I mean, even back in the day of listening to local .mp3s on my desktop. I’m pretty sure at least some of the software I used (Windows Media Player, Music Match Jukebox, probably others I can’t remember) kept track of the title number of listens. I definitely remember going through and looking from time to time out of curiosity.
I also just love data and analysis. I love keeping track of things. I love sparking my memory, using data like this to remember a song I loved for like 3 weeks 8 months ago and forgot about.
I hate Spotify for a variety of other reasons. Once I’ve accumulated enough CD’s or direct downloads to have a good sized library again i’m going to cancel it. But I do hope that whatever locally hosted open-source software I use for that will have tracking and analysis tools because it’s fun.
For a moment I thought you meant that there’s a group of people looking at the sun and counting black spots that persist in their vision after doing so, then I realized how dumb that was and that you probably were talking about sun spots. That moment of confusion really got me going though.
Be sure to make 2 backups of your library. Should be no problem if it’s all mp3s. Also you can add a lot of metadata to the files themselves, there are software libraries/programs for this
I mean, even back in the day of listening to local .mp3s on my desktop. I’m pretty sure at least some of the software I used (Windows Media Player, Music Match Jukebox, probably others I can’t remember) kept track of the title number of listens. I definitely remember going through and looking from time to time out of curiosity.
I also just love data and analysis. I love keeping track of things. I love sparking my memory, using data like this to remember a song I loved for like 3 weeks 8 months ago and forgot about.
I hate Spotify for a variety of other reasons. Once I’ve accumulated enough CD’s or direct downloads to have a good sized library again i’m going to cancel it. But I do hope that whatever locally hosted open-source software I use for that will have tracking and analysis tools because it’s fun.
Humans have a soft spot for collecting data. We have had people counting “how many black spots do I see looking directly at the sun” daily since 1749.
For a moment I thought you meant that there’s a group of people looking at the sun and counting black spots that persist in their vision after doing so, then I realized how dumb that was and that you probably were talking about sun spots. That moment of confusion really got me going though.
I think mp3 files store that; I’ve seen Dankpods pull thay databfrom random crap old mp3 players.
Be sure to make 2 backups of your library. Should be no problem if it’s all mp3s. Also you can add a lot of metadata to the files themselves, there are software libraries/programs for this