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iTunes Quiz  9

Was bored, read this, decided to copy.

How many songs: 3769

Sort by song title
First Song: … And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps - Jethro Tull
Last Song: Zoom - Fat Larry’s Band

Sort by time
Shortest Song: 20th Century Fox Fanfare - John Williams, 22 seconds
Longest Song: Karn Evil 9 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 29 minutes and 38 seconds

Sort by artist
First Artist: 3 Colours Red
Last Artist: スーパーカー

Sort by album
First Album: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis
Last Album: Your New Favourite Band - The Hives

Top Three Most Played Songs:
1. No-one Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age
2. Love At First Sight - Kylie
3. Dead In The Water - David Gray

Search:
“sex”, how many songs come up? 20 … 17 of which are from Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
“death”, how many songs come up? 22
“love”, how many songs come up? 147!

Comments

I borrowed this from you, hope you don’t mind. Confessing to Kylie in your top three? You are a brave man indeed. ;-) - The Goldfish

Songs: 868 Sort by song title: First: -Sleep/Swim by Múm Last: Zhivago Blue by Nina Hynes Sort by time: Shortest: The Projectionist by Cinematic Orchestra Longest: Close to the edge by Yes Sort by artist: First: ‘Til Tuesday Last: ??????? Sort by album: First: 6 Suites Per Violoncello Solo Senza Basso Last: Works Live Top Three most played songs: - Life’s what you make it by Talk Talk - I love you by Daniel Lanois - Ullyses by Dead Can Dance - MHC

Damn the last name in the “Sort by Artist category was a Japanese artist, taken from the “Lost in translation” movie soundtrack… The copy/paste didn’t carry over… :^( - MHC

Goldfish: I briefly considered changing it, but my honesty got the better of me! MHC: :^( - Timmargh

Tell me Tim. Educate me here… How did you get that Japanese name show in your entry? - MHC

I just copied from iTunes and pasted into ecto and they were converted into the form: &#nnnnn; … e.g. ㇇ becomes ス - Timmargh

Darn! I did that too but it came back looking like this ????????? once posted. In the comment field before sending it, it looked fine though. - MHC

Uhm *cough* *cough* except I didn’t use Ecto to transfer the comment… Ecto looks pretty cool. I have another friend who uses it. :^) - MHC

This looks like fun How many songs: 1004 Sort by song title First Song: -I cannot read the fiery lette by J.R.R. Tolkien (no idea what that is - must be some random mp3 iTunes imported) Last Song: Zie Punk Volk - Kicks Joy Darkness Sort by time Shortest Song: This Girl Wants a Cheat - Various Artists, 1 second! (I think it’s a partial rip from an album called London Booted no idea why it’s so short) Longest Song: Hipho & Reggae Mix by DJ Eon, 1hr 6mins 11secs Sort by artist First Artist: 2Pac Last Artist: York Sort by album First Album: [spunge] - [spunge] Last Album: technically www.serafin.co.uk but that’s not an album name, so the next one is Women In Technology by White Town Top Three Most Played Songs: 1. Lucky - Bif Naked (I think i got this stuck on repeat for several hours cos i’ve played it 102 times!) 2. The Playtrix - French Car and the Bulimic Wizards (17 times) 3. Shpalman - Elio E Le Storie Tese (13 times) 4. Backtracking - French Car and the Bulimic Wizards (11 times) [I did a 4th because that Bif Naked one looks very wrong] Search: “sex”, how many songs come up? 4 - 3 of which are random Sex Pistols tracks and the other is The Sexual Intellectual Symphony by French Car and the Bulimic Wizards “death”, how many songs come up? 29 - most are from my Death to the Pixies and an album by a tribute band to an english death metal band Carcass “love”, how many songs come up? 38 - 10 of which is Jimi Hendrix’s “The Cry of Love” and I also seem to have about 5 versions of Tainted Love I really don’t listen to much of my iTunes stuff cos i don’t have any speakers on my mac and don’t have an iPod - stonysleep