Another New Undertaking

I've begun a new project for the summer (in addition to revamping the layout on this very site). After seeing just how much music exists on my computer and amount that I've never actually listened to, I have decided that I am going to listen to my entire music library by August 31st. Just to make things a bit more interesting, rather than try to do some interesting shuffle sequence, I'm just going to go alphabetical by artist. My goal on August 31st is to have every song by every artist from +44 to The Zutons with a play count of at least 1.

The rules:
-At this moment, there are 4,149 songs in my iTunes library.
-Those 4,149 songs, assuming they all played nonstop, would take 11 days, 6 hours, 2 minutes and 14 seconds (approximately; there are some videos and other goofy stuff that doesn't count in there) to play from front to back.
-Since I don't plan on halting my acquisition of music for the summer, any music that I get will get added into the set, unless it would have already played, at which point I'll just wait till it ends. [example; as I type this I'm near the end of 'AC', so if I were to get new music by 3 Doors Down, it wouldn't be added to the list]
-Stuff played on my iPod doesn't count, since its not alphabetical. This means I have to unsync my iPod; not a big deal, just means I have to add music manually for the next few months.
-I have till August 31st to complete this. When using iTunes, I may not use party shuffle or any other playlist. If I have something specific I wanna hear, it needs to go onto the iPod.

And of course I'm going to keep you all posted on how I'm doing. I started June 2nd at 4:40PM (+44 - Lycanthrope). Since then I have finished 126 songs, the last song finished being "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds from the Across the Universe Soundtrack (filed under Across).

That's it for now. And yes, there will be MP3s throughout this venture along with the usual blogging about whatever sparks my mind.

Songs completed: 126/4149
Last Song: Across the Universe - Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds [iTunes]

Back later.

==TJ==