I listened to my 103,000th unique iTunes track a little while ago — on January 9 — but have not until this moment posted the news, due to fatigue, lack of time, and a realization of unimportance. Track number 103,000 was the 1947 Green Hornet episode, “City Hall Shakeup”, which originally aired on July 15 of that year, if the information from The Interwebs is to be trusted.
I have to provide a caveat for the following data, which is suspect and must have an asterisk forever associated with it due to the fact that I did not collect the information at the time, but have tried to recreate it from the numbers currently at my disposal. Changes to the underlying dataset (such as the deletion or later addition of iTunes files) may have changed the actual numbers which would have been extracted a week ago when the minor milestone immortalized in this post was actually achieved. In fact, it is almost certain that these numbers are (slightly) inaccurate, as I’ve added a few files in the meanwhile, including the Star Blazers theme song.
Given the caveat above, 103,000 unique tracks comprises 743.87 GB of data, with a total duration of 346 days, 4 hours, 56 minutes, and 6 seconds (ignoring multiple plays). My iTunes collection seems to have had 87,343 items left unplayed — 703 less tracks than the last milestone, for a net gain of 297 tracks. The unplayed tracks take up 654.48 GB of data (↓ 9.9GB) with a playing time of 417 days, 11 hours, 59 minutes, and 49 seconds (↓ 17 days).
The delta between played total time of tracks vs. unplayed time (my primary concern at the moment; see my latest post) comes in at a deficit just over 71.3 days, an almost 30 day clawback.
To add another 1,000 tracks to my grand total, 1,323 tracks were played. The higher number is due both to changes mentioned in my last iTunes tracking analysis post, as well as work done on my cousins’ CD (also known as torture for ears).
More detailed analysis to come, and I still have to finish the 102K analysis (which is currently underway), and I still need to put the entire first 100K under the microscope.
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