{"id":2753,"date":"2020-04-08T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2020-07-10T20:39:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T03:39:41","slug":"one-hundred-and-fifteen-thousand-songs-115000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=2753","title":{"rendered":"One Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Songs (115,000)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So 57 days after my last thousand songs were heard, I have just listened to my 115,000th unique iTunes track, music familiar to anyone who has sat through David Niven’s turn as the famous British secret agent James Bond. The tune, “Sir James’ Trip To Find Mata”,* is one of Burt Bacharach’s contributions to the soundtrack for the original Casino Royale<\/em> movie, starring\u2014besides the aforementioned Mr. Niven\u2014Woody Allen, George Raft, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, William Holden, Charles Boyer, Orson Welles, … oh, a whole host of big names who cannot help this disaster from 1967. The problems of this light and bouncy movie can be seen in the fact that it took five directors to bring it home. But, like many of the stranger motion picture artifacts of that strange decade (I’m looking at you, Modesty Blaise<\/em>), it can be enjoyable enough as long as the viewer does not insist on anything making sense. Certainly the soundtrack is a breezy enough bit of fluff that doesn’t interfere with the ridiculous material presented on the screen.<\/p>\n

The Stats<\/h5>\n

115,000 unique tracks takes up 757.25 GB of data (\u2191 10.39 GB), which would take 499 days, 4 hours, 43 minutes, and 53 seconds to play from end to end (\u2191 10 days and 6 hours). Remaining unplayed in my iTunes library of files are 76,499 tracks, 959 fewer than my last report (thus a mere 41 tracks have been added to my library since the last check-in<\/a>). The unplayed files occupy 517.7 GB of data space (\u2193 9.9 GB) and 269 days, 10 hours, 51 minutes and 18 seconds of time (\u2193 10 days & 7 hours).<\/p>\n

To reach the 115,000th unique track, I listened to 1246 songs since track #114,000, starting this latest tranche with T.S. Eliot reading from his play The Family Reunion<\/em>. These 1246 songs occupy 11.83 GB of data, and 11 days, 6 hours, and 44 minutes of time.<\/p>\n

It took 57 days to listen to the last thousand songs, meaning just over 17.5 new songs per day were heard.<\/p>\n

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17.5 New Tracks Heard per Day<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If we include the previously heard songs, we find that I heard 21.86 tracks per day, a little less than three songs a day fewer than the last set of one thousand songs. This is likely because I’ve added a handful of playlists bringing back old favorites for my daily commute.<\/p>\n

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21.86 Tracks Heard per Day<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I hope to do a little data diving into the last five thousand songs, to report on listening behavior and any insights since the last deep scan of the data<\/a>. I won’t promise that I’ll be able to get to it very soon, however, as I still have my day job\u2014or rather, I still have my job to go to.<\/p>\n

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And … that’s all folks. See you next time!<\/p>\n

* The apostrophe is not followed by the letter ‘s’ in the soundtrack listing, meaning either that the composer did not follow Strunk & White’s guidance or that he felt the “Sir James” was a character of Biblical stature.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So 57 days after my last thousand songs were heard, I have just listened to my 115,000th unique iTunes track, music familiar to anyone who has sat through David Niven’s turn as the famous British secret agent James Bond. The tune, “Sir James’ Trip To Find Mata”,* is one of Burt Bacharach’s contributions to the … <\/p>\n

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