Music Challenge/Experiment

[8BitAtheist]

Rules: For two weeks you may only listen to any song three times. That is if you were to listen to any song more than three times in a two week period you get -1 point for every time you listen to it afterwards. You start out with 100 points.

So if you listen to AC/DC - Highway to hell only 3 times in two weeks you are okay, but if you listen to it more than that you add -1 to your score and have 99 and so on. (sorry for being so redundant!)

Objective: The point of this game/challenge/experiment isn't made to torment you by forbidding you listening to your favorite songs but to see how diverse your musical tastes are and for you to discover more music. If you have only a very limited selection of artist that you listen to you'll be forced to listen to more music and discover other artist than you're currently used to. For those who already have a diverse collection you will get to see to what extent your diversity lies.

Now to be fair I have to say you'd have to listen to more than 2.5 hours of music a day to participate as anyone who only listens to music in short amounts of time will ultimately come out ahead and that's not fair to others who have actually been made to listen to things they haven't used to.

You must also have a last.fm account or something similar that keeps track of what you're listening to.

This is just a fun experiment that some music lovers and those who feel that their musical collection are lacking might enjoy.

If you're interested let me know in this thread and state any suggestions you may have to better the experiment.

Are you ready to take The Challenge?

my last.fm is last.fm/user/exaltedphoton btw.

[theVOID]

Not interested, I like the music I like and see no reason to stop listening to it. I could easily do it, with some 70GB of music that I could put on shuffle and likely never get the same song 3 times, but I would get less enjoyment from this 'challenge' than just listening to my 270 song 'favorites' playlist..

[8BitAtheist]

That's the good thing about it, you don't have to participate if you don't want to and I really don't see the point in posting in a thread that you're not interested in just to say you're not interested. Seems kind of useless, but that's just me.

[theVOID]

I'm bored, waiting for more beers

[8BitAtheist]

Aha, all is good.

But I really do wish I had a larger HD, no money right now though. I need at least 1TB just for music. I am serious.

[thesummerqueen]

You would seriously limit me to one playing of any AC/DC song to only three times in seven days?

Fuck it.

[theVOID]

Aha, all is good.

But I really do wish I had a larger HD, no money right now though. I need at least 1TB just for music. I am serious.

1 TB of music? That's 200,000 songs give or take, at an average 4 minuets a track you're looking at over 13,000 hours of music...

[8BitAtheist]

But who says the average number of songs I listen to are 4:00 minutes in length? In fact I have no idea how long new songs may be, there are a lot of songs that I listen to that are under a minute long. (Yes, if a nice interlude is great I consider it a song) and then there are songs that are longer than 15 minutes each, take for example the single version of X-Japan's - Art of Life, it's a 29:26~ song, almost 30 minutes and that's just one song. And then take into account the quality of the track that I listen to. Lots of people enjoy their 320kbps Mp3 files or their AAC files or their wma files or their FLAC files, I prefer flac because it gives the closest sound that I am going to get uncompressed in a reasonable filesize. Also, when stems (Muti-tracks) of songs are available (innerpartysystem and nine inch nails are a few examples of bands that give out free multi-track songs) I like to put them all together and listen to them inside of audacity so that they're not compressed. A standard multitrack song is what? 200 mb or more uncompressed? Some stems are at least 50 mb for every track have more than 8 tracks in total and And don't forget about music DVD's, videos of live concerts are still music, films that are musically based are music too, (Pink Floyd - The Wall, Angels and Airwaves - Love, etc) so, it really depends on how much you listen to and how big the filesize of the music is and also wbat type of music it is. Music Video/Concert Visualization, Movie, Lyric Video, Live Concert, DVD, Blue-ray (Blu-Rays have the capacity to hold 50gigs alone do they not?)

And then, after all that sure there will probably be a TON of room left but if I could go on and lis ten to music without never deleting it I would. Because I mostly like all kinds of music and it depends on the mood I am in and if a random song comes on then yeah I'll probably listen to it the entire way through without skipping even if I do not like it much. Plus there's the benefit of never running out of room. So yeah, at least 1TB for music.

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@Summerqueen, you wouldn't be limited to listening to only one ad/dc song 3 times it's just that if you do your score would lessen. And you know, people will play will likely relapse when wanting to listen to their favorite songs. haha

[leo-rcc]

I stopped using last.fm since the features I used and paid for were taken away. I now have a spotify account but I don't like it as much so I'm probably quitting that one too. Anyone know of a good alternative for these?

[theVOID]

But who says the average number of songs I listen to are 4:00 minutes in length?

It's a statistical mean, taking into account millions of songs, the average is almost exactly 4:00. That includes songs of all lengths, so 4:00 is a pretty good starting point.

In fact I have no idea how long new songs may be, there are a lot of songs that I listen to that are under a minute long. (Yes, if a nice interlude is great I consider it a song) and then there are songs that are longer than 15 minutes each, take for example the single version of X-Japan's - Art of Life, it's a 29:26~ song, almost 30 minutes and that's just one song.

They average out, there are databases of millions of songs, it's the closest you're going to get without doing the math on your own collection.

And then take into account the quality of the track that I listen to. Lots of people enjoy their 320kbps Mp3 files or their AAC files or their wma files or their FLAC files, I prefer flac because it gives the closest sound that I am going to get uncompressed in a reasonable filesize.

Me too, less compression especially on the bottom end. Are the majority of your tracks in FLAC though? you'd only reasonably change the average size proportionately to how many FLACs you have, they range generally from 30-60MB.

Also, when stems (Muti-tracks) of songs are available (innerpartysystem and nine inch nails are a few examples of bands that give out free multi-track songs) I like to put them all together and listen to them inside of audacity so that they're not compressed. A standard multitrack song is what? 200 mb or more uncompressed? Some stems are at least 50 mb for every track have more than 8 tracks in total and

That has to be taken into account sure, but it'd still likely have a small impact on the averages, unless your collection was chock full of them.

And don't forget about music DVD's, videos of live concerts are still music, films that are musically based are music too, (Pink Floyd - The Wall, Angels and Airwaves - Love, etc) so, it really depends on how much you listen to and how big the filesize of the music is and also wbat type of music it is. Music Video/Concert Visualization, Movie, Lyric Video, Live Concert, DVD, Blue-ray (Blu-Rays have the capacity to hold 50gigs alone do they not?)

I didn't count DVD's, that would likely have a big impact on the averages.

And then, after all that sure there will probably be a TON of room left but if I could go on and lis ten to music without never deleting it I would. Because I mostly like all kinds of music and it depends on the mood I am in and if a random song comes on then yeah I'll probably listen to it the entire way through without skipping even if I do not like it much. Plus there's the benefit of never running out of room. So yeah, at least 1TB for music.

I think 70GB will do me for now I haven't even listened to 80% of my library.