Last night I listened to my 106,000th unique iTunes track, a middle-aged radio show entitled “The New Man at the Yard” from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. This particular episode dramatizes a ‘ride-along’ with Scotland Yard by the author Charles Dickens — sort of a 19th-century version of Castle — and originally aired on March 12, 1982.
106,000 unique tracks makes up 783.57 GB of data, with a total duration of 390 days, 18 hours, 37 minutes, and 1 second (ignoring multiple plays). Left unplayed as yet in my iTunes collection are now 85,268 songs, which is 798 less than were left unplayed at my 105k check-in (thus 202 songs were added in the interim — including a whole lot of Chet Atkins). The unplayed tracks comprise 612.70 GB of data (↓ 10.20 GB) with a playing time of 380 days, 22 hours, 9 minutes, and 48 seconds (↓ 14+ days). As reported earlier, parity between length of time in played tracks vs. in unplayed tracks was achieved a little over 5 weeks ago.
To reach the 106,000th unique track, I listened to 1,296 songs (from track #105,000), which total 13.11 GB of data, and laid end-to-end comprise 15 days, 7 hours, 54 minutes, and 40 seconds of audio.
76 days were required to listen to the last thousand songs, meaning 13.16 new songs per day were heard (the low number due, no doubt, to my current habit of listening to old radio shows.
13.16 New Tracks Heard per Day
If we include the previously heard songs, we find that I heard 17.05 tracks per day.
17.05 Tracks Heard per Day
I am no longer promising further analysis, as I’m still owing the same for the 103Kth and 102Kth sets of iTunes songs.
In passing I note that in the time I read 100 books (see those other posts), I listened to 4,553 songs. For what it is worth.
This post has been updated to reflect the fact that 76 days were consumed during the 1,000 new song hearings, rather than 75. The figures depending upon that stat were also changed.