Get statistics of music by year from iTunes (Mac Music) library

iTunesYears.sh

# First export the iTunes ( aka "Music") Library.xml
# Get a list of all years present
cat Library.xml|grep Year |grep integer |sed 's/[^0-9]*//g' |sort |uniq >allyears.txt
# get a list of years to compare against (change to appropiate start and end years)
seq 1500 2024  >from1500.txt
# now see which years are missing
comm -13 allyears.txt from1500.txt
# To see what are the most common years:
cat Library.xml|grep Year |grep integer |sed 's/[^0-9]*//g' |sort |uniq -c |sort -n