What proportion of your music library has never been played?

a little over 15% for me.

how do you count them though?

just going by where the bar on the side is, probably like 75%

I counted by number of tracks.

This article says 81% of iTunes collections never get played, ever:

http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/052511itunes

(With the caveat that reinstalling your iTunes library resets playcounts to zero, etc)

Impossible to tell, because iTunes only counts a play if you listen all the way to the end. I don't need to listen that far to know whether I like something or not. But out of 20734 songs, 11456 have a zero playcount. So that's 55%.

how do you count them though?

If you select the tracks in itunes, the little bar at the bottom tells you how many items you have selected.

17% for me. Sort of surprised it's that low actually. Almost all of the unplayed tracks are from pre-itunes CDs that I ripped years ago but haven't listened to since.

I can't answer this; a large amount of my collection was played via WinAmp and QCD prior to 2004

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I've listened to 99% of my library as it's almost entirely ripped from the CDs I've purchased - but I've only been tracking it in my media manager for 3 years and I've reached 51%. I've been careful to acquire only as much as I can consume - having much more than I can process only makes me anxious!

I have hundreds of CDs and records that I have not gotten around to listening to

i have evidently listened to about 17% of my mp3 collection on this computer in the past nine months

that figure doesn't really have any bearing on the original question, but i guess i'm largely ok with my proportion

a huge number, but scrolling through I see a number that I know I've listened to on my iPod & many others that were imported into the library so I could put the CD away but which I've never listened to using iTunes.

There was a time where I was downloading albums on emusic just to hit the quota but never got around to listening to them. There are probably 30 albums worth. The rest I've heard.

I've lost my playcount over and over and migrated to new audio players so it'd be impossible to tell. But probably ~5% of remixes and such I downloaded off an mp3 blog but forgot to listen to.

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probably the wrong thread, but just wanted to express how good it feels, after being in streaming land for a good while, to instead shuffle a huge local library of thousands of tracks you've liked / kept since you started listening to music

I've definitely found that listening to my iPod Classic on shuffle makes for a far more enjoyable listening experience than any of Spotify's "radio stations." Wish you could just get a 1 TB Classic.

If you've got the cash...

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=1tb+ipod&_sop=15

Wonder how much of my 20GB Sony ATRAC Walkman doesn't get played if I have it on Intelligent Shuffle constantly. It has several hundred hours of music on and I occasionally hear tracks I've forgotten are on there.
But not sure of algorithm. &how random play is. Does at least seem to mix smoothly. As though it had some driving understanding of like to like tonally so doesn't jar. Not sure how since I labeled a lot of stuff in there.
Got it at about a minute per MB.& it sounds ok.
But if it's picking randomly and not playing the same track twice between recharges is it eventually going to play everything on there or are there going to be clusters of unplayed tracks it's skipped?

Outside of that. I think I've played most of my cds. Need to sort back through and find stuff. A lot hasn't beem played in a while.
May have a lot of downloaded stuff I never get to though I mean to. May get back to a lot of it as I set up Foobar to play. But I'm getting new stuff daily.

If you've got the cash...

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=1tb+ipod&_sop=15

― Gerald McBoing-Boing

Damn, I might have to keep an eye on that. I've never found a portable player that could match the iPod for handling large music libraries. Wonder if I could find someone to take my basically new 7th gen classic with the dead hard drive and do a custom job on it...