The Music of 2008 - Review
When it comes to music - I'm a freak. Not only do I have a overly large collection; it's varied and rather eclectic - often going form jazz to blues to death metal to opera and back to jazz in single sitting. People have often questioned my ability to listen to it all, citing unfounded accusations of the impossibility of such an act. In order to prove them wrong, and revisit music that I'd not heard in ages at the start of the year I set up two smart playlists in iTunes:
- Played in 2008: Last played after 1/1/08, sorted by least played.
- Unplayed in 2008: Last played before 1/1/08, sorted by Artist/Album
"Played in 2008" made my up mornings alarm clock playlist, allowing me re-revisit music I'd not heard in ages even when half asleep, whilst not spoiling my listening plans.
Whilst not being able to listen to ALL my music (navigating to the packed away CDs is somewhat difficult, until I throw out some old furniture), after 48 weeks I've managed to listen to every song in my iTunes library so I thought I'd also share some statistics:
- Total songs in iTunes: 13092 items, 43.6 days, 91.25gb
- Added in 2008: 4715 items, 15.8 days, 38.25gb
- Added in the last 2 months: 1263 items, 4.2 days, 10.58gb
- Played less than 5: 4999 items, 17.6days, 39.80gb
- Played less than 50: 13156, 46.1days, 95.13gb
- Played once: 344 items, 1.1days, 3.03gb
- Played more than 50: 30 items, 2.3 hours, 186.3mb
- Played more than 100: 7 items, 30.2 minutes, 38.2mb
- iTunes purchased: 2713 items, 8.7 days, 22.18gb
I find it interesting that if I'd made the rules "every song in iTunes -at the start of the year-" I probably would have finished much sooner as just over 40% of the library was added this year (mostly from pulling out CDs of artists I didn't have encoded as they came up in the playlist, or from the evil that is iTunes one click purchasing).
So now that I'm over with my A-Z through iTunes I'm over to reviewing all the years new music to collate my thoughts for my top picks of the year.
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