Let your library speak for you

When I rip a reissue or remaster to my computer, I always change the date to the original date. Who cares when it was re-released? I'm more interested in the original album's release year. And regarding greatest hits comps, the "good" ones will have individual years for each track, and not a year for the whole comp.


These are huge factors as well. If I were to give you figures based on my iTunes library, it wouldn't account for all the CRAB I have on the shelf that I haven't listened to in over 5 years and therefore haven't made it to my computer. So the digital library is usually a more accurate representation of the music we've listened to in this decade and perhaps part of the late 90s for some. I eventually would like to have all of my CD collection ripped, but honestly that probably will never happen.

I'm betting at least 50% of my digital collection is from the 00s. Even if you consider physical + digital together, it's probably still close to 50%. It's just easier to discover new banRAB in this decade, so we acquire more, regardless of format.
 
My nurabers are ~ :

1960s - 10%
1970s - 25%
1980s - 20%
1990s - 25%
2000s - 25%

That's roughly it, pretty even spread actually. Looking at decimals, the 90s win over the 70s by a gnat's whisker. There's some overlap so the total is over 100. That's because of compilation albums that sometimes show up as belonging to more than one decade. There's also a fraction of music in older decades, but it's too little to carry much weight.

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The reason the 60s is less I guess is because I'm mainly interested in music that happens quite late in that decade.
 
You mean like this?



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Well it's bound to happen. Over half the songs from Orphans (Tom Waits) should really be spread over the 70s and 80s, but I still have them listed as 2006. There are a couple more similar instances. It's just supposed to give a rough estimate; and it certainly made me realize I need more early albums.
 
Here's my breakdown of decades past.

20s: 1 song - .01%
30s: 33 songs - .4%
40s: 42 songs - .6%
50s: 99 songs - 1.4%
60s: 429 songs - 6.3%
70s: 685 songs - 10.1%
80s: 358 songs - 5.2%
90s: 1,097 songs - 16.2%
00s: 3,285 songs - 48.5%

No year Posted: 771 songs - 11.3% (I wonder if there's a way of changing the year without doing it manually?)

Total # songs from 1928 - 2009: 6,765
 
Looks like you were right, according to my library. Surprised me!
Black =1940-1949 (0.15%) .2Gb's, 19 songs (2 albums)
Blue = 1950-1959 (1.26%) 1.7Gb's, 265 songs (32 albums)
Green=1960-1969 (7.33%) 9.9Gb's, 1317 songs (133 albums)
Yellow=1970-1979 (14.44%) 19.5Gb's, 2349 songs (249 albums)
Orange=1980-1989 (17.41%) 23.5Gb's, 3009 songs (285 albums)
Red = 1990 -1999 (29.56%) 39.9Gb's, 5009 songs (417 albums)
Pink = 2000-2009 (29.85%) 40.3Gb's, 5026 songs (440 albums)
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Because I have nothing better to do, I thought i would put a twist on this subject and breakdown my songs by length.

0:00 - 00:59 - 66 songs or .9%
01:00 - 01:59 - 213 or 3%
02:00 - 02:59 - 1620 or 24%
03:00 - 03:59 - 2270 or 33%
04:00 - 04:59 - 1523 or 22%
05:00 - 05:59 - 574 or 8%
06:00 - 06:59 - 176 or 2%
07:00 - 07:59 - 120 or 1%
08:00 - 08:59 - 51 or .7%
09:00 - 09:59 - 33 or .4%
10 mins or more - 38 or .5%
 
I can't help but wonder what the one 20s song is. The earliest stuff I own is from the 40s and that's Woody Guthrie songs (unless you count my classical to modern compilation double-disc, which includes original performances done from the 20s and 30s... but all are listed as 2007). So would Kings of Leon be your favourite 2000s act?
 
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