Mar162009
Skip Count: Insult or Data?
Filed under Music by Kim at 3:47 pm on Mar 16 2009
What are the most skipped songs in your music collection? Would it surprise you to know that the highest skip count listed in my collection is 4?
This is yet another symptom of my weird emotional issues, for sure. I would rather restart a playlist than give a song a skip count simply because I’m not “in the mood”. To me, an added skip count is an actual mark against a song, an indicator that it might not deserve its rating.
This drives Jack nuts! I make him listen to songs all the way through that he’d rather not hear right now. Or, if it’s a song that essentially had a really high play count long before such a thing existed (something I’ve been listening to since I was 12), I will actually skip to the end and let the count increment. He insists that I am lying. But to who? What is the sound of one person lying to their software? After a while I told him that if he wanted to skip something, he had to tell me before the halfway mark, because if we listened halfway, the song deserved a play count, not a skip count.
Yes, I have issues. I also think I might crack up if my metadata were ever lost. Hrm… seems like a good time to work on my non-attachment! My top most skipped tracks behind the link…
- Lily Allen – Smile (This makes no sense. I like this song!)
- Apoptygma Berserk – Eclipse (I also like this song! These are surely all “not in the mood” skips I let slip.)
- Matthew Sweet – Nothing Lasts (Beautiful song, just very sad. Mood skips again.)
- Rednex – Cotton Eye Joe (This one makes sense, so probably counts as the “most skipped”.)
- Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out (This one also makes sense, because I cannot stand Corin Tucker’s warblings, and this has a merely honorary high rating. Honorary high ratings… a whole other post.)
- Alison Krauss – When You Say Nothing At All (This was a drum lesson track, so this makes sense to me too. Not one I’d have chosen, though not a bad song per se.)
- The Jelly Sharks – I Know Wayne Pierce (My own band’s song! My attitude being: Why do I need to hear my own band’s song? And what do I care if it gets a skip count? Ah, self-respect.)
1 Angela @ Lost In Splendoron 17 Mar 2009 at 8:51 am
I actually find this really interesting. I would be so interested to see my own skip count. How did you find this information out? I skip like crazy. I have always been finicky with music and it took me until the last 4 years to realize that I’m picky when before I had just written myself off as not being a music person.
I also find it fascinating that you either always play the songs though or click to the end to let the play count. I have to be honest. That would drive me crazy! Haha. I’m always skipping songs on KC when we’re listening to music in the car.
I would also be interested in knowing your #1 play count. I have had my iTunes on this computer for about 4 years and mine is 67, it’s Dig by Incubus because when I was falling in love I listened to it over and over again like a crazy person.
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Kim Reply:
March 17th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Hee, I’m glad it’s interesting and not totally tedious!
The skip count can be added in itunes by right-clicking on the bar where the column titles are and choosing to add skip count as another column. It would be interesting to know if anything has a higher skip count than play count!
My #1 play count is far and away Genesis’ “Dance On A Volcano”. Last I recall it was at 48, but that really doesn’t reflect all the times I listened to it on CD! I never used to listen to my ipod in the car until about 2006, so that skews things. I think I’ve had itunes since 2004.
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