I’ll never understand the way some people treat their music collection. Someone has recently complained in Apple Discussions that the iTunes play count doesn’t work because it only counts a play if you’ve played the whole track. This person has many favourite tracks with low play counts because they skip the final seconds which have ‘white noise’ or ‘feedback’.

How can you regard a track as a favourite if you don’t listen to it in its entirety?

Take Galaxie 500. Many of the songs they wrote later in their career were more instrumentally oriented, which meant that some of the songs had lengthy instrumental conclusions. I’ve never been too keen on these, except Listen.., but I would never dream of fast-forwarding through them, or stopping any of them prematurely.