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I came across an interesting question today: Why doesn’t iTunes store all of the data about each time a song is played? And also, how much of the song was played? It should be easy to write a daemon that monitors iTunes, and writes this data to a database. This database can then be cross-referenced against the iTunes database for a comprehensive breakdown of when songs are played. You can then find all of the songs that you listen to at a certain time of day, or season, and so on. You can also have a ‘how-often-played’, but cross referencing the Date Added attribute with the Play Count and so on. I’ve already started to write this program, but it will likely be MacOS X only.