{"id":2279,"date":"2007-01-23T13:06:39","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T18:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2007-01-23T13:06:39","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T18:06:39","slug":"the-very-quick-play-count-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2279","title":{"rendered":"The Very Quick Play-Count Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Borrowed from Websnark<\/a>, who borrowed it from Howard Taylor<\/a>… It’s The Very Quick Play-Count Meme. I pared down my iTunes library recently, and some of the mid-to-low-playcount stuff got ditched, so this should be interesting.<\/p>\n

    For this little three-question game you’ll need some sort of play-count record on your mp3 library. No guessing!<\/p>\n
  1. What’s the most-played track in your mp3 collection, and how many times has it been played?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A cover of “I Feel Love” by the Blue Man Group: 46<\/p>\n

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    1. Divide that play count in half and round up. What’s the nearest song?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Oddly, there’s nothing that’s been played exactly 23 times. Bumping it up to 24 plays, it’s a tie between “I put a Spell On You” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and “Bob” by “Wierd Al” Yankovic. Dropping down to 22 is a tie between two Oingo Boingo tunes, “Where Do All My Friends Go?” and their cover of “I am the Walrus” from the albums “Boi-ngo” and “Boingo”, and in that order.<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Divide that play count in half, and round up again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Down at 12, there’s quite a crowd. The top rated ones are the English National Opera’s rendition of “The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring” from the Mikado, “Poor Tom” by Led Zeppelin, and the six-second thrash metal opus “Anti-procrastination Song” by the Stormtroopers Of Death.<\/p>\n

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        1. Care to explain yourself?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          No, not really.<\/p>\n

          Ok, ok… “I Feel Love” is in my Songs that Get Stuck in My Head playlist. Other than that, my musical tastes are a storm of ecclecticism. A random dart-throw could hit anything from Techno to Punk to Classical to an MP3 of a 78 RPM novelty record from the 1930’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Borrowed from Websnark, who borrowed it from Howard Taylor… It’s The Very Quick Play-Count Meme. I pared down my iTunes library recently, and some of the mid-to-low-playcount stuff got ditched, so this should be interesting. For this little three-question game … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}