Just 80 days after my last such notice, I have just heard my 113,000th unique iTunes track, the slightly desultory Grateful Dead song “When Push Comes To Shove”, from the Dead’s show at Frost Amphitheatre on May 2, 1987. This particular file was digitized from my own tape of the show, which I was at (and that’s my ticket to prove it) (not that that proves anything, but if you want to come over to my house I can show you the ticket, which also proves nothing, but I sure do miss physical tickets). This was followed by the 113,001st song, “Hell With The Lid Off”, a rant by the eight year-old preacher Marjoe Gortner, kicking off the next thousand tracks with a bang, as it were.
113,000 unique tracks makes up 735.41 GB of data (↑ 9.8 GB), with a total duration of 477 days, 19 hours, 48 minutes, and 48 seconds (↑ 11+ days). Left unplayed in my iTunes collection at this moment are 78,101 songs, which is 461 less than last report (meaning that a net 539 tracks were added since last report). The unplayed tracks comprise 536.29 GB of data (↓ 4.4 GB) with a playing time of 289 days,21 hours, 45 minutes, and 30 seconds (↓ 9 days & ~6 hours). (Purists among you may wish to add back into this time the 2:44 duration of the Marjoe Gortner rant. I wish you well.)
To reach the 113,000th unique track, I listened to 1254 songs since track #112,000, starting this latest leg of my musical consumptive journey with “Life Is Like A River” by The Sultans Five. Thus including the previously played songs (and since I’ve been working on my mix CDs for my cousins I’ve listened to some of those quite a number of times), the total size of files heard in the last set of 1,000 comes to 11.22 GB, lasting 11 days, 21 hours, 51 minutes, and 43 seconds were you to listen to each of those files back to back. Of course, as I just said, I’ve listened to several of these multiple multiple times (which is not a stat I can track easily in iTunes, nor do I think I should like to).
It took 80 days to listen to the last thousand songs, meaning precisely 12.5 new songs per day were heard.
12.5 New Tracks Heard per Day
If we include the previously heard songs, we find that I heard 15.675 tracks per day.
15.68 Tracks Heard per Day
No additional comments beyond those already made for this particular tranche of a thousand songs. See you next time!