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as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

. Here I write about many things. In the past I wrote about other things but the past is past. I write code for people to play with, I write about my life on Twitter, and I write here.

On I wrote Most played songs, on the subject of Music, Rhythmbox, Ubuntu, and Playlists.

I've just discovered a rather neat trick in Rhythmbox. I got asked: what sort of music do you like? And I was about to name a few favourite bands when I thought: hm, I wonder what the actual truth is about this?

So I created a new Rhythmbox automatic playlist.

Create automatically updating playlist where:
Play Count at least 0
Limit to: 10 songs
When sorted by: Play Count With more often played songs first

...and that tells me what I actually play most. I am pleased with this. Everyone should do this: it's enlightening.

Oh, my top 10?

  1. Clubbed To Death, Rob Dougan
  2. You Shook Me All Night Long, AC/DC
  3. Santeria, Sublime
  4. Remember The Name, Fort Minor
  5. Start The Commotion, The Wiseguys
  6. Untitled #1, Spain
  7. Haven't Met You Yet, Michael Buble
  8. Can't Stand Losing You, The Police
  9. Aerials, System of a Down
  10. All Rise, Blue
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;-) I actually use last.fm for this kind of statistics. But yes - it's enlightening.

Anon

Yes, this is enli- whoa, what font are you using? It's awesome!

Dan Webb

hu huh huh huh huh, Buble, huh hu hu huh.

sime

I use last.fm as well, though it's handy to see my trends locally as well. I've been using this machine for six weeks, so the following a my recent most played songs.

1. Blind Man (feat Pegz), M-Phazes

2. Success (feat. Nas), Jay-Z

3. Dump the Clip, Army of the Pharaohs

4. Classic Example (feat. Pharoahe Monch), Hilltop Hoods

5. The Truth (Featuring J-Live & Róisín Murphy), Handsome Boy Modeling School

6. My Mom, Eminem

7. Drive It Like You Stole It, The Glitch Mob

8. Animus Vox, The Glitch Mob

9. Full Tilt Boggie, Hilltop Hoods

10. Stitch Ya Lips (Ft. Sesta & Trials), Hospice Crew

A very hip hop heavy play list :)

Carl

Neat idea, though (as others have commented), I use Last.fm for this, largely because Rhythmbox only reports a song as "played" if you listen to literally every second of it - many songs in my library have silence at the ends (particularly as part of ill-conceived "hidden tracks"). Last.fm's algorithm is much cleverer, and is also more forgiving (30 seconds or 1/2 the song, whichever is shorter) by default.

And, of course, were it not for my data and network already being walled in, I'd switch to the new http://libre.fm/ ...

Derek Weber

Hmm, not sure if this would work for me. I tend to play music by entire albums at a time rather than by selecting one song after another. Is that really how you work? The distraction would drive me nuts. Sometimes I'll just rack up four or five albums and barely notice until they've all finished.

Anho

Perfect!! 顶一个！

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