Sat 5 Jul 2008
After a day of iPod loading
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…I thought I might as well do a semi-fitting iTunes meme.
So, without further ado…
How many total songs?
8237 songs, equal to 23.4 days or 28.89 GB. I do have tons more that’s just unsorted though, in seperate folders elsewhere on my external harddrive. Integrating the whole lot together is a (very) long-term project. I did a Windows search on them before and counted the full tally of songs at somewhere around 21,000.
Sort by song title - first and last?
- First: “A-Punk” by Vampire Weekend
- Last: “99 Red Balloons” by Nena
Sort by time - shortest and longest?
- Shortest: “Windows XP Shut Down Effect (Piano Solo)” (0:02) by Martin Leung, “the Video Game pianist”. The shortest actual self-sufficient musical thing - not including spoken interludes on albums, and that kind of thing - is the “Itchy And Scratchy” End Credits Theme.
- Longest: Godskitchen “Live at the Point Theatre, Dublin” (1hr 21). I have four tracks over one hour in length, and then five radio records from a show I used to do on Belfield FM which are between 58 and 61 minutes each.
Sort by Album - first and last?
- First: “Aaagh!” by Republic of Loose
- Last: Either “( )” by Sigur Rós, “/±” by Oxide and Neutrino, “9th Symphony” by Beethoven or “9″ by Damien Rice
Sort by Artist - first and last?
- First: A-ha
- Last: 98 Degrees
Top five played songs?
They’re actually completely empty at the minute, this being the first time iTunes has been operated since the laptop was reformatted. It’s also deleted all the music on my iPod so I’ve no idea. My last computer at work was pretty stocked with Radiohead though.
Find the following words. How many songs show up?
- Sex: 74
- Death:44
- Love:408
- You: 958
- Home:68
- Boy: 192 (193 if you count “Sk8er Boi” by Avril Lavigne)
- Girl:122
In a past online life I used to regularly(ish) review albums for the Irish music webzine, 


So needless to say all were thrilled when a certain Mr. Gabriel Byrne shared the following during a rare break last Friday, between rehearsals for the New York Philharmonic’s semistaged concert performances of “Camelot,” the classic Lerner and Loewe musical, in which he stars as King Arthur.