Yet another fictional milestone has been achieved, as I’ve just listened to my 108,000th unique iTunes track, a live performance of what purports to be a traditional song of Burma. Those who can read the album cover (reproduced here) may be able to provide more information; all I know is that the song I heard was track #7.
I have slightly more information about the track before, #107,999, and to be honest I like it better. This track is also a live performance, this one of “In That New Jerusalem” by The Weavers from their album The Weavers At Carnegie Hall Vol. 2.
108,000 unique tracks makes up 800.40 GB of data, with a total duration of 413 days, 1 hour, 2 minutes, and 10 seconds (ignoring multiple plays). Left unplayed in my iTunes collection at the moment of impactful milestone crossing were 83,452 songs, which is 980 less than last report (thus only 20 songs were added in the meantime). The unplayed tracks comprise 596.48 GB of data (↓ 8.93 GB) with a playing time of 358 days, 15 hours, 5 minutes, and 25 seconds (↓ 12.5 days)..
To reach the 108,000th unique track, I listened to 1,301 songs (from track #107,000), which total 9.79 GB of data, and laid end-to-end comprise 12 days, 21 hours, 28 minutes, and 39 seconds of audio.
41 days were required to listen to the last thousand songs (15 less than the previous 1k), meaning 24.39 new songs per day were heard. This is a significant rate increase (previously I listened to just under 18 songs per day), which may have something to do with longer work hours.
24.39 New Tracks Heard per Day
If we include the previously heard songs, we find that I heard 31.73 tracks per day.
31.73 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, though that promise recedes and may be broken soon.