Post 575; apparently, not special enough for a quiz.

[active_apathy]

Woe! But, maybe, for 600. Or 625, which is 5⁴. Or 25². Or (5^0.5)⁸. Or 6.25 · 10³.

Or, for that matter, 624 + 1. And I think I'll stop there.


Anyway!

Since I don't have anything actually interesting to post today, it's time for a fun fact. And by 'fun fact', I mean me telling you that my Winamp playlist (and, hence, my music collection) can now play for a week and... eleven seconds, without having to repeat a song¹. This is the kind of observation that makes me happy, and it only took... 2276 songs, totalling 12.44GB⁵, to do it.

This is also the kind of observation that makes me wonder⁶ just how much music other people keep, because I'm easily fascinated like that. And, let's face it, this post is probably also here simply because I like polls⁷.

[Poll #1137279]

In other news, I think I'll be avoiding µTorrent for a few days, just to see if I can find out what my usage of actual Interwebbernargletubes, series of, is. I suspect I'll be interestingly surprised. Also, I should probably actually listen to my four-hundred-and-something new musics at some point, too, which is problematic because I either (a) get impatient with it when I try to do so, or (b) start doing something else and forget all about it.

This is why iPolyhymnia has a sorting/rating playlist: it's oddly useful to be trapped on public transport with nothing better to do than going through the new musics.

1. In theory, anyway. In practice, it does repeat things fairly frequently, because (a) I often decide I want to hear particular tracks, and (b) the randomisation behaviour in Winamp 5 is to just randomly select from the whole playlist rather than making one pass through a shuffled list, meaning that Nullsoft's dice use significantly less memory.
2. This one isn't actually a footnote.
3. Nor this one.
4. Honestly.
5. Which, as far as I'm aware, still rates my music collection as 'smallish'.
   
6. Where 'wonder' means 'look for a flimsy justification to post a poll asking'
   
7. As do many other people - after all, almost every other poll of mine has answers.
   
8. The footnote is a lie.
   

Comments

[ianthefira.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing on the time period. Winamp gives up and dies when I try to load everything.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

That's roughly what I'd expect to see for that much space at about 128kbps.

[zorbathut.livejournal.com]

I collect everything - most of the music I have is stuff I've listened to once, and don't really plan on playing again. Once in a while I end up wanting something that I didn't think I would, which is why I do it.

Data hoarding, basically.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

That kind of explains it, actually. It did seem like too much to be actually listening to.

[zorbathut.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I haven't even listened to it all yet.

Working through it slowly. :)

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

If I had the rest of my uTorrent downloads complete, I would have more than 4 weeks. That's my goal.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

And when you get to this goal?

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

I'll post a mixed CD for all LJers to enjoy.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm at the "bottom" of every list!

...I gotta get some more CDs.

[okelay.livejournal.com]

counting just mine, not my sister's, it's about 45 gb, i believe.

i remember cause i did a test of how much is my piracy worth the other day.

i've got about 30 cds, plus (i think)5 dvds, plus the stuff on the computer.

the quiz counted games and movies, too. i owe about $20,000
it didn't count books or comics, though

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

Results may be skewed as it includes a handful of videos, but whatever ^_^

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Oh well. The secret LJ-poll police will be around to deal with you shortly.

[uninvitedcat.livejournal.com]

I should possibly point out that my answers only relate to that portion of my electronic music collation that has not been archived off to an external hard-drive. So if anything I've understated...

[ladyphoenixia.livejournal.com]

The problem is figuring out which music is ,mine and which belongs to my siblings/parents... that requires addition and such, blech.

I have 1300 songs/6gig on my mp3 player as that's all it'll hold, so that's approximately four days or so... but that's less than half of my music, I think. One day I'll figure it out, but too lazy now. =P Apparently there are 379 hours, so... just over two weeks on the main computer.

Also, µTorrent is fun, but you can very rarely get any sort of decent torrents for musicals, alas.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Or you could just count it all, which is quicker and easier. Or something.

And... I'm actually fairly unsurprised by that. It's fairly easily fixable, though - just find people who'll seed more musicals.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

It will be less by four minutes and three seconds if this stupid remix of 'Tongue Tied' keeps coming up. I don't know why I keep it, honestly, it's dreadful.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Probably because it's never quite been that irritating that you just delete it right away. And so, it stays, and stays, and stays until eventually you've had enough and turn it into zeroes.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

I used to use this: http://file.xtreme.googlepages.com/bm.html

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

That wouldn't filter out torrents, though.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Or, for that matter, filter out unmetered content like my ISP's stats do. I'm mostly just trying to find out how much I'm using on page views and normal Internet at the moment.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

My music collection got screwed in the Great Hard Drive Failure of 07. It's eensy. It's not even worth filling out this poll for. I'm slooooowly rebuilding it on my six-gig monthly limit.