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We consider the songs heard since I hit one hundred thousand up through those which brought my total up to 101,000. Due to a new methodology, this made up more than 1,000 tracks — specifically, 1,043 items. These pieces were played through iTunes from June 9th to September 6, 2017.<\/p>\n
New Methodology<\/h4>\nThe Problem<\/h5>\n
One issue I’ve alluded to before is the fact that as I’ve listened to each new thousand tracks, more than 1,000 tracks may be heard. This is because any song previously listened to which is heard again doesn’t contribute to the number of unique songs heard, but does add to the total number of tracks played over a given period of time. Additionally, any such old song heard may ‘push out’ a newly played track from a given set of the ‘last X’ of songs.<\/p>\n
For example, if I’ve listened to 45 songs, and want to consider the last five songs listened to when I hit 50 unique tracks, I can envision the songs 41 through 45 thusly: To give a complete view of the most recently played tracks, therefore, we will consider the entirety of songs played since the last song mentioned in the previous review. We may<\/em> end up looking at tracks we’ve seen before, but we will also have a more complete picture of the actual sounds heard through iTunes during the most recent addition of one thousand new<\/strong> tracks to the complete set of heard files.<\/p>\n This new methodology means that the various percentages obtained are no longer immediately obvious from the absolute numbers involved. We must also consider whether to examine statistics for just the new songs or for the entire set. This we shall do on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n Given this new methodology, the first thing to be noted is that we shall consider 1,043 songs, as this is the number of tracks heard since the one hundred thousandth was played until 101,000 songs were played.<\/p>\n 1,043 Songs Played<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of these 1,043 songs, 1,024 were heard for the first time.<\/p>\n We can no longer speak of “changes” to the conditions of my material life, as these changes now appear to have semi-permanent status. We will therefore not speak of these again. However, the effects of this unspoken continue unabated, and once again Radio Shows make up the plurality of the 1,000+ songs, although they do not preponderate this time: Almost 39% of all tracks played are Radio Shows.<\/p>\n 38.93% of all tracks played were Radio Shows<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n To repeat, these 1,043 tracks were played between June 9th and September 6, 2017, a total of 89 days. Thus not quite 12 songs were played per day.<\/p>\n 11.7 Songs played per Day<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The total amount of time taken to play these 1k+ songs was 19 days, 19 hours, 52 minutes, and 45 seconds.<\/p>\n Total Time of Tracks: 19 Days, 19 Hours, 52 Minutes, and 45 Seconds<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Since these songs were played over a stretch of 89 days, and given the total length of time of all played tracks above, this means that over 22% of this 89-day period was spent listening to iTunes in one way or another. This is a substantial reduction in the time per day listening to music, which corresponds to a substantial reduction in the material conditions of my life. (Darn, I wasn’t going to mention that….)<\/p>\n 22.3% of Each Day spent listening to iTunes<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n or<\/p>\n 5 hours, 20.8 minutes per day Listening to Stuff<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The data shows the prevalence of Radio Shows in my recent listening. Here is a chart, broken down by genre, showing what was included in these one thousand tracks:<\/p>\n And here is a table showing those genres which each provided over 1% of the total number of tracks played:<\/p>\n Songs Played by Genre<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nI then listen to four more brand new songs, bringing the total number of unique tracks up to 49.
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\nAt this point I listen to “Song A” again, which had previously been #41 — maybe I’m listening to my music on Random play, maybe I just like “Song A”.
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\nBut now “Song A” is #49 in my recently played accounting (it isn’t #50 because this song has been heard before, so doesn’t add to the total, just displaces previous ordering), and “Song E” becomes #44, though it had been #45 before. Thus when an entirely new song — “Song J” — is heard, if we only consider the most recent 5 tracks played bringing the total up to fifty, “Song F” is ignored, as this track which was once #46 is now #45.
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\nThus the “last x<\/em>” songs may ignore newly played songs when previously played songs are heard again.<\/p>\nThe Solution<\/h5>\n
New Problems<\/h4>\n
Overview<\/h2>\n
Details<\/h2>\n
Genres<\/h3>\n
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