Or, A Full Year’s Worth of Songs!
I have just listened to my 104,000th unique iTunes track, Thelonious Monk’s “Ruby My Dear”. This particular version seems to have Glenn Gould-itis, as someone can be heard muttering into the microphone as the piano is played.
104,000 unique tracks comprises 760.81 GB of data, with a total duration of 365 days, 5 hours, 40 minutes, and 27 seconds (ignoring multiple plays) — this is ridiculously close to one solar year, which is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. My iTunes collection seems to have had 86,724 items left unplayed — 619 less tracks than the last milestone, for a net gain of 381 tracks. The unplayed tracks take up 629.62 GB of data (↓ 24.9GB) with a playing time of 402 days, 7 hours, 32 minutes, and 9 seconds (↓ 14.8 days). These numbers assume, naturally, that the suspect numbers from the last iTunes milestone are accurate, which is not necessarily a correct assumption; see last post.
The delta between played total time of tracks vs. unplayed time (my primary concern at the moment) comes in at a deficit just under 37.1 days, a clawback of over 34 days.
To reach the 104,000th unique track, I listened to 1,177 songs (from track #103,000), which total 17.7 GB of data, and laid end-to-end comprise 18 days, 21 hours, 7 minutes, and 22 seconds of audio.
I will no longer promise further analysis, as I’m still owing the same for the 103Kth and 102Kth sets of iTunes songs.