diff --git a/.idea/compiler.xml b/.idea/compiler.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f3891de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/compiler.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="CompilerConfiguration">
+    <annotationProcessing>
+      <profile name="Maven default annotation processors profile" enabled="true">
+        <sourceOutputDir name="target/generated-sources/annotations" />
+        <sourceTestOutputDir name="target/generated-test-sources/test-annotations" />
+        <outputRelativeToContentRoot value="true" />
+        <module name="PlaylistChallenge" />
+      </profile>
+    </annotationProcessing>
+    <bytecodeTargetLevel>
+      <module name="PlaylistChallenge" target="8" />
+    </bytecodeTargetLevel>
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/misc.xml b/.idea/misc.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4361200
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/misc.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="MavenProjectsManager">
+    <option name="originalFiles">
+      <list>
+        <option value="$PROJECT_DIR$/pom.xml" />
+      </list>
+    </option>
+  </component>
+  <component name="ProjectRootManager" version="2" languageLevel="JDK_1_8" project-jdk-name="1.8" project-jdk-type="JavaSDK" />
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/modules.xml b/.idea/modules.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5103107
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/modules.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="ProjectModuleManager">
+    <modules>
+      <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/PlaylistChallenge.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/PlaylistChallenge.iml" />
+    </modules>
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/vcs.xml b/.idea/vcs.xml
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index 0000000..35eb1dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/vcs.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="VcsDirectoryMappings">
+    <mapping directory="" vcs="Git" />
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/PlaylistChallenge.iml b/PlaylistChallenge.iml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4e3316b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/PlaylistChallenge.iml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<module org.jetbrains.idea.maven.project.MavenProjectsManager.isMavenModule="true" type="JAVA_MODULE" version="4">
+  <component name="NewModuleRootManager" LANGUAGE_LEVEL="JDK_1_8">
+    <output url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target/classes" />
+    <output-test url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target/test-classes" />
+    <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$">
+      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/main/java" isTestSource="false" />
+      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/test/java" isTestSource="true" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target" />
+    </content>
+    <orderEntry type="inheritedJdk" />
+    <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: junit:junit:4.12" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:1.3" level="project" />
+  </component>
+</module>
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bbd82c1..746fa88 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,18 @@
     <groupId>io.zipcoder</groupId>
     <artifactId>PlaylistChallenge</artifactId>
     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>8</source>
+                    <target>8</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
 
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/Music.java b/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/Music.java
index 180c65c..c88aa83 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/Music.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/Music.java
@@ -4,11 +4,33 @@ public class Music {
 
     private String[] playList;
 
-    public Music(String[] playList){
+    public Music(String[] playList) {
         this.playList = playList;
     }
 
-    public Integer selection(Integer startIndex, String selection){
-        return null;
+//    String[] playlist = {"dancinginthedark","rio","liveoak","liveoak"};
+//    Music music = new Music(playlist);
+//    Integer startingIndex = 0;
+//    String selection = "liveoak";
+//    Integer expected = 1;
+//    Integer actual = music.selection(startingIndex, selection);
+//        Assert.assertEquals(expected, actual);
+
+//    def distance(len_my_list, idx_1, idx_2):
+//    dist = abs(idx_1 - idx_2)
+//    return min(len_my_list - dist, dist)
+    public Integer selection(Integer startIndex, String selection) {
+        int current = 0;
+
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < playList.length; i++) {
+            if (playList[i].equals(selection)) {
+                 current = Math.abs(startIndex - i);
+
+            }
+        }
+
+
+        return Integer.min(playList.length - current, current);
     }
 }
diff --git a/target/classes/io/zipcoder/Music.class b/target/classes/io/zipcoder/Music.class
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diff --git a/target/test-classes/io/zipcoder/MusicTest.class b/target/test-classes/io/zipcoder/MusicTest.class
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