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Analyzing Your iTunes Listening Habits
August 14, 2006
Nosleep software has released a free program to analyze an iTunes library file (iTunes Music Library.xml) and generate stats like
Track Count: 620 total tracks
Play Count: 9,068 tracks played
Total Time: 3.7 days of music
Total Play Time: 4.9 weeks playing
Artist Count: 267 total artists
Album Count: 300 different albums
Genre Count: 39 genres
Average Play Count: 14.6 plays per song
Most Songs Played At: 2:00 pm
Average Track Length: 8.7 minutes
Album Completeness: 20.0 % complete
Complete Albums: 8.3 % are complete
Average Bit Rate: 136.7 kbps
...and some graphs, the most interesting of which is the Time of Day:
Java is required.
August 14, 2006 at 09:10 AM in Reviews | Permalink
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I liked this iTunes/iPod stats thing on Facebook, What's on my iPod? but I wanted to get the stats without having to upload my file all the time. So, I taught myself a little VB Script and wrote a rudimentary stats/metrics program. It basically spits out a bunch of numbers and lists to a date-stamped file and it takes about a minute to run for every 1,000 songs you have. For me, it takes just over 3 minutes to run on my aging home PC (with nearly 5,000 songs).
You can save it anywhere on your PC and double-click on it and it should run. You may need to have VB.NET installed, so you can go to the Microsoft Updates site for that. I am VERY interested in feedback on this, and I'd welcome enhancements to the script as well.
You can get information and download it from:
http://yanoff.org/music/iTunesStats.shtml
Cheers,
-Scott
Posted by: S Yanoff | Dec 29, 2008 9:17:11 PM
