Your digital library statistics
Just a one-off fun-off: List your digital music library statistics here (you can add to mine if you find some other data interesting):
Tracks: 45k
Size: 300GB
Median track length: 4:14
Median year: 2000
Median track plays: 4
% of library with no plays: 0.86%
Those are the easy data to acquire from iTunes. Anyone else?
(Median is acquired by sorting and finding the value halfway through the list, in case you weren't familiar.)
(I thought we'd done this before, but I can't find the thread. Anyone else recall the specific one?)
Tracks: 45k
Size: 300GB
Median track length: 4:14
Median year: 2000
Median track plays: 4
% of library with no plays: 0.86%
Those are the easy data to acquire from iTunes. Anyone else?
(Median is acquired by sorting and finding the value halfway through the list, in case you weren't familiar.)
(I thought we'd done this before, but I can't find the thread. Anyone else recall the specific one?)
Comments
Size = 47.93gb
Not sure how you determine where the halfway point is to determine the median.
That No Plays stat isn't accurate on my iTunes. I'm seeing albums that show zero under no plays, yet I've reviewed the album, so there's no way that can be right.
I keep my iTunes library pretty clean. I delete regularly. Some stuff I'll burn to a CD if I think there's a good chance I'll listen to it later. Otherwise, it's gone if I can't even remember what the hell it sounds like and it's been sitting there for more than a year. And with my review schedule what it has been the last year, if I haven't reviewed it after a year (and don't feel a sense of disappointment at realizing it), then I'll never get to it and it's just clutter.
Fun thread idea, though. I'll be interested to see others.
Size: 916.38 GB
Days: 142.1
Of the total number of tracks, 29,853 are Apple Lossless (ALAC) and the rest are MP3/AAC. Interestingly, the lossless tracks account for 57% of my library but take up 81% (742.96 GB) of the space.
Play counts are unreliable because I've transferred my library multiple times and re-ripped all my CDs to lossless a couple of years ago. According to iTunes stats, 36,033 of the tracks in my library are unplayed. That ain't right.
E.g. for the following list: 4 is the median value
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Size: 144.64 GB
Median Track Length: 3:58
Median Track Plays: 4
% of library with no plays: 1.08%
Craig
Can't believe how burned out I really must be to not have intuitively thought to use the scroll bar to measure the half way point.
Median song length = 5.08
Median listens = 2
I can really see the difference between the albums in my iTunes for reviewing vs. the ones that I just enjoy. The number jumps from single digits up into the twenties quite suddenly.
Cheers.
Median Year 2004
Plays 1!! The range is 33 to 0, with about one third unplayed, since the counter was reset when I changed computer. Unlike Jonnah I never delete music.
25541 Items taking 79.9 days to play
I haven't found Size yet
Items is perhaps out by a couple of thousand or so if I ignore duplicates. I am in the process of adding all my CDs as lossless files, but retaining the much smaller files as my ipod only holds 30GB. But to compensate I have a number of older CDs still to put on itumes.
1 y: 25%
2 y: 50%
3 y: 70%
4 y: 80%
5 y: 90%
Median year is 1979, reflecting all that old jazz. (Track #13,766 is "Passenger" by the Grateful Dead - a show from the Live Music Archive, and good example of an album I don't listen to much.)
Median play count = 5, median time = 4:10. 434 items unplayed...that's high, reflecting lots of recent pop additions from Guvera. Also just "checked" items. Because of smart playlists, I don't typically have a lot of unplayed songs. The song "Late This Morning" by the Freddy Jones Band has been unplayed since I first added it on November 1, 2005!
Now my other library has about 3,600 items, another 36 GB! That's the office computer, mostly classical...probably also a good bit of duplication with the main music computer. This exercise makes clear that I'm not very organized in terms of deleting stuff I don't listen to.
19,974 tracks, 96 days, 307.2 GB.
Median year: 2001 - the media track being "Spectral Mornings" by Steve Hackett (recorded 1979, released 2001).
Median play count: 1 - but library was rebuilt last year following a disc failure...
Median track length: 4:54 (some 82 tracks are over an hour)
20s: 89 (0.2%)
30s: 238 (0.6%)
40s: 482 (1.1%)
50s: 1264 (3.0%)
60s: 2313 (5.5%)
70s: 2687 (6.4%)
80s: 4205 (10%)
90s: 9560 (23%)
00s: 17189 (41%)
10s: 4101
So far, monotonic! The 2000s are probably boosted by lack-of-date-correction, but I don't think too much.
Tracks: 54,813
Size: 303 GB
Total time: 4,229 hours
Median track length: 3:36
Median year of tracks that have a year: 2000
Median plays: 0. Not surprising given that most of the music has been added in the past year.
20s - 0.5%
30s - 2.0%
40s - 3.0%
50s - 7.9%
60s - 16.4%
70s - 20.6%
80s - 9.2%
90s - 9.1%
00s - 18.1%
10s - 12.6%
So there you go - Thanks largely to Guvera, I have built a pretty extensive library of mid-50s to early-70s post-bop. The upswing in the 00s of course reflects first iPod/iTunes in 2005...
Tracks: 16811 - 68.2 days
Albums: 2414
Size: 164GB
Median track length: 4:59
Median year: 2006
Median track plays: 2
% of library with no plays: 3% (but see below)
20s - 2 (0.01%)
30s - 2 (0.01%)
40s - 4 (0.02%)
50s - 285 (1.7%)
60s - 233 (1.4%)
70s - 319 (1.9%)
80s - 566 (3.3%)
90s - 1483 (8.8%)
00s - 8526 (50.7%)
10s - 4897 (29.1%)
Genres over 10%:
Ambient 3159 (18.8%) - 15.4 days (22.6% by time)
Electronic 4737 (28.2%) - 18.3 days (26.8% by time)
Jazz 2182 (13%) - 8.7 days (12.7% by time)
Most listened to albums:
Brokeback - Field Recordings from the Cook County Water Table
The Gentleman Losers - Rural Route No. 5
Tetsu Inoue - Inland
Nils Frahm - Felt
Observations:
- The decades distribution reflects the price of music in tandem with my shifting tastes. In the 00s and 10s my growing interest in experimental electronic and ambient music is symbiotic with with music becoming cheap (emusic, Amie) or free (netlabels, Guvera). Before that I had a small but beloved record collection, much of it in other genres. Guvera is denting the distribution a little with older jazz, but even there I've downloaded a lot of recent ECM.
- I owned almost no jazz before the beginning of 2012. Guvera is largely responsible for the surge.
- Those three top genres do also reflect my listening, though ambient would be a higher percentage of the listening in terms of time (a lot of longer tracks, as evident in the percentages by time under genres).
- I included # of albums because I was curious what the average tracks per album would be. It's 7. Again that's showing the effect of a lot of one- or two-track ambient albums.
- The % with no plays is really lower than that - the tracks found in the library that have no plays include stuff bought for other family members that I might never listen to. Should clean that up some day. I do have a playlist that uses some criteria to filter out those unplayed tracks that need my attention - it currently has 189 tracks, or 1.1% (I've almost caught up with Guvera!)
- I actually have over a thousand classical tracks but don't really listen to them much at all except for some contemporary things and Arvo P
A couple factoid additions (not bothering updating above stats):
How fast do you "cycle through" your library? One fast measure is the median last-played date for all your played tracks (ignore unplayed). Of my current 63k tracks, my median last-played is about 2 years, which seems pretty good to me, in terms of bubbling older stuff up in a reliable way.
The number of tracks I haven't heard in >9 years is 47. (Choose some illuminating time of your choice - I have that as a smart criterion to chip away at those "ancient" listens).
Tracks: 66k
Size: 600GB
Median track length: 4:25
Median year: 2002
Median track plays: 5
% of library with no plays: 0.6%
Listened to 55% of the lib in the last 2 years, keeping steady pace there.
so I can’t access my stats, but I’m at somewhere around
1.3 million tracks. The other info will come next week once
my new monitor arrives.
but if track, artist, album, genre, year, etc. being filled in
is what that refers to, then yes, that’s what every one of
those have. It’s really not difficult because it’s mostly
done for me thru the CDDB. I may make an adjustment
here and there to suit a desire (composer instead of
performer listed, for example). I also have software that
adjusts the volume of each track with that automatically
listing date and the time it was adjusted within each track.
About once a quarter, I’ll run software that finds duplicates
and removes them, but pretty much for over twenty years,
iTunes has kept track of all that stuff concerning number of
times and when played without any intervention from me.
Size: 916.38 GB
Days: 142.1
February 2022 (compared to April 2013)
Genres over 10% of total:
As of Feb. 2022
Tracks 73,112
Size 521.71GB (small likely due to lots of old, smaller mp3s. Clearly I'm no audiophile.)
Days 224
Artists 4742
Albums 6945
I’m still behind the curve on next-gen stats but am sure I haven’t played most of it in the three years since starting from scratch on playcounts in 2019 when I switched to a Macbook. I’d like to think the “Unplayed” smart playlists since the 2010s would have played the majority in the past decade. Max plays = 16 (as w/ Apple Music Replay, in preparation for podcast episodes on particular albums).
My genre & year tags are all out of sorts, unhelpful.
Your stats are fascinating for teasing out our different listening habits & tastes. Thanks for sharing!