Okay, easy enough. And everybody's doing it!

[bzarcher]

1. Put all of your songs onto a playlist, or cue up your most recently used playlist
2. Set it to random
3. Note down the first 10-15 songs it chooses


1. Megaman 2: Cranium Castle Remix - Gecko Yamori (Remix.overclocked.org)
2. Air Disruptor - The Tiny Terrorist (Novablade Studios)
3. Tune up #1 - Rent (Rent: Original Broadway Cast Recording)
4. Volume4 I feel - www.akddr.com (DDR 5th Mix)
5. Black Dove (January Girl) - Tori Amos (From the Choirgirl Hotel)
6. Find Our Way Home - Trans-Siberian Orchestra (The Christmas Attic)
7. Suede - Tori Amos (To Venus and Back: Disc 1)
8. Mother - Pink Floyd - The Wall (Disc 1)
9. Tear in Your Hand - Tori Amos (Last Temptation of Tori)
10. ゴート・ホーリー -Various artists (Nadiesco OST CD:00)
11. Mayonaise - The Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream)
12. Foundations of Stone - Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
13. OneTF - Tony Bacala (http://www.tfw2005.com)
14. Special Delivery - The Offspring (Conspiracy of One)
15. Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show (Soundtrack)

Comments

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

I used iTunes for this, mostly because it cuts down my mp3s into "songs I would ever actually listen to."

1. Judy Collins - Masters of War
2. Dido - Sand in my Shoes
3. Morrissey - I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday
4. Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
5. They Might Be Giants - We're the Replacements
6. Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man
7. Dar Williams - The One Who Knows
8. Jane's Addiction - Standing in the Shower... Thinking
9. Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy
10. Eminem - Cum On Everybody
11. Tori Amos - Playboy Mommy
12. Fleetwood Mac - Second Hand News
13. Richard Shindell - A Summer Wind, A Cotton Dress (Live)
14. Parliament - Funkentelechy
15. Dar Williams - Wilder Than Her

Disproportinately skewed towards Fleetwood Mac, which is mostly on there for Sarah, but there you go.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Not bad.

I used iTunes for mine, too. Just didn't mention because I think everyone knows it's my player of choice.

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I figured I would specify because 1) I usually use WinAmp, and 2) If I were to use my full mp3 collection, you'd get a far stranger collection that looked like this:

1. Peter, Paul, and Mary - If I Had My Way
2. Placebo - Every You, Every Me
3. Dave Brubeck - Theme for June
4. Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth
5. They Might Be Giants - On the Drag
6. Sweeny Todd Soundtrack - Green Finch and Linnet Bird
7. Eminem - Still Don't Give a Fuck
8. Elvis Costello - Really Mystified
9. Primitive Radio Gods - Women
10. Paul Simon - Something So Right
11. Bauhaus - In Fear of Fear
12. Oingo Boingo - A Capella Ditty
13. The Cure - Fascination Street
14. Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There
15. Tori Amos - That's What I Like, Mick

Of which only 6 are actually on my iTunes list, and thus things I ever actually listen to.

Oh, and you double posted.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Bah. Internet. Bah, Winamp.

Interesting list, tho.

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

What do you have against WinAmp?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Depends on the version. Nothing against 2.9, but Winamp 3 was crap, and Winamp 5 is really too-little, too-late, I think.

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

I never upgraded to 3. =)

I haven't tried 5 yet.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I hear it's a pretty good audio player, but trying to turn it into a media centre for video and everything is a bit iffy. I just keep 2.9 around for Ogg Vorbis, which is the only thing that iTunes doesn't support that I listen to.

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

I only have a few Kraftwerk songs in Ogg, and I was able to find a Shareware program that could convert them to mp3, which made it all OK. The main reason I don't use iTunes for everything is, just in case I ever really want to listen to Merzbow, I don't want it to add to my iPod.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Well, you could turn the iPod to manual management, and then it wouldn't be an issue.

But where's that converter at? It'd be nice to minimize my program base a bit.

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

It only allows you ten conversions of a type - I forget where it was. I just googled Ogg Mp3 converter or somesuch.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll look later. Thanks!

[purplemanatee.livejournal.com]

Winamp5 is teh shit man...

It does video and audio very well, and I use it almost unilaterally as a video viewer. Only a few proprietary formats can it not handle; and whatsmore, it has streaming Monty Python built right in! In Media Library, under Internet TV, there are about seven channels of a group called Salt Water Chimp. They show streaming (and 24/7) Monty Python's Flying Circus, Futurama, Invader Zim, Simpsons, and the Family Guy, plus other stuff at times.

I reiterate: Winamp5 kicks the llama's ass.

[remotesensing.livejournal.com]

1. Flying - Blue Rodeo, from the Due South Soundtrack
2. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
3. Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
4. Juke-Joint Jezebel - KMFDM, from Retro ( not the MK sndtrack)
5. Come On Eileen (Night Mix) - Save Ferris
6. In a Big Country - Big Country
7. Halycon & On & On - Orbital
8. Temptation - New Order
9. Super Rad - Aquabats
10. Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers
11. Goodbye - Gravity Kills
12. One of These Days - Pink Floyd
13. Manhattan Project - Rush
14. Flamboyant - Pet Shop Boys
15. Convoy - C.W. McCall

[tarzxf.livejournal.com]

dbPowerAmp for windows does mass conversions, and will even delete orginal files after they're converted.

We acquired a bunch of AAC and OGGs from folks, and had to convert to MP3 for the MP3CD players that don't handle anything but MP3 (And WMA, but, BLEH!).

got the converter, did a find all *.ogg *.aac *.m4a *.wma and then right click and converter to MP3. bam, no more nasty files ;) only took 3hrs on a 1.4GHz Athlon.

From the big list of everything...

[lanthinel.livejournal.com]

1. Bruce Dickinson - Wicker Man (Best of Bruce Dickinson)
2. Bruce Dickinson - I Will Not Accept the Truth (Skunkworks)
3. The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion (Floodland)
4. Dropkick Murphys - Boys on the Docks (Do or Die)
5. Hawkwind - Horn of Destiny (Live Chronicles)
6. REM - Superman (Life's Rich Pageant)
7. U2 - Desire (Best of...)
8. Bad Religion - Sorrow (The Process of Belief)
9. Robert Plant - Why (Now and Zen)
10. Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
11. U2 - Elevation (All That You Can't Leave Behind)
12. Robert Plant - Tall Cool One (Now and Zen)
13. George Harrison - When We Was Fab (Cloud Nine)
14. Rage Against the Machine - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
15. Tool - Forty Six & 2

[nachitor.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for Nadesico!

I think Daigoji Gai is dreamy.