When I’m driving, I can’t look down at my iPod to see what song is playing to determine if I want to keep listening to it (at least not safely). So, I’m a pro at figuring out songs before even a second of the song plays.

That’s why I took on this assignment for this week.

I listened to some other DS106ers’ assignments, and most people put the songs together, one after another. I really didn’t like all the songs being close together, because you can’t hear them start and finish. When I hear these radio contests, they don’t do it like that. So I went in another direction.

Radio shows also don’t make it impossible by picking the most random piece of the song to trick their listeners. They want people to know the song, so that’s what I did. I found popular songs and then cut out a part that most people would recognize.

I used Audacity again for this one since it was a simple cut and paste assignment.

I took songs from my iTunes library and imported them into Audacity one by one. Cut them down to under a second each and put about 2 seconds between each so they would be distinct pieces. You can see them separated here.