iTunes Stats: display your iTunes and iPod library stats and listening habits
Last Updated: January 23, 2010I liked this iTunes stats thing on Facebook, What's on my iPod? but I wanted to get the stats without having to upload my file all the time. So, I taught myself a little VB Script and wrote a rudimentary stats/metrics program. It basically spits out a bunch of numbers and lists to a date-stamped file and it takes about a minute to run for every 1,000 songs you have. For me, it takes just over 3 minutes to run on my aging home PC (with nearly 5,000 songs).
You can save it anywhere on your PC and double-click on it and it should run. You may need to have VB.NET installed, so you can go to the Microsoft Updates site for that. I am VERY interested in feedback on this, and I'd welcome enhancements to the script as well. You can email me at yanoff-NOSPAM@yahoo.com (just remove the "-NOSPAM").
Download iTunesStats.vbs
View sample output text file of iTunes Stats
| Version | Date | Release Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2.13 | 01-23-2010 | Added total song play count for the top albums |
| 2.12 | 01-03-2010 |
Increased the number of top albums listed from 30 to 50 Made min. # of songs on an album a constant for easy changing by users Minor cosmetic changes to the output |
| 2.11 | 03-20-2009 | Changed Tracks by Year to be Tracks by Decade |
| 2.10 | 02-25-2009 |
Added artist name to all song lists Now limits list of years to top 30 years, and numbers them Now numbers genres and allows for more space for them |
| 2.9 | 02-04-2009 |
Increased top albums display from 25 to 30 albums Corrected leading zero in seconds place in average track duration |
| 2.8 | 01-23-2009 | Added count of unique artists |
| 2.7 | 01-12-2009 | Limited the Artists list to 100 instead of displaying entire list |
| 2.6 | 01-10-2009 |
Limited the Top Genres list to 20 instead of displaying entire list Most-played album listing now only shows albums with more than 7 songs |
| 2.5 | 01-09-2009 |
Removed longest songs listing (it was too hard to sort by time for such little value) Added play counts by hour of the day |
| 2.4 | 01-07-2009 | Added average track duration, average play count per track |
| 2.3 | 01-03-2009 | Corrected display of count of least-recently played tracks |
| 2.2 | 01-01-2009 | Corrected filename to include leading zero in month and day Added total song time and total played time |
| 2.1 | 12-30-2008 | Cosmetic improvement: right-justification of numbers in the tables Added enumeration to the lists Enhanced the information by artist to include average plays per artist Added message at start of execution so user knows the script is running File that is generated is now automatically launched at the end Added percentages to some of the statistics |
| 1.0 | 12-24-2008 | iTunesStats created |