[Nick Zwar]

Have to check out that “Compilation” guy I never heard of before 😉 But seriously ineresting chart. If I recall right you have often several recordings of the same classical work? I guess that explains the huge number of some classical composers (besides that Bach like Mozart wrote insanely many).

Yes, multiple recordings are one reason (like several Beethoven symphony sets, several sets of the complete piano ponatas, etc.) but it’s not only that, as I said, I did this on the fly, and the easiest way to quickly make a pie chart (for an FSM thread) was by disc space (where every “album artist” has its own folder) rather than export numbers from iTunes. So I just used the disc-space data I had, put it in Excel, and voila. That means, however, that definitely some classical composers are “overrepresented” because I have more “high-res” recordings (like 24bit/96kHz etc.) of their work (digital downloads from Qobuz, Hyperion, Berlin Philharmonic, etc.) in my collection, whereas most film scores come from ripped CDs, which are all 16bit/44.1kHz (no MP3 or otherwise lossy rips).

There are a number of ways to get a “pie chart”, but most would be “skewed” in some way. If I were to go by “album count”, for example, many classical composers would be totally “underrepresented” (as, for example, an album as the Shostakovich Andris Nelson Cycle, which contains all Symphonies, all concertos etc. counts as “1” album in my collection, yet it’s 20 hours of music). Track count could also be misleading, since composers like Mahler write symphonies with “tracks” of the length of an entire Varèse Sarabande film score album.
Perhaps the most “accurate” way for such a pie chart would be to export the actual “length of music” each composer has in the collection (that “compilation guy” obviously contains some more music from various film composers, as stuff like the 6 AMAZING STORIES CDs are under “compilation”), but I couldn’t do that on the fly, and disc space was the fastest I could do when somebody started “pie charting” his collection on FSM. Maybe one day when I feel like it; I found it quite fun to get a visual representation of the proportional values of artists in my music collection.