A little while back, I did the first review of my iTunes Library with a graph of the songs by number of stars. I promised more details, and here they are:
This is songs by number of plays [hence, the title – .ed]. There are a few things to notice:
- There are a LOT of songs with zero plays. There are three reasons for that: First, some of the songs are new and I haven’t gotten to them yet. Second, some of the songs are not good and are not worth playing. This sometimes happens when there is one good song on an album but I have the whole album (“Special Beat Service” for example). Third, sometimes, the whole album is not good but I have it anyway. This often happens with live albums.
- There are a very few songs that get played a lot. In looking at them, five of the seven come from a workout playlist, so that makes sense. There is one song that is sitting with 97 plays right now, so it will likely be promoted to the 100+ list in the next couple weeks.
- There are a 1,000+ songs that have been played once and only once. 265 of them have four or five stars, so they will likely move up into the 2 through 9 bucket at some point soon.
I have a few smart playlists that I use to get into my library more deeply. One is “Unplayed – new” and it looks like I should listen to it more often since it has 185 songs that have been added in the last 60 days. Another is the “plays 0” list that I should get through, at least sorted by stars.
So, that is the next review of my music library. Let me know your thoughts on it.