{"id":2701,"date":"2007-10-19T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:27:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:27:45","slug":"music-library-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/10\/19\/music-library-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Library Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"


I was reading one of the zillion commentaries about Apple’s iTunes Store vs. the RIAA Big Labels. I don’t pretend to predict that future, but it caused me to look at my own music library.<\/p>\n

I was an early iPod adopter, with one of those 5GB original units. That was back before iTunes was selling music, but I had already gotten into the music player spirit with a Diamond Rio, and a 5GB hard drive was huge compared to the 32MB memory cards I was using. Suddenly, instead of the few albums I deemed worthy of converting for the Rio, everything on CD was now destined for the conversion marathon.<\/p>\n

So, my original digital music library was a little less than 1000 songs, all from purchased or gifted CD’s I acquired over decades.<\/p>\n

I experimented with the P2P software and downloaded maybe six or seven songs. None survived. I didn’t like the ethics of the situation.<\/p>\n

Today, the count is 2859 in “Music”. That’s just the simple count. Of those, slightly less than two per week were free downloads from iTunes (I avoid Hip-Hop\/Rap), which gives me exposure to music I’d never have sampled before.<\/p>\n

Of the unpurchased remainder, perhaps 300 are things I’ve recorded myself, like the church music I captured while visiting the churches in Zambia, and recorded lectures. <\/p>\n

But the big picture? I buy much more music now that it’s just a click away, and the percentage from CD’s is dropping rapidly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading one of the zillion commentaries about Apple’s iTunes Store vs. the RIAA Big Labels. I don’t pretend to predict that future, but it caused me to look at my own music library. I was an early iPod adopter, with one of those 5GB original units. That was back before iTunes was selling… Continue reading Music Library Stats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Hz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}