Nearly four months after reporting one hundred and eleven thousand songs heard, I’ve just listened to my 112,000th unique iTunes track, a Mysterious Traveler radio episode from 1950, “The Man Who Tried To Save Lincoln”. It’s a little bit of Science Fiction, a little psycho-thriller, and a fair bit of fun. Check it out.
112,000 unique tracks makes up 725.59 GB of data (↑ 10.5 GB), with a total duration of 466 days, 15 hours, 56 minutes, and 50 seconds (↑ 12 days & ~3 hours). Left unplayed in my iTunes collection at this moment are 78,562 songs, which is 2,303 less than last report (meaning that a net 1,303 tracks were deleted since last report). The unplayed tracks comprise 540.69 GB of data (↓ 17 GB) with a playing time of 299 days, 3 hours, 32 minutes, and 38 seconds (↓ 15 days & 10 hours).
To reach the 112,000th unique track, I listened to 2,514 songs (since track #111,000—the high number is due to deletion of duplicate tracks from my iTunes database, as well as the usual plays of previously played songs), which total 17.9 GB of data and extend for 15 days, 18 hours, 27 minutes and a second of audio.
It took 113 days to listen to the last thousand songs, meaning 8.85 new songs per day were heard.
8.85 New Tracks Heard per Day
If we include the previously heard songs, we find that I heard 22.25 tracks per day.
22-¼ Tracks Heard per Day
Once again, material changes in my waking environment (i.e., prohibition of music listening by certain powers that be) have affected what I’ve listened to. In particular, the much slower pace of new listening is due to that change. In addition, I have been pruning duplicated songs and tracks, which led to the much greater number of total songs heard in order to bring my total heard song count to 112,000. This is because among the tracks deleted were many which had been heard before; thus deleting these dupes meant a net loss to the number of tracks heard.