Your Most-Played
Posted by Five-Centres on 24 June 2008 - 9:59am.
Apologies if we've done this before, but what are your Top 10 most-played tracks on your ipod?
Mine came as quite a surprise:
1. Evil Ways/Santana
2. For What It's Worth/Buffalo Springfield
3. Underdog (Save Me)/Turin Brakes
4. Strange Brew/Cream
5. Department S/Cyril Stapleton Orchestra
6. Kooks/David Bowie
7. Ramblin' Man/Lemon Jelly
8. My Baby Cried All Night Long/Lee Hazelwood
9. Les Papillons Noirs/Michelle Arnaud & Serge Gainsbourg
10. Germ Free Adolescents/X-Ray Spex
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I'll play (and play and play..)
Not entirely representative of my usual tastes, although it does reflect how you can obsess over a song when you first hear it, kind of like leaving that arm out of place on the old Dansette so that a record auto-repeats.
1. Touch (Acoustic version)/Seal - Best of 1991-2004
2. Tilt Ya Head Back/Nelly - Sweat
3. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome/Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love
4. Young and Foolish/The StiX (feat. Corinne Bailey Rae)
5. Your Love Is Mine/New Mastersounds (feat Corinne Bailey Rae again)
6. Across The Universe/Beatles - Let It Be
7. What's Hideous/Do Me Bad Things - Yes!
8. Until You Come Back To Me/Aretha Franklin
9. Jam Fan (Hot)/Bootsy's Rubber Band - This Boot Is Made For Fonk-N
10. Born To Hum/Erin McKeown - Grand
My iPod is too new
My iPod is too new (less than two months) so the meta-data is not very revealing. Five Ting Tings tracks are at the top with five plays each.
I just press play.....
How do you check up on this log of info? As I am on random 99% of the time, it would be fascinationg to see what has been thrown up.
Play Count
Click on play count in i-tunes. It'll give you the times played from highest to lowest.
Open iTunes
Sync your iPod. Then, in iTunes, click view -> view options -> make sure 'play count' is selected, then order that column in the iTunes window by clicking the column header.
This should work for a Mac - for a PC it might be slightly different, but the theory is the same.
Playcount data
Or set up a smart playlist (hold shift and click on a button on the lower left of iTunes) with the only criteria being "Most Played". iTunes comes with a "Top 25" smart playlist already created so you might have that already.
If you don't synch your iPod you can still see the data next time you plug your iPod into the computer.
Thanks, Guys.....
Thought I was missing a trick on the device itself. (Doh!)
This is a bit of a surprise.
I do like all of these songs but wouldn’t necessarily list them as my favourites. And yet the evidence doesn’t lie. I’m surprised the J Church track isn’t nearer the top.
1. Vampire Weekend – Walcott
2. Dream Syndicate – When the Curtain Falls (live)
3. Kate Bush – James and the Cold Gun
4. Kate Bush – The Kick Inside
5. Rosie Vela – Fool’s Paradise
6. Shivaree – Ten Minutes
7. Cranes – Reverie
8. Department S – Is Vic There?
9. J Church – Yellow, Blue and Green
10. Joan As Police Woman – Happiness is a Violator (For Condoleezza Rice)
Mine also quite surprising
and looks like:
1. Manic Street Preachers. 1985.
2. The Smiths. How soon is now.
3. Pet Shop Boys. Numb.
4. Editors. The racing rats.
5. Bruce Springsteen. Radio nowhere.
6. Roisin Murphy. You know me better.
7. Editors. Blood.
8. New Order. Regret.
9. New Order. Guilt is a useless emotion.
10. David Bowie. Changes.
Rammstein - really?
Du hast, Rammstein
Jigsaw Falling Into Place, Radiohead
Home of the Brave, Naked Raygun
Heartbeat, Annie
Reformation, The Fall
Not Too Long Ago, Nick Lowe
Someone Like You, New Order
Shadow Play, Rory Gallagher
She's Your Lover Now, Howard Devoto / Luxuria
Same Old Scene, Roxy Music
Whoops ...
Top ten most played are all from the Beta Band's Heroes to Zeros.
Looks like, by accident, I must have left the ipod playing with the album on repeat ...
Good album though ...
After nearly two years
1 Fake Empire - The National
2 Ida, My (Live Daytrotter Session) - Annuals
3 Videotape (Live from the Basement) - Thom Yorke
4 Window in the Skies - U2
5 Roscoe - Midlake
6 Slow Show - The National
7 Mistaken for Strangers - The National
8 All I Need - Radiohead
9 Videotape - Radiohead
10 Metal Heart - Cat Power
And that pretty much sums up my favourite albums of the past couple of years - never have it on shuffle. Re the Annuals - the free Daytrotter session led to much anticipation about their debut album (Be He Me) which turned out to be an over-produced calamity. Sorry to see potential buried like that.
2 and then...
1.Sand And Foam / Donovan
2.Because We're Dead / Slow Club
and then it's William Shatner's "Has Been" album. I usually listen to albums rather than individual songs.