Yesterday, at approximately 4:51 PM, I heard my one hundred and ten thousandth track in iTunes. The particular track was a peppy instrumental version of “Fly Me to the Moon” from a Customusic sampler album. Customusic was — and still is, apparently (just don’t click on the main logo; the Customusic Web site does not appear to have an “index.html” page) — … um, where was I? Oh, right! Customusic was a Muzak competitor (actually, it is Muzak which is no more; they will not be missed), and the song I listened to was a little taste of their product. (First one’s free!)
This statement is verified (by me) as accurate under the new iTunes data protocols outlined here. Thus today’s announcement supersedes the erroneous pronouncement made earlier. We apologize for the previous error, and will continue to beat that particular dead horse long after it is not necessary.
Since we have abandoned the old music methodology, comparisons with earlier putative datapoints are moot. We do, however, promise to issue in the not-too-distant future an in-depth analysis of the 110,000 songs heard. At this point we’ll merely mention that the 110K tracks represent 442 days of audio, and take up 705 GB of dataspace. (To give you an idea of some of the issues with the previous methodology, I’ll point out that the ‘non-songs’ heard already occupy over 120 GB of data; more on this and other points may be found here.)
Not heard yet are almost 82,000 tracks. More details to come.
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