URL Playlist Index

Directory of resources for playlistlogging

Playlistlogging channel at Topic Exchange (Added Jan 2, 2003)
Discussion of URL playlists at QuickTopic (New as of Dec 7, 2003)
A survey of playlist formats.
Open projects in playlisting.
Hublog playlist, updated regularly.
How-to document maintained by Jim Nachlin.
Facil-o-SMIL
CreativeCommons SMIL Module

URL Playlists hosted on gonze.com, from most popular to least, for Oct 1-Nov 1, 2003

The following is a popularity listing of playlists hosted on my personal account, considering downloads between Oct 1 and Nov 1, 2003. Since that time the proportion of all playlists to playlists hosted on my account has gone down up too much for me to be able to generate meaningful numbers, so these statistics will not be regenerated for other time periods.

URL Requests Comments

http://gonze.com/playlists/work.smil 107 See http://gonze.com/playlists/work.html. This was linked on 5-10 blogs.

http://gonze.com/playlists/boom-selection.smil 62 Just a straight conversion of HTML at boomselection.info to SMIL. I'm sure this is popular because boomselection's taste is so good.

http://gonze.com/playlists/jirku.smil 45 See http://gonze.com/playlists/jirku.html. The MP3 links went dead for a while when the server host changed them. Attn: Cool URIs don't change.

http://gonze.com/playlists/nph-brettlist.cgi 31 Might be misranked higher than it should be because of its advanced age, but also might just be popular because of how loose and rock Brett's taste is -- nothing he touched scored as low as the median.

http://gonze.com/playlists/dcl.smil 25 A straight conversion of the music on Digital Cutup Lounge's MP3 page to SMIL, with images added.

http://gonze.com/playlists/nph-brettnfingertips.cgi 23 A very early playlist, before we had a SMIL generator.

http://gonze.com/playlists/8bit_rockers.smil 17 Underrated. I think it's going to be higher in next month's ranking.

http://gonze.com/playlists/fingertips.m3u 17

http://gonze.com/playlists/pride_and_envy_lounge.smil 14 This playlist demonstrates client-side remixing -- the sermon is from a completely different source than the audio tracks. See http://gonze.com/playlists/pride_and_envy_lounge.html. this URL was posted on the cc-metadata list.

http://gonze.com/playlists/boom_selection.m3u 14 Notice how much lower this M3U playlist is than the SMIL playlist with the same material.

http://gonze.com/playlists/pitchfork.smil 13 Several now-dead links and uninspiring music are keeping this at the bottom of the charts.

http://gonze.com/playlists/8bit_house.smil 11 Underrated, probably because it was announced in a fairly lifeless blog entry of mine.

http://gonze.com/playlists/open-jirku.smil 9 This was a trivial edit of Alf Eaton's playlist at the time, with a couple tracks removed and a couple added. The original was better.

http://gonze.com/playlists/pride_n_feedom.smil 7 This was a trivial edit of Jim Nachlin's pride_n_envy_n_freedom.smil. The original was better.

URL	Requests	Comments
http://gonze.com/playlists/work.smil	107	See http://gonze.com/playlists/work.html. This was linked on 5-10 blogs.
http://gonze.com/playlists/boom-selection.smil	62	Just a straight conversion of HTML at boomselection.info to SMIL. I'm sure this is popular because boomselection's taste is so good.
http://gonze.com/playlists/jirku.smil	45	See http://gonze.com/playlists/jirku.html. The MP3 links went dead for a while when the server host changed them. Attn: Cool URIs don't change.
http://gonze.com/playlists/nph-brettlist.cgi	31	Might be misranked higher than it should be because of its advanced age, but also might just be popular because of how loose and rock Brett's taste is -- nothing he touched scored as low as the median.
http://gonze.com/playlists/dcl.smil	25	A straight conversion of the music on Digital Cutup Lounge's MP3 page to SMIL, with images added.
http://gonze.com/playlists/nph-brettnfingertips.cgi	23	A very early playlist, before we had a SMIL generator.
http://gonze.com/playlists/8bit_rockers.smil	17	Underrated. I think it's going to be higher in next month's ranking.
http://gonze.com/playlists/fingertips.m3u	17
http://gonze.com/playlists/pride_and_envy_lounge.smil	14	This playlist demonstrates client-side remixing -- the sermon is from a completely different source than the audio tracks. See http://gonze.com/playlists/pride_and_envy_lounge.html. this URL was posted on the cc-metadata list.
http://gonze.com/playlists/boom_selection.m3u	14	Notice how much lower this M3U playlist is than the SMIL playlist with the same material.
http://gonze.com/playlists/pitchfork.smil	13	Several now-dead links and uninspiring music are keeping this at the bottom of the charts.
http://gonze.com/playlists/8bit_house.smil	11	Underrated, probably because it was announced in a fairly lifeless blog entry of mine.
http://gonze.com/playlists/open-jirku.smil	9	This was a trivial edit of Alf Eaton's playlist at the time, with a couple tracks removed and a couple added. The original was better.
http://gonze.com/playlists/pride_n_feedom.smil	7	This was a trivial edit of Jim Nachlin's pride_n_envy_n_freedom.smil. The original was better.

Analysis of popularity listing

In the histogram, notice the peak around the median popularity (the two dots up higher than the rest) and the beginning of a power law curve (the drastically thinning density as you move right) around the most popular items. The most popular item has 107 hits, almost twice as many as the next most popular item, with 62 hits, which is about three times the median.


             maximum: 107
              median: 18
             minimum: 1

             average: 26.5882352941176
  standard deviation: 25.7076321924283
                 sum: 452
          item count: 17

           histogram:
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