The Sad Tale of my renovated '100 Waifus' music playlist:

It always annoyed me that my project to assign a suitable song to every character in '100 Waifus' who attended their family photo party in Chapter 57 was incomplete.  Sure, I had assigned 1099 songs to 1099 characters, but through some human error I was only able to collect 1097 of those assigned songs into a playlist.  So I deleted the whole playlist and started over, this time making sure that each song would have a name attached to it so I couldn't possibly mistakenly not transfer the song into the playlist -- and the result was yet again 1097 songs.

I don't understand it.  At first I thought my math was off and maybe there were only 1097 names to begin with, but no, I did the math and there are 1099 names.  I of course tried to re-include all the songs I knew had names attached to them in the belief that maybe I had forgotten to transfer them -- but nope, all those songs were accounted for.  The playlist stubbornly stayed at 1097 no matter how many times I tried to error check.

At this point I'm willing to attribute the entire situation to a supernatural curse and surrender.  If I spend days building the initial playlist and end up at 1097 on the dot, and then days more building an all-new playlist and end up at 1097 on the dot, that's no longer due to human causes.

On the bright side, going through my '100 Waifus' playlist let me improve it dramatically from last time, which also helped me improve my music hall of fame as a whole as a side effect.  This time around I decided no character would be assigned a song lower than 3-star quality, no matter how suitable that song was to be their theme song.  I wanted the song to be worthwhile enough that the character wouldn't feel like they were receiving a rock for Christmas.  So if there was a song from their franchise, or having to do with their name, that was 3-star or 4-star, I would give them that song instead of a random 5-star song.  Obviously if there was a 5-star song that also had something to do with the character they would receive that song.  Otherwise they would receive a 5-star song that felt reminiscent of their character as a whole despite it being unrelated to them.

This let me increase the proportion of the playlist that was 5-star, I believe to 78% of the playlist.  It also allowed me to assign every single 5-star Fire Emblem, Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross song a character so that I could weigh the list a bit towards albums that really take the cake.

Sometimes I came across songs that were iconic to a character, like Ballad of Serenity for Malcolm, that were rated 2-star.  In these cases I decided such an iconic song really deserved to be 3-star and promoted it, thus keeping the close character link.  I had a handful of 3-star songs I wanted to demote before this anyway so everyone benefitted.  I also found some 4-star songs to demote so that I could promote a few 3-star songs that I absolutely knew deserved to be 4-star and were just waiting for some room: 'Toberu mono (Feat. Kanon)', 'Keves Colony', 'progress,' and 'Beautiful Lake and the capital of the holy sword.'

So despite the supernatural curse preventing me from perfecting my '100 Waifus' playlist, I was able to leverage the effort into perfecting my music hall of fame.  As Jurassic Park would say, 'life finds a way.'

Music maintenance continues as I still need to adjust the start time, end time, and volume of all my music hall of fame due to the files being transferred to a new solid state drive.  I also still have to listen to my 21 new songs 100 times to make them officially qualify for the positions they've already been given.  >.<.  But at least the hard part is done, assigning every song the correct rating and every child name a song.  For people interested in this song appendix of '100 Waifus,' here's a link:  https://diamed-the-road-less-traveled.blogspot.com/2024/06/who-received-which-song-in-100-waifus.html

I can listen to my music while reading the new volume of 'The Red Wheel' thanks to the hardcover finally arriving in the mail, so November is off to a productive start.