Over 93 days after my last thousand songs were heard, I have just listened to my 116,000th unique iTunes track, a likable enough country number from Rosanne Cash, “Green, Yellow, and Red”, from her 1987 album King’s Record Shop. I am reliably informed (well, yes, I read it on the Interwebs) that Ms. Cash was not actually present in the doorway of the iconic record store for the album cover, but that’s neither here nor there.
The Stats
116,000 unique tracks takes up 766.61 GB of data (↑ 9.36 GB), which would take 507 days, 2 hours, 10 minutes, and 5 seconds to listen to altogether (↑ 6 days and 21-1/2 hours). Remaining unplayed in my iTunes library of files are 75,783 tracks, 716 fewer than my last report (thus 284 tracks have been added to my library since I hit 115,000 songs heard). The unplayed files occupy 511.18 GB of data space (↓ 6.5 GB) and 262 days, 9 hours, 58 minutes and 49 seconds of time (↓ 7 days & 1 hour). The decline in total time ‘consumed’ by the last thousand tracks heard (I dropped well over 10 days worth of sound files in the last tranche of 1,000) can be attributed to a significant change in my consumptive habits, which in itself is due to changes in my means of production (of wages).
To reach the 116,000th unique track, I listened to 1254 songs since track #115,000, starting this latest tranche with Warren Zevon’s “Interlude No. 1” from Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School. These 1246 songs occupy 10.98 GB of data, and 8 days, 15 hours, and 13-1/2 minutes of time. Much less total time was taken up—though almost the same number of tracks—due to the drastic change in my listening habits caused by my new work situation starting in May of this year.
It took 93 days to listen to the last thousand songs, meaning just over 10.25 new songs per day were heard.
10.25 New Tracks Heard per Day
If we include the previously heard songs, we find that I heard 13.48 tracks per day, a drastic drop of about eight-and-a-half songs fewer per day than the last set of one thousand songs. This is due to the aforementioned change in my job situation, which means I no longer listen to old radio shows during the middle of the night and the ungodly hours of the morning.
13.48 Tracks Heard per Day
I never did do any analysis of the last five thousand songs, as I sort of promised and sort of hinted at in my last report to you, so I will now make the rash promise of making such an analysis of the last six thousand songs heard, for your comparison with my last deep scan of the data, though of course 6,000 doesn’t seem to have the gravitas of half a myriad. (In addition, the math won’t be quite as obvious, and the comparisons will also require a ‘fudge factor’ of 1.2 (or 0.83333 (repeating, of course) depending).) We shall see, or, as Doris Day said, “Que sera, sera”.
I am also beginning to wonder if my analysis of my listened-to songs will survive the transition to a new MacOS and its ‘updated’ Music software (or are we supposed to call it an ‘app’ now?). Usually I would go into an Apple store and poke around in it, but I guess I’ll just have to write a blog post about it, though I fear the inevitable responses about going to Windows (or Linux, from the weirdos)—which I suppose would be better than the actual response, which is to say, none at all. Besides, I have to write up my history of why it took me five days to set up my wife’s new iPhone, and before that I really do owe Bill an explanation of why I asked for a handful of Lego pieces for Christmas a few years back. *Sigh* Maybe next time I have to do taxes I’ll procrastinate in such a way. Until then …
… that’s all folks. See you next time!
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