NOTE: Due to recent (6 April 2019) changes in methodology, we can no longer support the contention that we have listened to 110,000 iTune tracks. In addition, the use of the term “Songs” in the original title of this post was misleading. Details to come in a new post describing the underlying problems with the former methodology and the new methodology for tracking this data going forward. When that post is written/complete we shall add a link here for your benefit. In the mean time, we are leaving this post in its original form with the exception of this note and the title changes. The initial posting was written in good faith, if poor data management, so we shall let it stand for what it is worth.
Yesterday morning I hit the milestone of 110,000 unique iTunes tracks heard at least once. Track #110,000 was “Kelly Watch the Stars”, a nice enough poppy little number from the first album by the French duo Air, Moon Safari. Yestereve I listened to the 110,001st track, some stage talk by The Clash from a 1976 London concert (shades of Consolidated!), included in the CD soundtrack meant to accompany Greil Marcus’s masterful Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, which soundtrack you can listen to right now at UbuWeb for free!.
110,000 unique tracks makes up 821.02 GB of data, with a total duration of 442 days, 9 hours, 45 minutes, and 52 seconds (ignoring multiple plays). Left unplayed in my iTunes collection at the moment of impactful milestone crossing were 82,173 songs, which is only 291 less than last report (thus over 700 songs were added in the meantime (I finally got around to ripping my Christmas presents)). The unplayed tracks comprise 581.72 GB of data (↓ 3.26 GB) with a playing time of 331 days, 1 hour, 51 minutes, and 8 seconds (↓ 8.9 days).
To reach the 110,000th unique track, I listened to 1,297 songs (since track #109,000), which total 10.21 GB of data, and laid end-to-end comprise 11 days, 8 hours, 51 minutes, and 12 seconds of audio.
It took only 44 days to listen to the last thousand songs (less than half as long than it took to hear the previous 1k), meaning 22.72 new songs per day were heard. This is a significant rate increase (from 9.8 per day), putting me back on my usual pace. This was due to the fact that the Xmas CDs were finished, at least the listening part.
22.2 New Tracks Heard per Day
If we include the previously heard songs, we find that I heard 29.5 tracks per day.
29.5 Tracks Heard per Day
A fictional life event milestone such as this deserves some sort of analysis, so I will promise same, which I’ll get right on after I complete my analysis of my last hundred books read, for which I’m sure you’re waiting with bated breath.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.
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