{"id":1026,"date":"2018-03-15T09:13:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2018-06-26T22:15:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:15:48","slug":"one-hundred-and-four-thousand-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"One Hundred and Four Thousand Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Or, A Full Year&#8217;s Worth of Songs!<\/h5>\n<p class=\"prose\">I have just listened to my 104,000th unique iTunes track, Thelonious Monk&#8217;s &#8220;Ruby My Dear&#8221;. This particular version seems to have Glenn Gould-itis, as someone can be heard muttering into the microphone as the piano is played.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Confirmation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Confirmation.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Confirmation.png 494w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Confirmation-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Confirmation-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Confirmation-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Confirmation-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Confirmation-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Confirmation-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"prose\">104,000 unique tracks comprises 760.81 GB of data, with a total duration of 365 days, 5 hours, 40 minutes, and 27 seconds (ignoring multiple plays) <strong>&#8212; this is <em>ridiculously close<\/em> to one solar year, which is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds<\/strong>. My iTunes collection seems to have had 86,724 items left unplayed &#8212; 619 less tracks than the last milestone, for a net gain of 381 tracks. The unplayed tracks take up 629.62 GB of data (\u2193 24.9GB) with a playing time of 402 days, 7 hours, 32 minutes, and 9 seconds (\u2193 14.8 days). These numbers assume, naturally, that the suspect numbers from the last iTunes milestone are accurate, which is not necessarily a correct assumption; see <a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=1019\">last post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prose\">The delta between played total time of tracks vs. unplayed time (my primary concern at the moment) comes in at a deficit just under 37.1 days, a clawback of over 34 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prose\">To reach the 104,000th unique track, I listened to 1,177 songs (from track #103,000), which total 17.7 GB of data, and laid end-to-end comprise 18 days, 21 hours, 7 minutes, and 22 seconds of audio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prose\">I will no longer promise further analysis, as I&#8217;m still owing the same for the 103Kth and 102Kth sets of iTunes songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, A Full Year&#8217;s Worth of Songs! I have just listened to my 104,000th unique iTunes track, Thelonious Monk&#8217;s &#8220;Ruby My Dear&#8221;. 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