Hugo first specified Search by Year so he could listen to tracks that came out while he was at university, but it's not a feature I've really used much. That is, until last night!

We discovered that Search by Year provides an excellent New Years Eve party game - music is selected for a given year and then after half an hour or so everyone has to name the year. OK, so Radio 1 got there first, but it worked pretty well. I guess you need an empeg with a chronologically diverse selection of music - and Roger's player was about as diverse as they get.

Rob

Excellent idea! I've been making it a point to supplement the usual CDDB data with album year info just for completeness' sake, but this certainly puts a new twist on things.

I've done this with my empeg at work. I've got my own radio station on my empeg as a friend had a TONS of CDs all of them where the top 100 billboards for every year so he let me rip them and I put them on my empeg. Basicly any song I can think of has been on the top 100 so now I have it. He had the top 100 from 1959-2000 then the top 50 from 1955-58 and top 30s from 1950-54. Needless to say the empeg is full but I love going threw some of the older years and playing songs and bringing back good ol memories. Yes there are some good uses for play by year but in my case they also had to guess what number it was on the billboard charts for that year. Lots of fun.