Who has the biggest iTunes library on Mac Rumors?

[wnameth]

I am interested to see how big some of your libraries are in iTunes, anyone beet 100GB? thats 50x my library (5.89GB)

[igucl]

I have a lowly 1.13 GB.

[brap]

I am interested to see how big some of your libraries are in iTunes, anyone beet 100GB? thats 50x my library (5.89GB)
My backup drive's music folder tells me it's 83.3GB, but I recently nuked all of my recent iTunes rips so I can go lossless.

Why'd you ask?

[verozov]

only 4.15 GB for me (2.8 days, 990 songs)... but i only got my computer a few months ago so it's still growing fast (as i find cd's i forgot to upload and such)...

[mkrishnan]

I think you ought to go by songs too, since yeah, if I used lossless encoding, I could get pretty far up there. :D Well, if my iBook had more than 40GB of hd space. I have 3750 songs, 13.44GB. I had more, but I deleted about a gig of recorded radio shows because my iPod was getting full.... :( It's a 15 gigger.

[wnameth]

ok, lets go by songs I have 1198 3.3 days of music

[Blue Velvet]

Why'd you ask?

I thought it was customary for boys to compare the size of things... :D



Anyway, this girl's tunes take up 36.36 Gb for 3313 songs.
All 320kbps mp3s, want to move to Lossless...

[miloblithe]

5079 "songs"; 18 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes; 22.58GB

[edesignuk]

I thought it was customary for boys to compare the size of things... :D
oh dear...a measly 913 songs, 4.1GB :o

I feel so inept ;) :D :p

[puckhead193]

i have 3230 songs :cool: i barrow alot of cds from friends etc.
and i listen to about 50-60 of them, so much for my 30 gig ipod :rolleyes:

[clayj]

4735 songs (all ripped from CDs, none bought online)... 19.08 GB, 352 hours, 12 minutes, 35 seconds. (14 days, 16 hours, 12 minutes, 35 seconds.) All ripped at 128 kbps, with a few recent ripped at 192 kbps (all future rips to be done at 192).

[sethwerkheiser]

I have a little over 2000 songs. With a 20GB iPod and a 30GB harddrive, well, its hard to get close to filling the iPod :mad:

[runninmac]

gosh i have a small amount compared to most of you 690 songs or 3.04 GB

[LeeTom]

3998 songs, 11.4 days, 21.14GB

Lee Tom

[mpw]

About 600 tracks in already, mostly stuff I've bought since this Mac. I've still got about 600 CD's to put on when I get round to it.

What was the 1st song everyone downloaded from iTMS etc.? (legal paid for downloads only)

Mine was 'It's Raining Men' by The Weather Girls!!!

[Peterkro]

I thought it was customary for boys to compare the size of things... :D



Anyway, this girl's tunes take up 36.36 Gb for 3313 songs.
All 320kbps mp3s, want to move to Lossless...

You hit the nail so right on the head there.
:D

[blackfox]

umm...3411 tracks, 32.8G, 11.2 days on my mac(s).

also what is on my cheap old-school PC music server (2335 albums, 1945 hrs, 12mins, 7sec or 81+ days, 117.6G)...so alot. (total: 93+ days, 19,824 tracks, 155.4GB)

Mostly CD rips, some p2p (sorry), some itms...

[lavar78]

8,368 songs, 34.62 GB (24.8 days)

[dejo]

13,697 songs. 38.9 days. 53.35 GB.

Do I win?

[howard]

2800 tracks, 13.6 gigs

i go through periods of adding and trimming back my playlist

[wnameth]

I thought it was customary for boys to compare the size of things... :D



Anyway, this girl's tunes take up 36.36 Gb for 3313 songs.
All 320kbps mp3s, want to move to Lossless...

well what can i say, boys will be boys :D

[daveL]

Is this another "who has the biggest ... ?"

[Sideonecincy]

12481 Songs, 27.8 Days, 53.99 Gigs

[Daveway]

I have a mere 980 songs, but its always growing. Thats big for some one who is 17. I can attest that my uncle has a whopping 11,000 songs!!!!!!! He has a whole room of CDs and records that we put into itunes one weekend.

[jaromski]

3220 songs, 10.2 days, 16.01GB

jaromski

[zyuzin4]

10832 songs 27.2 days 46.45 GB...I need the 60GB iPod Photo

[acedickson]

Are you guys ready for this? I have a whopping 9MB of music. 2 songs.

Then again I killed my computer that had 1000 songs on iTunes. This PC is ancient. Running a Pentium, 2 GB HDD, 16MB ram. So, Yeah. can only do one thing at a time. Boy I can't wait for income tax. Even if I can't afford a Powerbook anything is better than this. LOL. BTW I can't even run iTunes on this computer, gotta have 2000 or XP. I'm on 98.

Good Times!

[DJY]

6118 songs 17.4 days 29.62GB of music...
but three more shelves of CDs to input.

[tersono]

8479 songs. 57.33gb

A friend's library is around 270gb (yes, you read that right), but he doesn't qualify as he's not running iTunes - he's using Slim Server =]

[JonoColesUK]

:( a very lowly 1427 songs 5.21 Gb

bare in mind ive only had it since new years eve

[dotdotdot]

I have 3,8xx something, but my dad has a TON of songs (over 250 GB of songs :eek: - Maxtor External HD)

[jbembe]

9200 songs. Not the most apparently... :rolleyes:

[jonat8]

8,976 songs, 25 days, 53.89Gb
Should hit 9,000 songs today (it's New Music Tuesday!)

Out of that, my Purchased Music folder is standing at 761 songs but I know I've bought more than that from iTMS because this is only since I've had my Mac (August 2004). Before that, I had been using iTMS on Windows since December 2003.

[Diatribe]

5423 songs, all at 224 AAC (38,5GB) on my PB and Lossless on my LaCie (137,9GB).

It'd be really nice to get them on my PB but for that I guess I'll have to wait 2-3 more years.

[Reeves]

Just 1942 songs, 5 days, 12 hours, 23 minutes, 33 seconds. Only 13 songs are purchased music. The rest are from CD's. But I guess thats quite a bit since I'm only 12 and I've had this laptop since Christmas Eve (2004).

Reeves

[dornoforpyros]

Well I'm still running winblows 98 here(hopefully for the last week!) but my iPods currenlty sitting at
5146 songs

And yes it is possible to run an iPod with Winblows 98, just need some drivers and plug ins.

[wrldwzrd89]

I'm not at my Mac right now, but I know my iTunes library is around 21 GB, and it'll probably be at over 200 GB once I've finished converting the 10,000+ songs in my collection. I've already passed 1,000 songs converted. My external drive holding my music is only 160 GB, so it looks like I'm going to have to replace it again (I've already upgraded it once). According to my calculations, when I had 900 songs in my library, it was just over 20 GB, so at 10,000 songs I'll have nearly reached 223 GB :eek:

[Lacero]

I got 4893 songs, but I only listen to about 1% of it any given month. My iPod 20GB has finally overflowed. Need to look at getting a 60GB at least.

[narco]

I'm not an audio whore, so all of my files are at 128/AAC. Some CD's I like in high quality, so I do the 320, but not many.

Currently, I have 11,191 songs, 37.64GB, 26:17:56:05.

10,000 songs my ass -- I filled my 40gig iPod with 11,197. Granted, I have a lot of 60's, late 70's punk and "new wave."

Fishes,
narco.

[jdechko]

347 Songs, 1 day, 4:01:01, 3.62Gb

Most of it (90%) is AAC 320

Wish i had a 4Gen iPod so I could do lossless. :(

[ClarkeB]

629 songs, 1.6 days, 2.84 GB

First iTunes purchase: The Simple Life Theme Single - We 3 Kings

[zwida]

17,544 songs 45:00:08:32 83.46 GB

Some of that is Apple Lossless, but not much. I typically import at 192 kbps AAC.

[D0ct0rteeth]

26,373 songs - 162.35 GB

[MeanD3feat]

1483 songs, 4.2 days 8.23 GB, and growing :)

[musicpyrite]

3,071 songs, 14.6 days. I've cut back quite a bit, deleted whole bunch of songs I'd never listened to.

But I think I still have a good number of songs.... more that most anyways.

[Jamvan]

8820 songs 26:02:38:23 33.54GB

Only have a 2G 20GB at this time so I only have a subset with me at all times.

If only I hadn't sold soooo many cd's while I was young and desperate for money in college.

[EGT]

4600 songs 15 days 23 hours 55 minutes 6 seconds, 47.33gb :confused:

[Mav451]

4715 songs, 12.4 days for 21.38GB.

A ton of CD rips, soundtrack/rap/rock, you name it, I probably have that genre haha. Oddly, the stuff I listen to the most is either John Mayer/Coldplay. The very first song I played in iTunes was Clocks.

[mad jew]

6368 Songs for about 20 days worth of listening and fitting just under 30gig. Longest song? Just over 2 hours! Yeah, I've only actually listened to fully it once through. It gets a bit repetitive after the first 45 minutes.

[AnewMac]

I have 2300 songs. How do you acquire 10,000 plus songs? That is a ton of music! You guys must all be former D.J.s!

[mad jew]

I have 2300 songs. How do you acquire 10,000 plus songs? That is a ton of music! You guys must all be former D.J.s!

It makes you wonder just how much music we NEED? I can press play on my iPod with shuffle enabled and usually get something good (something I'm actually in the mood for as well) within about ten hits of the next button. Then again, I am pretty picky as to what I'll listen to.

[AnewMac]

It makes you wonder just how much music we NEED? I can press play on my iPod with shuffle enabled and usually get something good (something I'm actually in the mood for as well) within about ten hits of the next button. Then again, I am pretty picky as to what I'll listen to.

I am in the same boat. Listening to my pod on shuffle almost seems like a chore, always clicking next, makes me wonder why I dont delete some songs. Must be an ego thing?

[wnameth]

[QUOTE=daveway00]I have a mere 980 songs, but its always growing. Thats big for some one who is 17.

I am 15 and i have 1736 songs (age means nothing)

[runninmac]

[QUOTE=daveway00]I have a mere 980 songs, but its always growing. Thats big for some one who is 17.

I am 15 and i have 1736 songs (age means nothing)

:confused: ...well good for u!

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Not quite at the top of the list:

8744 songs, 22:18:44:09 total time, 32,84 GB

Had different sized mp3s but are in the process of re-ripping everything into aac@128, good enough for me... ;)

[wrldwzrd89]

Not quite at the top of the list:

8744 songs, 22:18:44:09 total time, 32,84 GB

Had different sized mp3s but are in the process of re-ripping everything into aac@128, good enough for me... ;)

Here's mine right now:

2468 songs, 4:01:25:15 total time, 32.38 GB

100% of my library is in Apple Lossless format.

My library is also growing at a steady pace (about 5-10 GB per week on average)

[killmoms]

My iTunes library has 6920 tracks, 18.1 days, 36.33GB. It's a Frankenstein-ish mix of 128kbps MP3 (OLD rips and downloads), LAME VBR MP3 (newer downloads and rips), 192kbps MP3 (newish downloads), and 192kbit AAC (newest rips and downloads), with the odd 320kbps MP3 album tossed in for good measure (random downloads from audio freaks). I guess there's a few 128kbps AACs in there too, from the iTMS. Mostly singles there though.

[john1123]

i have a mere 264 songs (what a coincidence! ;) )but i like every single one!

[Foucault]

I have 4,480 songs taking up 18.13GB in my powerbook. I actually have over 6,000 songs in my 60GB iPod, I can't believe I'm at about 50% capacity on my iPod, I can probably fill my 60 GB in a couple of years.

[Loge]

3559 songs, 13:05:13:59, 18.64GB. (268 from iTMS). The rest from CDs, only about 1000 CDs still to go :p

[SFVCyclone]

10,265 songs and 41.02 GB but there are still a few cd's that need to be imported and im 21

[Vader]

1521 songs, 3 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes, and 21 seconds of music, 5.17GB. I could fit it all on the new mini! w00t!

[aplasticspork]

6699 ( :p ) songs. 17 days, 13 hours, 33 minutes, 47 seconds. 22.44 GB

still sorting through everything and deciding what i want to keep, but i may just leave it at 6699 songs.

currently listening to the "good music" playlist of 666 ( :p ) songs. 1 day, 23 hours, 37 minutes, 8 seconds. 2.54 GB

everything encoded at 128 kbps AAC

Edit: number of total songs, and number in good music playlist are complete coincidences :)

what do i win? :p ;)
--andrzej

[cyanide]

a dj i know has 30k+ songs on his powerbook+external hard drive. sweet!! then again its not all something i would want to hear, lol

[rainman::|:|]

i'm at a measly 1644 songs, 4.2 days, 7.31gb. But that's considering my entire CD collection was stolen before I ripped any of them, and the fact that I keep my library pretty clean of bad music. I think once I upgrade out of my 10gb iPod, I'll feel less constrained and will probably get a lot more music.

[homerjward]

:o
y'all are makin me feel inadequate...
i'm at 656 songs, 2.52gb, 1:18:45:22 total time, but growing by ~100mb a day because of audio hijack pro and internet radio :p and ive got like 10 cds to import but thats pretty insignificant lol
i rip at 128aac, but if it's an erm...downloaded/from friend mp3 i take what i can get and dont re-rip unless its like 320 or something

[killuminati]

I have a small but nice library. I have 834 songs but at least I listen to all of them. I bet you guys with 10,000 never listen to 3 quarters of them.

[jbembe]

I have a small but nice library. I have 834 songs but at least I listen to all of them. I bet you guys with 10,000 never listen to 3 quarters of them.

This made me curious. One of the major benefits of iTunes is the way it allows me to listen to stuff I might not pick out on my own. So, out of ~9000 mp3s, ~1800 are played 2 or less, 250 are played once or less, and about 40 haven't been played - mostly those several song compilations I got free in iTMS that I haven't gotten around to. Not bad (this is after maybe 2 years of tracking my listening with iTunes). :D

[virividox]

about 7000

[baby duck monge]

well as it stands right now i have 5008 songs (15.2 days, 22.44 gigs), but i have about 50 live shows left to rip, so that number will go up a little, though not nearly to the level of a lot of y'all.

i do listen to almost all of it, though. mostly through clever use of smart playlists, and month-long musical moods that end up taking me back to the things that sometimes get left behind :)

[Doctor Q]

I have the biggest iTunes library of anyone: 4,348,654,387 songs!

Oh wait, that's bytes. Never mind. My library is actually a little over 1,000 tunes. I've got about 40 CDs I haven't ripped yet and some Pepsi tunes trickling in too.

[warcraftmaster]

I have a mere 980 songs, but its always growing. Thats big for some one who is 17. I can attest that my uncle has a whopping 11,000 songs!!!!!!! He has a whole room of CDs and records that we put into itunes one weekend.


well, am 17 too i got 5777 15.8 days 21.13 and its mostly ripped from cds at 128 aac you know how many cds i own too. get this 2 the halo 2 soundtrack and a 2pac cd. i had a 15gb 3g iPod now i have a 4g iPod 40gb and a 1gb shuffle witch i love it sounds so greati think i use it more then my 4g :o

[wrldwzrd89]

I'm now at 4172 songs, 5:21:07:47 total time, 46.09 GB - and still growing. I also have ~10.7 GB worth of MP3s that I downloaded (not all of them are properly tagged) that I've archived to DVD until I decide what I want to do with them.

For the curious:

No, those aren't illegal P2P downloads. I wrote an automated downloader script for this one video game music site that works in concert with gnu's wget and ran it to download all 10.7 GB. It took about 15 hours to download.

[Solafaa]

1587 somgs, 4.2 days, 5.67 GB

I have a list of about 20-30 cd's that i am going to get so i might hit the 2k mark soon.

[shoe11]

14,521 songs, 39.8 days, 349.97 GB

I have over 1,000 CD's all encoded in Apple Lossless. Prior to Lossless becoming available, I had all of them stored as .AIFF's

~shoe

[homerjward]

I'm now at 4172 songs, 5:21:07:47 total time, 46.09 GB - and still growing. I also have ~10.7 GB worth of MP3s that I downloaded (not all of them are properly tagged) that I've archived to DVD until I decide what I want to do with them.

For the curious:

No, those aren't illegal P2P downloads. I wrote an automated downloader script for this one video game music site that works in concert with gnu's wget and ran it to download all 10.7 GB. It took about 15 hours to download.
sounds cool. what's the address for the site? theres some video game music it'd be pretty cool to have lol

[Sun Baked]

I used to have 1 song in mine, before I went to a new profile -- probably don't have any now.

But I'm not one to brag about how much I have or how much I spend.

If you brag too much, you deserve the withdrawl of assets somebody is likely to inflict on you. ;)

[zelmo]

I currently have 2318 songs - 11.2 days - 15.03GB.

Several years back my CD collection stood at 1200+, but it stands at around 100 today. I ended up selling off the vast majority because:
• a new baby in the house left little free time to listen
• the cash supplemented my growing DVD obsession (and the extra mouth that needed feeding)
• a townhome = insufficient space for collections of books, cd's, and dvd's to co-exist
• who needs the complete CD catalog of every artist they like, anyway

If I'd spent a little effort to convert those cd's into 192kbps mp3 files, my collection would have an additional 75GB or so of music. Short-sighted, but thems the breaks.

[youngestchild]

all my tunes are backed up to cdr (as data) at the moment :( .. but i just got a 60gb ipod photo yesterday so i'm slowly but surely putting them on 'podpod'. should be around 28gb when i'm done... but currently only stands at 2114 songs transfered.. still soooo many to go.. most are in AAC at 128.. tho' some are mp3 at 160.

oh, n i haven't bought any songs from the itunes shop because it's 'not currently avaliable in (my) country" ho hum.. have to make do with pitchfork free downloads for the time being! :p

[youngestchild]

• who needs the complete CD catalog of every artist they like, anyway


*ahem!* pft! :p
i actually don't have the complete collection of many bands but it's not for want of trying!

[wrldwzrd89]

sounds cool. what's the address for the site? theres some video game music it'd be pretty cool to have lol
After sorting through all the junk, it's down to 10.34 GB of MP3s from http://www.vgmix.com/. The site focuses on video game music remixes. I got banned there just for saying I was bored with the site, and they never bothered to unban me when I said I wanted to return :(

[cluthz]

I'm not home at the moment, but my itunes library is aprox 12000 songs ~80gb and 38 days..

Bought 5 cd's yesterday i haven't added yet..

[raggedjimmi]

iPod mini 6gb is full (3.5 days worth of music, about 1600 songs)
my old iPod now my girlfriends had 9.5 days of music, dunno song number :)
PowerBook has 11Gb of music.

BUT im waiting for the wireless network to be installed so the downstairs PC which has oh... about a few hundred GB's of music (mostly crap though) streaming around the entire house. going to get a few FireWire HD enclosures stocked with 250Gb drives just for music/video streaming.

not a fan of lossless AAC. instead of having 1600 songs on my mini it'd jump down to about 40 :P (provided the 160kbs AAC songs are 40x smaller than their full sized counterparts).

sidetrack; this is so typically the future. people have 56k so downloading (legal) music is 3mb a track, but then broadband appears. people start downloading entire albums 30-100mb which takes the same time as a 56k to download 1 track. as hardware and connection speeds gets faster people want more from them so they see no benefit. my iPod can have days worth of music compressed but wont store more than a few albums in lossless, taking me back to the days of having a 128mb MP3 player, only bigger. [/rant]

[jihad the movie]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/jschmidt/songs.jpg

This is after I deleted roughly 3,000 songs that I absolutely do not listen to. How do I have so much music? I listen to music all the time, jazz, new wave, indie, electronic, classic rock, you name it, I have it. I used to go to the record store at the end of each month and drop $200 on music... until I got to college, so the vast majority of this is what I own. All my tracks have album art, corrected ID3s and ratings. About 5,000 songs are 160 AAC, 3,000 192 mp3, 5,000 128 mp3 and the rest is higher level mp3 (like LAME, 256 or 320)

[MacHarne]

Right below 5500 songs for me. Most of them are 128 AAC, but I recently switched to 160 AAC for the slight quality increase (or peace of mind). All total at 21GB. It was a huge loss for me to give up on my Automatic iPod fill feature, but I'm learning the advantages of Manual fill at this point.

[dabirdwell]

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[evilernie]

12809 songs, 39.3 days, 58.47 GB

And I want more! Going to get the new Judas Priest tommorow. :D

[jonat8]

I'm now on 11,870 songs, 33 days, 73.80Gb.
My next milestone is 100Gb :)

[wrldwzrd89]

I'm in the process of reorganizing my music collection. As a result, the size of my library has temporarily shrunk to ~20 GB. I'll rebuild it back to the level it was at before eventually, and surpass that old level - assuming I don't encounter any more speed bumps like the one that prompted this reorganization.

[wordmunger]

26,373 songs - 162.35 GB

Well, it looks like you're the winner. I've just finished ripping 20 years' worth of CDs: 4,400 songs for 20 GB.

[vieoray]

with libraries as big as some here, i'm surprised your people don't spend all your time messing with the tags and album art :) mine's at 3168 songs for 14.33 GB. i collect a lot of live stuff, and for each show i'm constantly editing the tags and whatnot. it's not one of my favorite things to do, hehe.

[wrldwzrd89]

with libraries as big as some here, i'm surprised your people don't spend all your time messing with the tags and album art :) mine's at 3168 songs for 14.33 GB. i collect a lot of live stuff, and for each show i'm constantly editing the tags and whatnot. it's not one of my favorite things to do, hehe.
vieoray -

That's exactly what I spend most of my time doing when I import stuff into my library. Tagging isn't my favorite task either - but it sure makes songs easier to find when I want to listen to something in particular.

[jayscheuerle]

And Napster would have us believe the leader here spent $27,000 at the iTMS....

[wordmunger]

And Napster would have us believe the leader here spent $27,000 at the iTMS....

More likely he got them from the *original* napster. Not that I have inside information or anything...

[quik]

I have 7 weeks of music.

So, about 8000 MP3s.

[VAmin]

Me too! Me too! :p
I have 902 songs (all classical), 10.05GB, all ripped at 320 AAC or mp3 (mostly AAC).

[TMA]

65.19 Gb
12,046 Songs
37 days, 14 hours, 9 minutes and 49 seconds
297 Artists
1098 Discs (Albums/EP's/Singles etc)

Currently encoding in VBR, Normal Stereo, Medium Quality, Minimum bitrate 192 kbps. No smart encoding or filtering below 10Hz. Average file is about 200-210 kbps. Getting VERY nice results with these settings!

Using computers as jukeboxes is THE way forward!

[wrldwzrd89]

Right now, I'm at 1,000 songs, 2:16:46:03, 23.33 GB. However, 183 of those 1,000 songs haven't been fully tagged yet. I decided to re-rip everything using a higher quality ripping method. 1,000 songs isn't anywhere near the final size - my latest estimates put the final song count between 12,000 and 13,000.

[mad jew]

Yay! I finally broke through the 50gig barrier! And only a few more (hundred?) CDs left to go... :D

I don't understand how so many people have such small libraries. I've got really mixed taste an so I need a little bit of everything. :D

Oh, and that's 160kbs mp3.

[sebisworld]

Well, i have 4607 songs, which is like 11 days (audio books and stuff included). Compared to my friends, i have the rather "short one" though.

[iGary]

I have 1010 songs, 5 GB.

1.5 GB of that is just Rush. Every album. :D

[TMA]

I'd like to propose a change to the rules of this thread.

It should not be "Who's got the biggest iTunes Library?" it should be "Who's got the longest playing iTunes Library?"

I notice several people using Lossless and extremely high rate AAC's. <tongue in cheek> Not everyone has hearing as sensitive as a bat :p It's nice to archive music at high bit rates but seriously even using the best and most expensive speaker technology available I bet nobody can tell the different between a properly encoded 200-300kbps MP3 and pure uncompressed AIFF or Apple Lossless.

Anyway, I'm not trying to flame (honestly) I just think amount of music is a more useful measurement.

[mad jew]

I'd like to propose a change to the rules of this thread...

Fair enough. :p
I've got 31.5 days at the moment, just a little more than a month.

[2A Batterie]

Not everyone has hearing as sensitive as a bat :p It's nice to archive music at high bit rates but seriously even using the best and most expensive speaker technology available I bet nobody can tell the different between a properly encoded 200-300kbps MP3 and pure uncompressed AIFF or Apple Lossless.

Trust me, if you had a real nice pair of professional audio monitors, you could tell. I've listened to the same song in MP3, 192kpbs AAC and Apple Lossless and I certainly can tell the difference. I can even tell driving in my car. Then again, I am in the music business and listen to music and mix tracks all the time. By the way, I have a modest size (in terms of length of time) iTunes library (5600 songs) but it takes up a huge amount (110gb) thanks to Apple Lossless encoding. I'm saving up so I can get tow 1TB external drives to store music. One for all of my tunes and one for backup.

By the way, what is "tagging" your music?

[mad jew]

By the way, what is "tagging" your music?

Fair enough about the quality thingo, I'm lucky enough to not really notice the difference between too many of the different types/bit rates.

As for tagging, I'm pretty sure it's naming/filing the music correctly as in ID3 tags. I could be wrong though...

[dubbz]

As for tagging, I'm pretty sure it's naming/filing the music correctly as in ID3 tags. I could be wrong though...

Unless the definition changed since last time I blinked, you're correct.

As for my own library... Currently at 4196 songs, 10 days, 22,3 GB. It mostly consist of movie and game soundtracks. Some Apple Lossless, most MP3.

[neut]

i've got a few hundred GIGs on my music server (I'll check the exact when i get home) ... not all my CDs are in there yet either (CDs are at another house). probably more than half are Lossless; the other half are a mix of MP3s, AACs, and protected songs (iTunes). When everything is added i expect to have about 500 GIGs of music.

I have a friend who has way too much music ... mostly MP3 ... i think he's pushing a years worth of music! :eek:


peace | neut

[williamsonrg]

While we are comparing libraries, I thought I would ask what songs have the title of "Most Played" in people's libraries.

It is with much embarassment that I admit that at #1, with 16 times played (that only counts iTunes, not my iPod), is Duran Duran with "Hungry Like the Wolf." I honestly don't remember listening to it 16 times, but iTunes wouldn't lie...

Just to illustrate the variety of music I have, however, #2 is Kanye West's "Two Words," with 15 plays.

[neut]

It is with much embarassment that I admit that at #1, with 16 times played (that only counts iTunes, not my iPod), is Duran Duran with "Hungry Like the Wolf." I honestly don't remember listening to it 16 times, but iTunes wouldn't lie...

Just to illustrate the variety of music I have, however, #2 is Kanye West's "Two Words," with 15 plays.

id be more embarrassed about he Kayne West than Duran Duran. :p

i'll check my iTunes stats (going home for lunch).


peace | neut

[SFVCyclone]

id be more embarrassed about he Kayne West than Duran Duran. :p

i'll check my iTunes stats (going home for lunch).


peace | neut

kanye is tight, why would you be embarrased by his stuff?

[neut]

kanye is tight, why would you be embarrased by his stuff?

he's alright. a bit commercial and bland for my tastes (not that Duran Duran wasn't commercial). he's more pop than hip-hop or R&B; and no i don't mean the R. Kelly version of what was once Rhythm and Blues. he just needs to do more tracks with Dilated Peoples and less with Usher. :rolleyes:

as far as hip-hop goes ... im more of an Aesop fan myself.

my iTunes Library: 18,062 songs | 303.52GB | 56:01:24:16 total time
... and im not even close to being finished

peace | neut

[PlaceofDis]

i am currently at 5201 songs, 14.5 days, 19.14 gigs

im debating if i should stay at this bit rate though i am currently at 128 AAC for just about 100% of my songs, i want to go to a higher rate, but i dont have the room for something like Lossless

what have you guys found to be the best compromise? MP3 VBR? 192 AAC? just curious

[SFVCyclone]

i am currently at 5201 songs, 14.5 days, 19.14 gigs

im debating if i should stay at this bit rate though i am currently at 128 AAC for just about 100% of my songs, i want to go to a higher rate, but i dont have the room for something like Lossless

what have you guys found to be the best compromise? MP3 VBR? 192 AAC? just curious

go for the 192aac, there is a difference when you go and reburn to a cd.

[ITASOR]

191 Songs // 644.1MB

Do I win for lowest?

I hate 10GB iBook HD's. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[caminoix]

hello, guys :)

we are looking for help on describing mac p2p programs at http://p2p.info.pl/index.php?newlang=eng

every bit of help will be appreciated :)

[cgratti]

13,697 songs. 38.9 days. 53.35 GB.

Do I win?

no...

15,342 songs
44.5 Days
82.7 GB's

[jonat8]

I'm now on 12,025 songs - 33.4 days - 74.96Gb.

I've got a stack of about 10 CDs that need ripping too so that's about another hundred. :)

I'm aiming to get 100,000 songs. That must be just under a YEAR of constantly playing music.. wow :eek:

[Knox]

105.76GB : 55 days 21 hours 28 minutes : 4487 songs

My library does contain quite a few 2 hour long mixes that were originally on the radio, hence the large size/time but relatively small number of songs.

While we are comparing libraries, I thought I would ask what songs have the title of "Most Played" in people's libraries.

Most played song - The Promise (From the film The Piano), played 352 times. I suspect the size of that figure will be due to me forgetting to stop iTunes playing overnight on a number of occasions :D

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

While we are comparing libraries, I thought I would ask what songs have the title of "Most Played" in people's libraries.There are already threads for most related issues...

Most played song... (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=47321) (The one you asked for...)

Most emarrasing song in your library... (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=91030) (My favorite, you'll understand why...)

Favorite Band/Artist (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=117811) (Also a good thread)

Post 10 RANDOM songs... (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=98174) (Nice twist)

10 Albums that changed your life... (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=118032) (Unfortunately, some use this to list their favorite albums, and not those who made an impact, but still...)

[RAS admin]

I only imported about 400 of my favorite CD's off the shelf as Apple Lossless, which is less then half of my collection. The rest were Acquired elsewhere... :cool:

[Chip NoVaMac]

I have 1010 songs, 5 GB.

1.5 GB of that is just Rush. Every album. :D

Didn't know that he recorded any albums. :D

[mad jew]

I only imported about 400 of my favorite CD's off the shelf as Apple Lossless, which is less then half of my collection. The rest were Acquired elsewhere... :cool:


Is that edited? It doesn't quite look right.

[840quadra]

Just a touch over 15gb currently.

I need a bigger iPod now :(

[busasa]

I now have 2419 songs in my itunes library, which constitutes 11gb in space. Most of them are in 128 acc with the exception of my favourtie artists which are encoded in 192, while I can definately tell the difference between 192 and 128, I don't feel it's necessary for the other artists to get that treatment. :P My brother, on the other hand, has about 60gb of music, which is pretty amazing.

[millar876]

my itunes library is 5341 songs, 17d 10h 2m 10s 22.04GB time is so long because i have audiobooks and standup routines (from casette) on there that i cant be bothered seperating into tracks

[Goliath]

my iTunes library has 11,925 songs, 31.5 days of music, 47.21Gigs
from 941 albums 884 artists
Mostly 128/160 a.a.c

most played song This Love- Maroon 5 (68 plays)- my female flatmate's fave song

[Mydriasis]

Well the only thing impressive about my library is that I have about 90% of it on CD as well. I love music.

[DeSnousa]

Mines 1552 songs, 4.2 days, 6.92GB

[jonnyblobby]

Well, although i can't give you the exact numbers as they are now,
the xserve at work connected to a xserve raid has an itunes library of more than 30,000 songs..
Although a large portion of that is just production music and sound fx
(I work at a television production company)

Currently working on capturing in the CD collection at home,
a rough estimate would put the cds in the number of over 20,000,
and a vinyl collection of about 10,000.
(That what you get from having a father who used to be a warner music australia executive and still running an independent record company with contacts with every label...)

Now all I need is the storage space...
And it would seem pointless to capture it all in compressed

I was given the task a few years back to setup a iTunes server for a record label that wanted to have the entire catalog captured in and available to listen to over the network and have the songs available for email etc..
That was about 50,000 songs, and would have grown quite a bit since then...
+ With people in the company going on trips to music industry functions all over the world and now being able to take the whole companies catalog on a few ipods ready to listen to where-ever (itrips included) without having to lug huge amounts of cds overseas.
You go to midem now and everyone have got ipods.

[dmatich]

I've just finished putting in about 1300 CDs, which comes out to about 16,700 songs, 97GB (at AAC 224), and 43 days. I'll eventually re-import as Apple Lossless when there is a convenient way to down-rez them for syncing with an iPod...or is there something like that now?

[RAS admin]

Is that edited? It doesn't quite look right.

no, not edited. what doesn't look right about it? or are you trying to figure out where the rest of the songs came from since 400 CD's doesn't equal 23,000+ songs?

I'm working on importing the rest of my CD's as Apple Lossless right now.
I'll probably have over 30k when I'm done.......

[biohazard6969]

1644 songs 4.2 days 6.43 GB

what the hell would anyone do with 10,000+ songs in their libriry? its insane, you can't possibly listen to more then 1000 of them on a regular basis.

[Hunts121]

3,115 songs, 8.9 days, 11.87GB (all at 128kps AAC) :D

nothing special compared to some, but it gets the job done

[mad jew]

no, not edited. what doesn't look right about it? or are you trying to figure out where the rest of the songs came from since 400 CD's doesn't equal 23,000+ songs?

I'm working on importing the rest of my CD's as Apple Lossless right now.
I'll probably have over 30k when I'm done.......


Sorry, wasn't trying to sound all accusing or anything but there's a weird light grey box around the stats. I was just trying to figure out why.

[Mechcozmo]

1198 songs, 4.85 GB here

To think, I started with the free songs in iTunes 2.... :rolleyes:

[eXan]

533 songs - around 2.5 gigs :D

[tooflets]

10,483 songs, 47:10:40:56 total time, 103.59GB, with plenty of CD's left to rip that are of a lower priority.

Most is 224 AAC. Lossless would be nice, but after spending so much money on CD's, there's not much left for backup drives.

[Ph4lynx]

13397 songs and im 15 84.04gb, but that includes about 12gb of beethoven encoded in lossless

[revenuee]

I thought it was customary for boys to compare the size of things... :D



Anyway, this girl's tunes take up 36.36 Gb for 3313 songs.
All 320kbps mp3s, want to move to Lossless...

492 --- no need for compensation ;)

[FYA]

6351 27.GB

a lot of music i would never listen to, but it's cool to have it. Thank tech 4 externals.

[dvdh]

76 LPs . . . About half being recent release Alternative and Post-Rock, about a quarter classic rock (especially Neil Young, Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull), and the other quarter being Jazz/Blues. Not bad for my first year of analog music.

[The D Man]

5164 Songs 14.5 days 19.79 GB all encoded in 128 AAC

First song in my library: !!!- When the Going Gets Tough

Last Song in my library: Zwan- Come With Me

Most Played Song: Christoph De Babalon- No Step

[dollystereo]

2645 songs, for a 4G 40GB ipod, is not filled, Why you guys use Apple loseless, is so big!, and your ipods battery doesnt last long! (spinning disk all the time)

[neut]

2645 songs, for a 4G 40GB ipod, is not filled, Why you guys use Apple loseless, is so big!, and your ipods battery doesnt last long! (spinning disk all the time)

i have an G3 that acts as an iTunes server (apple lossless) ... my G5 holds the selected 192 AAC versions for my iPod. :)


peace | neut

[wrldwzrd89]

2645 songs, for a 4G 40GB ipod, is not filled, Why you guys use Apple loseless, is so big!, and your ipods battery doesnt last long! (spinning disk all the time)
Well, I don't even use my iPod, so the fact that I use Apple Lossless matters little as far as that's concerned.

I'm redoing my iTunes Library yet again because I felt like it. At least I don't have a whole lot to do over...

[emw]

I've got a little over 4500 songs right now, although occasionally I wonder why I keep them all. I really should purge some of them and restock more from iTMS. I'm just too lazy, and it's too easy to just skip over the songs...

[neut]

Well, I don't even use my iPod, so the fact that I use Apple Lossless matters little as far as that's concerned.

I'm redoing my iTunes Library yet again because I felt like it. At least I don't have a whole lot to do over...

So you wanna send that useless iPod my way ... ? ... nuge, nuge. ;) ;)


peace | neut

[mashinhead]

8,368 songs, 34.62 GB (24.8 days)

thats my neighboorhood too, 34.?? in less songs though

[wrldwzrd89]

So you wanna send that useless iPod my way ... ? ... nuge, nuge. ;) ;)


peace | neut
You probably wouldn't want it anyway, since I had it engraved when I bought it. I think you forgot a 'd' in "nudge".

[neut]

You probably wouldn't want it anyway, since I had it engraved when I bought it. I think you forgot a 'd' in "nudge".

nudge; nuge .. :D nooge ... :p

engraving? who cares ... it's an iPod! :D


peace | neut

[BartoK]

819 songs, 2.5 days, 3.51 GB

Pretty measly, but when my 15gig iPod out does my 10gig iBook there's only so much I can do...especially when the iBook's HD has been maxed out for a while!

All of that will change when my rev.B iMac arrives, though!!! Can't wait for my iPod to finally be too small!

[BartoK]

Sorry - Duplicate post! :o

[TyleRomeo]

16,496 songs 44.3 days 366.44GB mostly AIFFs, I don't like dirty mp3s

setting up a RAID O 800GB seagate monster to hold all of my music.

[killuminati]

16,496 songs 44.3 days 366.44GB mostly AIFFs, I don't like dirty mp3s

setting up a RAID O 800GB seagate monster to hold all of my music.

WTF?!?!?

[killmoms]

16,496 songs 44.3 days 366.44GB mostly AIFFs, I don't like dirty mp3s

setting up a RAID O 800GB seagate monster to hold all of my music.
Why don't you use Apple Lossless? You could save a few GB that way, maybe even 50 or so.

[wrldwzrd89]

Why don't you use Apple Lossless? You could save a few GB that way, maybe even 50 or so.
On average, Apple Lossless is half the size of AIFF...that 366.44 GB music library could shrink down to as little as 183.22 GB with zero loss of quality.

[killmoms]

I think that's a little optimistic. On average ALAC is about 65% - 75% of the size of the original. It CAN get as low as 50% but that's relatively rare. Still though, when you're talking nearly 400GB of stuff, even a 25% - 35% savings is quite significant.

[D0ct0rteeth]

I think that's a little optimistic. On average ALAC is about 65% - 75% of the size of the original. It CAN get as low as 50% but that's relatively rare. Still though, when you're talking nearly 400GB of stuff, even a 25% - 35% savings is quite significant.

I dont think 180GB is unreasonable. Doing some quick math ALAC would take up about 150GB. He would save a ton of space. I have everything saved at 192 or ALAC (depending on when I ripped it) and My library is almost twice the files, in substantially less space.

30073 : 97.8 days : 203.17 GB

edit: For those playing the home game my quick math was (203 x 16496 / 30073 = 111) plus 30% for padding = 150GB

[wrldwzrd89]

I think that's a little optimistic. On average ALAC is about 65% - 75% of the size of the original. It CAN get as low as 50% but that's relatively rare. Still though, when you're talking nearly 400GB of stuff, even a 25% - 35% savings is quite significant.
It really varies, Cless. I've gotten ALAC files as small as 5% of the AIFF (a 95% savings) and as large as 95% of the AIFF (a 5% savings).

[RAS admin]

I still have almost 300 more CD's that I decided not to import, mostly rock and jazz that I don't listen to very much. About 10,000 songs I imported as Apple Lossless, and the rest are mp3/AAC of various bitrates... I recently killed all my playlists (not sure what I was thinking :confused: ), now I need to go through them all over again....................

[Sirus The Virus]

I have 1214 songs, about 160 of them are U2. All 128 kbps, started ripping at 160kbps about two months ago. Once I get another iPod, which will probably be a 30 GB or 60 GB I'm going to re rip all my music at 192kbps, I would like to now but that would fill up my 10 GB iPod. $449. Bummer. I'm going to hold off a year or so before I get a new iPod, because I have a feeling that something really different and cool is about to come out in the comming months.

[evil_santa]

10650 songs, 34:11:30:09 total time, 59.25 GB

mostly 192kbps MP3

[janey]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/chix0r/Picture1.png

Mostly aac/ogg/mp3 VBR or up and around 192kbps, a few in AIFF or apple lossless...also have some in flac but i can't find an iTunes plugin for that kind of thing.

Went through my library looking for songs to use in a project, and I realized I have like complete TMBG, Björk, death cab, radiohead, weezer, NIN, white stripes, david bowie, pink floyd and others...and that a dresden dolls song has a play count of like 100, which is probably the highest - very interesting :p

[cgratti]

51,325 songs or 329.25 GB

[macinfojunkie]

My current iTunes Library stands at :

6861 songs, 20.8 days and 36(ish) GB. Does not take into accout the 2 TB* of MP3s I'm still to import. Currently and slowliny going though all my MP3 library making them itune ready.

Will report back when I have the entire colection in iTunes. I'm suspcting I'll have to hive off into multiple libraries. Anyone know what the iTunes max is? What's the current record in this thread, i;ve not seen above 200 GB. Mos peeps personale sotorage limit I guess. I'm lucky I have 10 TB!!!

* I used to work for a company which had a dedicated SAN for it's iT dept to use for MP3 and DVD rip usage. Thats ahy have so many mp3s. That Co. was Enron.

[jestershinra]

10832 songs 27.2 days 46.45 GB...I need the 60GB iPod Photo

Me too- desperately! I'm at 49GB now.

[janey]

Me too- desperately! I'm at 49GB now.

i gave up on iPods storing all my music a long time ago :p

so after trying to get progressively bigger iPods, I'm just happily using my iPod mini (of course, yesterday i ran into a bit of trouble trying to add too much music, but..)

[jestershinra]

*laughs*

Yeah, I'm managing now. I haven't sat down and made a great system with playlists and such, so I've been manually choosing songs/podcasts and such for now. Sometime I'll get my act together and set it up so it's automatic.

[line]

4910 songs, 13.9 days. 24.41 GB

[shompa]

I have a bit over 53000 tunes.

I was glad when Apple removed the 34000 tunes limit in Itunes 3.


192 days of music. 250 gig.

And I stopped DL music over 18 month ago.

[MattG]

I have a bit over 53000 tunes.

I was glad when Apple removed the 34000 tunes limit in Itunes 3.


192 days of music. 250 gig.

And I stopped DL music over 18 month ago.
Jesus Tapdancing Christ!!!! Wow...I've got iTunes envy :p

I've got 6000+ songs in mine, mostly 320kbps, some lossless (workin' on that), and some from the iTMS. I haven't even ripped all of my CDs yet!

[neut]

I have a bit over 53000 tunes.

I was glad when Apple removed the 34000 tunes limit in Itunes 3.


192 days of music. 250 gig.

And I stopped DL music over 18 month ago.

Don't tell the RIAA ... :rolleyes:


peace.

[Freakk123]

ummm... around 8.5 GB, if I remember correctly (I'm not on my mac right now :(). Not sure about number of songs, but somwhere between 2000-3000, i think.

Wouldn't mind having some more, too.

[narco]

As of now I have 12,949 songs at 44.92GB. Mostly legal, everything else is from Soulseek and is stuff that is only available on vinyl for outrageous prices on ebay and gemm.com. So it's alright in my book. If they ever re-release them, I'll toss them and get the CD.

Fishes,
narco.

[xFU3Lx]

8.53 gb
2131 songs :)

[mac-er]

I have a lowly 1.13 GB.

I'm glad I don't have the lowest. :o :p :rolleyes: :cool:
345, 1.49 GB

[killuminati]

I'm glad I don't have the lowest. :o :p :rolleyes: :cool:
345, 1.49 GB

Well, you have to start somewhere. at least you wont need an expensive ipod to hold all that.

[doctor pangloss]

7850 songs 24 days 33.48G

I only have a 40G ipod so I'm holding off on getting much more.

How does this "lossless" work? Can you compress your existing itunes library? And in turn compress the files on the ipod? I'm running the 4.8 itunes now.

[Vader]

I would totally have like 1000GB if mp3 or AAC wasn't around!
So good think there is good compression!

[killuminati]

How does this "lossless" work? Can you compress your existing itunes library? And in turn compress the files on the ipod? I'm running the 4.8 itunes now.

Apple Lossless is another type of compression. It is only good for importing CDs. It will keep the exact quality of the CD but can reduce the file size by up to 50%. It won't work to convert your mp3s or aacs.

[doctor pangloss]

ok thanks

[peppepop]

I am interested to see how big some of your libraries are in iTunes, anyone beet 100GB? thats 50x my library (5.89GB)
Going up towards 60K songs. iTunes doesn't really work well with that amount of songs.....

[EGT]

Going up towards 60K songs. iTunes doesn't really work well with that amount of songs.....

In what way?

[tzibo]

8059 songs, 25.6 days, 41.15 GB.

Which reminds me - need to update my iTunesRegistry :)

[peppepop]

In what way?
Well, it is just not responsive if you go over.. say 20k songs. I have a 1.8 ghz iMac G5, and I get the spinning ball a lot. It was better for a while in iTunes 5, but now I don't know...

[TyleRomeo]

Well, it is just not responsive if you go over.. say 20k songs. I have a 1.8 ghz iMac G5, and I get the spinning ball a lot. It was better for a while in iTunes 5, but now I don't know...

18,398 songs
49.7 days
429.19GB

[neut]

18,398 songs
49.7 days
429.19GB

???

Everything in .WAV or .AIFF? Try Apple Lossless and save on HD space ... ;)


peace | neut

[dreamcast]

i have 31,441 songs for 87.1 days at 338.26gb, all from cd rips using itunes at 320aac with all cover art included at 600by600 resolution. i use an external hd 400gb with only 30gb left, i think i need a bigger 500gb or terabyte at least for next year.

[Lacero]

There's another thread around here with a similar subject. I have a little over 34,000 songs.

[ShaunPriest]

I have 130 songs.

[pna]

29,876 songs, 84.7 days, 153.32 GB

[buywisdom]

I have 138.17 GB of music in itunes, It says 23678 items or 70.7 days of music. All of it is from cds and in ordered. 70-75% has album art and I have yet to buy from itunes music store.

[crazyjoeda]

I only have 4.76GB.

[kev0476]

2863 songs and videos 7.5 days 17.95 Gigs

Don't know why i bought the new 60 gig ipod:confused:

[neut]

2863 songs and videos 7.5 days 17.95 Gigs

Don't know why i bought the new 60 gig ipod:confused:

Well, now you'll also have a 40G HD. :)


peace | neut

[kev0476]

sorry about this post i didn't realize how to quote, sorry im new here

[kev0476]

Well, now you'll also have a 40G HD. :)


peace | neut


Yeah with usb 1.1 :(

[homerjward]

i've probably posted in this thread before, but my library's size will have changed since then, i imagine.
5706 items, 14:17:20:51 total time, 19.94gb
wrt actual music: 5702 items, 14:16:33:32 total time, 19.71gb
most of my videos aren't in a format itunes can read, and i just find it easier to organize them by hand (along with photos), despite my hatred of organizing music by hand.

[neut]

Yeah with usb 1.1 :(

Time to buy a FW ---> dock connector cable. :)


peace | neut

[flat6]

I recently shrank my music from ~4500 songs to just under 1900 @ 8.2 GB. There was too much stuff that I never really listened to.

My goal's to have a collection that I can put on shuffle and just let it be for a while, without getting annoyed at the songs that pop up...

[WeeShoo]

1013 Songs, 2.7 Days, 4.22 GB

[neut]

I recently shrank my music from ~4500 songs to just under 1900 @ 8.2 GB. There was too much stuff that I never really listened to.

My goal's to have a collection that I can put on shuffle and just let it be for a while, without getting annoyed at the songs that pop up...

Why are you buying (or stealing?) music that you don't like? Might want to use better judgment when acquiring music ...


peace | neut

[flat6]

Why are you buying (or stealing?) music that you don't like? Might want to use better judgment when acquiring music ...


peace | neut

Yeah, that's one good thing about buying your music. It forces you to only get the stuff you actually like. (Unless, of course, you have far too much money.) I'm buying all the music I'm keeping, deleting everything I'm not willing to pay for.

That's one thing with piracy, too often it's just ooh-I-have-a-cable-connection and you end up with thousands of songs that iTunes never ends up playing, even once. Haha, there's a philosophical dilemma: if you steal a digital music file that you never play, have you really stolen :D

[cgratti]

Used to have a much larger library, now I am down to 8,395 songs (44.4GB or 53 days,23 hours, 33 minutes, and 33 seconds).

I do have another 80GB of music burned to DVD-R's in mp3 format though thats not in my library.

:D

[neut]

Yeah, that's one good thing about buying your music. It forces you to only get the stuff you actually like. (Unless, of course, you have far too much money.) I'm buying all the music I'm keeping, deleting everything I'm not willing to pay for.

That's one thing with piracy, too often it's just ooh-I-have-a-cable-connection and you end up with thousands of songs that iTunes never ends up playing, even once. Haha, there's a philosophical dilemma: if you steal a digital music file that you never play, have you really stolen :D

That's true ... currently i have:

19,836 songs, 60.8 days of music/video/voice, 321.59GB of music

That's music the majority of 3 separate music libraries (severely retarded by triplicates) ... i thought i'd hit 500 by now, but we've been lazy to import the rest (or let alone find the damn CDs). A lot of the new stuff goes straight into my iPod i hate ripping things twice. I really only listen to approx. 40G worth of music (in AAC), but i like to keep the rest as a central location for the contributers. we're all artists and it's very handy to have access to a nice eclectic library for myriad reasons. Communism ... oops, i mean sharing :p is great. :)

Current iPod stats:

8,188 songs, 25.4 days of music, 36.71G + 320 Photos :)

*all songs we're bought and paid for ... a small minority were received as a gift.


peace | neut

[doucy2]

9.38GB, 2269songs, 6days worth
(i cleaned out a little less then half of it, used to have 15+GB)

[MacTruck]

Why are you buying (or stealing?) music that you don't like? Might want to use better judgment when acquiring music ...


peace | neut


Guess its the same as buying a CD from the store and hating half the songs on it, as usual.

[iHateWindows]

1,168 items (1138 songs, 4 podcasts, 1 videocast, 24 TV shows), 6.98 GB

[neut]

Guess its the same as buying a CD from the store and hating half the songs on it, as usual.

Really? I guess the iTunes single song purchase works for you than huh?

Most artists i like i end up liking the lesser known songs on the album and rarely listen to the hits (except for that first week or two). I insist on owning a whole album ... one of the guys who contributes to our music server will only load single songs; usually leaving out the one i want to hear. :mad:

What ever floats your boat as they say ... though it seems your only half-alfoat with your current musical tastes. :) I have been know to purchase singles on a need basis and occasionally pre-releases. ;)


peace | neut

[mannix87]

Haha, there's a philosophical dilemma: if you steal a digital music file that you never play, have you really stolen :D


Good question but personally, I dont believe in piracy, being a lawyer by profession and a musician as a hobby, i know how hard it is for artists (not so much the big record labels) to earn a living. by stealing music, we'll be making it next to impossible for the artists to survive. remember, out of every one rockstar or rapper that makes it big, there are hundreds of other artists (perhaps with more talent) who have to struggle to make ends meet.


4,192 songs, 15GB

[flat6]

Good question but personally, I dont believe in piracy, being a lawyer by profession and a musician as a hobby, i know how hard it is for artists (not so much the big record labels) to earn a living. by stealing music, we'll be making it next to impossible for the artists to survive. remember, out of every one rockstar or rapper that makes it big, there are hundreds of other artists (perhaps with more talent) who have to struggle to make ends meet.

I completely agree. That's why I'm buying my music :)

By the way, who here can tell me where my money's going for Son House's stuff? Billie Holiday's? They've been dead for a few decades. So have quite a few other artists I've been buying from. Probably their families, I hope.

[Labi]

10614 songs all nicely tagged and with artwork

[Lacero]

Here's mine from the Show us your itunes stats thread.


http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=30170

Here's to the Crazy Ones http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35452 (http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/movies/think-different.mov)

[djlu]

I have 4031 songs 18.5GB.

Doug

[Labi]

Here's mine from the Show us your itunes stats thread.


http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=30170

Here's to the Crazy Ones http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35452 (http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/movies/think-different.mov)

Wow!

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

I've recently cleaned up my library, burned out lots of audio books and optimized (i.e. taken a lot of mp3s @ 160-320 and converted those to aac @ 96VBR) just to keep some space available on my poor old iBook's 60 GB HD:

[thadchr]

Lacero, I didn't know that many songs had ever been written...

Are they really all songs, and more importantly, do you actually like all of the music on your iTunes, or do you just rip anything you ever come across in case you might need it some day?:)

[ezekielrage_99]

The iTunes library the new phallus symbol of this millenium :confused:

[hubristol]

3293 songs - 9.1 days - 14.73 gigs. :D


Definitely not the most here.

[wnameth]

I started this thread way back when!:D

now i have 1886 songs 5.2 days and 9.18GB
i recently lost around 700 songs because i sold my ipod and my computer, and could only store a certain number on my dads HD, so im regaining that stuff now on my ibook.!

[jbembe]

9200 songs. Not the most apparently... :rolleyes:

That prompted me to look, now I'm at 10,078. I think I need to spend more time listening to my music instead of buying so much.:o

[howard]

currently:
3530 items
12.1 days
18.85 GB

I "cut out the fat" of my library so sometimes a ranges.

Also, I know a lot of you debate on how to buy music. Here's my take:

First, I find music from 1. searching online and listening to clips, 2. friends or 3. other. I use a lot of sites like music mobs and lastfm to find similar artists.

Then, if i like the band I buy the cd. Generally if I like a band I'll like most of the cd, or at least down the road I will end up liking it, plus then I have a hard copy in a high quality sound medium. then I rip to use on the go with my iPod. If I want a song or two from an artist I don't normally like I'll buy it from itunes. This saves money, and usually I don't care then if its hi-fi audio. And lastly. If I love love love a record, I mean top 3 of the year, i'll buy it on vinyl. So sometimes I buy stuff twice, but you'll never beat the experience of hearing your favorite album on vinyl whenever you want. I don't normally buy full albums off itunes because for the same price, or a dollar or two more i get better quality, and a fail-safe in case in 5 years from now they come up with better quality compression.

and as for the digital compression-vs.-cd-vs.-analog debate:
as for the hi-fi audio snobs: if people don't notice the difference, who cares
as for the people who think there is no difference: there is, and if you ever do hear it watch out, cause there is no going back.

[~Shard~]

Well, let's see, if I actually loaded all my music into iTunes... hmm... well my BBC Radio One Essential Mix collection (which is every weekly mix from 1993) alone would be 160 GB... I have about 60 GB in iTunes right now, maybe another 80-100 GB of MP3s burned to disc from way back... then there's all my audio CDs... kay, my final answer for now will simply be lots GB. :cool:

[trebblekicked]

5137 songs, 14.4 days, 21.83 GB...

some p2p from the halcyon days, most ripped from CDs, most recently i've been downloading from emusic- 951 songs to be precise.

[themacman]

2475 songs. 7.5 days of music, 13.15 gb

[Snarlydogs]

11356 songs; 31 days; 258.83 GB (Without Podcasts)
12119 songs; 42 days; 268.79 GB (With Podcasts)

[bousozoku]

I thought it was customary for boys to compare the size of things... :D



Anyway, this girl's tunes take up 36.36 Gb for 3313 songs.
All 320kbps mp3s, want to move to Lossless...

Funny, how they continue to compare the size of their, ummm libraries, as well as their uptime. :D

[MyNameIsGlacier]

Well, I dunno if this is the largest, but I have well over 17,250 songs. As my iTunes refuses to work (grrr) I can't tell you how many GBs it is, but it's all on a 250gb hard drive in AAC format.

Before you point fingers, not a single MB of that collection was ever stolen. I've spent a lot of time and money and effort building up that collection, with a LOT of rips from tapes and records and even some live jam sessions with myself and my friends that have gone marvelously well (enough so that we're about to start our own live jam podcast).

Plus I live in a dorm, and I borrow other people's CDs to burn. Gotta love the collection!

[zazenx]

15796 items, 45.6 days, 100.63 GB

[pubwvj]

15GB here. Includes some audio books. About 13GB of music.

[ColdFlame87]

24,329 Songs at 321.22 GB Where is the 350 GB iPod Apple ? haha

[jbembe]

Plus I live in a dorm, and I borrow other people's CDs to burn. Gotta love the collection!


Yeah, that's not stealing:rolleyes:

[~Shard~]

Yeah, that's not stealing:rolleyes:

Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone... :p ;)

[savar]

1699 "items" (not songs), 5.1 days, 7.37GB

i'd have a lot more except when I used to have an ipod (before it was stolen) i kept the library hovering just above 5GB so i could fit it on my ipod without having to selectively cut out a whole bunch of stuff. i'm getting a 60GB ipod in the next week (its been a year and a half, i need it like heroin) and i'm thinking i'll start by ripping a bunch of my favorite cds. maybe before this thread dies i'll double my library. also i'd really like to get family guy onto my ipod, anybody know where to do this? i've got a g4, so ripping the DVDs is out of the question...i already tried and it looks like about 20-24 hours to rip 2 hours of video to ipod on my machine. i need a "family guy for ipod" torrent. i looked at podtropolis but their torrents are all pretty weak (low activity)

[funkychunkz]

Better question: who has the largest legal music collection?

[derajfast]

i have 65gb and id say the overwhelming majority is legal (as in 95%......only stuff thats not are cds that are like japan or UK only that would cost 60 dollars to buy and ship here)......most of my collection are live concerts and bootlegs (but by bands that allow and promote it) and around 500 ripped cds between me and my dads collection

[~Shard~]

Better question: who has the largest legal music collection?

Legal?! Heh, not me... :eek: ;)

[pubwvj]

Better question: who has the largest legal music collection?

Shall we do this as a percentage of the total?
Mine is 100% legal. All 15GB.

[neut]

i have 65gb and id say the overwhelming majority is legal (as in 95%......only stuff thats not are cds that are like japan or UK only that would cost 60 dollars to buy and ship here)......most of my collection are live concerts and bootlegs (but by bands that allow and promote it) and around 500 ripped cds between me and my dads collection

That makes me wonder ... if sharing collection in a household family is ok (is it?) shouldn't it also be true for roommates? what happens when said family members (roommates) no long live together? when is music illegal? when does borrowing/sharing become stealing?

:confused:


peace | neut

[~Shard~]

That makes me wonder ... if sharing collection in a household family is ok (is it?) shouldn't it also be true for roommates? what happens when said family members (roommates) no long live together? when is music illegal? when does borrowing/sharing become stealing?

:confused:

I say it's just all a big grey area we shouldn't worry about - just download, listen, enjoy, don't worry, and be happy. :p ;)

[jbembe]

Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone... :p ;)


Well, I don't claim to have a perfectly unstolen collection. I do burn other's CDs to see if I like it, but normally I delete it if I don't want it or I purchase the disc myself. I have a few CDs that I burned but haven't yet bought.:eek:

[~Shard~]

Well, I don't claim to have a perfectly unstolen collection. I do burn other's CDs to see if I like it, but normally I delete it if I don't want it or I purchase the disc myself. I have a few CDs that I burned but haven't yet bought.:eek:

No need to worry, I'm sure we're pretty much all in the same boat with regards to that - just in varying degrees... ;)

[jbembe]

Well, just for the record in case the companies start suing us, mine would be in the upper 99% margin depending on my undeleted preview albums currently loaded. Fortunately I haven't been to the library in a while or that might drop me down into 98%!!;)

[dmbfloydian]

4968 Songs
16.8 Days
27.64 GB

VBR - from 128-320+ MP3

if I wanted lossless I'd put the CD in my stereo.

[Kobushi]

Well, I don't claim to have a perfectly unstolen collection. I do burn other's CDs to see if I like it, but normally I delete it if I don't want it or I purchase the disc myself. I have a few CDs that I burned but haven't yet bought.:eek:


Heh, one of the CD shops in my town went as far as to create a whole ad campaign on ripping CD's. "Buy it, Rip it, Burn it, Return it" They actually encourage everyone to "steal" music. They let you buy a CD (new or used), rip it and burn it of course (because you own it), then they let you return it for 50% of what you bought it for. Apparently it's all legal.....just a bit dodgy.

[Vinnie_vw]

I tried running 170 GB, but iTunes in Windows ended up using 40 mb constantly and took a very long time to shut down... It's set to keep my tunes organised, which may be the cause. Now I just drag the songs in I want to listen to/transfer to my iPod.

[freeny]

After doing the math, some of you have spent upwards of $16,000 on music?
DUDE!:eek:

[aricher]

30703 items, 116.3 days, 208.10 GB

Most are mp3 256 KB and up. Many Audible.com audiobooks as well. Slowly encoding my 2000+ vinyl LP and singles collection. Yes, I am a music junkie.

[RedRaven]

11,658 tunes
32.2 days
46.58 GB

I have wanted to know about size mostly because of the extreme sluggishness of iTunes for me. Wondered if there was a limit to good performance. I get a lot of freezes.

my blog: I Never Metaphysical I Didn't Like (http://inmidl.blogspot.com/)

[Jaffa Cake]

After doing the math, some of you have spent upwards of $16,000 on music?
DUDE!:eek:Doing some sums myself, that's not so hard to believe...

Say a couple have got their music stored on the household Mac (for example, I've got more or less all of mine and my girlfriend's music stored on my Power Mac) – $16,000 works out at just over £9,000, which with a CD at £10-15 a pop works out at at about 300-450 CDs each. And that's even before you take into account free (and legal) music they've acquired, such as free iTMS songs, online giveaways and music from those free CDs you get each weekend in the newspapers. If you're talking about a couple in their early thirties with quite wide tastes in music, then they'll have acquired quite a few CDs over the years.

Apologies if any of my maths is flawed – I went to art college so I'm not too hot on numbers. :p