Top Ten Songs For Each Month

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I have a history file for songs played on a jukebox. The syntax of the history
file is like follows:

Artist
Song Title
Album
Date Played

Example:

Him
Wicked Game (uk 2000)
Love Metal Archives Vol 1
12/12/2010
Noughties
Butterfly - Crazy Town
Volume 1 Disc 1
12/12/2010

This file consists of a couple of thousand lines(4 for each song).
What I want to get is the top ten songs for each month of the year.
I have no idea how to do this, so any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Posted 27-Mar-12 22:47pm

MrZedSven

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2012-03-27T22:50:00

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Keep a record of the number of times each song has been played and then analyse your file to select the top titles for the periods in question. Alternatively, if you keep all records as shown above, you need to scan the file and create the counts based on the dates of each entry.

Posted 27-Mar-12 22:50pm

Richard MacCutchan