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Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to
answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how
embarrassing it is.

How many songs: 385 (yeah, it's pitiful . . . yet I'm used to my home computer, which died if you put more than about 100 songs on it . . . ).

Sort by song title:
First Song: “Symphony #9 (Scherzo) by Beethoven (this was on there, already, though, as an example song; the first real song is “Home” by Three Days Grace.
Last Song: “Christmas In New Orleans” by Louis Armstrong.

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: At 1:00 exactly, three-Way Tie: “Milo” by Modest Mouse, “Romance,” and “Troika” from The Lt. Kije Suite by Prokofiev, both only part-way played songs, examples yoinked from Amazon.com “Listen to” on the CD purchase part of the site . . .
Longest Song: At 15:05 minutes, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Vaughn Williams.

Sort by album:
First Song: From the “*Unknown Album*” album, “Population Zero” by Jim Tyrrell, a guy who wrote and posted free songs for us to download during NaNo.
Last Song: From the “X and Y” album, “Speed of Sound” by Coldplay (even though I don’t have that album, it just copied the information over from when Keith gave me all those songs :-P)

Top Five Most Played Songs (I don’t know this, so I just went to “My Favorites—4 and 5-star ratings” at Windows Media Player—the rest of this was done on RealPlayer—and played shuffle on what I got . . . ):
1. “Fragile” by Sting.
2. “Before The Dawn” by Evanescence.
3. “Zombie” by The Cranberries.
4. “What It’s Like” by Everlast.
5. “Boadicea” by Enya.

First song that comes up on Shuffle: “The Portrait Gallery” from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by John Williams.

Search:
"sex", how many songs come up? 1 (I’m Too Sexy by Right Said Fred).
"death", how many songs come up? 6.
"love", how many songs come up? 13.
"you", how many songs come up? 34.
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