What bands have you spent the most time listening to?

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This question's always bugged me!  I use last.fm as much as possible, and obviously this excludes vinyl, but it bases listens to total song plays, not total length of all songs listened to.

 

I wrote a little web app tonight that takes your iTunes library and finds out what artists you listen to most, by taking track length and multiplying it by play count.

 

http://www.jacobraccuia.com/most_listened.php

 

So if you use iTunes, check it out and post your most listened to artists! ( note: if you have a tooon of songs, it might time out.  it worked fine for me at 6000 songs, god knows how it'd handle 40k )

 

here are mine:

Total time spent listening to music: 292 days 2 hours 19 minutes 59 seconds

1. Mogwai: 5228 total plays - 18 days 5 hours 39 minutes 5 seconds
2. Okkervil River: 4992 total plays - 15 days 3 hours 5 minutes 50 seconds
3. La Dispute: 4038 total plays - 11 days 7 minutes 29 seconds
4. The Decemberists: 3164 total plays - 10 days 31 minutes 34 seconds
5. Brand New: 3145 total plays - 9 days 5 hours 58 minutes 11 seconds
6. The Flashbulb: 4638 total plays - 8 days 23 hours 45 minutes 27 seconds
7. The Dear Hunter: 2509 total plays - 7 days 21 hours 41 minutes 29 seconds
8. Manchester Orchestra: 2412 total plays - 7 days 53 minutes 17 seconds
9. The Cat Empire: 2109 total plays - 6 days 16 hours 1 minutes 24 seconds
10. Kevin Devine: 2249 total plays - 6 days 12 hours 47 minutes 29 seconds
11. RX Bandits: 1998 total plays - 5 days 19 hours 1 minutes 52 seconds
12. Hostage Calm: 2730 total plays - 5 days 13 hours 59 minutes 42 seconds
13. Yanni: 1708 total plays - 5 days 5 hours 19 minutes 3 seconds
14. Glassjaw: 1590 total plays - 4 days 20 hours 10 minutes 24 seconds
15. All India Radio: 1635 total plays - 4 days 4 hours 9 minutes 10 seconds
16. Make Do And Mend: 1719 total plays - 4 days 45 minutes 50 seconds
17. Against Me!: 1920 total plays - 3 days 23 hours 13 minutes 50 seconds

[Guest]

I end up listening to music on CD in my car the most since I drive a lot but I think my most listened to is Modest Mouse with Botch working their way up there. Mogwai are definitely in my top 5 as well.

[DecayToDeath]

The only problem with this is how inaccurate my play count readings are. I often cut the song off just before it ends because it ends with silence for several seconds (doesn't add a play until you're 96% through the song or something). I also delete my music and add it back when the files get fucked up, completely removing the plays. I also listen to music on YouTube when I'm self-conscious about how many plays a song has. And (this is a rare case) songs with hidden tracks don't get a play count if you cut it off before the hidden track starts (I'm looking at you, SOAD's "Aerials").

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I mean, that is the problem with play counts in general.  I was thinking of taking last.fms file and parsing it to see what it says.  In iTunes though, I remove hidden tracks and when I reupload songs that got corrupted or I accidentally delete, I adjust the playcount so it's pretty accurate.  I care a lot about these stupid stats haha.

[DecayToDeath]

I mean, that is the problem with play counts in general.  I was thinking of taking last.fms file and parsing it to see what it says.  In iTunes though, I remove hidden tracks and when I reupload songs that got corrupted or I accidentally delete, I adjust the playcount so it's pretty accurate.  I care a lot about these stupid stats haha.

Yeah, I see what you mean. I tried it myself, and it gave me a pretty skewed view...Foo Fighters wasn't that high on the list (I think I removed those and put them back recently), but I can promise you that I've heard The Colour and the Shape more than any other album in my lifetime. 

[Bladew1ll1s1sdead]

I would say at least 50% of the past few months have been Modern Life Is War. The other 50% are my friends in Casper Elgin, Free Throw, Citycop and Alleys.

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I just added "by album" sorting, which is stupidly cool. I'm gonna do songs too, although I'll have to cap it somewhere...

[chamb117]

this is cool. i'm into it. my total time listening is only 12 days, though, so something with the code times out in that regard. i only have 4K-ish songs.

 

my play counts are wrong -- my last.fm plays are double what all my itunes plays are, for some reason -- but they're wrong for everything, so the rankings are probably pretty accurate.

 

top 10 artists

1. The Wonder Years: 8070 total plays - 18 days 7 hours 36 minutes 46 seconds
2. The Dangerous Summer: 6582 total plays - 17 days 14 hours 41 minutes 35 seconds
3. Say Anything: 4886 total plays - 13 days 11 hours 10 minutes 37 seconds
4. A Day to Remember: 3075 total plays - 7 days 14 hours 19 minutes 29 seconds
5. Lydia: 2520 total plays - 6 days 19 hours 7 minutes 50 seconds
6. The Dear Hunter: 2033 total plays - 6 days 1 hours 26 minutes 59 seconds
7. Every Time I Die: 3327 total plays - 6 days 57 seconds
8. Half Hearted Hero: 1597 total plays - 4 days 15 hours 59 minutes 6 seconds
9. Making April: 1334 total plays - 3 days 20 hours 33 minutes 29 seconds
10. Athletics: 977 total plays - 3 days 12 hours 23 minutes 59 seconds

(daggermouth, with more than twice as many plays as athletics, slots in at 11th)

 

top 10 albums

1. The Dangerous Summer - Reach For The Sun: 3629 song plays - 9 days 10 hours 6 minutes 5 seconds
2. Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy: 1662 song plays - 4 days 23 hours 56 minutes 59 seconds
3. The Wonder Years - The Upsides: 1695 song plays - 4 days 1 hours 43 minutes 23 seconds
4. The Wonder Years - Get Stoked On It!: 2020 song plays - 3 days 21 hours 50 minutes 29 seconds
5. The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation: 1289 song plays - 3 days 17 hours 13 minutes 31 seconds
6. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum: The Complete Collection: 1262 song plays - 3 days 13 hours 53 minutes 21 seconds
7. A Day to Remember - Homesick: 1330 song plays - 3 days 8 hours 47 minutes 33 seconds
8. Half Hearted Hero - Defining. Refining.: 1079 song plays - 3 days 2 hours 37 minutes 59 seconds
9. Lydia - Illuminate: 1150 song plays - 3 days 1 hours 10 minutes 45 seconds
10. Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!: 1571 song plays - 2 days 21 hours 38 minutes 43 seconds

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you can now sort by song..... which is crazy!!!!

 

on june 26th of this year I added Sistere to my itunes library, and its my 3rd most listened to song, by time.  I guess thats what happens when you play a 30 minute song 30 times..

 

1. La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent: 129 total plays - 1 days 1 hours 54 minutes 5 seconds
2. Deafheaven - Vertigo: 74 total plays - 18 hours 1 minutes 44 seconds
3. IZAH - Sistere: 30 total plays - 15 hours 33 minutes 37 seconds
4. Brand New - Limousine: 118 total plays - 15 hours 9 minutes 9 seconds
5. Brand New - Degausser: 140 total plays - 12 hours 56 minutes 17 seconds
6. Kevin Devine - Brother's Blood: 93 total plays - 12 hours 14 minutes 21 seconds
7. Mogwai - Chocky: 76 total plays - 11 hours 53 minutes 33 seconds
8. Deafheaven - The Pecan Tree: 62 total plays - 11 hours 49 minutes 50 seconds
9. Monstercat - Feed The Cat Mix: 11 total plays - 11 hours 46 minutes 54 seconds
10. Brand New - Jesus Christ: 132 total plays - 11 hours 40 minutes 12 seconds
11. Okkervil River - Westfall: 118 total plays - 11 hours 37 minutes 36 seconds
12. Okkervil River - For the Enemy: 111 total plays - 11 hours 24 minutes 29 seconds
13. La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers: 137 total plays - 11 hours 24 minutes 4 seconds
14. Brand New - You Wont Know: 119 total plays - 11 hours 19 minutes 10 seconds
15. The Dear Hunter - Red Hands: 109 total plays - 11 hours 7 minutes 50 seconds

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hey chamb, re-check your total listening time.  I had it coded wrong, and it should be way more accurate now.

 

My new time:

 

Total time spent listening to music: 292 days 2 hours 19 minutes 59 seconds

[chamb117]

hey chamb, re-check your total listening time.  I had it coded wrong, and it should be way more accurate now.

 

My new time:

 

Total time spent listening to music: 292 days 2 hours 19 minutes 59 seconds

 

cool, thanks! 144 days.

[cambionic]

Ween, by far.

[caninesapien]

My music library has moved and shifted depending on my living locations or laptop/PC at the time. I haven't used iTunes to listen to music for a long time. I remember my last readings on my last.fm account before I shifted all music off my hard drive were Melvins, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Nine Inch Nails. Mogwai was also up there because I used to play Happy Songs... before I went to sleep which meant it played thru the night frequently.

[birdwell]

I have never once attempted to keep up with any of this.

MP3.com had no way of keeping up with this, I had a Creative brand MP3 player back in the day (the Nomad which looked like a Sony Discman) that didn't keep up with these stats. This pre-dated iTunes and last.fm and I was using Windows Media Player on my computer then, carrying exorbitant amounts of CDs with me in my vehicle (800ish? Which were all stolen eventually), and spinning records regularly as well. My first iPod was a 3rd generation with FireWire and I feel like this pre-dated last.fm as well? I had to get a new computer that could load the CDrom for iTunes before I could use my iPod.....so I lost all of my previous music and just used the CD copies to re-rip all of it to my new computer. From their I was using my iPod when on campus and running and everything else. I went through 4 hard drive crashes and in one of those iTunes got corrupted or I forgot my password and had to start all over again. Sometime in there I got a first gen iPod touch which I was using a lot.

I used to have enough music and was constantly uploaded more and more to my iTunes that I would just let my iTunes go on random 24/7 in my room regardless of what was going on elsewhere in the house....that would've heavily skewed my results as well.

I've been without a computer for 2ish years now? Been back to iPods (both my 3rd gen and 1st gen touch still work fine....as well as my girlfriends 1st and 2nd gen nanos), CDs (get advance promo copies at my first job), spotify occasionally (girlfriend has an account), and records of course........I have absolutely no way of keeping any kind of tabs on most listened to. I never got on last.fm.....never had a Live Journal, MySpace, Friendster, ect...so I never really felt a need for last.fm either....I did have Facebook for quite a while, but I deactivated it around the same time my computer finally died.

There's so much digital data out there now....wondering how all of it will affect the future of academia as a whole. Previously doin research to write texts books was done at a library where that alone could be extensive and time consuming research, but with the amount of legitimate real-time digital data broadcast these days, I can't fathom attempting to sift through it all, attempt to filter it down, and then somewhat concisely write cohesively about events/people/ect.

I think this is super rad, but I could never possibly come up with even a vaguely accurate count of what I have listened to....digitally alone....and the digital side makes up less than the analog side for me.

[Guest]

My music library has moved and shifted depending on my living locations or laptop/PC at the time. I haven't used iTunes to listen to music for a long time. I remember my last readings on my last.fm account before I shifted all music off my hard drive were Melvins, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Nine Inch Nails. Mogwai was also up there because I used to play Happy Songs... before I went to sleep which meant it played thru the night frequently.

I just listened to Happy Songs as I fell asleep last night, weird.

[dvv]

is there a way to do this from your phone? pretty sure my iTunes library plays aren't merely as high as my iPhone music plays

[DecayToDeath]

is there a way to do this from your phone? pretty sure my iTunes library plays aren't merely as high as my iPhone music plays

They're one in the same if you periodically plug your phone into your computer. Or if you have iTunes Match.

[No This Is Patrick]

Yep, I'm definitely a The Devil Wears Prada fanboy and I guess I really like Skyrim's soundtrack as well. Wish I could somehow get my info from my Zune days. It would probably be mostly Bullet For My Valentine and the Halo soundtracks though. But a cool program you worked up!

 

My Top 10 Most Listened to Bands

1. The Devil Wears Prada: 1254 total plays - 2 days 23 hours 37 minutes 4 seconds
2. Anberlin: 473 total plays - 1 days 5 hours 7 minutes 8 seconds
3. Demon Hunter: 416 total plays - 1 days 4 hours 54 minutes 35 seconds
4. Fit For A King: 478 total plays - 1 days 3 hours 8 minutes 2 seconds
5. Underoath: 376 total plays - 23 hours 53 minutes 4 seconds
6. August Burns Red: 329 total plays - 22 hours 4 minutes 58 seconds
7. Red: 323 total plays - 20 hours 52 minutes 34 seconds
8. For Today: 346 total plays - 20 hours 34 minutes 32 seconds
9. Jeremy Soule: 308 total plays - 17 hours 24 minutes 39 seconds
10. Skillet: 263 total plays - 16 hours 43 minutes 14 seconds

 

My Top 10 Most Listened to Albums

1. The Devil Wears Prada - 8:18: 473 song plays - 1 days 2 hours 23 minutes
2. Jeremy Soule - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Original Soundtrack: 268 song plays - 15 hours 48 minutes 54 seconds
3. The Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above And Branches Below: 176 song plays - 10 hours 41 minutes 30 seconds
4. For Today - Fight The Silence: 168 song plays - 9 hours 31 minutes 36 seconds
5. Fit For A King - Creation | Destruction: 164 song plays - 9 hours 25 minutes 42 seconds
6. Fit For A King - Descendants (Redux): 169 song plays - 9 hours 23 minutes 13 seconds
7. The Devil Wears Prada - Dead Throne: 171 song plays - 8 hours 53 minutes 11 seconds
8. Artifex Pereo - Time In Place: 139 song plays - 8 hours 44 minutes 13 seconds
9. Memphis May Fire - Unconditional: 130 song plays - 8 hours 28 minutes 18 seconds
10. Anberlin - Cities (Special Edition): 109 song plays - 6 hours 40 minutes 31 seconds

 

My Top 10 Most Listened to Songs

1. The Devil Wears Prada - First Sight: 70 total plays - 4 hours 10 minutes 29 seconds
2. The Devil Wears Prada - War: 63 total plays - 3 hours 12 minutes 8 seconds
3. The Devil Wears Prada - Martyrs: 43 total plays - 2 hours 29 minutes 7 seconds
4. Fit For A King - Ancient Waters: 38 total plays - 2 hours 28 minutes 58 seconds
5. The Devil Wears Prada - Assistant To The Regional Manager: 39 total plays - 2 hours 21 minutes 15 seconds
6. Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal (feat. Ryan Clark): 38 total plays - 2 hours 13 minutes 51 seconds
7. The Devil Wears Prada - Sailor's Prayer: 32 total plays - 2 hours 4 minutes 10 seconds
8. Fit For A King - The Architect (feat. Matty Mullins): 33 total plays - 2 hours 25 seconds
9. For Today - Hated By The World: 25 total plays - 1 hours 56 minutes 13 seconds
10. Fit For A King - Skin & Bones: 28 total plays - 1 hours 50 minutes 31 seconds

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is there a way to do this from your phone? pretty sure my iTunes library plays aren't merely as high as my iPhone music plays

 

They're one in the same if you periodically plug your phone into your computer. Or if you have iTunes Match.

 

yeah they should update together whenever you plug it in.  There might be other ways to get the stats to itunes, such as itunes match ( which i know nothing about ).

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thanks,  patrick!

[GermyHewmatt]

Lately, I've been listening to mewithoutYou and The Front Bottoms damn near all the time.

[slinch]

Hm, fun idea. The last iTunes library that I have was pretty short-lived, I bought this PC in August 2013 and the external HDD with all my music died in January 2015, so that's only a year and a half worth of listens. The upload doesn't seem to work though (it's around 24k songs).

EDIT: here's the error I got: "Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 144965632) (tried to allocate 33554432 bytes)"

 

Here are my last.fm stats (since 2011 or so)

 

1 Against Me! 2,422

2 The Naked and Famous 1,438

3 AFI 1,203

4 Bon Iver 1,133

5 Noah and the Whale 1,013

6 Mumford & Sons 893

7 M83 835

8 Chris Botti 689

9 NOFX 662

10 Anamanaguchi 589

11 Amos Lee 588

12 Katie Melua 585

13 General Fiasco 583

14 No Use for a Name 507

15 The Gaslight Anthem 495

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I have to find a way to parse larger music files.  it errors out if they are too big

[paynegretzky]

This is cool and not too far off what I would have guessed.

 

Bands:

 

1. New Order: 1116 total plays - 4 days 8 hours 10 minutes 26 seconds
2. Title Fight: 1182 total plays - 2 days 16 hours 22 minutes 24 seconds
3. Pity Sex: 994 total plays - 1 days 20 hours 53 minutes 29 seconds
4. Radiohead: 572 total plays - 1 days 15 hours 40 minutes 34 seconds
5. Nothing: 469 total plays - 1 days 8 hours 5 minutes 11 seconds
6. Destroyer: 325 total plays - 1 days 6 hours 22 minutes 51 seconds
7. Built to Spill: 428 total plays - 1 days 5 hours 39 minutes 46 seconds
8. The Strokes: 544 total plays - 1 days 4 hours 15 minutes 57 seconds
9. Sunny Day Real Estate: 409 total plays - 1 days 4 hours 10 minutes 38 seconds
10. Kanye West: 318 total plays - 23 hours 19 minutes 56 seconds

Albums:

 

1. New Order - Substance: 596 song plays - 2 days 15 hours 12 minutes
2. Title Fight - Floral Green: 643 song plays - 1 days 15 hours 6 minutes 19 seconds
3. Pity Sex - Feast of Love: 739 song plays - 1 days 4 hours 30 minutes 46 seconds
4. Destroyer - Kaputt: 223 song plays - 22 hours 43 minutes 27 seconds
5. Nothing - Guilty Of Everything: 322 song plays - 21 hours 26 minutes 34 seconds
6. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies: 200 song plays - 16 hours 45 minutes 38 seconds
7. Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle (Remastered): 376 song plays - 16 hours 32 minutes 18 seconds
8. Title Fight - Hyperview: 301 song plays - 15 hours 35 minutes 7 seconds
9. Pete Rock & Cl Smooth - The Main Ingredient: 188 song plays - 15 hours 30 minutes 13 seconds
10. Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2 (2009 Edition): 243 song plays - 14 hours 51 minutes 56 seconds

Song:

 

 

1. New Order - Perfect Kiss: 144 total plays - 19 hours 17 minutes 30 seconds
2. Title Fight - Head In the Ceiling Fan: 247 total plays - 16 hours 26 minutes 7 seconds
3. The Cure - Plainsong: 150 total plays - 13 hours 13 minutes 18 seconds
4. Nothing - Dig: 188 total plays - 12 hours 40 minutes 47 seconds
5. Title Fight - Lefty: 173 total plays - 11 hours 33 minutes 23 seconds
6. Pity Sex - Wind-Up: 211 total plays - 10 hours 11 minutes 54 seconds
7. Pity Sex - When You're Around: 142 total plays - 9 hours 20 minutes 14 seconds
8. New Order - Leave Me Alone: 116 total plays - 9 hours 1 minutes 41 seconds
9. New Order - Subculture: 104 total plays - 8 hours 19 minutes 39 seconds
10. New Order - Thieves Like Us: 72 total plays - 8 hours 5 minutes 6 seconds

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Title Fight - Head In the Ceiling Fan: 247 total plays - 16 hours 26 minutes 7 seconds

 

this is sooooo many plays in my opinion haha damnn