I liked this iTunes stats thing on Facebook, What's on my iPod? from many years ago 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 text file and it takes about a minute to run for every 1,000 songs you have. I had someone port it to MacOS, too, so there's a version for it as well. Give it a try and let me know what you think. http://yanoff.org/music/iTunesStats.shtml
You can save it anywhere on your computer and double-click on it and it should run. You may need to have VB.NET installed for the Windows version so you can go to the Microsoft Updates site for that. I am interested in feedback on this, and I'd welcome enhancements to the script as well.
Download iTunesStats.vbs for Windows for free
Download iTunesStats.scpt for Mac for freeView sample output text file of iTunes Stats
| Version | Released | Release Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Mac | 3-25-2018 | Mac version updated to deal with Unicode issue. |
| Mac | 7-5-2017 | NEW! Mac version created! |
| 2.30 | 1-9-2016 |
Added 2 new sections: top albums by total play count of the songs on that album and top albums by total play time
I had to remove the most-skipped songs because now that songs can exist in the iCloud, they do not have a skipped count and they also do not have a "location" field so I can't detect if a song is in the cloud or local. |
| 2.29 | 8-8-2014 | Now also skips podcasts. These were causing an issue when trying to determine the skip counts of tracks. |
| 2.28 | 12-18-2012 | Now skips audio streams and videos |
| 2.27 | 10-21-2012 |
Now prints how long it would take to listen to your entire collection once around Now prints average listening time per day since first track added Bug fix: average track time is now printing correctly in the CSV file |
| 2.26 | 10-19-2012 | Now prints a count of the number of songs without lyrics |
| ... | ||
| 1.0 | 12-24-2008 | iTunesStats created |
Also available are other useful iTunes scripts (in JavaScript and Visual Basic Script) which can do things such as generate a file that shows which of your tracks are missing lyrics, which are missing tracks, etc: