“Sometimes an acorn doesn’t grow into a mighty oak but rather remains simply a nut.”

— Markus Buchart, 2005

I knew that Stalin was talking about armies when he said his quote. My blog post takes his quote as a launching point into a different tangent – it is definitely out of the context. I have nothing to apologize for since my post is just saying that Stalin spoke a truth despite being a very twisted individual. The truth of what he said remains relevant in the digital age which makes is all the more fascinating.

Cheers,
-Scott

You will notice that the two programs focus on different aspects. Yours is more track & album focused while SuperAnalyzer is more about the entire library. I would not want you to lose your unique take on analyzing iTunes.

Finally, a public request that you incorporate some statistics related to rated music such as # of plays for each star rating, which artists and albums are the highest rated, etc. Thanks so much!

Cheers,
-Scott

Glad to hear that this works for you. I would think that genre-bending artists like Eva Cassidy would have particular themes with each album. She would do a Gospel album, then a Jazz album, etc. I would identify each album as seemed best.

My problem is when I get a greatest hits album of an artist who does such different things. Neil Young stands out as an example of this. His two greatest hits albums have a flavor of Neil but the actual music ranges from folk to grunge rock to pub rock. Since I would find putting a genre on each individual song to be too tedious, I just label the album as Rock: Alternative which is so generic it does not really mean much.

I realize that statistically, just because a coin toss comes up tails 99 times in a row, it doesn’t mean that it can’t come up heads on the 100th time. Therefore, just because in Canada it has only come up ‘fatal earthquake’ 3 out of 1,350 times in the past 111 years, it doesn’t mean that it can’t come up ‘fatal earthquake’ thereafter. I also don’t want to sound like I have any Schadenfreude towards the parts of the world where earthquakes have occurred more frequently than they have in Canada. I neither wish earthquakes with fatalities to happen in Canada or any other country. That said, I am oddly comforted by the fatal earthquake table to which you linked.

I am, however, looking forward to saying ‘I told you so’ after December 21, 2012, when the world just keeps on ticking past the end of the Mayan calendar, in much the same way as when you recently chuckled to yourself upon seeing the book prophesying the end of the world in 2009. Personally, I think that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 because the Mayans just got tired of updating it.

http://blog.daniyar.info/2011/01/05/some-critical-notes-on-the–clash–of–civilizations–by-samuel-p-huntington.aspx

C’mon, man, you gotta finish the quote: “Capitalism is the vulgar side of the modern soul, socialism its tedious side.” (Source: Nicolis Gomez Divila a.k.a. Don Colacho at http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/2010/09/1855.html.)

In addition to being tedious, socialism has the further disadvantage that, sooner or later, it runs out of other people’s money. [See quote attributed to Margaret Thatcher above.)

One issue I constantly have is really grasping the definitions of some genres. And also some artists/albums seem impossible to define with a genre; such as John Cale’s “Paris 1919″ Or a Tom Waits album that could be defined under many different genres of Pop/Rock, Jazz or Blues.

Also the Allmusic link doesn’t seem to show anything.