In a review of the new iTunes 11, one quote struck me:
“There’s still a 250,000 track limit, which can be a problem for serious music fans.”
Wow, 250,000? I have a hard time comprehending a collection that large. My own 4000 track music collection has reached the point where there’s some songs that I can’t remember which artist they belong to, which is disincentive to add more music. At 250k you must have artists you’ve never heard of.
Heck, in 6 years I’ve played just 47k tracks, counted via the following program:
perl -lne ‘$c+=$1 if /
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/12/itunes-11-review-simple-is-as-simple-does/
I have mover than 15,000 music tracks (and I know what most of them are :-), more than 500 movies, and almost 1,500 TV episodes. I do not understand your “disincentive,” but I do consider my collection to be on the large side.
Also, this is the script I use. It’s deceptive since I have multiple media players that don’t always update the counts.
perl
MMac::Glue -le ‘$i = new Mac::Glue “iTunes”; $c += $_ for $i>prop(played_count => tracks => playlist => “Music”)->get; print $c’19286
I consider myself a serious music lover. I play several instruments, and I had a brief career as a concert musician.
I also have more than 15,000 music tracks. Most of it is “classical” music (except there’s almost none from the late 18th and 19th century). I have listened to all of them multiple times. I know a lot more music that I don’t have recordings of, and that I would love to get my hands on.
Nevertheless, 250k is an order of magnitude more, and I can’t imagine ever collecting that many tracks.