well, it occured to me today to check out how my tunes were doing on soundclick.com; i've got 21 MP3 tracks posted there for anyone interested in checking them out (the link's to the top right of this page "download inf's MP3s"). i originally posted the tracks in february 2004, for the most part, and since that time:
the pages i've set up have received 1,240 hits
as a collective whole, the songs have been streamed 1,351 times
in all, there have been 174 downloads of my songs.
the peak traffic occurred in march 2004, during which my music was streamed 995 times.
here're the figures for the individual tracks, in alphabetical order:
A Little Bubbly [demo] : 131 plays, 11 downloads
All F*ed Up [no vocals, as recorded by Infidel] : 37 plays, 11 downloads
America [as recorded by Infidel] : 46 plays, 5 downloads
Coward [as recorded by Infidel] : 39 plays, 7 downloads
Distractions [live, dry] : 102 plays, 8 downloads
Distractions [live] : 179 plays, 10 downloads
Dtune [demo] : 50 plays, 8 downloads
Escape [as recorded by Infidel] : 40 plays, 12 downloads
Happy Song [demo] : 44 plays, 7 downloads
High Wire [as recorded by Infidel] : 30 plays, 5 downloads
I Wanna Disappear [demo] : 38 plays, 6 downloads
Jus' Livin' [live outtake, as recorded by Pat Fagg] : 31 plays, 5 downloads
Jus' Livin' [live, as recorded by Pat Fagg] : 24 plays, 5 downloads
Liquid Motion Experiment #2 [demo] : 170 plays, 20 downloads
Lullaby [live] : 162 plays, 9 downloads
Now Is The Time [as recorded by ThoseDudes] : 18 plays, 6 downloads
PiBuWiFaSur [instrumental, as recorded by Infidel] : 28 plays, 6 downloads
To Hell With It Anyway [as recorded by ThoseDudes] : 31 plays, 9 downloads
Too Easy [no vocals, as recorded by Infidel] : 34 plays, 10 downloads
Tracers [instrumental, as recorded by Infidel] : 31 plays, 5 downloads
Unspoken [as recorded by Infidel] : 86 plays, 9 downloads
in order by number of times streamed:
179 - Distractions [live]
170 - Liquid Motion Experiment #2 [demo
162 - Lullaby [live]
131 - A Little Bubbly [demo]
102 - Distractions [live, dry]
86 - Unspoken [as recorded by Infidel]
50 - Dtune [demo]
46 - America [as recorded by Infidel]
44 - Happy Song [demo]
40 - Escape [as recorded by Infidel]
39 - Coward [as recorded by Infidel]
38 - I Wanna Disappear [demo]
37 - All F*ed Up [no vocals, as recorded by Infidel]
34 - Too Easy [no vocals, as recorded by Infidel]
31 - To Hell With It Anyway [as recorded by ThoseDudes]
31 - Jus' Livin' [live outtake, as recorded by Pat Fagg]
31 - Tracers [instrumental, as recorded by Infidel]
30 - High Wire [as recorded by Infidel]
28 - PiBuWiFaSur [instrumental, as recorded by Infidel]
24 - Jus' Livin' [live, as recorded by Pat Fagg]
18 - Now Is The Time [as recorded by ThoseDudes]
in order by number of downloads:
20 - Liquid Motion Experiment #2 [demo]
12 - Escape [as recorded by Infidel]
11 - A Little Bubbly [demo]
11 - All F*ed Up [no vocals, as recorded by Infidel]
10 - Distractions [live]
10 - Too Easy [no vocals, as recorded by Infidel]
9 - Lullaby [live]
9 - To Hell With It Anyway [as recorded by ThoseDudes]
9 - Unspoken [as recorded by Infidel]
8 - Distractions [live, dry]
8 - Dtune [demo]
7 - Happy Song [demo]
7 - Coward [as recorded by Infidel]
6 - I Wanna Disappear [demo]
6 - Now Is The Time [as recorded by ThoseDudes]
6 - PiBuWiFaSur [instrumental, as recorded by Infidel]
5 - America [as recorded by Infidel]
5 - Jus' Livin' [live outtake, as recorded by Pat Fagg]
5 - Tracers [instrumental, as recorded by Infidel]
5 - High Wire [as recorded by Infidel]
5 - Jus' Livin' [live, as recorded by Pat Fagg]
in order by downloads per time streamed:
33.33% - Now Is The Time [as recorded by ThoseDudes] : 18 plays, 6 downloads
30.00% - Escape [as recorded by Infidel] : 40 plays, 12 downloads
29.73% - All F*ed Up [no vocals, as recorded by Infidel] : 37 plays, 11 downloads
29.41% - Too Easy [no vocals, as recorded by Infidel] : 34 plays, 10 downloads
29.03% - To Hell With It Anyway [as recorded by ThoseDudes] : 31 plays, 9 downloads
21.43% - PiBuWiFaSur [instrumental, as recorded by Infidel] : 28 plays, 6 downloads
20.83% - Jus' Livin' [live, as recorded by Pat Fagg] : 24 plays, 5 downloads
17.95% - Coward [as recorded by Infidel] : 39 plays, 7 downloads
16.67% - High Wire [as recorded by Infidel] : 30 plays, 5 downloads
16.13% - Jus' Livin' [live outtake, as recorded by Pat Fagg] : 31 plays, 5 downloads
16.13% - Tracers [instrumental, as recorded by Infidel] : 31 plays, 5 downloads
16.00% - Dtune [demo] : 50 plays, 8 downloads
15.90% - Happy Song [demo] : 44 plays, 7 downloads
15.79% - I Wanna Disappear [demo] : 38 plays, 6 downloads
11.76% - Liquid Motion Experiment #2 [demo] : 170 plays, 20 downloads
10.87% - America [as recorded by Infidel] : 46 plays, 5 downloads
10.47% - Unspoken [as recorded by Infidel] : 86 plays, 9 downloads
8.39% - A Little Bubbly [demo] : 131 plays, 11 downloads
7.84% - Distractions [live, dry] : 102 plays, 8 downloads
5.58% - Distractions [live] : 179 plays, 10 downloads
5.56% - Lullaby [live] : 162 plays, 9 downloads
for an average download per streaming instance of around 13-17%. basically for every time my music was streamed, 13-17% of the time there was also a download, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 out of 100 people (1 out of 7) liked what they heard enough to keep it, and that's pretty khoul in my book. the site doesn't keep track of the number of IP addresses it streams the music to or i could figure out precisely how many different USERS listened to and/or saved the music. this is as close as i can get with the tracking statistics available on the site.
i'll close this post with a sincere THANK YOU to everyone who listened to my music, and another sincere THANK YOU to everyone who shared it with others on their own. wonder how many copies of my tunes are floating around out there....have to take a look on the P2P networks.....if i find anything out there, i'll post what i find!
THANKS AGAIN everyone :)
inf
2005-01-12
2005-01-11
my favoritest Canadian just started her own blog :)
welcome to the blogging community, Wanderlust ;)
anyone that wants to get in on the ground floor of what promises to be Truly Amazing can check this out:
Wanderlust's Bungalow of Musing and Contemplation
PEACE
inf
anyone that wants to get in on the ground floor of what promises to be Truly Amazing can check this out:
Wanderlust's Bungalow of Musing and Contemplation
PEACE
inf
2005-01-09
finally some SNOW!
after much hemming and hawing about the possibility of snow, including some days when the surrounding areas got their share but this neck of the woods didn't, the snow finally came early this morning, dusting everything with white and eventually building up oh, say....about 3 or 4 inches. it was enough to get out and have a respectable snowball fight, and for Loren to make a fine specimen of homo erectus frigidus. Loren managed the majority of the tough stuff himself, and only called for reinforcements when the mondo middle section needed lifting. we had to break it up; the two of us couldn't put the belly on the man.
here's a couple of the better shots of Loren with his new pal, whom he's dubbed Omnioxniphidus.
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Loren applying the finishing touches
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priceless
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No shortage of affection
here's a couple of the better shots of Loren with his new pal, whom he's dubbed Omnioxniphidus.
2005.01.09.12.55.38
Loren applying the finishing touches
2005.01.09.12.56.32
priceless
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No shortage of affection
2005-01-05
thanks for the scanner :)
probably the most useful gift i was lucky enough to receive this christmas was a scanner/(photo) printer/copier from my folks (thanks guys!). seeing as how i've gotten it installed (though not before i bought the wrong USB cable and ended up salvaging a suspect one (which seems to be working fine) from an old scanner i inherited from someone at work), i figured i'd get right to the task of scanning some pictures nearing the end of their lives, before they completely deteriorated. here's the results:
the following pictures were all saved from the inside of the lid of my toolbox, where they've been taped since 1996 and early 1997- that's 8 years of getting shuffled to and from work and having tools bang off them and scratch them up. i took advantage of the color copier at work and replaced the originals in my toolbox with color copies. these scans look much better than the color copies i made. when i have a few more moments i'll try to clean them up and re-print them, as sort of a photo-restoration-skills test.
this first picture's from december of 1996. if i'm not mistaken it was taken on christmas eve day (which would make it a tuesday). the higher-ups at the sign company i worked for at the time, National Sign in Seattle, allowed me and another employee to bring our sons to work that day. it was the day of the company christmas party, but everyone got some work done that day also- including Loren, who cut his sign teeth on a channel-letter project for this Campus Square sign which would eventually stand outside a strip mall in Federal Way. the blue letters he's working on have glass housings which screw into the sheet metal of the letter body, allowing the electrodes on the ends of the neon tubes to contact a spring which is in turn electrified with (generally) around 20,000V at approx 30mA, thereby causing the semiconductive gas in the glass neon tubes (still generically referred to as neon though in many cases the glass holds a different inert gas) to flouresce. Loren worked hard on these letters! eventually i'll get around to posting a picture of the completed sign, which was written up in a Signs Of The Times magazine (a trade rag for the sign industry). when i get THAT ambitious i'll update this post to include it that picture. incidentally, the sign in the background is part of a $1M assembly that was a completely overblown parking sign for a casino in Las Vegas; it had literally 60 transformers in it, and went out on 3 semi trucks!
this second picture is of Loren and the other employee's son (Taylor I believe his name is) inside the main body of the sign. it was fitting Loren spent some time in that sign because i did too- being the smallest guy in a shop has its disadvantages. no one else could fit inside it to terminate all the wiring, so Yours Truly got to spend a couple hours in there on his back. imagine climbing inside the motor cavity of your car and rewiring the spark plugs with the hood closed..... in any case, Loren had more fun in there than i did!
this last one is actually chronologically the first one to go in my toolbox, from july, 1996. yep, that's Loren, licking his Uncle Jason's bald head. everyone at work thought it was former Mariner Jay Buhner at first glance. always good for a laugh. Jason was a good sport about Loren teasing him like that- and it's obvious Loren was having a ball. this all took place on the back patio at my folks' house.
ok that's it for now. hope y'all've enjoyed the blast from the past as much as i have-
PEACE
the following pictures were all saved from the inside of the lid of my toolbox, where they've been taped since 1996 and early 1997- that's 8 years of getting shuffled to and from work and having tools bang off them and scratch them up. i took advantage of the color copier at work and replaced the originals in my toolbox with color copies. these scans look much better than the color copies i made. when i have a few more moments i'll try to clean them up and re-print them, as sort of a photo-restoration-skills test.
this first picture's from december of 1996. if i'm not mistaken it was taken on christmas eve day (which would make it a tuesday). the higher-ups at the sign company i worked for at the time, National Sign in Seattle, allowed me and another employee to bring our sons to work that day. it was the day of the company christmas party, but everyone got some work done that day also- including Loren, who cut his sign teeth on a channel-letter project for this Campus Square sign which would eventually stand outside a strip mall in Federal Way. the blue letters he's working on have glass housings which screw into the sheet metal of the letter body, allowing the electrodes on the ends of the neon tubes to contact a spring which is in turn electrified with (generally) around 20,000V at approx 30mA, thereby causing the semiconductive gas in the glass neon tubes (still generically referred to as neon though in many cases the glass holds a different inert gas) to flouresce. Loren worked hard on these letters! eventually i'll get around to posting a picture of the completed sign, which was written up in a Signs Of The Times magazine (a trade rag for the sign industry). when i get THAT ambitious i'll update this post to include it that picture. incidentally, the sign in the background is part of a $1M assembly that was a completely overblown parking sign for a casino in Las Vegas; it had literally 60 transformers in it, and went out on 3 semi trucks!
this second picture is of Loren and the other employee's son (Taylor I believe his name is) inside the main body of the sign. it was fitting Loren spent some time in that sign because i did too- being the smallest guy in a shop has its disadvantages. no one else could fit inside it to terminate all the wiring, so Yours Truly got to spend a couple hours in there on his back. imagine climbing inside the motor cavity of your car and rewiring the spark plugs with the hood closed..... in any case, Loren had more fun in there than i did!
this last one is actually chronologically the first one to go in my toolbox, from july, 1996. yep, that's Loren, licking his Uncle Jason's bald head. everyone at work thought it was former Mariner Jay Buhner at first glance. always good for a laugh. Jason was a good sport about Loren teasing him like that- and it's obvious Loren was having a ball. this all took place on the back patio at my folks' house.
ok that's it for now. hope y'all've enjoyed the blast from the past as much as i have-
PEACE
2005-01-04
so it's a new year already
damned if these new years don't just keep comin' quicker. gonna use 'em all up 'fore i know it, then where'll i be? safe guess: somewhere that is not here. yes, i highly doubt i will be entombed upon this chair in this room; it would bring down the property value.
i wonder if anyone's actually ever asked to be cremated and have their ashes thrown....in an ash tray. i wonder if anyone's ever had their ashes sprinkled lovingly, like a fine, rare spice, into a simmering pot of spaghetti sauce. brings a whole new meaning to the term "eat me".
christmas came and nearly went before i was ready to actually participate this year. not much christmas spirit in the ol' boy. i finally worked a little of it up on christmas day itself, watching my son open presents, and sitting around at my sister's house with the folks. hopefully this year the christmas bug'll bite me early enough to get things done earlier.
new year's was frightfully uneventful also. managed to get together with ThoseDudes, but that's about all i can say positive about the experience. new year's day began with sittin' fer a spell in a hot tub whilst drinking coffee and Bailey's- as good a way as any to start a year.
this blogger's been trying to quit smoking. it would help if i actually ran out of cigarettes. i've gotten to the point now where it's really difficult to smoke one. i think i have about half a dozen left and when these are gone i'm going to try to tough it out. unless of course i find MORE cigarettes hiding around here somewhere. i've smoked 3 this year so far, in bits and pieces. take a couple drags, get dizzy, put it out. a step in the right direction.
ok if i don't get some dinner going soon, i'm not going to get any. and i have to shower off all this sandblasting dust from work.
PEACE
i wonder if anyone's actually ever asked to be cremated and have their ashes thrown....in an ash tray. i wonder if anyone's ever had their ashes sprinkled lovingly, like a fine, rare spice, into a simmering pot of spaghetti sauce. brings a whole new meaning to the term "eat me".
christmas came and nearly went before i was ready to actually participate this year. not much christmas spirit in the ol' boy. i finally worked a little of it up on christmas day itself, watching my son open presents, and sitting around at my sister's house with the folks. hopefully this year the christmas bug'll bite me early enough to get things done earlier.
new year's was frightfully uneventful also. managed to get together with ThoseDudes, but that's about all i can say positive about the experience. new year's day began with sittin' fer a spell in a hot tub whilst drinking coffee and Bailey's- as good a way as any to start a year.
this blogger's been trying to quit smoking. it would help if i actually ran out of cigarettes. i've gotten to the point now where it's really difficult to smoke one. i think i have about half a dozen left and when these are gone i'm going to try to tough it out. unless of course i find MORE cigarettes hiding around here somewhere. i've smoked 3 this year so far, in bits and pieces. take a couple drags, get dizzy, put it out. a step in the right direction.
ok if i don't get some dinner going soon, i'm not going to get any. and i have to shower off all this sandblasting dust from work.
PEACE
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