>\n

Over the past few weeks I did something similar, and finished this morning. I listened to my iTunes music library, sorted by track length. I had a lot fun, certainly more than the previous times I’ve listened, as I’ve deleted all the duplicates, and got rid of lots of music I actually didn’t like. <\/p>\n

At the end of my post about this last year I said: “I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll now do it again, but sort by track length. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll start with the longest tracks, and end up with the shortest.” I forgot I wrote that though, and started with the shortest.<\/p>\n

Some notes:
\n– The first track was a 5 second piece of silence which I use in my show.
\n– The last track ran 12:44, Slow Movement from the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack.
\n– Lots of short tracks are used on albums as filler bits between other tracks.
\n– Indie bands often have a minute long piece of music on an album.
\n– Sound track music can be any length. The final ten tracks were all sound track pieces or classical music.
\n– Techno, drum and bass, and other electronic music hardly showed up until I got to 5 minute-long tracks.
\n– Final tracks of albums are often artificially long, with a few minutes of silence before a “hidden” track.
\n– This method of sorting created a far more random mix that sorting by track name. <\/p>\n

I don’t think I have much else to say about it. It’s just a fun project, and I recommend you do something similar. Album by album is good, but this way different tracks stand out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A year ago I made a post: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why not listen to my entire iTunes music library, sorted by track name, and see how long it takes?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I actually listened to all the music in my library again last November and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,53,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}