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Briefly: iTunes Stats, Sony BMG partners with 3, iRiver U10 pics, Virgin Digital UK launching
- iTunes Stats is a script that grabs some basic stats from your iTunes data (runs on your own webserver, requires PHP & MySQL) [via]
- Sony BMG & 3 make music deal (users of the phone network will be able to buy and download the label’s tracks over the air)
- Pics of iRiver’s U10 (looks impressive)
- Virgin’s digital music service, Virgin Digital UK, launches on September 2 [via]
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I liked this iTunes/iPod 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 get information and download it at:
http://yanoff.org/music/iTunesStats.shtml
Cheers,
-Scott
...added by S Yanoff /// December 29th, 2008 at 08:58 AM