thefourthvine | [Poll] MUSICS

For reasons that do not need exploring at this juncture, I am a Giant Ball of Anxiety.[1] I am actually considering renaming myself that (GBA for short, I guess, although I do realize that that is not the ideal acronym). I cannot sleep without having the worst anxiety dreams I've had in years, and that's assuming I get to sleep, which mostly I don't; I just stare at the clock and think anxious thoughts. My skin is breaking out! I am covered in hives! I keep walking into things! If this keeps up, by the time I get to Vividcon, I will be fit for nothing but crying in my hotel room for three days. I, um, really don't want to spend three days crying in a hotel room. For the record. I mean, I could cry at home much more cheaply; there's no point in going to Chicago for that. So I have decided it is time to make some posts designed to distract me and, with luck, reduce the possibility that I will have to ask for an extremely late change to my badge name. ("If 'GBA' doesn't work for you, you could always call me Inappropriate Hysterics!")

The first such post went smashingly. I thank you all. I now know much more about classic beauty. I've also learned that if Gina Torres and Audrey Hepburn were, through the miracle of - time traveling lesbian reproduction magicians? Look, I think this is the kind of thing that doesn't need a reason - to have a child, it would be the most classically gorgeous person of all time. I think someone needs to get right on making that happen.

So. We have done photos! Clearly it is time for MUSIC. And also POLLS, as those are the traditional, time-honored distraction techniques of people too distressed to provide actual content.

This is a poll for people who have music playing devices or programs. I am hoping that's most of you. There are some, you know, questions and things, but there is also a Bonus Content Option that I am really really hoping a lot of you take, because nothing is more distracting than new music.

So, to start things off in the Bonus Content arena: the most played song on my iTunes is Roscoe, by Midlake, which I have played 513 times. (Obviously, this is a hate-free zone. If you think it sucks, don't tell me. Instead, post your most played song. I bet it is far, far better than mine. Cooler. More classic. Whatever.)

And the song I am most obsessed with at the moment is The Chaconne, by Dessa.

Now, tell me yours! (People not taking the poll are still entirely invited to post their most played and current obsession songs in the comments, by the way. Encouraged. Begged. Whatever.) And also about your music. (And join with me in lamenting that there's no numerical entry poll option that would do averages and means and so on but not require scales.)

[1] Okay, I know at least some of you are going to want to know, so: it's mostly to do with Leaving My Baby for the First Time Ever. Also imperfect traveling arrangements. And OMG SOCIAL TIME fear. But mostly Leaving My Baby, who is actually three and will be at home with his mommy and perfectly fine, no matter what my dreams persist in suggesting.

Poll #7701 music

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 201

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How many songs do you have on your music player? (Rounding to the nearest thousand. Overachievers should pick the highest category.)

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Mean: 6358.59 Median: 5000 Std. Dev 5396.19

0		3 (1.5%)
1000		30 (15.2%)
2000		19 (9.6%)
3000		20 (10.1%)
4000		13 (6.6%)
5000		24 (12.1%)
6000		19 (9.6%)
7000		17 (8.6%)
8000		9 (4.5%)
9000		4 (2.0%)
10000		9 (4.5%)
11000		2 (1.0%)
12000		4 (2.0%)
13000		2 (1.0%)
14000		2 (1.0%)
15000		1 (0.5%)
16000		0 (0.0%)
17000		2 (1.0%)
18000		2 (1.0%)
19000		1 (0.5%)
20000		15 (7.6%)

How many songs have you never listened to? (Rounding, again.)

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Mean: 1692.31 Median: 1000 Std. Dev 3379.62

0		89 (48.9%)
1000		50 (27.5%)
2000		10 (5.5%)
3000		8 (4.4%)
4000		7 (3.8%)
5000		3 (1.6%)
6000		2 (1.1%)
7000		2 (1.1%)
8000		0 (0.0%)
9000		2 (1.1%)
10000		3 (1.6%)
11000		1 (0.5%)
12000		0 (0.0%)
13000		0 (0.0%)
14000		0 (0.0%)
15000		2 (1.1%)
16000		0 (0.0%)
17000		0 (0.0%)
18000		2 (1.1%)
19000		0 (0.0%)
20000		1 (0.5%)

How many playlists do you have?

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None. If I want to listen to music, I listen to all the music.
26 (13.0%)

Oh, somewhere around ten. Some variety, you know.
73 (36.5%)

Looks like maybe 30! Variety is the spice of life.
54 (27.0%)

More like 50. Variety is the habenero pepper of life!
17 (8.5%)

Closer to 75. Variety may in fact be the silent killer.
10 (5.0%)

I am in no way counting, but I'm guessing 100. I have no idea what is even in some of these.
8 (4.0%)

200. I HAVE MANY IDEAS FOR PLAYLISTS, OKAY?
10 (5.0%)

A million. At least. Um.
2 (1.0%)

Of your top 20 most played songs, how many are by women? (I am counting this as "mostly sung by a woman," but you make your own call.)

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Mean: 8.14 Median: 8 Std. Dev 4.50

1		17 (9.2%)
2		6 (3.2%)
3		11 (5.9%)
4		13 (7.0%)
5		11 (5.9%)
6		10 (5.4%)
7		18 (9.7%)
8		15 (8.1%)
9		6 (3.2%)
10		23 (12.4%)
11		10 (5.4%)
12		13 (7.0%)
13		7 (3.8%)
14		8 (4.3%)
15		6 (3.2%)
16		6 (3.2%)
17		2 (1.1%)
18		1 (0.5%)
19		1 (0.5%)
20		1 (0.5%)

How many times has your most played song been played? (Rounding!)

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Mean: 277.09 Median: 150 Std. Dev 287.46

0		3 (1.7%)
50		40 (22.3%)
100		39 (21.8%)
150		13 (7.3%)
200		13 (7.3%)
250		13 (7.3%)
300		10 (5.6%)
350		4 (2.2%)
400		6 (3.4%)
450		3 (1.7%)
500		5 (2.8%)
550		4 (2.2%)
600		3 (1.7%)
650		0 (0.0%)
700		3 (1.7%)
750		0 (0.0%)
800		3 (1.7%)
850		1 (0.6%)
900		1 (0.6%)
950		0 (0.0%)
1000		15 (8.4%)

What is that most played song? (For bonus points, put a link to it, streaming or download, in the comments.)

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And what song are you obsessed with lately? (Bonus points, link in comments, you know how this works.)

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I like all music! Except:

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Theremin Core
38 (26.2%)

Gregorian Chant-Hop
16 (11.0%)

Rastabilly Skank
49 (33.8%)

Digital Baroque
16 (11.0%)

Unshaved Glam
26 (17.9%)

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Your most-played options aren't ambitious enough for me - I currently have 3 songs that have been played more than 1000 times, two of which are over 2000 times, and those numbers used to be much higher. I got a new computer ~a year ago and reset my iTunes - there were probably over 50 I'd listened to 1000+ times before then, and I know my most-played song was over 4000 times.

But that's because I find a song I love and I obsess over it and play it on repeat for days on end - right now, I've got 50+ songs I've listened to more than 200 times, and most of them I've only had for a couple of months. I also used to have 3 times as many songs in my library, but for whatever reason they didn't transfer over, and I haven't gotten around to reuploading them yet. :(

I used to have a butt-load of playlists, but now they're mostly mood-music-organized - soft and slow, melancholy, fun, piano, guitar, therapy, and the ever-useful Temp playlist. Also Christmas vs Non-Christmas, because every time I put my library on shuffle it plays predominately Christmas music in the summer, so I try to isolate it.

Only about half of my Top 25 most-listened-to even have lyrics, and of those, most of them are in foreign languages or nearly unintelligible. I'm also not terribly fond of the tone of most female vocalists? There are a handful of female singers whom I adore (Adele, Haley Reinhart, Origa, Alison Kraus, Barlow Girls...), but it's much easier on my ear to listen to male voices. Not quite sure why.

If you use iTunes, you can uncheck Christmas music and it'll never play it.

Then once a year, you select all in the Christmas playlist and hit "check selection."

Whee!

O.O I DID NOT KNOW IT COULD DO THIS. YOU ARE A LIFE-SAVER!

I know! I was like "should I tell them about the checking thing? They probably already know..." And then I told you! And you didn't know!

And there was much rejoicing!

See, I've always wondered what the checkmark thing was for, but couldn't figure out how to test it. (I've learned how to do most things by randomly clicking buttons, flailing in panic when it changed something, frantically clicking more buttons until I fixed it, then doing it all over again to figure out what on earth I'd done in the first place. I am not user-manual-friendly - if it can't be figured out but button-smashing, it's useless to me.)

*dances*

Basically it skips that song whenever it would normally play it.

Have NO idea how I figured this out, because my method of computer use is pretty much the same as yours. Especially in graphics programs.