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Who do you listen to the most?

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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeApr 17th 2015
    And I am dealing only in FACTS.

    Since the last time some Apple bollocks (either my Ipod, or Itunes) went crazy and I had to start again, a couple of years ago I think, here is my answer (the number is the number of hours spent listening to that composer on an Apple product). I am quite surprised.

    James Horner 101.5
    Jerry Goldsmith 70.2
    Ennio Morricone 56.8
    John Williams 44.2
    Hans Zimmer 36.8
    Brian Tyler 35.6
    John Barry 34.1
    James Newton Howard 22.3
    Alexandre Desplat 21.1
    Michael Giacchino 20.0
    Georges Delerue 19.8
    Christopher Young 17.2
    Elmer Bernstein 15.4
    Thomas Newman 12.7
    Alan Silvestri 12.4
    Marco Beltrami 10.7
    Alex North 10.1
    John Debney 10.1
    Frederik Wiedmann 10.0
    Joel McNeely 9.6
    John Powell 9.5
    Randy Newman 9.4
    Bruce Broughton 9.1
    Maurice Jarre 9.1
    Trevor Jones 8.9
    Steven Price 8.1
    George Fenton 8.1
    Chris Tilton 7.8
    Alan Menken 7.8
    Patrick Doyle 7.3
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeApr 17th 2015
    Williams is fourth!? Disgusting.
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeApr 17th 2015
    I'm not surprised by that. I'm surprised that Zimmer and Tyler are ahead of Barry and that North is the only golden-ager there at all. (I assume the Itunes stats don't actually work all that well.)
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeApr 17th 2015
    Maybe Tyler and Zimmer are placed due to how many of their works you've reviewed?
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeApr 17th 2015
    I would like to think my top three are my top three; Williams, Goldsmith and Horner. But as my iTunes adventures are messy at best, with various reboots and reinstalls of various devices, I wouldn't be able to say.

    I would imagine recently it's been a lot of Powell, Tyler, Giacchino, Zimmer and Desplat
  6. How do you find out about the stats.
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      CommentAuthorAtham
    • CommentTimeApr 18th 2015
    Without too much effort I would say most of my listening would fall in this order: Goldsmith, Williams and Horner. Followed by Gordon, Westlake, Powell, Broughton and Zimmer.
  8. I counted this up about a year ago (May 2014) and haven't taken the time to update it since (I might do so, make it a yearly kind of thing), because it's rather a laborious process (how did you calculate it, James?), but this is what it was at the time. It's pretty much since I started listening to film music, so that explains who is first and why he's first by such a margin:

    Hans Zimmer 546.2
    John Powell 334.3
    James Newton Howard 229.5
    Alan Silvestri 182.7
    Brian Tyler 161
    Thomas Bergersen (Two Steps From Hell) 150.8
    Harry Gregson-Williams 149.6
    Howard Shore 141.8
    John Williams 139.1
    Danny Elfman 132.7
    David Arnold 124.2
    James Horner 108.1
    Steve Jablonsky (!!) 105.1

    My guess is the more I update this, the smaller the gap between Powell and Zimmer will become. And the higher Williams, Horner and Goldsmith (a shameful 34.9!!!) will rise.
  9. Can you get such values from WMP too? My yesteryear heroes Williams, Vangelis and Morricone don't get that much "air time" anymore. Horner should be up high, also Giacchino. Other than that my "now listening to" is all over the place.

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    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeApr 18th 2015
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    How do you find out about the stats.


    There might be an easier way. I brought up a list of songs in Itunes, pressed Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C and then pasted it into Excel. Then converted the track time into minutes and seconds (Excel thinks it's in hours and minutes) and multiplied by the play count. Then did a pivot table, filtered by "Soundtrack" genre.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeApr 18th 2015 edited
    Southall wrote
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    How do you find out about the stats.


    There might be an easier way. I brought up a list of songs in Itunes, pressed Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C and then pasted it into Excel. Then converted the track time into minutes and seconds (Excel thinks it's in hours and minutes) and multiplied by the play count. Then did a pivot table, filtered by "Soundtrack" genre.


    Sounds too complicated for me. How can copy/pasting all the tracks from iTunes into EXCEL give you an idea of how much you listen to each thing? Isn't that merely copy/pasting information from one to the other?
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeApr 18th 2015
    "then converted the track time into minutes and seconds (Excel thinks it's in hours and minutes) and multiplied by the play count. Then did a pivot table, filtered by "Soundtrack" genre."
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeApr 18th 2015
    I still don't understand anything. Then again, I'm terribly stupid.
    I am extremely serious.
  14. You too? dizzy
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeApr 19th 2015
    Only James could somehow merge soundtracks and pivot tables into the same sentence. wink
  16. Southall wrote
    "then converted the track time into minutes and seconds (Excel thinks it's in hours and minutes)...

    Is there an easy way to do this?
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeApr 19th 2015
    I am currently watching cement drying.
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeApr 19th 2015
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    Southall wrote
    "then converted the track time into minutes and seconds (Excel thinks it's in hours and minutes)...

    Is there an easy way to do this?


    If the track time is in cell B2 then to get a value in hours which can be easily added up then the formula should be

    =(HOUR(B2)+MINUTE(B2)/60)/60
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  19. Southall wrote
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    Southall wrote
    "then converted the track time into minutes and seconds (Excel thinks it's in hours and minutes)...

    Is there an easy way to do this?


    If the track time is in cell B2 then to get a value in hours which can be easily added up then the formula should be

    =(HOUR(B2)+MINUTE(B2)/60)/60

    Cheers James. :excited:
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      CommentAuthorFalkirkBairn
    • CommentTimeApr 19th 2015 edited
    After dabbling in "Pivot Tables" for the first time, here is my answer to the question of (what is the number of hours spent listening to which composer on an Apple product)

    Jerry Goldsmith 55.1
    John Williams 38.1
    Ennio Morricone 29.9
    Howard Shore 29.4
    James Horner 27.6
    Bernard Herrmann 27.1
    Brian Tyler 26.0
    Marco Beltrami 21.3
    Hans Zimmer 20.8
    Christopher Young 20.0
    Murray Gold 19.6
    John Barry 19.0
    Michael Giacchino 18.5
    Danny Elfman 18.1
    Alan Silvestri 16.3
    Elmer Bernstein 14.8
    Bear McCreary 14.1
    Alexandre Desplat 13.0
    Basil Poledouris 11.9
    Vladimir Cosma 11.3
    James Newton Howard 11.1
    John Carpenter 10.8
    Trevor Jones 10.5
    Steve Jablonsky 10.5
    Chris Tilton 10.2
    John Powell 9.2
    Fred Steiner 9.0
    Roque Baños 8.9
    Patrick Doyle 8.8
    Naoki Sato 8.3

    I'm in the process of changing the source of my iTunes library, so this list will be starting again from scratch shortly.
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  21. I can't believe you're actually pivotting this... LOL
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  22. It's a handy skill to have, even outside of film music appreciation I feel.
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeApr 19th 2015
    Yes, I must admit I have also used it in other circumstances from time to time.
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2015
    Thor wrote
    I still don't understand anything. Then again, I'm terribly stupid.


    Put me in the same place as Thor. My listening habits are impossible to track as I don't think my CD player can do that. A lot of my listening these days is based on what I decide to review. I listen to everyone that I receive at least once and then if I do decide to review one like "Beneath the Twelve Mile Reef" as an example I likely listened to it at least a half dozen times. That time doesn't include going back and re-listening to one particular section of a track.
    Tom smile
    listen to more classical music!
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2016
    People have been asking me for an update to this for ages, so here goes.

    1. James Horner (previous position 1)
    2. Ennio Morricone (3)
    3. Jerry Goldsmith (2)
    4. John Williams (4)
    5. Brian Tyler (6)
    6. John Barry (7)
    7. Alexandre Desplat (9)
    8. Hans Zimmer (5)
    9. Michael Giacchino (10)
    10. Thomas Newman (14)
    11. Georges Delerue (11)
    12. Christopher Young (12)
    13. James Newton Howard (8)
    14. Alan Silvestri (15)
    15. Elmer Bernstein (13)
    16. Randy Newman (22)
    17. Marco Beltrami (16)
    18. John Powell (21)
    19. John Debney (18)
    20. Basil Poledouris (new entry)
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeDec 24th 2016
    Zimmer. I am Jordi II it seems without (?) the lunacy? wink
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  27. You listen to far too much Brian Tyler! wink
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeDec 25th 2016
    My music is all over the place. The last few days it has been Glazunov, Wong, and Bernard.
    listen to more classical music!
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeMar 11th 2018
    Latest positions:

    1. James Horner (1)
    2. Jerry Goldsmith (3)
    3. John Williams (4)
    4. Ennio Morricone (2)
    5. Michael Giacchino (9)
    6. Alexandre Desplat (7)
    7. John Barry (6)
    8. Brian Tyler (5)
    9. Hans Zimmer (8)
    10. Thomas Newman (10)
    11. James Newton Howard (13)
    12. Georges Delerue (11)
    13. Christopher Young (12)
    14. John Powell (18)
    15. Randy Newman (16)
    16. Danny Elfman (new)
    17. Alan Silvestri (14)
    18. Elmer Bernstein (15)
    19. Michael Kamen (new)
    20. Marco Beltrami (17)
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  30. Southall wrote
    Latest positions:

    1. James Horner (1)
    2. Jerry Goldsmith (3)
    3. John Williams (4)
    4. Ennio Morricone (2)
    5. Michael Giacchino (9)
    6. Alexandre Desplat (7)
    7. John Barry (6)
    8. Brian Tyler (5)
    9. Hans Zimmer (8)
    10. Thomas Newman (10)
    11. James Newton Howard (13)
    12. Georges Delerue (11)
    13. Christopher Young (12)
    14. John Powell (18)
    15. Randy Newman (16)
    16. Danny Elfman (new)
    17. Alan Silvestri (14)
    18. Elmer Bernstein (15)
    19. Michael Kamen (new)
    20. Marco Beltrami (17)

    What's your monitoring system and over what period of time are the numbers based?
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