So,
I am immensely proud of my iTunes library.
Like my chest hair it is orderly, well-maintained and arousing. At nearly 10,000 song (backed up every 2 days, thank you very much) I think it paints an accurate picture of Christopher Michael Crighton.
Enjoy. Or don't.
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The Singularity
I put my iTunes on random about 50% of the time. It's typically chaotic and I end up with some great mixes (which we will be discussing here on Fun w/ iTunes).
But what I've really been waiting for, the Golden Egg of iTunes nerdery, is the circumstance where iTunes randomly selects not only a song from the album I'm currently listening to, but the very next song on that album!
And after 5 years of waiting, my magic moment came on Sunday night. The machine had chosen Lauryn Hill's "Nothing Even Matters" and then next song BOOM "Everything is Everything"!
Why so excited? Well, maybe because I know hold out hope that iTunes could select a three song sequence from the same album and thus, in some stretching of the space-time fabric, the randomizer might play an entire album from front to back!
"Let the great experiment begin!"
UPDATE
A friend of mine ("a" would make it seem as if he is one of many when he is, in fact, the only one) did some maths (yes, you read that correctly) for me with regards to the mathematical odds of the iTunes randomizer selecting a 14-song album in perfect sequence.
The verdict?
0.0001^14 = 1.0 × 10-56*
Goo! That "number" almost gave me a seizure.
*Notwithstanding the pesky auto-format, the "-56" is most definitely "to the power of".
1 comments:
As impressive as that is, I might be able to top it. I once had this four-song stretch on iTunes...
* I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (album version)
* I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (live version)
* Pride (album version)
* Pride (live version)
Four songs in a row from the same artist is hard enough to manage out of a 2000-song database. But two songs, PLUS their live versions, all in a row?? The odds are staggering.
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