[JohnCoffee]

dont know if this subject ever has been discussed (didn't fnd it when doin a search).

Just checked the 3 most played songs here in tunes and here is my result:

• 105 times for "Go Ahead London" by "The Rapino Brothers"
• 61 times for "Smoked Glass And Chrome" by "Ott"
• 57 times for "Sunrise" by "Young American Primitives"

Guess I played them more often, but the counter has been reset due to different reasons i can't explain.

Whats your score?

cheers - John

[toledo79]

velvet underground - venus in furs =89
sonic youth - rain on tin = 83
cat power - i found a reason = 80

my top 3
chris

[Jerommeke]

living end - what would you do (93)
living end - one said to the other (80)
mighty mighty bosstones - sugar free (79)

[poocat]

um...

www.musicmobs.com

but you're right, mine've been reset by upgrades (jag to panther) when i totally didn't realize where they were stored.

poocat.

[threestain]

Well I've got Finlay Quaye - Dice on 279
Drowning Pool - Bodies on 182
The Distillers - Love Is Paranoid on 127

But I think something went wrong the first time I synced my itunes and ipod played data.

Positive it shouldn't be that high for those ones!

[diskgolfking]

NSync - Tearin' up my heart (453)
Backstreet Boys - Show me the meaning (399)







just kidding guys.....I have no idea since I recently re-ripped all of my music

[absmiths]

Ugh. First uptime, now play counts. I never look at mine, and they probably aren't correct anyway since I play through my iPod 99% of the time.

[wataru]

Originally posted by absmiths:
Ugh. First uptime, now play counts. I never look at mine, and they probably aren't correct anyway since I play through my iPod 99% of the time.

The iPod stores playcounts and syncs them with iTunes.

1. "D/N/A" by Do As Infinity (48)
2. "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" by Wilco (44)
3. "Iron Man" by The Bad Plus (43)

[paully dub]

Fast Forward Into Dub - Mad Professor (35)

Marika - Bonga (30)

E Cerca 'e Me Capì' - Pino Daniele (29)

This with over 3000 songs, in about 18 months. Go figure.

[ambush]

TOP 10

Anesthésie Les Vulgaires Machins Aimer Le Mal Punk 196
12:51 The Strokes Room On Fire Alternative 160
Minnesoter The Dandy Warhols Come Down Alternative 153
Numb Linkin Park Meteora Alternative 137
Meet Me in the Bathroom The Strokes Room On Fire Alternative 132
Fell in Love With a Girl The White Stripes White Blood Cells AlternRock 129
Faint Linkin Park Meteora Alternative 128
No Brakes The Offspring Americana Punk Rock 128
Reptilia The Strokes Room On Fire Alternative 128
California Dreaming Again I Am The World Trade Center The Tight Connection Alternative 127

[CatOne]

Originally posted by wataru:
The iPod stores playcounts and syncs them with iTunes.

1. "D/N/A" by Do As Infinity (48)
2. "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" by Wilco (44)
3. "Iron Man" by The Bad Plus (43)

Only if you have them set to automatically update. I don't have 100% of my music on my iPod so I don't get synching.

I had a couple songs in the 30's when I got hit by a car while riding my bike, and crushed the old iPod. New one has maybe 15-20 plays of the top songs.

[cszar2001]

You make me-Monday Michiru 100
Don`t let the sun down on me-Elton John and George MIchael 58
Out to get me-Clawfinger 46

[cszar2001]

Originally posted by diskgolfking:
NSync - Tearin' up my heart (453)
Backstreet Boys - Show me the meaning (399)







just kidding guys.....I have no idea since I recently re-ripped all of my music

Nobody could survive that long!

[entrox]

1. Nectarine Demoscene Radio (166)
2. Osman Hadzic - Ti mene ne volis (63)
3. Ado Gegaj - Okreni moj broj (59)
4. Mile Kitic - Mnogo toga jos je isto (53)
5. Little Bitchard / mfx^kewlers - The Code Inside (47)

Yeah, I like chiptunes.

[Powaqqatsi]

My max playcount is about 9 or so. I have 7000 songs at the moment so they don't get picked all that much. And I switch a lot between songs when they aren't finished. AND I have an iPod mini, which is not enough for my 30GB library so no syncing .

[Dex13]

The Faint - Worked Up So Sexual - 42
The Chemical Brothers - These Beats Were Made For Break - 38
The Faint - Violent - 34

[mitchell_pgh]

185 - I Believe In A Thing Called Love
146 - Hey Ya!
116 - Clocks
110 - Crazy in Love
106 - F**k It
105 - Are You Gonna Be My Girl

[motti]

Originally posted by diskgolfking:
NSync - Tearin' up my heart (453)
Backstreet Boys - Show me the meaning (399)


just kidding guys.....I have no idea since I recently re-ripped all of my music

My heart missed a beat

Highest count: Everybody's talking - Harry Nilsson: 30
Is in fact lot higher because I often rewind before the end

[samson1286]

let's see here

1. police - so lonely
2. beatles - julia
3. grateful dead - friend of the devil

although i really don't think the playcount is very accurate because i have 4700 + songs and i tend to use shuffle and let it play. every once in a while i will come back to it. also, i have noticed that itunes only stores a tally on the playcount if you play the song to the end. considering my impatient add self that does not happen too often.

[Geobunny]

Crowded House - Weather with You (19)
Eva Cassidy - Kathy's Song (19)
The Coral - Dreaming of You (18)

...Oh yeah, and top of the list is...Alarm clock (12047)

No, that's not a mistake. It's a one-second recording of a digital alarm clock going "beep-beep-beep" which is played by a cron job at 7:30 every weekday morning!

The rest are so low because I've got nigh on 3000 songs which I leave on random/shuffle all the time.

[motti]

[EDIT] wrong click..

[GORDYmac]

Right now, it's Island Life by Janet Jackson (127), but I reset my playcounts on 1/1/04, since I wanted to start my top 10 over.

[absmiths]

Originally posted by Geobunny:
Eva Cassidy - Kathy's Song (19)

Is that Kathy's Song as in Paul Simon? I love that song. She has two songs that I listen to alot (insert high playcount here) - Wayfaring Stranger and Autumn Leaves.

[justinhale]

things behind the sun | nick drake @ 124

twilite kid | the twilight singers @ 71

fear of drowning | british sea power @ 42

choir vandals | american analog set @ 37

venus | air @ 37

somewhere across forever | stellastarr* @ 36

that's all i want to say..

[wataru]

If your iPod can't hold your entire library, why don't you just make an "iPod" playlist and have it automatically sync only that? That way you can customize what's on your iPod and still get playcounts. That's what I do--I have 12GB of music and a 5GB iPod.

[lavar78]

Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over (Remix) - 427
Crowded House - Nails In My Feet - 329
Crowded House - Whispers And Moans - 326

Yeah, you could say I'm a bit of a Crowded House fan.

[paully dub]

Originally posted by wataru:
If your iPod can't hold your entire library, why don't you just make an "iPod" playlist and have it automatically sync only that? That way you can customize what's on your iPod and still get playcounts. That's what I do--I have 12GB of music and a 5GB iPod.

That's what I do. I passed my 10gb iPod's limit ages ago.

[Geobunny]

Originally posted by absmiths:
Is that Kathy's Song as in Paul Simon? I love that song. She has two songs that I listen to alot (insert high playcount here) - Wayfaring Stranger and Autumn Leaves.

Umm, not sure...iTMS to the rescue! Yes, the very same. I never knew who sang it before Eva Cassidy, but I've totally fallen in love with that song. I first heard it at university when I went into a semi-random girl's room in my hall, fell in love with her too. Still not sure if the two facts are related or not!!

[MrBS]

123 The Bomb (live) 10 Minutes Down
110 Dance Wid' Me Hepcat
109 Fight The Forces of Evil
101 A Little Doubt Goes a Long Way Reel Big Fish
98 Everybody e.w.i.


Or if you prefer check out the whole collection.

Some big petpeeves of mine as far as iTunes goes... importing a library ignores play counts/last played date. So if you change computers your playcounts get trashed. No good way to sync playcounts between multiple computers. iPod does not update playcounts/last played dates if the playlist has updated at all. So if you sync a smart playlist, listen to a song or let the date rollover or something that changes the playlist at all when you resync none of the data will come off of your ipod.

Not a huge deal (still some glaring rough edges) if they're just vanity stats, but smartplaylists (one of iTunes' best features) aren't nearly as useful when you can't reliably use play count or last played data.

~BS

[dampeoples]

Guerilla Radio - 112
Sleep Now in The fire - 105
Judith - 103

[misc]

1. Pink Moon - 587
2. Times Like These (Acoustic) - 328
3. Louder Than Words - 300
4. Homesick - 297
5. Where Do The Children Play - 291
6. Into White - 274
7. Miles From Nowhere - 269
8. Till We Reach That Day - 264
9. But Might Die Tonight - 262
10. Sad Lisa - 261

From 3413 songs, 9:03:46:09 total time, 15 GB

Umm.. Do I listen to a lot of music or is it just me? Play counts were reset August 3rd 2003. D'oh.

[misc]

Originally posted by motti:
My heart missed a beat

Highest count: Everybody's talking - Harry Nilsson: 30
Is in fact lot higher because I often rewind before the end

Great song! Nice and hippy!

[Toyin]

What's all this talk about iPods not syncing? When I had my 5gb iPod, I had 5 or 6 playlists that synced with the iPod. Playcounts were updated appropriately. (FYI Playcounts and ratings are stored in the iTunes Library.xml and iTunes Library file found in the iTunes folder in your music library). As for changing playlists screwing up synchronization, I haven't noticed this. Even if I sync my iPod weeks apart, it will update when songs were last played and the play counts correctly, despite changes I may have made to playlists. It will even correctly update files if I change the name or add album art.

For the poster re-ripping your collection, if you keep the name and information the same as the files you're replacing, iTunes gives you the option to replace the files. This way it will keep your play count and rating. However beats per minute and album art are lost.

Back on topic
India Arie : Talk to her -> 112
John Mayer : New Deep -> 97
Justin Timberlake : Still On My Brain -> 91
John Mayer : Daughters -> 87
Guy Sebastian : No One Can Compare To You -> 83
Eyan : Back to Life -> 73
John Mayer : Neon -> 70
John Mayer : No Such Thing -> 67
Angie Stone : Easier Said Than Done -> 66
India Arie : Interested -> 65

I would have never guessed this (Since the number one played hasn't been played since 4/25/04. I am surprised that Justin Timberlake gets played so much

[Lateralus]

Tool - The Patient - 25 times.
Tool - Reflection - 19 times.
Tool - 43 - 19 times.

My play counts would be much higher, but I screwed up my library file back in Demember and lost a years worth of play counts...

[wataru]

Originally posted by Toyin:
However beats per minute and album art are lost.

I've replaced files this way many times and it always keeps the album art for me.

[Macanoid]

Ancients - gary numan -53 times
Bad Old Man -babybird - 51 times
Ich Gehe Jetzt- einstürzende neubauten - 45 times
Conversation Piece - david bowie - 26 times
I Have Not Been to Oxford Town - david bowie - 23 times

Total song count :: 4769

[Toyin]

Originally posted by wataru:
I've replaced files this way many times and it always keeps the album art for me.

I haven't re-ripped music that often so you're probably right. However I'm 100% sure that beats per minute needs to be re-done.

[OB1]

'Uprock and Invigorate' - Prefuse73 (68 plays)
'Money' - Dudley Perkins (63)
'Newsflash' - Diplo (60)

[an0therdumbsn]

1. T.S.R - Againt Me! - 71
2. The Martyr - Cursive - 69
3. Ebolarama - Everytime I Die - 63

[Truepop]

My last known playcounts thanks to a playlist export...

Dissovled Girl 68
Don't Panic 51
I've Just Seen A Face 49

When 10.3.4 came out I ended up resetting playcounts and ratings and am trimming 7000 some-odd songs down so I keep other things on my ipod too besides music (could upgrade to a 40GB but no money.)

I have a 30GB now but when I had more music than room on my 1st-gen 10GB I would mark the songs I wanted to bring with me in the comments with "ipod" then make a smart playlist to get all the songs with the comment "ipod" and cap the playlist it at about 8GB picked randomly.