Every once in a while, a fan will ask me what kind of music I listen to. This question is in equal parts fraught and shaming, or at least would take too long to answer. But now, inspired by a post at Support Analytics, I’ve figured out how to reveal all.
After a little experimentation, I followed these steps:
1) In iTunes, select View Options under the View menu.
2) Turn off everything but “Artist.”
3) Select all and copy.
4) Search and Replace the word “track” with nothing.
5) Paste the results into the Wordle.net Create page.
And an occurrence-weighted word cloud of favorite musical artistes will appear:
Click the image for a larger version.
A while back, everyone was wordle-ing their novels. But this is really much more fun.
There are bound to be embarrassments, of course, especially for crumblies like me. There’s all that stuff I don’t listen to anymore, looming large. And albums that someone gave you and you hated, still lurking. A quick google reveals some software that weights the artists by play count, but that’s more effort than I’m willing to go to.
Besides, there’s something brutally honest about this. Warts and all.
Do I spy your own name in that artistic mess Scott? Oh no, I think I just made a pun.
I made one of these with my poetry- very awesome
Wordle does become very addicting…
David Bowie has some really eccentric personality but i like his style of music. he is a good actor too.”‘,
when i hear about David Bowie, it reminds me of Vanilla Ice. *.’
david bowie has this weird stuff character on him but he is cool.:-
aside from being a great singer David Bowie is also a good actor playing the role of Tesla in the movie The Prestige~”~
I was amused to see that you listen to “garbage”. Don’t we all? 😉
Nice info. Using an un varying system for producing original tunes will likely make your music seem meaningless and devoid of emotion.