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I mean, even back in the day of listening to local .mp3s on my desktop. I'm pretty sure at least some of the software I used (Windows Media Player, Music Match Jukebox, probably others I can't remember) kept track of the title number of listens. I definitely remember going through and looking from time to time out of curiosity.
I also just love data and analysis. I love keeping track of things. I love sparking my memory, using data like this to remember a song I loved for like 3 weeks 8 months ago and forgot about.
I hate Spotify for a variety of other reasons. Once I've accumulated enough CD's or direct downloads to have a good sized library again i'm going to cancel it. But I do hope that whatever locally hosted open-source software I use for that will have tracking and analysis tools because it's fun.
Humans have a soft spot for collecting data. We have had people counting "how many black spots do I see looking directly at the sun" daily since 1749.
For a moment I thought you meant that there's a group of people looking at the sun and counting black spots that persist in their vision after doing so, then I realized how dumb that was and that you probably were talking about sun spots. That moment of confusion really got me going though.
Admit it, you wanted to see the data during that moment.
Be sure to make 2 backups of your library. Should be no problem if it's all mp3s. Also you can add a lot of metadata to the files themselves, there are software libraries/programs for this
I think mp3 files store that; I've seen Dankpods pull thay databfrom random crap old mp3 players.