My pal Evan tagged me in one of those Facebook memes. Here’s my answer.
How many songs do you have in your library:
28,215
How many days of music do you have:
73 days
What is the longest song:
Paul Westerberg’s “49:00”, which is actually 43 minutes 55 seconds long. There’s no hidden space there either. Instead, it’s an entire album Westerberg sold on Amazon as a single download for only 49 cents. Sadly, it’s no longer available.
What is the shortest song:
The Advantage – “Ghost and Goblins Intro” (4 seconds long). This band’s sole purpose is to cover incredibly awesome 8-bit classics from Nintendo Entertainment System games.
What is your favorite band:
Yo La Tengo
How many songs do you have by them:
239
Which band do you have the most songs of:
Bob Dylan – 263
Go to your Top 25 Most Played
What’s your number one song:
Reigning Sound – What Could I Do?
Number two:
Arcade Fire – No Cars Go
Number three:
Mary Weiss – Stop And Think It Over
Number ten:
Palace Brothers – Pushkin
Number 25:
Brian Eno – St. Elmo’s Fire
How many times have you played the first song:
22
What album is it on?:
Home for Orphans
How many times have you played the third song:
19
What band shows up the most in the Top 25:
Palace Brothers
Type into Search:
Life: 499 times
Love: 1425
Hate: 68
Death: 204
Fear: 34
how many, 4657, 14.4 days
shorter (not counting a bunch of tiny spoken word and other crap that is not music) – Flat Duo Jets, ludwiggin, 17 s.
longest – pink floyd, atom heart mother suite – 23:40
favorite band – dont have one, right this minute Los Salvajes (33 songs) or Los Planetas (46)
not sure how to do the rest.
I used Last.fm for a lot of stuff. It has a much longer history of what I’ve played on my computer. Everything back to 2006.