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iTunes Countdown to 100 Million

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97,000,000,000 songs + ! ? !

What the f8ck is this sh8t!
:confused:

Apple.com just claimed "97,000,000,000 songs +" on their counter, but they changed it back to the real counter, now at 99,340,473 songs. Are they going to turn it off for good to try and stump everyone watching once it gets to a certain point or what?
 
few thing

autrefois said:
Steve keeps claiming that Apple and Microsoft are on good terms, so this one, although more expensive, might be more to Apple's liking. :)
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since this song is beinf offered on iTunes, will this have an effect on Apple/Microsoft Relations . /. . . they should make it the free song of the week, that will def piss of Mr. Gates hahahhahhah . . . Check out the lyricz . . it is a funny song http://www.johnvanderslice.com/html/lyrics_msof.html

And what is up with the 97.000,000 thing, is it b/c they are trying to decrease the risk of someone trying to time the 100,000,000th song? that would be close to impossible anway right?
 
jeffbistrong said:
And what is up with the 97.000,000 thing, is it b/c they are trying to decrease the risk of someone trying to time the 100,000,000th song? that would be close to impossible anway right?
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After my initial panic, I thought it over and i guess it makes sense.
I mean, it looked like they put it online, then took it down because someone's boss called down and said 'No too soon!'. I'm thinking they'll put it back up once a certain number is reached
Why? The bog down is bad enough when a 100,000th mark is crossed, and apple probably doesn't want the flood of potential winners crashing their server. So if everyone who's deliberately not won one of the 100,000th ipods (and those who didn't not win deliberately as well) has to guess (or calculate) when THEY think 100,000,000 comes around, the entries will be more spaced out and maybe it will actually be possible to use itms.
 
it keeps doing that to me then going back... every once and awhile i'll see the +97 million then it'll go back... boy it sure is exciting though.
 
does the person who posts the 500th message on this thread get anything??? ;)

My guess is that it will hit 100 million before 12:00 Zulu.
 
I wrote a little script that's been tracking it.. here are my results so far.

--- key ---

<DATE> - NumSongsSinceLastPull [CURRENTNUMSONGS] X MinutesSinceFirstPoll Y Songs/MinuteSinceLastPoll (TOTALAverageSongsPerMinute)

Sat Jul 3 12:51:01 2004 - 2280 songs [95693993] 7 minutes 5 songs/minute (325)
Sat Jul 3 12:56:01 2004 - 7653 songs [95699366] 12 minutes 1074 songs/minute (637)
Sat Jul 3 13:03:01 2004 - 11122 songs [95702835] 19 minutes 495 songs/minute (585)
Sat Jul 3 13:11:01 2004 - 16190 songs [95707903] 27 minutes 633 songs/minute (599)
Sat Jul 3 13:20:01 2004 - 20850 songs [95712563] 36 minutes 517 songs/minute (579)
Sat Jul 3 13:28:01 2004 - 23427 songs [95715140] 44 minutes 322 songs/minute (532)
Sat Jul 3 13:36:01 2004 - 28567 songs [95720280] 52 minutes 642 songs/minute (549)
Sat Jul 3 13:46:01 2004 - 33250 songs [95724963] 62 minutes 468 songs/minute (536)
Sat Jul 3 13:55:01 2004 - 35725 songs [95727438] 71 minutes 275 songs/minute (503)
Sat Jul 3 15:10:02 2004 - 72004 songs [95763717] 146 minutes 483 songs/minute (493)
Sat Jul 3 23:04:03 2004 - 263420 songs [95955133] 620 minutes 403 songs/minute (424)
Sat Jul 3 23:14:25 2004 - 266746 songs [95958459] 630 minutes 320 songs/minute (423)
Sat Jul 3 23:22:51 2004 - 267799 songs [95959512] 638 minutes 124 songs/minute (419)
Sat Jul 3 23:26:48 2004 - 269081 songs [95960794] 642 minutes 324 songs/minute (419)
Sat Jul 3 23:40:22 2004 - 271597 songs [95963310] 656 minutes 185 songs/minute (414)
Sat Jul 3 23:43:52 2004 - 272876 songs [95964589] 659 minutes 365 songs/minute (414)
Sat Jul 3 23:52:03 2004 - 274625 songs [95966338] 668 minutes 213 songs/minute (411)
Sat Jul 3 23:58:27 2004 - 275789 songs [95967502] 674 minutes 181 songs/minute (409)
Sun Jul 4 00:20:23 2004 - 280148 songs [95971861] 696 minutes 198 songs/minute (402)
Sun Jul 4 00:42:00 2004 - 282371 songs [95974084] 717 minutes 102 songs/minute (393)
Sun Jul 4 00:43:32 2004 - 283006 songs [95974719] 719 minutes 414 songs/minute (393)
Sun Jul 4 00:44:58 2004 - 283766 songs [95975479] 720 minutes 530 songs/minute (394)
Sun Jul 4 00:49:42 2004 - 284747 songs [95976460] 725 minutes 207 songs/minute (392)
Sun Jul 4 01:13:20 2004 - 287495 songs [95979208] 749 minutes 116 songs/minute (383)
Sun Jul 4 01:19:07 2004 - 288501 songs [95980214] 755 minutes 173 songs/minute (382)
Tue Jul 6 00:09:59 2004 - 1220075 songs [96911788] 3565 minutes 331 songs/minute (342)
Tue Jul 6 05:14:43 2004 - 1250191 songs [96941904] 3870 minutes 98 songs/minute (323)
Wed Jul 7 21:42:41 2004 - 2146942 songs [97838655] 6298 minutes 369 songs/minute (340)
Thu Jul 8 07:18:56 2004 - 2259895 songs [97951608] 6874 minutes 196 songs/minute (328)
Fri Jul 9 10:55:39 2004 - 2849313 songs [98541026] 8531 minutes 355 songs/minute (333)
Fri Jul 9 22:49:30 2004 - 3164163 songs [98855876] 9245 minutes 441 songs/minute (342)
Sat Jul 10 17:09:20 2004 - 3556051 songs [99247764] 10345 minutes 356 songs/minute (343)
Sat Jul 10 21:43:26 2004 - 3681904 songs [99373617] 10619 minutes 459 songs/minute (346)

Current Date: Sat Jul 10 21:44:05 2004
Next Hundred Thousand Based off Average:
Sat Jul 10 22:59:41 2004
Next Hundred Million Based off Average:
Mon Jul 12 03:53:47 2004

Next Hundred Thousand Based off Current Songs/Minute:
Sat Jul 10 22:40:54 2004
Next Hundred Million Based off Current Songs/Minute:
Sun Jul 11 20:28:06 2004
 
want the script to help calculate when to buy songs?

I wrote this really quickly and probably has some incorrect math somewhere, but it was still fun nonetheless..... use at on risk, yada yada yada... If you don't know what to do with this, don't mess with it. You'll have to use terminal. You're going to make two files in a directory... count.pl and counting.results. Don't forget to make count.pl executable (ie. chmod 755 count.pl)

-------- count.pl ---------
#!/usr/bin/perl
$| = 1;
use strict;
my($date, $time, $songs, %entries);

$time = time();

open(RESULTS,"< counting.results");
while(<RESULTS>) {
chomp;
($time,$songs) = split(/,/, $_);
$entries{$time} = $songs;
}
close(RESULTS);


sub print_est {
my($time, $start_time, $start_songs);
my ($million, $next_hundred_thousand);
my ($current_average);
my ($prev_time, $current_songs_since, $current_time_since);
my ($current_next_hundred_thousand, $current_million);
foreach $time (sort {$a <=> $b} (keys(%entries))) {
my($date, $num_songs, $time_since, $songs_per_minute);
unless ($start_time) {
$start_time = $time;
$start_songs = $entries{$time};
next;
}
$date = localtime($time);
$num_songs = $entries{$time} - $start_songs;
$current_songs_since = $entries{$time} - $entries{$prev_time};
$time_since = int(($time - $start_time)/60);
$current_time_since = (($time - $prev_time)/60);
$songs_per_minute = int($num_songs / $time_since);
$current_average = int($current_songs_since / $current_time_since);

print "$date - $num_songs songs [$entries{$time}] $time_since minutes $current_average songs/minute ($songs_per_minute)\n";

$next_hundred_thousand = int((((100000-($entries{$time} % 100000))/$songs_per_minute)*60)+$time);
$current_next_hundred_thousand = int((((100000-($entries{$time} % 100000))/$current_average)*60)+$time);
$million = int((((100000000 - ($entries{$time} % 100000000))/ $songs_per_minute) * 60) + $time);
$current_million = int((((100000000 - ($entries{$time} % 100000000))/ $current_average) * 60) + $time);

$prev_time = $time;
}
print "\nCurrent Date: ".localtime(time())."\n";
print "Next Hundred Thousand: ".localtime($next_hundred_thousand)."\n";
print "Next Million: ".localtime($million)."\n\n";
print "Next Current Hundred Thousand: ".localtime($current_next_hundred_thousand)."\n";
print "Next Current Million: ".localtime($current_million)."\n\n";
}

my ($temp_songs);
open(RESULTS,">> counting.results");
while($temp_songs ne "q") {
print_est();
print "Last Entry: $songs songs\n";
print "Enter Number of Songs sold, press [ENTER] to View Results, or q to quit\n";
print "[#,<ENTER>,q]: ";
$temp_songs = <>;
chomp $temp_songs;
if (($temp_songs) and ($temp_songs ne "q")) {
$songs = $temp_songs;
$time = time();
$entries{$time} = $songs;
print RESULTS "$time,$songs\n";
}
}
close(RESULTS);

-------- end of count.pl --------


-------- counting.results ------
1088883841,95691713
1088884261,95693993
1088884561,95699366
1088884981,95702835
1088885461,95707903
1088886001,95712563
1088886481,95715140
1088886961,95720280
1088887561,95724963
1088888101,95727438
1088892602,95763717
1088921043,95955133
1088921665,95958459
1088922171,95959512
1088922408,95960794
1088923222,95963310
1088923432,95964589
1088923923,95966338
1088924307,95967502
1088925623,95971861
1088926920,95974084
1088927012,95974719
1088927098,95975479
1088927382,95976460
1088928800,95979208
1088929147,95980214
1089097799,96911788
1089116083,96941904
1089261761,97838655
1089296336,97951608
1089395739,98541026
1089438570,98855876
1089504560,99247764
1089521006,99373617
--------- end of counting.results ---------
 
Well, the formating got all jacked up when I posted the script, but it still works... I just hate when things jack up the formating so here it is as an attachment. I guess I have to name it as a .txt file to upload it as an attachment, but you can rename it to just count.pl or leave it as count.pl.txt, but you have to rename counting.results.txt to counting.results or my script won't pick up the data file and you'll have to start fresh.
 

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Savage Henry said:
TOO LATE GUYS!!!!

I've worked out exactly how to get the 100m song, I'm off to purchase 40,000 songs in about 5 hours time!!

That'll show them .... that will show you allll ..... mwwaa haa hAA HHAAA!! :D
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Wow, with that many songs you better hope the new iPod comes in a 200 gb model :rolleyes:

My first post here at MacRumors :)
 
What to buy

Savage Henry said:
TOO LATE GUYS!!!!

I've worked out exactly how to get the 100m song, I'm off to purchase 40,000 songs in about 5 hours time!!

That'll show them .... that will show you allll ..... mwwaa haa hAA HHAAA!! :D
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So what are you going to buy with the 10,000 free songs after already buying 40,000 songs? :eek:
 
Savage Henry said:
TOO LATE GUYS!!!!

I've worked out exactly how to get the 100m song, I'm off to purchase 40,000 songs in about 5 hours time!!

That'll show them .... that will show you allll ..... mwwaa haa hAA HHAAA!! :D
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Hmm, so 40,000 songs = $40,000. So you're essentially paying $40,000 for a 17" PowerBook, an iPod and $10,000 worth of songs which would technically be worth about $14,000 in total. Yah, that's a good deal Einstein... :rolleyes: Heh heh... ;)
 
backspinner said:
I added an estimated "live" changing javascript counter to the page with the graphs on



It's not perfect, but it's quite accurate.
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You by far have done the best job presenting the same data than everyone else. Your graphs are excellent, and the addition of a near-perfect live updating total is icing on the cake.

Excellent work.
 
$$$

~Shard~ said:
What are all you people going to do after this promotion is over? :p ;)
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Savage Henry is going to have to eat Ramon for a year after spending his life savings on music...unless he is independently wealthy! ;)
 
Mr_Ed said:
Wow! It was within 200,000 of the 100 mil mark and they started posting the "97,000,000+" number again . . .
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I know, what's up with that. If apple sells around 400K~ songs an hour, then my calculations have apple selling the 100M song around 2am PST july 12.
 
Mr_Ed said:
Wow! It was within 200,000 of the 100 mil mark and they started posting the "97,000,000+" number again . . .
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(Im' asking because I don't know the answer. ie:it's not a rhetorical question)

So, with this 97mil+ number, do we see a pattern with what Apple is doing? does it seem to go to that when everyone jams the server with purchases while they compute how many are sold?

I haven't been able to watch it close enough and I don't see the 'gaps' on the graphs either.
 
No they are down again (7:11 PST)

So is this an indication to how busy Apple's servers are going to be in 5 hours from now?????

I'm wondering if I am going to be able to purchase music at all tonight.

My coworker bought some music on Friday and it took an hour to download his 13 track album on the T1 line!!
:eek:
 
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