And the winner of the First Annual MrMudPuppy iPod Song Count Contest is…
Heather Doty of Boulder, Colorado who guessed 27,582. She was closer than anyone else regardless of the number of songs on MrMudPuppy’s iPod today vs. last week when the contest started, although I took the picture the day the contest started:
The correct answer was 29,999. So she was off by only … 2,417 songs.
And it’s a good thing Heather thought to put that 2 on the end of her guess because the next closest guess (22,952) was “joaniemack” who was tailing Heather by a mere 4400 songs or so.
So Heather, who I should mention is part of a Zimbabwean-style Marimba Quartet, Madziva Mana (how cool is THAT?), wins a $25 Amazon Gift card. Congratulations, Heather!
For those of you anal-retentive types who busted out your calculators to try and figure out a number, the facts are these:
1. MrMudPuppy owns a 160 Gigabyte iPod.
2. MrMudPuppy rips his CDs at 128 kbps (vbr). Whatever THAT means.
3. All of the songs are downloaded from his CD collection. None are internet-downloaded MP3, or bootlegs, or bit torrents.
Thank you all for playing and stay tuned for another chance at more contests - woo hoo!
can i ask the obvious question of how can your husband possibly listen to nearly 300,000 songs?
if i were to have guessed, it would have been 500 give or take.
Holy crap. I didn’t even know that there were that many songs.
Man, I wish I had that many songs. But then again, how long does it take to listen to all those?
Three hundred thousand songs???? Are you kidding me? That’s just ridiculous.
He only has 30,000.
Isn’t there about 30,000 different versions of Louie Louie alone?
Well let’s see…. if you only listen them all one time each and you never sleep again for the rest of your life…
*only* 30,000.
i was clearly too shocked that i didn’t properly count my 9′s.
Congrats to the winner!!!!!
Hoo boy, that’s a lot of songs. I’m kind of jealous. Except I keep deleting songs off my iPod because when they come up on Shuffle and I keep skipping them, and it makes me mad that they’re taking up space. Humph. I’d probably have 2,99999999 songs too if I didn’t keep deleting stuff.
Congrats to Heather!
oh nice! congrats to Heather !