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

[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.