Poll:How many songs do you have in iTunes?

[wrldwzrd89]

Just surpassed the 10,000 song mark today. About 88.9 GB (all Apple Lossless).

[Dorde]

5508 songs, 14 days, 27.21 gigs...
Just deleted about 700 songs I knew I wouldn't listen to ever again...

[DYER]

currently re ripping my cds so at least 75% will be in apple lossless could easily take till next summer though

[iObama]

5606 songs, 16.4 days, 22.03GB

[razorbackmac]

My house media server has roughly 3500 songs, most of which I don't listen to very often. My MacBook however, has about 675 which is what I sync to my iPhone as well.

[joelovesapple]

18898 in a variety of bit rates, mostly 256kbps and some 320kbps. I do also have some 128kbps but I'm trying to eliminate those with better versions, whilst doing away with DRM at the same time.

I still have about 1600 drm'ed songs to upgrade. :(

[gmade]

2921 8 days and 17 gigs on my hard drive

[juanster]

3982 or 22.53 Gb of music.. most of it aac 256 kb

[leishan]

5164 items, 16.2 days, 25.31 gigs

[ikermalli]

1220+

[NONAME7943]

8764 items, 23.6 days, 69.86 GB

[iMac-Mommy]

2720

[spacecadet610]

1683.. I am yet a baby

[MattZani]

1787 Songs, 4.8 Days, 10.6Gb

on my iPhone - 1416 Songs - 8.88Gb

[MacAgent84]

2152 songs :-) Not nearly as many as some of you guys.

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[schizoidwoman]

6082... Should keep me busy for a while!

[Greenjeens]

27330 songs 86:07:04:55 total time 732 GB

Including duplicate MP3's for mobile.


Mp3
4542, 15:09:35:35 total time 31.54 GB

Mostly Apple Lossless, but with hard drives becoming so inexpensive in the last year or two, there's no advantage Squeezing an extra 15-20% capacity using Apple Lossless in order to keep a large library of full rate copies, which merely creates a time wasting, need to expand, conversion step when burning to CD.
OR HAVING AND KEEPING TRACK OF THREE KINDS OF FILE FORMATS FOR EACH SONG! APPLE LOSSLESS, .AIFF and MP3.
Now I just import all songs as .AIFF and then make another mp3 copy for mobile and ipod use.

Mp3's get 192 VBR smart encodings for ipod and/or LONG 60-90 track mp3 favorite discs for the car.

TIP use, view> view option> "KIND" for a column that displays aiff or mp3, ACC etc for libraries with multiple song file types. Makes organizing and creating playlists and smart playlists that are MP3/AIFF/AAC exclusive, MUCH EASIER!

[mannix87]

^ wow. very impressive.

i'm at 8,059 at 37.14 GB. combination of aac, mp3 and lossless files.

[iSaygoodbye]

374 songs all mp3 1.65 gb

[cwwilson]

As of this post I have 1909 songs and have about 3.0GB of space left on my phone. I'm going to add a Steve Miller album and some more 80's songs soon so that number will rise once again.

[DJ567]

5225 songs, 13.7 days, 27.01 GB, mostly (60%) variable bit rate mp3, with probably 20% 128kbps and 20% 320kbps

quality doesnt really bother me as my hearing is useless lol

thats not all of it but thats all i put on computer as i used to have a 30 gig ipod, i know if started reripping stuff i would get 1000s of duplicates and they annoy me no end so havent bothered

[Victor ch]

Just surpassed the 10,000 song mark today. About 88.9 GB (all Apple Lossless).

Im just breaking the 2000 mark (2164 to be precise) in Lossless and its 62.84 GBs ! 10K+ just barely below 90?! weird :confused:


Anyway, time for a refresh here:

[wrldwzrd89]

Im just breaking the 2000 mark (2164 to be precise) in Lossless and its 62.84 GBs ! 10K+ just barely below 90?! weird :confused:


Anyway, time for a refresh here:
You shouldn't be confused. Here are some revealing statistics.

Shortest song: 0:00 (yes, that's less than 1 second)
Longest song: 32:03 (32 minutes and 3 seconds)
Mean song length: 1:46

[ikermalli]

1279 songs, 49 of which I really like and put on my mp3 player :P

[Victor ch]

You shouldn't be confused. Here are some revealing statistics.

Shortest song: 0:00 (yes, that's less than 1 second)
Longest song: 32:03 (32 minutes and 3 seconds)
Mean song length: 1:46

Ah, I see I see.... a 0:00 song? lolz :p

Victor

[GGJstudios]

You shouldn't be confused. Here are some revealing statistics.

Shortest song: 0:00 (yes, that's less than 1 second)
Longest song: 32:03 (32 minutes and 3 seconds)
Mean song length: 1:46

Where are you looking to get those statistics? I'd be interested to know what they are for mine. Shortest and longest are easy, just by sorting, but where do you get mean song length?

[wrldwzrd89]

Where are you looking to get those statistics? I'd be interested to know what they are for mine. Shortest and longest are easy, just by sorting, but where do you get mean song length?
Mean song length's easy to compute. Here's how I did it:
Click the time display, to get an exact total time
Convert the total time to seconds (minutes * 60, hours * 3600, days * 86400)
Divide by the total number of songs
The result will be in seconds

[GGJstudios]

Mean song length's easy to compute. Here's how I did it:
Click the time display, to get an exact total time
Convert the total time to seconds (minutes * 60, hours * 3600, days * 86400)
Divide by the total number of songs
The result will be in seconds

Thanks. I knew how to do it manually. I thought you had found some option to click to do it automatically.

[maestrocasa]

should I be proud or embarrassed? 11032 songs. 52.07GB. YIKES!

[cgratti]

43,907


http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/3/1/31/f_Picture1m_409cf75.png

[JackSYi]

In 2004, I had about 15,000. After 4 years of careful filtering, my collection stand at: 2420.

[baseveer]

I've currently got 1340 of my favorite songs to create to on my little green nano :)

[carlosbutler]

43,907


http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/3/1/31/f_Picture1m_409cf75.png

That is quite impressive. Although I don't understand how you could have so many though. There must be thousands of different artisits... Did you just go ahead and download everything on a 14-day free trial of napster :-p. I can only guess that you haven't bought all of that music from iTunes.

[cgratti]

That is quite impressive. Although I don't understand how you could have so many though. There must be thousands of different artisits... Did you just go ahead and download everything on a 14-day free trial of napster :-p. I can only guess that you haven't bought all of that music from iTunes.

I cant ever listen to it all, there is tons of stuff I haven't even listened to once yet. I didn't download most of it, rather traded for it. Kinda swap external drives and trade music. Some of it was bought from iTunes, some was ripped from CD's I own also, some downloaded.

[bobertoq]

1213 songs :D

You shouldn't be confused. Here are some revealing statistics.

Shortest song: 0:00 (yes, that's less than 1 second)
Longest song: 32:03 (32 minutes and 3 seconds)
Mean song length: 1:46My mean song length is 4.7 minutes, shortest 10 seconds, longest 29:18. I have two of those one hour long soundscape things and a 5 hour audiobook in my library so the probably offset my mean, though.

[iTeen]

Currently,
2415 Songs, 6:10:15:44, 12.45GB

[Ridly]

2663 7.4 days 14.56 Gigs. Almost all 256kbs. Just found out I can import to 256, so now Im redoing all my music, taking forever. I can't even hear the difference but I would feel like I was missing something if I didn't...

[GGJstudios]

2663 7.4 days 14.56 Gigs. Almost all 256kbs. Just found out I can import to 256, so now Im redoing all my music, taking forever. I can't even hear the difference but I would feel like I was missing something if I didn't...
For me, 192kbps seems to be the "sweet spot" between file size and playback quality. In my library:
7,805 files under 192kbps
15,464 files at 192kbps
3,344 files above 192kbps

[orsfan21]

43,907


http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/3/1/31/f_Picture1m_409cf75.png



Nice live pic you have there.http://n08q1114fvte161.imageshacknow.info/img/2460/v08w1128rhlb/smile.gif

I only have a few hundred songs on mine at a time. In order to prevent song rot I cleanse it regularly. A few thousand, that is pretty beefy.

[Greenjeens]

Nice live pic you have there.http://n08q1114fvte161.imageshacknow.info/img/2460/v08w1128rhlb/smile.gif

<snip> In order to prevent song rot I cleanse it regularly.

Song rot? Hope this is not true.
I've been secretly imagining such a thing... trying to avoid screwing up or loosing a very large 750GB music which I have been laboriously collecting from CD sources. Since I copied complete hard drives over and over a few times while upgrading from 200GB-400-500-750GB finally to 2TB dual drives, I wonder if any of the information is getting lost or corrupted through some agent which I have overlooked, like a bad capacitor or other electrical component in a 9 year old AD/DA converter?

I know that CD media goes bad, for sure, and "rots" Especially in humid environments, and the micro layer of alluminum can rapidly turn to Aluminum Oxide dust by infiltration of air through the edges of poorly sealed media or scratches on the label side. Or perhaps micro cracks from stresses on CD discs that get pried off a tight Jewel Case Hub?

Vapor deposited aluminum in an oxygen and water rich environment (Earth) has got to be about the worst material pick to store digital info on. Even new commercial discs can be full of holes, observable if you hold a CD in front of a bright light!

[Anonymous Freak]

That is quite impressive. Although I don't understand how you could have so many though. There must be thousands of different artisits... Did you just go ahead and download everything on a 14-day free trial of napster :-p. I can only guess that you haven't bought all of that music from iTunes.

I'm sure almost nobody who has that many songs purchased even a large percentage from the iTunes Store.

My library is presently:
5321 items in "Music": 28.14 GB
52 in "Movies": 33.40 GB
125 episodes in "TV": 45.74 GB
76 podcast episodes: 1.92 GB
51 items/27 audiobooks: 3.25 GB

If we remove Podcasts, I have 5549 items in my library.

My iTunes "Purchased" playlist contains 1729 items, 59.49 GB. Most of the storage space is TV shows, most of the items are music. For awhile, I maintained a manual "Free Downloads" playlist, so I could keep track of free vs. paid for. I didn't update it for about a year, but a quick attempt at updating it again shows that, when I do the math, I paid for 988 items. (Although it looks like some are duplicates from upgrading to iTunes Plus that it didn't wipe out the original songs correctly.) I'd say about 2/3 of the music was purchased as whole albums, 1/3 as individual tracks. (223 albums in those 988 items; although this includes audiobooks, movies, and TV shows in the 'album' and 'item' counts.)

So of my library, about 18% are ones I paid for through the iTunes Store. Another ~20% were free iTunes Store downloads. The rest were ripped from CD/DVD or Audiobooks bought direct from Audible's website. (Probably half my audiobooks.)

[ls206]

1626 and growing - all CDs owned and ripped :)

[spaceballl]

I've got 7351 songs in my library (not counting video, etc). Lots of purchased music between Amazon / iTunes. Of all that music, I only have 22 DRM'd songs left in the library!! Once Apple updates those, i'll be completely DRM free.

I'd say 90% of my music is legally purchased or ripped from my old CDs.

[tom.]

14951 songs, 43.7 Days, 81.54GB

Need to re-rip some as the bit-rates are far too low.

[Oktober]

I have got as of Feb 2009: 396 albums, 8.8 Days, 12.26 GB, 3243 songs

[Etherwind]

I have 39,484 songs. 113.7 days. 217.67 GB.

[gojira]

I have 39,484 songs. 113.7 days. 217.67 GB.

What's your sampling rate?

Me?
3657, 12.2 days. 72.83GB. Most Apple Lossless.

[AmpCoder]

As of right now I have: 452 items, 1 day, 2.32 GB. However, I am currently in the process of importing my CD collection and I have just started.

[dmmcintyre3]

604

[Cassie]

415 songs.
Collection has grown to about 900. I'm starting to regret settling for the 8 GB Touch. :o

[tayshon]

917 One day will take the time to import all of my CDs :eek:

[Randman]

11,061 items, though some are audiobooks and TV shows and a couple of movies.

[tempusfugit]

4987

[TwinCities Dan]

7 year old thread!?! :eek: Wow! :cool:

I dunno, about 10k...

What can I say? I love music... :D

[Tumbleweed666]

i recently had ALL my cds stolen, along with a few thousand dollars of stereo equipment from my car.

if it wasn't for mp3's i would have no music anymore...



Don't tell the RIAA or they will sue you for theft.

[pdxflint]

7238 items - 23:11:38:49 - 47.06GB

Most from ripped cds, iTunesMS and eMusic. A big handful from indie music websites and free tunes from bands getting their music out, or from sites like iCompositions.com (http://www.icompositions.com) and thesixtyone.com (http://www.thesixtyone.com).

[Dane D.]

5,480 songs, 17.1 days, 38.76GB. Most are ripped at variable 320KB or straight 320KB.

[LERsince1991]

6304 Song, 18.2 Days, 40.01Gb. Majority 320 if not then 256

[zw-gator]

6354 songs
44.16 GB

I hope to have this number doubled by the end of the year :eek:

[LERsince1991]

6354 songs
44.16 GB

I hope to have this number doubled by the end of the year :eek:

Lol you have targets for your music. Surely it depends on what's coming out :P

[melchior]

Lol you have targets for your music. Surely it depends on what's coming out :P

not everything has to be new and what you just heard on the radio... :rolleyes: there is a multitude of amazing music that just didn't hear when it came out. either unborn or too busy listening, again, to the radio. :D

I now have 41024 songs, 485 days and just under 250gb...

[BLOND37]

1509 Songs...15.86 Gb

[iParis]

Lol. I think I have a lot of music. It's all stored on my 640GB WD MyBook.

[techfreak85]

wow everybody. Now how much of that is legal? :p:D

almost forgot. 1316. re ripping soon

[Dragon Speaking]

It's hard to get an exact count but its around
..... 101,960 songs on 493.4 gigs of disk space.

I think 1 song had the license with it....

[oseven]

Currently 16104

[January]

Lol, I have 400 songs.

[Morod]

Lol, I have 400 songs.

Don't feel bad. Only 340 here (and I thought that was a LOT!) :D

[Big Alsie]

8887 here. would be A LOT more if i could afford it.

[iSaygoodbye]

Lol. I think I have a lot of music. It's all stored on my 640GB WD MyBook.

you dont count.we all download music we like.

[dwb1133]

1600 legally downloaded songs from itunes. ;) I keep all the receipts in a shoebox under my bed...

[iParis]

wow everybody. Now how much of that is legal? :p:D

almost forgot. 1316. re ripping soon

Nothing is illegal until you get caught.

[anamznazn]

Close to 6000

[LERsince1991]

not everything has to be new and what you just heard on the radio... :rolleyes: there is a multitude of amazing music that just didn't hear when it came out. either unborn or too busy listening, again, to the radio. :D

I now have 41024 songs, 485 days and just under 250gb...

I do realise that not everything has to be new and on the radio lol!
But I currently have all the songs from the artists I like - Ever.
When I find new artists I will get new songs or if an artist I know releases new songs I will get them. I track new releases vigorously :D

I hold my comment that having targets for a music collection is odd.

[lunari]

Lost a bunch due to windows crashes, bad hard drives, etc. Over the years though, I still have ~5000 songs. Slowly transferring the stuff I actually listen to over to my MBP. :apple:

[zw-gator]

Lol you have targets for your music. Surely it depends on what's coming out :P

There are just so many bands and artists I have yet to listen to (the full album that is)

Sure, I don't LOVE every artist in my library, but it's turning into more of a collection than anything.

[m1stake]

2300 or so.

[jovanboi]

815 exactly, about 75% of it 80s music

[EX1127]

I have 1063 wish i had more

[Yaboze]

As of today, I have 6,380 songs. This doesn't include videos. Most songs are 192, I find it to be a sweet spot.

I have a silver iPod classic 80GB, I don't think I used half yet.

Most of my stuff is from my old CD collection that I imported, I haven't bought a CD in a few years. According to iTunes, 731 of 6,380 was purchased through iTunes.

On my phone I just have some videos, pictures, games and a few playlists.

[iphoneftw]

i have 7166 songs and its 60gbs around because mostly all my media is encoded with apple lossless

[rhett7660]

I am up to almost 28K sitting on my server....

[Bennieboy©]

1326 songs, some is audiobooks, 7.57 gigs

[itouchroses]

1824 as of last night

[Decrepit]

4501 items. 19.87 GB.

100% legit, I have the CDs and jewel cases for every single one of them. Why yes, I *DO* have several boxes of jewel cases in the closet. It's wild how much 439 albums can weigh.

I just wish that it would be legit to download the stuff I have on vinyl. I own the music, but the thought of getting a turntable, the software, the cabling, the labeling, and the labor. Ugh. But I have some classic stuff in there that was never put on CD. Classic to me that is. ;)

[edgcrshr]

10780 songs, 48.40 GB. 254/1.38 GB songs just for Incubus.

[macgrl]

2134:)

[TheProduct]

8949 :d

[Eastend]

Over 7,800 songs and some music videos, all CD quality on a 500 GB disk.

[EngramAgility]

3980 but some are videos

[Steven89]

3500+. I have many discographies from many artists, lots of albums and tons of single songs.

[xIGmanIx]

5,000 and growing. I still need to rip my SRV and Led Zeppelin Discography's to iTunes.

[2good2btru]

2689 songs. 11.18 GB. I used to think I had a lot. Guess not compared to everyone else.

[spaceboots06]

144,635

I haven't downloaded songs in a long while. I have audiobooks, almost every soundtrack for both popular and unpopular movies, discographies.... everything...

[AnotherFanBoy]

as of right now, 5907.

[Jelite]

3060 Songs a few of which are full uncut albums or live sets.

Kbps All different, from probably 128 to 320.

I'm in the process of cutting it down by rating them all, if it doesn't get a 3 star (OK) rating then deleted.

[N16K]

Right now 3848 songs.

[slop]

483. Mostly for my spouse. I myself don't hear music often, I like silence around me :D

[Not Available]

The biggest number was... 78. I usually listen to music online (think YouTUBE), and only download them when I need to take them "on the road" with my nano.

[SkillsToShow]

4209 songs, majority of it is Korean music.

[AppleNewton]

I wish iTunes supported FLAC audio files natively.

I have about 28,000 in MP3 & Apple Lossless.

+ 15,000 in FLAC
mainly albums ive rebought and reripped.


I tend to collect discographies/catalogues.
i dont think ive ever purchase a song or album off itunes, i pick them up for cheap on amazon.com, the last remaining superrecord store lol :p

[ticklemonster]

I have 2,532 songs in my iTunes library.

[Etherwind]

I'm up to 43,061 on 244 gigs.

[jovanboi]

I'm up to 43,061 on 244 gigs.

That's...a lot of songs

[fenderbass146]

11,357 songs

[someone28624]

It's funny to look at the beginning of this thread and see people talking about needing to delete music to make more space because they have 10 gigs of music.

[safetyobc]

I'm up to 43,061 on 244 gigs.

WOW! I'm at 2300 and I thought I had a lot of music!

[Hellhammer]

9647 and constantly raising... Will do a small clean up in near future.

[phuong]

i have 10 songs and counting

[Mike P.]

3125 songs = 15GB

[caligurl]

more than some and not as many as others! :apple:

[elie.fares]

2800 and counting :-)

[(Corndog)]

1151...O Wait 1152, I wish my download speed was faster to download more music from iTunes!

[electroshock]

Blue Man Group rocks my world, but not much else until The Beatles shows up at iTunes. ;)

Call me musically-challenged, I guess. :) Probably why I've never owned an iPod and only really use the iPhone for other stuff.

[WG5516]

17,400 110gb

[iPhone 62S]

201 on my iPhone, and anything not on the iPhone will be deleted soon because I simply don't listen to it, it's just sitting there wasting space.

I honestly don't see why anyone would need thousends of songs!

[joelovesapple]

Reached my 25547th today. VERY valuable to me. I'd break down if I lost any of them. :eek:

[xIGmanIx]

5,183

[MasterDev]

457 albums, 7.4 days, 15.65 GB

[FamiliaPhoto]

3711 songs

[Bobioden]

and mine


update

[electroshock]

MR should ask Apple to sponsor this thread since this thread actively promotes buying more songs. :D

[-Krone-]

310, i only have the iPod shuffle 1G so i dont need too much

[benlangdon]

:P
ya where is the poll. fail.

[Bennieboy©]

2874 songs, 128 albums, 19.70Gb

[DustyLBottoms]

34,478 Songs

131.4 Days @ 153.36 GB

[shivermetimbers]

I have about 4300 right now.

[nullx86]

4949 currently on my home server, only 1021 in iTunes. Soon to change when my iMac gets here

[Belm]

22,678. I'm in the process of deleting a lot of music so hopefully I can get it down to about 8,000-10,000.

[bobertoq]

1438 songs. i just deleted around 700 the other day. I wish iTunes had an "archive" music button or something, because I hate deleting music. Oh well :D

[iAlexG]

i have 3256 songs, 9 days, 20.70 GB

[cgratti]

47,678 songs...

[Mycatisbigfoot]

I have about 100-120

I know i only lissen to metal and old rock . my most played song is gimme shelter by the stones,

[Alexwithad]

5842 songs, 15.5 days, 34.94 GB. I'm working my way higher.

[I'm 5 ft 8]

3860

[flakes8]

25,259

[nullx86]

just did a fresh install of Vista (yes I know...), so right now only 1371 songs, 8.45GB, but that will change very soon

[philipt42]

6616, 26.84
mostly 128 bit mp3s/aac

[severe]

Most 192Kbps or greater.

[jameson5555]

None - I lost a bunch of stuff when I got a new laptop, so now I started using lala.com exclusively. 170 songs and counting :)

[Chimpy]

I'm going to give the answer I suspect a lot of people did - way too many :).

[LAS.mac]

About 150.

[Anonymous Freak]

Well, time for an update, as I now have more than will fit on my 30 GB iPod.

Selecting just the "Music" tab gives the numbers in my title: 5737 items, 34.39 GB.

When I exclude Music Videos, "Digital Booklets" and iTunes LPs, that drops to 5596 items, 27.63 GB. Which, thanks to unusable space on the old third-generation iPod, is still too much for it. (If I converted my higher-bitrate stuff, it would fit.)

I have 68 movies taking up 60.94 GB (I have about twice that many on a dedicated movie server.)

139 TV episodes, taking 69.26 GB. (I just purged all the free downloaded episodes/recaps/teasers of shows I don't really care about.)

Finally, 28 audiobooks using up 3.6 GB.

[Baunkjaer]

3444 as of today on iMac and iBook. On my iPhone I only use customized playlist´.

[lex11]

1351 and growing

[benlangdon]

just hit 20,000
about 133gb
i downloaded like 60 albums the other day.
maxed out my internet for a couple hours ( 12 mb/s )

[arcadeforest]

2,747 songs

[crhudy1985]

Only 768 and that is only the music I have bought from Itunes. I have more on my old laptop.

[barak]

I feel so inadequate, I only have 3418 Songs, 11.7 Days, 21.41GB.

53 movies (most porn to be honest) for 52.63GB

18 episodes of Enterprise I STILL HAVEN'T WATCHED. 9.63GB

12 Podcasts that I have caught up on.

[Xibalba]

1438 songs. i just deleted around 700 the other day. I wish iTunes had an "archive" music button or something, because I hate deleting music. Oh well :D

i agree - but then how often would you actually search through your archive. i am better off just getting rid of stuff that i really don't need...

[Bostonaholic]

>7,900 songs, I'm at work and forget the exact number.

I'm working on making my Ubuntu machine a home server so I can keep all my media there.

[AAPLaday]

10842 but about 100 are music videos. My mate is a local DJ so he lends me loads of cds to rip :)

[GGJstudios]

Excluding music videos, podcasts and movies (in other words, music only):
198005

[dave1812dave]

Vote: Poll:How many songs do you have in iTunes? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=74&ref=forums.macrumors.com)

1,618 songs

[dankybear]

8451 songs

[carlosnd35]

1581 = 8.61 Gb

[Ann P]

636 all purchased.:)

[Trek2100]

780 all purchased through iTunes or commercially. I don't do P2P due to copyright laws. I had a wedding photography business and when someone made copies of my images I lost money:mad:. Still have several thousand to add if I wanted to fill my hard drive. I pick the ones I want to listen to and when I tire of them I can delete and add more.

[juicyxoprincess]

not home at the moment, but i have over 10,000 songs and always looking to add more, im a bit of a music junkie :)

[nullx86]

This is just the stuff on my iMac, once I get the Mac Server going, I can really show you how much is there (like 20-30GBs)

[AppleNewton]

I currently have alittle over 17,000.
i collect a massive amount of discographies (mainly studio albums) and a few bands i really like other albums (live, singles, box sets) its mainly a collective of a few artists.

I keep finding insane deals on eBay and Amazon for cheap cds which I either lost or are worn out...id like to have a physical and digital copy.
I dont mind P2P but i dont trust other peoples quality on the rips and iTunes is acceptable but i like having the whole package

[shauncampbell]

About 6000 now, all (finally) beautifully organized. Used to have a lot more but purged anything I don't listen to.

[Zyniker]

~20k

[scottness]

8977

[iPhilPHX]

955, most ripped from my cd's and about 50 purchased from iTunes.

[roadbloc]

5913 songs... and a few new cd's to import.

[-aggie-]

4,911 songs.

[Piar]

10 392 songs :)

[GeeLuv]

326 GB of songs in my iTunes

[whaled09]

I'm pushing 13,000. I'm sure I have a few duplicates and many songs which I don't listen to. Eventually I will clean it up slowly but the task is just too daunting at the moment.

**Special thanks to the creators of Senuti for allowing me to easily pull the songs off of my ipod**
:apple: 4 life

[2056]

5018 songs and grooowwwing.

[jodelli]

Fwiw

[vinaphone]

1220 songs

[MaxMike]

as of now, 1496 songs (including music videos)

[KeriJane]

1,896 on the computer.

But this is just the few downloaded songs plus maybe 1/4 of my CD collection.

I estimate 5,000 or so eventually, and that's if I don't buy a lot more.


Have Fun,

Keri

[nullx86]

I havent added much.. just a few albums

[cgratti]

I'm over 51,000 now..... about 400GB and will continually play for 243 days without hearing the same song twice.

[chipandtoast]

I have 264 song about 200 from cd's and the rest from iTunes.

[BeamWalker]

I'm over 51,000 now..... about 400GB and will continually play for 243 days without hearing the same song twice.

Wow this is quite impressive. I don't think I even know this many songs.

My iTunes Library contains 1471 Songs at the moment, all purchased from the iTunes Store. Never found the time to rip my CD's and I don't think it's worth it since I don't have that many that I'm still listening to.

I do have however about 1500 Vinyls which I yet have to digitalize. Since that is a real PITA, I think I'll wait since I can effort someone else to do it. :p

[nullx86]

I'm over 51,000 now..... about 400GB and will continually play for 243 days without hearing the same song twice.

Damn! I thought having 40GB of music was enough... but 400GB?! :eek:

Can we get a picture of the folder that has all this? That would be interesting to see

[AAPLaday]

I'm over 51,000 now..... about 400GB and will continually play for 243 days without hearing the same song twice.

Id never have time to listen to all those :p i have 10920 but i haven't listened to some for over a year!

[GGJstudios]

Can we get a picture of the folder that has all this? That would be interesting to see
How would it look any different than any other folder? Here's my iTunes music folder next to an empty folder. The iTunes folder doesn't even bulge, even though it's loaded with music.
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[koolrosh]

How would it look any different than any other folder? Here's my iTunes music folder next to an empty folder. The iTunes folder doesn't even bulge, even though it's loaded with music.
208742

Damn thats crazy! And i thought I had a lot with 5305 songs and 38GB

[benlangdon]

just hit 21,174 songs
at 150gb±

[shootingstar64]

thats mine :D

[nullx86]

How would it look any different than any other folder? Here's my iTunes music folder next to an empty folder. The iTunes folder doesn't even bulge, even though it's loaded with music.208742

smart ass, i meant inside the folder, you know where it has the folders for the artists? :rolleyes:

[GGJstudios]

.. i meant inside the folder, you know where it has the folders for the artists? :rolleyes:

How could you possibly get a picture of that, with 51,000 songs? It wouldn't fit on the screen, to take a screen shot. :rolleyes:

[nullx86]

How could you possibly get a picture of that, with 51,000 songs? It wouldn't fit on the screen, to take a screen shot. :rolleyes:

"There's an app for that" - :apple:


:D

(also, slide your icon size to the smallest, then open the finder window to the largest, it will work :p)

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I just updated my library a little...

Bands taking up the most space:
Modest Mouse
Pink Floyd
Eels
The Aphex Twin
Elliott Smith
Nine Inch Nails
Radiohead
RjD2
Rush

[mdjasrie]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/mdjasrie/songnumber.jpg


This is mine currently

[benlangdon]

How could you possibly get a picture of that, with 51,000 songs? It wouldn't fit on the screen, to take a screen shot. :rolleyes:
my library at half the size can't fit on one page with smallest spacing and icon size.

[GGJstudios]

(also, slide your icon size to the smallest, then open the finder window to the largest, it will work)

It still wouldn't fit. Besides, what's the point? Seeing a folder with lots of items in it is meaningless. It also depends on how the folder is organized. My library is organized first by genre, then by album artist, then by album. There's no way to display all of that in any kind of folder view. It's simply not a reasonable or meaningful depiction of the size of any music library.

This remains the most useful method of showing a library size in the forum:
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[Aj2488]

5,680

[Aj2488]

I'm over 51,000 now..... about 400GB and will continually play for 243 days without hearing the same song twice.

HOLY SMOKES!!

[partyBoy]

I currently have this : 90% from limewire & 10% from itunes

[Mr. McMac]

All ripped from CD's

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q146/atbglenn/misc/itunessongcount.jpg

[youbetcharaid]

1000 mostly my own stuff off CD's I own

[OGDaniel]

Looking at some of the numbers on this topic is crazy.

I'm at 1479, only 6.2 GB :(

[Leet Apple]

1301 Songs, Haven't Updated my Songs in the last year....:(

[cv735]

Vote: Poll:How many songs do you have in iTunes? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=74&ref=forums.macrumors.com)

i just got mine...have 53 :)

[melchior]

49,355. about to pass 50k. :cool:

[bludodge]

5082 songs 25G

[nullx86]

got my mac server up and running, now i can finally post the info here :D

[Lloyd Christmas]

10801 songs currently 30.3 days 56.58 gigs and growing everyday. just started to get tv shows and movies, always a work in progress Lloyd

[macfem]

I had about 7500 songs but I lost them all!!! All stored on my lacie and it fell off the desk while it was on. So, now I have about 200. LAME.http://smileyhosting.net/content/24/spacer.png

[JosX]

I had about 7500 songs but I lost them all!!! All stored on my lacie and it fell off the desk while it was on. So, now I have about 200. LAME.http://smileyhosting.net/content/24/spacer.pngThis is why I have my music folder on 3 separate hard drives!

3439 songs, it grows almost every day! Don't understand how some of you have 50k+, I thought I had allot of music!

[Macnificant]

Around 17000 115 gigs

[cgratti]

Not that you can really see everything... there are 1,778 folders of music groups.

[macandipodfan]

Only 496, 1.4GB. :(

I don't pirate, so I guess I need to save up for some more music.

[&Ingonyama]

Around 10,000 I stopped using iTunes when Spotify came out though..

[Nuck81]

How do you guys get so many songs legally?

I only have 3343 songs after about four years and have legally bought every one...

[GGJstudios]

How do you guys get so many songs legally?

I only have 3343 songs after about four years and have legally bought every one...

I've been buying music for decades. A lot of what I have, I bought before iTunes or the internet was around. It's easy to build a large library over time.

[gibbz]

10,220 songs ~76GB

[Sheeds]

8002 and growing steadily.
44.32GB

[urfish]

31604 songs.

95:07:56:23

171.88GB

Probably about 85% ripped from CD. Much of the rest from emusic, amazon, downloads from certificates I get when I buy the vinyl version.

[mensrea]

26,493, 74.5 days, 124.70 gigs. Legal. To the person asking how you get so many; age and interest. Many of us had CD's and I've been digitizing since '99. Been buying from itunes since '03 and amazon, walmart, emusic for years too. It adds up.

804 movies; 60.5 days; 1279.45 GB.
627 tv shows; 13.3 days; 234.48 GB.
154 audiobooks; 31.5 days; 9.71 GB.
Oh, and 456 apps.

[^^ CoolMacLover]

:o:o

[snoone1313]

86,286 songs = 525.90 GB
all legal either ripped from my cd collection or collected from trade friendly bands

[nullx86]

anyways.. heres mine.

[Kristenn]

2427 songs 6.9 days 18.58 GB

15 movies 1.2 days 21.18 GB

Yup. They are iPod format. I actually enjoy watching movies in bed on my 2.5 inch screen :p

[Elixer]

I have a lot but not nearly enough. I still haven't converted all the cds I own...

Currently at, 10770 songs, 28.6 days 48.95 GB.

[arunkumarrr]

I have 900 songs in my itunes..

[bluefox9er]

780 all purchased through iTunes or commercially. I don't do P2P due to copyright laws. I had a wedding photography business and when someone made copies of my images I lost money:mad:. Still have several thousand to add if I wanted to fill my hard drive. I pick the ones I want to listen to and when I tire of them I can delete and add more.

how did you lose money? did the bride and groom have twins and used exactly the same photos and passed themselves off as the bride and groom in the pictures you took?

[guinness8878]

29,084 songs - 152 GBs. Been collecting cd's since '95.

[Troy2000]

244 - 1.7GB. All iTunes purchases.

[Mr. McMac]

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q146/atbglenn/misc/itunessongcount.jpg

[alec]

Don't know the amount of songs, but know that it's about 150 GB.

[GGJstudios]

Don't know the amount of songs, but know that it's about 150 GB.

How can you not know the amount of songs? It's plainly shown at the bottom of the iTunes window.

[lanilk456]

3400 songs most of them are Soundtracks

[archre]

About ~20 of my songs should be able to purchase in iTunes, however I never used iTunes myself.

[ugp]

15,837 Songs.

444 Artists

1,123 Albums

[cocktailmunky]

over 90gigs worth of discographies. Some music in iTunes and some not since I don't want to deal with thousands upon thousands of songs to organize and rate and ****.

[NIPRING]

8880...and counting.

[Sipheren]

I have just over 23,000 in iTunes, with another folder to sort before adding. Should make it to around 24,000. :)

[NIPRING]

I have just over 23,000 in iTunes, with another folder to sort before adding. Should make it to around 24,000. :)


:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: Thats awesome!! How much room does that take up?

[Sipheren]

Its around 150GB I think, I'll check when I get home, I do love my music :)

[mannix87]

I have around 9000 + songs now at around 54GB. I started using itunes in 2004.

[josh.fred]

I have little more than 18 GB of music, about 3000 songs.

[Ned Nederlander]

4142

[AppleNewton]

over 22,000

mainly discographies and the like.


I dont generally rate my music, since well if i didnt want in there it would be.
but i can see for stuff youre not familiar with.

and its easy to tag and edit in itunes since alot of it applies automatically.


it takes up quite a bit of space too; since theyre straight from the cd rips in Apple Lossless.

[heyisti]

I only put the good song on there. right now 109 songs.

[jabrowntx]

A few songs short of 11,000.
A few megs short of 64 gigs.

[chuanist]

Apparently I'm a musical illiterate with only 580 songs in iTunes.

[Philip Hall]

I had a few thousand before but now I´m down to 1.814 songs.

[Apphooker]

thousands of... some have never been played....lol..........................:p

[Jett0516]

I must be the only one thats not really into music....I have maybe 28 songs total on my itunes and phone.

[wttheninja]

I almost have 10000, it is mainly from many trips to the library and picking up cd's and just burning them to my computer.

[enberg]

60802

And yes, I do in fact own over 4000 physical CDs.

[AnonMac50]

9291 songs. Wow, this has been going on since 2002!

[macuser154]

Closing in on 2000 :)