6,005 songs · one library · frozen in place February 2, 2013
Release years · 1955 – 2011
Every bar is a release year. The library reaches back to 1955, inherits a full shelf of the sixties, surges through the late nineties, and peaks in 2003 — 513 songs from a single year — before the adds taper toward the freeze.
hover a bar for the year · 6 tracks carry mistagged future years and are excluded
The inheritance. Nearly all of it is The Beatles — 226 tracks across the library, its single biggest artist.
The nineties ramp: Oasis (185) and Dave Matthews Band (99) carrying the decade.
The golden stack — almost half the library. Jay-Z, Kanye, Lupe, Spoon, Outkast.
The last adds: the KiD CuDi / Drake years, right up to the day the library stopped.
Genre, at the freeze
Of the tracks that carried a genre tag, the library splits almost exactly down the middle of its era — with 1,070 tracks tagged nothing at all, the true mark of a hand-built MP3 collection.
Heavy rotation
Albums · by total plays
Artists win on breadth; albums win on repetition. Adding up the play count of every track on a record, Man On The Moon alone accounts for 1,397 plays — more than the next two combined. The library held 1,452 albums, and 589 of them were never played once.
hover a bar for tracks and plays-per-track · the fullest album by track count is a different record entirely — Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, 39 tracks
Across 4,711 tagged tracks. The other 1,294 songs carried no album at all.
Albums with zero plays on every track — downloaded, filed, never opened.
In Rainbows — ten tracks, all of them worn evenly. The deepest-played record here.
Play counts · as the iPod remembered them
“CuDi Zone” — 262 plays. The counters below are the library’s own, untouched since 2013.
The medium
source: iTunes Music Library.xml · 8.4 MB · last written 2013-02-02
read from the MyCloud EX2 NAS via chillbox · charted 2026-08-28