Poll:How many songs do you have in iTunes?

[MacRumors]

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

[non fiction]

I had around 1500 or more, but I had to cut back to free up some disk space - I think I was up around 6.5 Gb.

In OS9 it worked a treat, only quitting once in a blue moon, and I imagine that was some other program causing the problem.

[eyelikeart]

right now I'm currently at 2538 songs, which resides upon 13.19GB of hard drive...

I am getting very close to investing in a 120GB firewire external...I do a lot of digital photography and need to start keeping less on my TiBook... ;)

[Zaren]

99+% of which are songs from cds myself or my wife owns. A lot of what's left are freely downloadable Hour of Slack (http://www.subgenius.com/ts/hos.html) mp3s :D

[idkew]

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...

the majority of my library is actually free bootlegs from phish and bands like them... gigs upon gigs of them. 17.42 gigs total now on my tibook

[vniow]

Don't have iTunes, but I've got exactly 478 songs on my PC.

Yeah, yeah, I'm broke.

[job]

Pushing 1200.

Close to 5.5 Gigs as most of mine are encoded with a minimum bit-rate of 192 using VBR.

[pimentoLoaf]

Due to my antique CD-RW being non-compatible with Jaguar, I haven't removed the songs that came with iTunes.

I know... soooo lame! :D

[mnkeybsness]

3241 and adding to it everyday

college is great...find people with cds you like and share!...screw downloading and getting bad copies of songs

[SilvorX]

333

[scem0]

Im at ~2,500 right now, and the number grows each day.

[Sun Baked]

Let me find where the progam is...

I have 3 things in iTunes, seems 2 of different version of the same song - and 1 is a download of a radio call gone wrong.

So I'd don't know whether that would be 1, 2, or 3 songs.

:confused:

[big]

4,000 + or - which equals 17 gb's

all full cd's, unfortunatly I just got quicktime pro, and will now begin encoding in mp4... a bummer the iPod doesn't support it yet.

so its convert, then convert and upload to iPod a lot of work, but the mp4 is much better, and yes, you have already lost all that info going into an mp3, so converting everything to an mp4 is worthless

when I lost $500 in cd's, I now feel ok about getting those cd's back by borrowing them. the one's I really really like, I simply buy again. I fell no guilt. now I'm in the process of backing them up, anyone care to add up how many cd's it will take?

[arogge]

I have 1,350 songs, totaling about 10 GB. I may have to start deleting some music to make room for more.

[macphisto]

I think that last time I checked, my one of the computers at my design studio had somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000. Although we may have done a spring cleaning recently to eliminate the dups and garbage. But somewhere around there.

[Nipsy]

30538 songs, 102:20:01:55 total time, 112.46GB

[mac15]

I have 1350 or 5.61 gig and nipsy thats an unreal amount of tunes,

[Nipsy]

Originally posted by mac15
I have 1350 or 5.61 gig and nipsy thats an unreal amount of tunes,

It's a good thing punk songs average under 2 minutes, or they would prolly take 250GB...

[mac15]

cool, your a punk fan, we need to trade songs :D

[King Cobra]

IF the poll time limit was extended another day *hint: arn, extend poll limit another day hint*

I would have voted for 251-500. I actually have 518 songs in iTunes, but many of them are duplicates or variations of the original song, or a slick combination of songs. So that brings the count closer to 450 to 480.

[Stike]

9706 songs at various quality, equaling 33.2 GB

[Megaquad]

6481 songs, 28.26 GB

[djniche]

764 and more coming

love itunes and the ipod connection!
your music on the go!

[Moxiemike]

9650 here. Nipsy. you need to post a screenshot of your iTunes summary, at the bottom of the window. I need to see that...something to shoot for. ;)

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[job]

Originally posted by Nipsy
30538 songs, 102:20:01:55 total time, 112.46GB

Damn...

How do you listen to everything...?

[peterjhill]

Here is me... all the music are from cds that I own.
http://homepage.mac.com/peterjhill/itunes.gif

[Giaguara]

about 30 CDs of mp3s.

:D

[scem0]

iTunes song alert:

I NOW HAVE 3,000 SONGS!!!!

[rickvanr]

2872, 7.1 days, 11.75 gigs

[Falleron]

I have 1855 songs in iTunes. There was me thinking I had lots of music on my computer! It takes up about 8Gb on my HD.

[howard]

just under 1000...i could have a LOT more if i ripped all my cds but i only want songs i'm going to listen to on a regular basis in itunes

[scem0]

same here, but it would take FOREVER to rip all my CDs...

[TyleRomeo]

3015 songs
51.45GB

Tyler

[Falleron]

Originally posted by TyleRomeo
3015 songs
51.45GB

Tyler
Wow, how are those stored? I guess not as MP3's :) !

[melchior]

8972 songs, 40.52 gig, 24.2 days

i'm going to get an ipod after mwsf (just in case) and i'm not sure how i'm going handle it all... i've been practising with smart playlists a bit.. that's the key.

in truth, i think i'll get a 5gb (unless some drastic change) even though i like the touch wheel better and 10gb is a bit thinner, the size of the drive doesn't actually matter since 2 x 20gb wouldn't be anough.

i just went over 40gb the other day. norsk is cool!

[MacFan25]

I have 380 songs in iTunes.

[djniche]

1500 and more coming

[TyleRomeo]

Originally posted by Falleron

Wow, how are those stored? I guess not as MP3's :) !

It started out as 2000 MP3s but now im slowly replacing as many as I can with AIFFs and adding in my entire CD library as AIFF which takes forever. OHh and now im over 4300 songs. Thank god for the WD 200GB Drivezilla or id be in trouble.

Tyler

[Mblazened]

I think it would be interesting to see a kind of Mac User Group based more around the sharing of music between members. Membership dues and perks would simply be the music you can contribute and would like to take with you. You could show up with a big ol' cd case, digitize your cds, and then take what you want from what was already there! We could sit around watching south park or listening to music while we wait for things to import. It would take a while to get everybody, so everyone would have to wait for their day to "share."

People in this thread boast thousands of songs, but there's really no reason we ALL couldn't have ALL of each others music.

I'm kind of trying to set something like this up. Anyone interested?

[Falleron]

Originally posted by Mblazened
I think it would be interesting to see a kind of Mac User Group based more around the sharing of music between members. Membership dues and perks would simply be the music you can contribute and would like to take with you. You could show up with a big ol' cd case, digitize your cds, and then take what you want from what was already there! We could sit around watching south park or listening to music while we wait for things to import. It would take a while to get everybody, so everyone would have to wait for their day to "share."

People in this thread boast thousands of songs, but there's really no reason we ALL couldn't have ALL of each others music.

I'm kind of trying to set something like this up. Anyone interested?
Nice idea, major copyright issues though. Can anyone say "Carracho"?

[Mblazened]

what's caracho?

[janey]

23,521 and counting...
*not kidding* but it's not just on iTunes-on one of my Macs...it's on my file server (thanks goodness for gigantic hard drives) and I'm sharing it with like 10 other people so...
My iPod only has 1106 songs though. And well, ibookin'@mwny got Hey Jude stuck in my head...
I love the MUG idea! If only it was completely legal.

[scem0]

Originally posted by Mblazened
what's caracho?

A terrible file sharing client that I haven't gotten anything to d/l
off of...... ever... It is exactly like hotline. Uses the same servers,
and it does everything the same. I definitely don't recommend it,
but i'm sure there are people out there who like it.

[Cursor]

My wife and I have 710 songs/1.75 GB.

[beez7777]

i have 435 songs, taking up 1.83 gigs, but i have a bunch more CDs i have to rip, im just too lazy to do so. :)

[idkew]

i did a lot of house cleaning and i am down to 3620 on my HD, a few thousand off of it. about 15gb worth of data.

[sandro]

4,799 Songs

[Dragon Speaking]

I have 100,432 at the moment and am running out of space very fast.

[GGJstudios]

31,889 (151GB) .... so far.... :cool:

[dukebound85]

I have 100,432 at the moment and am running out of space very fast.

and i bet you dont even listen to 1% of that regulary haha:p

seriously it would take like a year to listen to that straight through

[.ex.]

Around 2100

[rhett7660]

I have 21932.... and counting... All from cd's I own or purchased from iTunes.

Just over 160 gigs worth.

[Cassie]

That was one hell of a bump.

415 songs , 1.58 GB. I'm broke as anything, so I rarely get more then one or two songs a month.

[mmoosa]

5869 soongs here, i listen to around 3000 songs

[iMpathetic]

Some ghastly bumping going on around here... :p

Anyway, 632 songs of Skreemr-acquired goodness.

[siorai]

27612. That's probably about 1/3 of my total collection. I've just been lazy about finally getting all of them off of archival cd/dvds and onto my harddrive. Maybe one of these days I'll have a week or two to spare and finally do it. :p

[BlakTornado]

973.

Ripped from CDs. I'll never give into the digital revolution! (Ok, well I bought one song from iTunes, and made 5 of the songs myself in Garageband, but that doesn't count!)

[macEfan]

I have my music split between my iTunes library on my powermac g4 and my digital music system for the stereo. In total I have around 800 songs.

[Victor ch]

All my library: 2411 and 37.77GB.... Lossless playlist: 868 songs, 30.04GB, it takes up space but sounds effin awesome.

Victor

[DiamondMac]

Around 800

Though I would say only 100-150 are bought off of iTunes

[JML42691]

I have 625 songs, but I only regularly listen to about 300-350 of those songs.

[Jiff Lemon]

22260 songs, 65.1 days apparently.....

Still got more CD's to rip but I-tunes is already driving mad with it organizing skills (or lack of).

[BamaDMD]

1831 between cd's and itunes.

But I have 27135 photos :D (mostly of my kids)

[northy124]

I used to have 2000+ but then my PC crashed and I lost every single one (Was on Windows at the time:() but now I have 717 (Slowly but surely rebuilding my collection) on my MacBook and 1264 TV Episodes on my External HDD (I know songs only buy hey thought I'd throw it in)

[MacHappytjg]

i used to have 1500 then my harddrive pooped itself in my old g3 imac so i retired it and now its on an external but only with like 6gb 1000 estimate

[Papa Smurf]

1838

[tsice19]

4.2 days worth!

[PCMacUser]

What's iTunes? :p

[MacLadybug]

945 songs and growing daily... I think I've bought 2 (songs not albums) from iTunes. I still have an unlimited membership with Napster so for $12.95 a month I can download all day then get it into iTunes. Love it.

[AndyK]

9,614.

22260 songs, 65.1 days apparently.....

Still got more CD's to rip but I-tunes is already driving mad with it organizing skills (or lack of).

They must be very short songs.

I have just under 10k and they come to 62.7 days.

[roblimo]

almost all ripped from CDs, bought 2 albums from itunes so far.

[stagi]

1139 for me

[bamaworks]

28717, 80days, 169.5GB

[PCMacUser]

28717, 80days, 169.5GB

Wow, you could go around the world with that much music.

[northy124]

Since I last posted (717) I now have 718 yes that's right a whole new song LoL.

Edit: WTF is that 'a' beside the macrumors 6502?

[Watabou]

473 songs total.

I don't have any money right now and I don't know how you guys listen to all your songs if you have 3000+

[PCMacUser]

Edit: WTF is that 'a' beside the macrumors 6502?

I'm not sure. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

[GGJstudios]

I'm not sure. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

http://guides.macrumors.com/Help:MacRumors_FAQ#How_do_user_titles_work.3F

[alphaod]

1179 (16GB) purchased on iTunes, around 200GB (around 50,000 songs) of non-purchased music, not in iTunes (in other words I stole it); I only keep purchased music in my iTunes and iPod.

I also have 350 iTunes videos... :rolleyes:

http://guides.macrumors.com/Help:MacRumors_FAQ#How_do_user_titles_work.3F

That doesn't explain this:

macrumors 6502a

[northy124]

http://guides.macrumors.com/Help:MacRumors_FAQ#How_do_user_titles_work.3F

Yhup that answers it thanks.

[redwarrior]

1179 (16GB) purchased on iTunes, around 200GB (around 50,000 songs) of non-purchased music, not in iTunes (in other words I stole it); I only keep purchased music in my iTunes and iPod.

I also have 350 iTunes videos... :rolleyes:

350 videos? of what?
50,000 songs? do you listen to all of it?
wow, i'm impressed

I have 2,745 songs, 14GB
very little of which was purchased from iTunes. A lot of it I actually do own on physical CDs <gasp>, the rest, probably about 6GB was obtained illegally <hangs head>

[bamaworks]

Wow, you could go around the world with that much music.

Hah, @#$*ing Jules Verne.

[GGJstudios]

...
That doesn't explain this:

macrumors 6502a

OK, I'll read it to you.... thought the link would be enough:

"6502a => 500 posts (minimum required to have an avatar)"

[Watabou]

That doesn't explain this:

macrumors 6502a

Yeah supposedly, 6502A was also a chip used. And apparently mods are pretending the 'a' stands for avatar. ;)

[MacHappytjg]

350 videos? of what?
50,000 songs? do you listen to all of it?
wow, i'm impressed

I have 2,745 songs, 14GB
very little of which was purchased from iTunes. A lot of it I actually do own on physical CDs <gasp>, the rest, probably about 6GB was obtained illegally <hangs head>

1170 7.62gb and counting some are cd rips most is downloaded but how is somone sopposed to afford itunes music its to expensive let alone movies and games

[majordude]

See for yourself... (and this is just audio files... I have movies, audiobooks and podcasts as well!) :eek:

[PCMacUser]

Hah, @#$*ing Jules Verne.

I'm glad someone knew what I was on about... :)

[amusiccale]

8828 songs, 24.8 days. And Jules Verne is awesome. That is all.

[OMFG HAXX!]

594 songs, 2.4 days.

[Dragon Speaking]

and i bet you dont even listen to 1% of that regulary haha:p

seriously it would take like a year to listen to that straight through

Yeah thats about right I think. With 100,432 songs it is nice to just hit random and let it run. It takes up about 600 Gigs. It took 10 hours to back them up to an external drive.

If there is anything you might like to have, chances are I got it.

Later,
Dragon Speaking

[toroxo]

I'm at around 2500 now, but I am constantly adding new stuff. I get bored of my music so easily, I need to always have something new to listen to. :cool:

[jayhawk11]

Wow...I was barely in High School when this thread got started. "Ghastly bumping" indeed.

I'm up to 2900 songs, with a good deal of that in lossless. Someone else earlier in this thread put it pretty well...it takes up a ton of space, but damn does it ever sound good :cool:

[steve_hill4]

Just the songs, no movies, audiobooks etc.

[core2]

I Have 1113 On iTunes!:apple:

[Sun Baked]

2500 songs, but haven't bought anything recently.

[thepreludedude]

5500 on mac mini. would have had probably twice that many but old imac ate them a few times.

[Mijndert]

Right now I have close to 3800 songs in 22GB.

[MacHappytjg]

350 videos? of what?
<hangs head>

porn lmfao jk hahaha but yea itunes doesnt do that, but if canada passes a bill we could be fined $1000 for downloading 4 movies and im not sure about music so if this happenes im probably going to get caught and have to buy crap from itunes :D just thought canadiands would like to know but they'll never catch meh ah im going to stop typing non-sence

[a104375]

680 songs, 1.9Days, 2.68Gig

[dazed]

3251 songs, 10.1 days, 18.59GB

Thankfully storage is cheap as I rarely listen to any of them :p

[egor]

594, 1.8 days, 15.25GB

I'd have alot more if I pirated, but I don't, its all been ripped from CD albums.

[jecapaga]

24,950 songs, 78.5 days, 183.61GB

[sunfast]

Mines pretty large but I listen to loads of music - probably 5 or 6 albums a day

[danedane5]

1396...the other guy has a shi/load hah

[jesusfreak55]

i have another 1000 on my other hard drive

[cjduckk]

There's 8,418 songs in my library atm. I've been known to shuffle the entire library at times of severe indecisiveness. =)

regards,
-c.

[creationmyth]

Damn, I thought I'd be the winner at 29,000 but alas...this crowd likes their musak

[MacHappytjg]

mmmm not much lost alot adding every day before they pass a law in canada saying its illegal :D

[GGJstudios]

Damn, I thought I'd be the winner at 29,000 but alas...this crowd likes their musak

Musak? Most of my collection is rock & roll, blues, jazz, R&B, country..... even some rap. But no Musak!

[SFStateStudent]

8,983 small potatoes compared to everyone else. I've got over 200 movies does that count for anything? :p

[jamisonbaines]

i'm creepin up on a month = 31 days / 14k songs if i remember right. i probably own 100+ cd's, borrow from the library & import, torrents, dl hour+ dj sets, old napster & limewire downloads, etc

some dudes like to brag on big #'s but to be honest i don't even listen to the full library that often. i keep like 5 gb's on my notebook and ipod for what's reasonably new or in heavy rotation

[netdog]

13,022 songs. 91 days. That is just the music library (no Podcasts, Movies, TV, etc.).

[spacecadet610]

1280

[kabunaru]

1073 songs in my iTunes.

[aapl.jlo]

1200 songs. Is ripping your own CD's illegal? I could have sworn it was, but I don't care since I Bought Them! :)

[bandaros]

362. Wow, I thought I had more than that...

?

[drewsof07]

"1412 items, 3.6 days, 7.42GB"
pretty good collection I think.

Boston
Beatles
Beach Boys
BeeGees
Billy Idol
Bon Jovi
Bowling For Soup
Boys Like Girls
Brendan Benson
Bryan Adams
Buggles

haha I have a lot of B's

[GR33NIE]

4500, 45days, 17gb :D

[tompon1923]

lol I only have 92 songs, but those songs rock!:D
I've probably had more but I only keep the best.

[mattwolfmatt]

I'm a music teacher - mostly classical to be honest. I have 4 or 5 versions of the same symphonies! But they're all different. Interesting topic...

[mattwolfmatt]

1200 songs. Is ripping your own CD's illegal? I could have sworn it was, but I don't care since I Bought Them! :)

No, it's not illegal, as long as you don't distribute them (via internet or CD or ipod) to your friends. You can legally have one copy on your work computer, one on your home computer, one on a burned CD in the car, an original CD in your basement, and one on your walkman tape that you use to go running at the gym.

PS whether or not you sell them or make money makes no matter to the legality of your distribution.

[coocooforcocoap]

3566 songs, 8.5 days, 16.50 GB
not enough, need more...

[r.j.s]

3141 Songs, 8:14:43:58, 13.15GB

Not nearly enough.

[Sousa203]

236. i know. its sad :(

[Insulin Junkie]

I keep around 15 gigabytes out of my over 100gb music collection in iTunes. So around 3500 songs.

[The iPhone Dude]

I passed the 50,000 mark a few months back. I want all the cool apps on the apps store next... latest cool acquisition "Fit 2 Vote":D

[bpl323]

35GB and like 50 apps...

[GGJstudios]

I put my iTunes library on a "diet!" (I did some cleanup and got rid of a lot of duplicates and stuff I didn't want.) Stepping on the scales now:

29,307 items, 73.5 days, 145.72 GB

It's so slender now! :D

[SDLSteve]

Just under 7500.

[dnguyen]

2686, i recently lost all of my music to a corrupt hd though about 5 months ago

[Victor ch]

2731 songs, 8.8 days, 47.56GB. Out of which 1237 songs, 4.1 days and 40.21GB are in Apple Lossless format :rolleyes:

Victor

[Luis]

3295 items, 10 days, 21,92 GB

[bobertoq]

About 1,500

[AuroraProject]

http://dependablecomputer.com/images/itunes-sept.png

[A7X21112]

Music 4,417,12.2 Days,28.73 GB
Movies 47, 3.4 Days,61.02 GB
Tv Shows 36, 13.1 hours, 7.35 GB
Podcasts 25, 9.7 Hours, 8.84 GB
Apps 39
Ringtones 3, 1.8 minutes, 1.5 MB HAHA:apple::apple:

[Aranince]

362 songs :P I need to get some iTunes cards and go shopping.

[noaccess]

520 songs. and proud.

[jbucaran]

1261. Enough for me.

[abercrombie]

I have 13.3GB or 1,731 songs.

[Beric]

"Songs", if you wish to call them (I listen solely to classical music). 1361 songs, 3.8 days, 9.93 GB.

I have a lot more music on CD's, and have yet to transfer all of my music onto my computer.

[Apple Ink]

Almost everything is AAC256, MP320 or M4A!
A couple of Music Vids only!

[Pamani]

there are 7919 songs 186.2 days, 32.02 GB

[OSXmaniac]

5434, 14.2, 32.93

[Dudeman486]

I have 14 million songs. I can never close my iTunes app because it would take years to populate my entire library. Also, iTunes actually stopped displaying a total music time, it just says "You have too much music" on the bottom bar. My ipod is a cart of hard drives that i push around.

...not really, but I wanted to feel like I was one of the music heavyweights. I actually have 1313 songs, but I rarely listen to all of that.

[GGJstudios]

I have 14 million songs. I can never close my iTunes app because it would take years to populate my entire library. Also, iTunes actually stopped displaying a total music time, it just says "You have too much music" on the bottom bar. My ipod is a cart of hard drives that i push around.

...not really, but I wanted to feel like I was one of the music heavyweights. I actually have 1313 songs, but I rarely listen to all of that.
I'm just waiting for someone to claim "I have 14,000,001 songs!" :D I don't understand why so many consider this a competition. We all have unique tastes in music and unique priorities as to how many songs to have in a collection. What's important is that each person has music that THEY like, no matter how large or small their collection. I have a lot in my collection, but only what appeals to me. I'm sure I have quite a lot that others would have no interest in. You should enjoy your 1313 songs, regardless of how many others may have! :)

[Apple Ink]

I'm just waiting for someone to claim "I have 14,000,001 songs!" :D I don't understand why so many consider this a competition. We all have unique tastes in music and unique priorities as to how many songs to have in a collection. What's important is that each person has music that THEY like, no matter how large or small their collection. I have a lot in my collection, but only what appeals to me. I'm sure I have quite a lot that others would have no interest in. You should enjoy your 1313 songs, regardless of how many others may have! :)

Agreed.... that and you should also have money in your pockets..... which is a hard thing to come by these days!

[cocoatronik]

14,028 songs.

And the Genius feature of iTunes 8 loves them!

But... Almost all of these are ripped from CDs I've been accumulating over the years. Only 51 were purchased online. And I have to admit that thousands of these songs have been in my library for years and still have a play count of zero. Only about 2,000 of these songs are in "active rotation." So yeah... It's overkill in my case.

[sra. Aguirre]

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

I have 4000 songs...but that's because I have Complete Collections of artistst like Beatles and Pink Floyd and boy have they made a lot of songs over the years :D:eek:

[Victor ch]

That's my libray :p

[soccersquirt82]

1,933. I keep it below 2,000 songs to keep storage space free.

[iphonics]

ive got 464 songs!

[Mark-Mac-Attack]

About 5,800.

A vast majority are listened to on a regular basis.

ALL tracks are AAC 256KBPS or more as they are from CD's

[volvoben]

22,646 today...

lots are friend's bands and random CD collections i collected long ago as a radio dj...

Could probably cut it down, but it's nice to hear new music tossed in here and there, even if it turns out to be awful...

[KítscheñÇinqµe]

How many songs do you have in iTunes?none, but i always hear a lot of voices in my head.:p

[iAthena]

Closing in on 7,000!

[jstanier]

4045, all ripped from CD :)

[Amt]

151. But I've listened to them all together over 100,000 times.

[mattniles007]

10,078 Songs, way too many I dont listen to 90 percent of them

[MacGeekDC]

2500

[Mellieko]

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/1516/itunessongsmo8.jpg
Although about 150 of them are off vocal/karaoke versions which don't really count.

[Macsta]

804 and there all legal :D

[GR33NIE]

5200 and rising :D

[duck69]

So far I have 2,641 Albums, 23,000 Songs :D

:apple: iMac Intel 20", 2.16 GHz,2 GB Ram.
Internal 500 GB HDD.
External 1 FireWire 750GB HDD & 2 500GB USB HDD.

[Ice-Cube]

4880 and ever so slowly increasing...

[Freewayjim]

5550 And growing slowly

[08greigm]

about 50 -60gb of songs

[Purple Pelican]

2774, all legal:cool:

[Genghis Khan]

1542 Songs, 13.44 GB

it grows slowly/inconsistantly, depending if i hear stuff i like

i think it'll reach a point where I lose songs in iTunes and have no idea what I have lost...i'm thinking that point lies around 3-4k:rolleyes:

[akeemD]

827 songs, 2.2 days, 3.81GB.

[costabunny]

21,479 songs
65.2 days
123.45GB

[nos]

9.867

392 days

49,65 GB


+95 % ripped cd's, ±5 % iTunes downloads.

I still prefer real cd's or better even vinyl.

[melchior]

8972 songs, 40.52 gig, 24.2 days

i'm going to get an ipod after mwsf (just in case) and i'm not sure how i'm going handle it all... i've been practising with smart playlists a bit.. that's the key.

in truth, i think i'll get a 5gb (unless some drastic change) even though i like the touch wheel better and 10gb is a bit thinner, the size of the drive doesn't actually matter since 2 x 20gb wouldn't be anough.

i just went over 40gb the other day. norsk is cool!

wow. weird to see what I wrote six years ago. my library hasn't exactly expanded exponentially - but the number of days has... i have a lot of long songs now. interesting. 33427 songs, 398.7 days, 201.94GB

[nos]

wow. weird to see what I wrote six years ago. my library hasn't exactly expanded exponentially - but the number of days has... i have a lot of long songs now. interesting. 33427 songs, 398.7 days, 201.94GB

How can 40,52 gig be only 24 days?

Look also to my post above yours. ;-)

[mackarena]

2531 songs until i get a new laptop....my 1st macbook when the new ones arrive (!!!!) i'll be able to add loads more songs to itunes....my current laptop (acer mmmm...) has no more space and i think would shutdown permanently if i tried...windows sigh!

return of the Mac! :rolleyes:

[sushi]

A little over 4,200 right now.

Next year I will be digitizing all songs from my CD collection that I like. I figure that the number will double to triple.

Once done, I will be packing my CDs away. :)

[GGJstudios]

How can 40,52 gig be only 24 days?

Look also to my post above yours. ;-)
Difference in bit rates or recording formats. If more of your library is at low bit rates, like 128, you can fit more music (more days) into smaller space. Most of my collection is 192 or more, so it takes up almost 146GB for only 73 days. Some may have higher bitrates or lossless that takes up more space per song.

[Maldini]

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[xrockislife3016]

615 most non protected is 256kb aac. I am of audiophile stature

[graemesangels]

4264 Songs.

I had over 5000 but I just installed a larger hard drive in my macbook and thought it would be a good time to re-rip all my cd's but didn't bother adding a bunch of songs that I borrowed from friends.

I ripped them all at 320kbps mp3 for the best compatibility and sound quality. I don't really care about file size and I would rather have them sound too good for my ears than not good enough.

[nos]

Difference in bit rates or recording formats. If more of your library is at low bit rates, like 128, you can fit more music (more days) into smaller space. Most of my collection is 192 or more, so it takes up almost 146GB for only 73 days. Some may have higher bitrates or lossless that takes up more space per song.


Of course, what was I thinking/smoking? :p

[Salavat23]

I have 21 songs.

Not much compared to some others here, but I have songs that have been played 3000+ times in my library.

[MacTraveller]

A little over 300 songs legally purchased from the iTunes Store. Most of them DRM-free 256kbps albums.

And another 300 MP3s ripped from CDs... or... acquired somewhere....

[Victor ch]

615 most non protected is 256kb aac. I am of audiophile stature

Oh really...:rolleyes:

[kfordham281]

980 items, 3.2 days.

I've got hundreds of CD's I need to rip....

[pdxflint]

4373 songs, 14:04:07:15 total time, 27.59 GB

[joegomolski]

I have about 7Gb in my iTunes library. I have a ton of CD's I'd like to import. Finding the time to do it is another thing.

[X3n0 AcId]

about 600

[JMN357]

11044 songs, clocks in at 54.27 Gigs and a total of 30 days, 7 hours, 1 minute, and 14 seconds running time. :D

[wywern209]

i have 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0000,000,000,000,0000,000,001 songs in tunes.

[deriko100]

how do you guys have so much songs i barely have a gig how long did it take?

[GGJstudios]

how do you guys have so much songs i barely have a gig how long did it take?
My collection is the result of several years of work.... and there's still a lot to do to clean up data, remove duplicates, etc.

[Samarium]

1108. I'm an amateur Dj.

[McBeats]

none really, i use SERATO for playback (building overviews)

(about 100 gigs of every kind of music u can imagine, over 10 yrs of mp3 collecting)

[le11]

657
2.84GB
1.7 Days

[Arktix]

18,983 songs yay!

[MrCatMan]

15,452 songs
56 films 700+ to go (currently ripping about 2 a night, it is going to take FOREVER, well 2 years)

[dukebound85]

10690

[hexonxonx]

10,125.

I still have to add the complete Iron Maiden and Judas Priest to my iTunes. That will add several more hundred songs to my collection.

[joelovesapple]

17412 songs which for me is 124GB and about 49 days worth :D:apple:

[I'm 5 ft 8]

2995... and increasing every day.

[JorgeDX3]

Well..

[Ben Olar]

:apple:
ever growing...

[soccersquirt82]

1,933. I keep it below 2,000 songs to keep storage space free.

That whole keeping it below 2,000 songs thing is long gone (almost 2300). Shame, I only have about 2 GB left of HD space. . .

[xanotherveganx]

Here's mine:

[Bobioden]

and mine.

[elpollogordo]

ive only got like 3 gigs of music and 780 songs.

[andyjam]

This will seem crazy but remember that there are 8 people living here - all with iPods/iPhones - and 6 of them teenagers - and everyone has everyone elses music in their library.

43,129 collected over the last 8 years or so...

[Glennsune]

About 7000 songs, not including audiobooks.

[Moks]

5740 / 17.9 days. My classical collection is not on there at the moment (another couple of thousand I guess) due to my iBook hard disk being a bit cramped.

[majordude]

Plus audio books, podcasts and movies. And about 98% of my music is Apple Lossless. :cool:

[gmecca2]

4930

[jlamb0]

I've only got about 350 songs.
I do a lot more with TV Shows, Movies, and Podcasts.

[strikeinsilence]

8072 songs, all meticulously organized into artist/album!

[RTiii320]

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e236/lbcsk8r303/Picture1.png

[cchavira3]

I have around 1300 songs. All my music is awesome but i could have more songs but i deleted all of my gay songs.

[RRutter]

3,487 songs.

[MacGeekDC]

My tuneness and podcasts.

[rollsroyce442]

390

[3rdpath]

and a few more that i still haven't senuti'd to my HD.

[yoppie]

I keep it all on a WD Passport.

[EricJD]

This is what I've got on my MacBook at the moment.

http://content.screencast.com/users/ejxsd_kay/folders/Jing/media/4f24336c-0837-4029-8652-a98b70324ff9/00000001.png

[archfiendkain]

4,704 songs

[bigmanathome24]

http://carlosbutler.com/media/forums/macrumours/numberofsongs/Picture1.png

http://carlosbutler.com/media/forums/macrumours/numberofsongs/Picture2.png

http://carlosbutler.com/media/forums/macrumours/numberofsongs/Picture3.png

http://carlosbutler.com/media/forums/macrumours/numberofsongs/Picture4.png

total ~112GB. shame, i only have a 80GB iPod

[Legolamb]

Not too much. My iPod Photo (80GB) and baby shuffle are used for document backups also.

[FlyParrotHead]

11,052 Songs, 31.7 Days, 61.03 GB.

I have finally filled up my first 60 GB iPod. Time to update to one of the 100 + Classics :)

[treehorn]

Almost 49,000 (I digitized all my CDs a few years back. Got rid of hundreds of them a few months ago, figuring if the three hard drives containing the songs died at the same time, those were the ones I really wouldn't care about)

[yabxe]

27Gig

[autobotjones]

I just broke the 1000 mark with 1023 songs

[themacman112]

just starting out so only about 500

[steamed.hams]

I've got 250 gigs of music split up between 2 externals.

I keep:

15 GB on the mac
12 GB on the iPhone
25 GB on the iPod


:D

[dubhe]

4955 but I have only listened to 1847 of them in the past 12 months...

[Krafty]

9716.

[suburbia]

9716.

Right behind you with 9,315 tracks-- over 98 GB of music...

[hootywho]

I have a little over 1000 songs.

[GGJstudios]

:apple:

[jdd08]

8,840

[RRutter]

.

[MBPgracie]

lots'ies

[little nin]

i've got 9088 songs, 23.7 days, 43.73 GB

[gojira]

Song and album are pretty arbitrary terms.

Since most of the music in my iTunes library is "classical" music (mediaeval to contemporary), I don't have too many "songs". Some "albums" have one "song", many only 4 (symphonies), others can have 30 or more "songs".

iTunes tells me I have 3374 "songs" from 272 "albums". That's 64.94GB.
Most are ripped using Apple Lossless, what little "pop" music there is is ripped at AAC 256 variable bit rate.

[RiyaLancer]

In music, 3065... Some are old radio programs a friend's let me have.

[QueenZ]

~60 - 80.. Maybe more.. I prefer radio :)

[three]

I have around 2000 songs in my iTunes library, I plan on expanding once christmas comes. (I always get $50 iTunes gift cards).

[Solemony]

There are 1,931 songs in my iTunes currently..

[Psycdude]

16846 Songs, 46.1 days, 67.77 GB
Everything organized with album art, 95% ripped from cd's.

[iObama]

Wow, you could go around the world with that much music.

hahahahahaha

[iObama]

5,606 songs, 16.4 days, 22.03GB

Some from iTunes, some ripped from CDs. *cough*indirectly*cough*

[melchior]

hahahahahaha

:confused:

[juanster]

3218 so far

[Surely]

4029 songs, 11.7 days, 20.24 GB.

And counting....