Called it 'Stuff I Never Listen To' - play count less than one - until it was gone.

I have a few playlists like that. One with play count of less than one and another that has not been played in the last 12 months to try to make sure that I get through listening to most of my collection in a year.

I suspect that iTunes is telling porkies - it says I haven't played 1073 tracks out of 16180, yet included in the 'unplayed' list are all the tracks on the album I've played most in the last month.

Fools.

But thanks for the prompt - I'm now going to spend the rest of the day with my zero counts as background music whilst I work from home.

But then again I've lost my itunes library about 3 times and had to reinstall it, the last time was in august. (I think it may be because I use an external hard drive.)

When I switch checked items only off on the smart playlist, it jumps up to 7061.

Playcount is greater than 0 (checked only) is 1520 which a decent showing in four months or so.

Out of 12,792 tracks on my PC, as opposed to my iPod, there are (gulp!) 3,752 items I haven't listened to, including various podcasts and a book I downloaded recently. Or to put it another way: a solid 14 days of listening.

There's just so much stuff I want to hear, even if out of interest and only once at that, I just don't know where to find the time. I might pass on all new music in 2008, not buy anything at all and just spend an entire year catching up and savouring what I've already got. Maybe at the end of the year I can buy Word's Top 50 as my crash course on what happened in 2008.

Spurred on by the "furious" debate re Unplayed Ipod Tracks (I've got quide liderally hundreds of the buggers), I took a quick butcher's at the other end of the scale, i.e Top Ten Most Played. Bearing in mind that this is taken straight from the family mac rather than my own personal pod, I wonder can we work out which family member (me/wife/teenage son/11-year-old daughter/possibly all of us to some of them) has been grooving well into the double figures to this lot. From the top then:

Gold Digger by Kanye West
Dreadlocks In Moonlight by Lee Perry
Don't Stop Me Now by Queen
Mardy Bum by Arctic Monkeys
Dreams by The Game
Learn To Fly by Foo Fighters
Fort Worth Blues by Steve Earle
Heard 'Em Say by Kanye West
The Beast In Me by Nick Lowe
Ignition (Remix) by R. Kelly

The mind fecking boggles . . .

BARNEY