{"id":417,"date":"2005-03-21T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2006-08-26T03:28:28","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T03:28:28","slug":"im-an-ipod-guy-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/21\/im-an-ipod-guy-as\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m an iPod guy as"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an iPod guy as most of you know, it&#8217;s an essential bus device now, I would probably pitch a huge, hairy fit if I had to ride the bus without it.  It&#8217;s a soother for grownups.  Anyway, with the iPod comes using iTunes to manage the music, which of course absolutely rocks.  It really adds a whole new level of geeky when to listening to music; statistics.  Let me explain.<\/p>\n<p>iTunes keeps track of the last time you played a song, and how many times you have ever played a song.  Combined with the simple 0-5 star rating system, this can give some interesting insights into your own musical tastes.  The song I have listened to the most is easily Sunshine So Fine by the Barsool Prophets, 17 plays.  In #2 is Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet with 14 plays.  Ok, that&#8217;s not too weird yet.  What&#8217;s most interesting is the third most often played song on the iPod: East Bound and Down by Jerry Reed, 12 plays.  Man, that&#8217;s weird even by my tastes.  I had no idea I was playing that sucker to death like that.  I mean it&#8217;s a good song, there&#8217;s no better ditty to put on when you are running to catch the bus when you are late, it&#8217;s a natural for chase music.  Anyway, so there you go.  I learned something about myself.  It&#8217;s a personal  growth thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an iPod guy as most of you know, it&#8217;s an essential bus device now, I would probably pitch a huge, hairy fit if I had to ride the bus without it. It&#8217;s a soother for grownups. Anyway, with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/21\/im-an-ipod-guy-as\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-6J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}