SXSW Top 10

I spent the last week or two wading through the 1,045 songs in the SXSW torrent to try to find new bands that I was interested in.

Quicksilver and its iTunes integration were a huge help in this process. If you have a mac and you're not using Quicksilver, shame on you. If you have a PC, there are plenty of other app-launcher/productivity applications that you could be using. I'm not going to do your job for you. Just Google it. Amongst other things, Quicksilver's iTunes plugin lets you use simpl key combinations to go the next song and rate songs without leaving your current task to flip over to iTunes.

In any case, by the time all was said and done, here's the breakdown of the rated songs:
4 stars: 12
3 stars: 50
2 stars: 143
1 star: 208
0 stars: 416

You can listen the top 12 by going to the combination of "mp3" and "sxsw" in my deli.icio.us tags here:
http://delicious.com/elgreg/mp3+sxsw
There's a little slideout player in the bottom.

I also uploaded the top 10 to a drop here:
http://drop.io/sxsw_top_10

Of course, the moment that I went to blog this, I found that a "late additions" third torrent was out there with another 214 songs. Looks like I have my work cut out for me today.