Finding favorite artists in a sea of MP3's « fishbrains

Was using WinAmp tonight after years of Media Player and iTunes use. WinAmp is so old school I feel like I should also launch PowWow and the Fish Tank Screen Saver just to feel pre-21st century.

So I’m sitting there with my 410 artists freshly scanned into the WinAmp media library (no good visual browser yet) and wanted to play an artist I wouldn’t be tired of in 10 minutes. While scrolling, I realized each artist had a column for total track count. Assuming that your time-tested artists put out more then two albums, you’d keep buying them, and likely have a large collection of songs by them… so one might say your favorite artists are those you have the most music by. One-click sort and this is what I get (reminder this is a combo of my music and the Wife’s, so no bustin’ on DMB or Mayer).

The Prodigy
Nine Inch Nails
Dave Matthews Band
Shaman’s Harvest
Astral Projection
ATB
Incubus
John Mayer
Foo Fighters
Led Zeppelin
Santana

Sounds about right. I’ll start playing from the top, problem solved.

http://mcwresearch.com Michael

iTunes has something similar, a column named ‘play count.’

Below are my top 10 most played songs. Couldn’t get more diverse if I tried.

Blue (Bird Shake Mix) aMOTION A Perfect Circle
Concerto No.8 in A minor I Allegro Vivaldi: L’estro armonico – 12 concertos Op.3 (Disc 2)
Safe From Harm Collected Massive Attack
Angel Collected Massive Attack
Concerto No.7 in F major II Adagio–Allegro Vivaldi: L’estro armonico – 12 concertos Op.3 (Disc 2)
Concerto No.7 in F major III Adagio–Allegro Vivaldi: L’estro armonico – 12 concertos Op.3 (Disc 2)
Concerto No.8 in A minor II Larghetto e spiritoso Vivaldi: L’estro armonico – 12 concertos Op.3 (Disc 2)
Teardrop Collected Massive Attack
Inertia Creeps Collected Massive Attack
Karmacoma Collected Massive Attack
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