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Hmm, that's a quite interesting tool. Here's
◊ mine
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Couldn't be more different if we tried. XD
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Proud Canadian
How did you get the count of all those songs?
If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.
Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan!
iTunes has a neat little feature called the "Column Browser". You can use it to show only a specific group of tracks, like Genre X, Artist Y, etc. It also has a little bar at the bottom of the screen that shows how many tracks you are currently looking at, how long they are together, and how much disk space they take up. So I can open the Column Browser, select 'Genre -> Blues' and the thing lists all my Blues songs. I then look at the bar and see '545 songs, 1:10:05:12 total time, 3.46 GB'.
So yeah, that isn't all that hard.
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Proud Canadian
Oh that's what I've been seeing of pictures of iTunes. Thanks, this makes thing much easier!
So I have 2.43 GB of progressive rock and roughly the same amount of pyschedelic rock. 1.5 GB of post-rock too. I like specific genre names.
edited 29th Mar '12 6:47:07 PM by Erock
If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.
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Yeah, very specific genre labels are fun when talking about what "scene" or "movement" an artist was/is part of, but when you actually want to classify individual tracks, they just give you a headache. I often have trouble figuring out whether I should consider Song X blues or rock & roll, or Song Y country or folk. If I'd start including more specific labels with less obvious distinctions between them - psychedelic rock, progressive rock, blues-rock, etc. - my head would explode!
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I don't tag my tracks by genre. I know them all, so I see no reason to do so.
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Proud Canadian
I tag albums by genre. I'm not that anal.
I leave the tags on the tracks. It's good for a laugh. All of my Emperor is labeled as "Classic Rock". Laced/Unlaced by Emily Autumn is under Hard Rock And Metal. There a bunch of other funny tags.
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Apparition in the Woods
Normally I'm not crazy about this particular strain of industrial, but that is a truly awesome backbeat, and a fine song in general.
That said, what the hell, iTunes...?
edited 30th Mar '12 8:01:49 AM by JHM
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
Just awesome like that
Yeah, I don't really have the time to go through each individual song I have to classify them (nearly 15,000 songs in my iTunes alone, and still growing), so I usually just leave what it gets ripped with/has assigned from iTunes unless I know that it's very clearly wrong. So, the majority of my tracks are listed in their main genres rather than their subgenres (with a few exceptions), and there's a lot of overlap (especially between rock, pop, and alternative). That being said...
- A Capella: 2 (one of which is something I did ^_^; I have many others, but they're under different genres)
- Acoustic: 1 (should really reclassify this one. It's a cover of "Wouldn't it Be Nice" by She & Him.)
- Acoustic Era: 41 (mostly Eddie Morton songs I got from the Internet Archive, as well as a recording of "Hello, Ma Baby" from 1899)
- african rumba and Afro Beat: 2 and 1, respectively (Don't even know where I got these that those are their genre labels)
- Adult Alternative: 1 (only because most of the others are probably under Alternative or Pop or something)
- Alternative: 1507
- Alternative & Punk: 2
- Alternative Rock: 139
- Alternativo & Rock Latino: 16 (haha, that rhymes en espanol)
- AMAZING!: 9 (This was a bootleg of A Toot and a Snore in '74, the last known collaborative recordings of John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney. They were together in a studio with other musicians, and some decided to hit record. I thought the tag it came with was AMAZING!)
- Ambient: 10 (9 of which are weird things I've done, and the other is a half hour recording of rain)
- Avant Garde: 15 (14 of which are Yoko Ono)
- Baladas y Boleros: 1 (I couldn't tell you.)
- Ballad: 1 (a parody cover of "Friday")
- Bluegrass: 14 (all by frank ocean of Odd Future)
- Blues: 63 (I'm kinda surprised how many I had, actually. The majority of it is the complete recordings of Robert Johnson.)
- Booty Bass: 1 (Oh God, I'd forgotten this. It's a Green Day medley a friend and I did, and it has nothing to do with booty, nor is there any bass instrument featured in it.)
- Brazilian: 4 (mostly Bossa Nova)
- Children's/Children's Music: 106
- Chiptune: 31 songs by Kitsune²
- Christian & Gospel: 13
- Classic Rock: 1 (Don Mc Lean's "American Pie")
- Classical: 212 (admittedly, much of it is from those cheap compilations. The rest of it is mostly Philip Glass.)
- Club Music: 1 (A remix of...the Angry Birds theme?!??)
- Comedy: 237 (mostly Weird Al, of course)
- Country: 91
- Country & Folk: 11 (a Lady Antebellum album)
- Cult: 1 (another joke recording a friend and I did...we pick weird tags for them)
- Dance: 83 (I need to get more specific with a lot of these...)
- Dance & DJ: 16
- Darkstep: 1 (Sadochist's dubstepified version of "I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew")
- Desktop: 1 (WTF?)
- Disco: 17 (and probably more, DON'T JUDGE ME)
- Disney: 2 (This is apparently a genre now.)
- Dubstep: 8 (probably more)
- Easy Listening: 25 (oddly enough, a Vitamin String Quartet cover of a Bruce Springsteen song is listed under here)
- Electronic: 164 (so vague!)
- Electronica: 3 (still vague!)
- Electronica/Dance: 9 (even still vague, but this is Nightcat, so I guess Paula Abdul ripoff would be the better label!)
- Electronica/Hip-Hop: 2 (It's The Wiseguys' "Start the Commotion" single.)
- Experimental: 1 (whatever)
- Folk: 86
- Fucking Awesome: 17 ('tis the label that came with the Odd Future Tape)
- Fun: 1 (Dave Days's parody of the 'Hoedown Throwdown')
- Funk: 1 (The Temptations' version of "Get Ready")
- General Japanses Traditional: 1 (Who the frick writes these tags)
- genre: 1 (hahahahaha)
- Grunge: 78 (and then some)
- Hip-Hop: 1
- Hip-Hop/Rap: 317
- Holiday: 381 (plus two labeled "Christmas"—I love Christmas music)
- Indie: 3
- Indie Rock: 267
- Inspirational: 1 (really? weak name)
- Instrumental: 3 (2 from a Jeopardy video game and 1 from a VSQ version of a Lady Gaga song)
- International: 21 (Hey, iTunes ain't the only vague one! Meet Amazon's tags!)
- Italian: 1 (and quite a few more—I'm Italian. It was required with the contract I had to sign when I entered my family.)
- J-Pop: 3 (yeah, yeah, the others are mixed into other genres, you know the drill)
- Jazz: 341 (more vagueness)
- Latin: 18 (and again)
- Latin Jazz: 11 (...ethnically specific?)
- Latino: 5 (oh well, whatever, nevermind)
- Lounge: 1 (I don't even)
- Madchester: 1 (?!??!??!??)
- March: 1
- Mario Paint: 1 (a cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Cat333Pokemon
- Mashup: 58
- Metal: 42 (some might not be, and some that are might not be there, since nobody who works for iTunes or Gracenote probably gives a damn when classifying the harder forms of rock music)
- Miscellaneous: 30 (...why?)
- Musicals: 1 (I usually keep these under "Soundtracks." Gotta fix that.)
- New Age: 8 (most of which is NOT New Age...)
- Noise: 12
- Opera & Vocal: 2 (which includes such opera classics as Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved")
- Other: 80 (I hate everyone)
- Podcast: 1 (actually a reading of O Henry's "The Gift Of The Magi")
- political/mashup: 1
- Pop: 1543 (probably the most disorganized one)
- Pop Latino: 39 (possibly the most ethnically classified one)
- Pop/Rock: 1 (bizarrely, "Working for the Weekend")
- Progressive Rock: 1 (which is actually NOT a progressive rock song)
- Psychedelic Psychedelic: 1 (redundant redundancy!)
- Psychedelia: 1
- Punk: 286 (most of which are from Short Music for Short People)
- Punk-Pop: 15 (Boyce Avenue...for some reason)
- Punk Rock: 12 (I take back what I said about subgenres)
- R&B: 48
- R&B/Soul: 334
- Ragtime: 1 (most of the others are probably under jazz)
- Rap: 5
- Rap & Hip-Hop: 5
- Reggae: 68 (I'm noticing a lot of these number up to 60-something)
- Reggaeton y Hip-Hop: 3
- Regional Mexicano: 1
- Remix: 14
- Rock: 4855 (This will take forever to sort through, should I choose to do so.)
- Rock & Roll: 15
- Rock/Pop: 1
- Roots: 62 (all The Beautiful Girls)
- Salsa y Tropical: 2
- science: 1 (GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH)
- SFX: 1 (Fireworks sound effects)
- Showtunes: 7 (need to fix)
- Singer/Songwriter: 93
- Soul: 1
- Soul and R&B: 1
- Soundscape / Mashup / Field Recording / Documentary: 16 (DAMN YOU WAX AUDIO)
- Soundtrack (or Soundtracks): 943
- Spoken & Audio: 10 (need to fix that; it's Bobby Gaylor)
- Spoken Word: 3
- Swing: 2 (again, more, randomly classified elsewhere)
- Techno: 1 (what)
- Theme Song: 45 (don't know what I was thinking with this tag)
- Tropical: 1
- TV Shows: 1 (I'm so sick of this)
- Unclassifiable: 2 ("The Most Wanted Song" and "The Most Unwanted Song". Both are awesomely horrible in their own ways.)
- Unsorted: 14 (from the bluntly-named album Songs About Fucking)
- Video Game: 1072
- Vocal: 78 (because most songs people sing aren't sung, apparently, except for these)
- Vokaliz: 1 ("I am very glad, because I'm finally returning back home" aka "TROLOLO")
- World: 47 (because we can't be bothered to care about music that's not from America/England/Australia/Jamaica/Whatevera!)
- YTPMV: 12 (aka: Stupid Statement Dance Mix: The Genre)
- 145: 1 (I don't get it either. It's the original Japanese Pokemon anime theme song.)
- 2080: 1 (A Blake Lewis song)
- No genre listed: 94
I hate myself for doing this now
edited 30th Mar '12 12:20:04 PM by 0dd1
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Some statistics about my music collection. I encourage everyone to post similar stuff about theirs.
As of this moment, I have 4953 tracks in my library. They are organised into 16 genres; I assign a genre tag to each song individually, and can get rather neurotic about this.
Now, I've fed the basic data - the track count and total running time for each genre - into Microsoft Excel, and I've created these
◊ charts
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- About the pie chart: In case it wasn't clear from the title, it goes by running time, not track count. So a one-hour track will contribute 20 times as much as a 3-minute track. Anyway, it's clearly visible that my music taste isn't quite as diverse as I like to think it is: the genres which lie nicely along the main axis of Mohs Scale Of Rock And Metal Hardness - blues, rock & roll, rock, hardrock, metal - make up an overwhelming majority. Soul, which I often mention when listing my favourite genres, is actually only a tiny slice of the pie.
- About the bar chart: In case you hadn't guessed, the green line indicates the total average. At first sight, it looks like it's too high - but then of course, it's a weighted average, and most of the genres whose averages are above the line are "big" genres with lots of tracks. As was to be expected, classical music has the highest average track length, but not as high above the others as you'd think; the Matthew Passion, which has lots of 10- or 20-second "tracks", drags it down somewhat. The preference among rock & roll, soul and punk artists for short 'n' sweet tracks is clearly visible. Interestingly, rock has a slightly higher average track length than metal, but hardrock beats them both by a clear margin.
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