How big is your music library?

[SXR]

How much GB's ( or MB's ) of music do you have in your iTunes library?
Lets try to get in the Genuisse Book of Records.

My library is just shy of 5 GB.

[FunkyJunk]

Only about 4GB

[Slip]

4.42 GB if we're counting
I used to have around 8 on my PC before having a clear out when I got my MacBook ;)

[119576]

Erm. Just shy of 50 GB on my PC was the most I ever had.

One huge clearout later, I had about 25.

I have just shy of 8 on my MacBook because that's all I actually listen to.

[skunk]

Lets try to get in the Genuisse Book of Records.You can have a Genuisse if you like. Make mine a Guinness.

[techlover828]

http://tangelo.quickshareit.com/share/picture106591338437.png of music and

http://clementine.quickshareit.com/share/picture25b499.png of videos

[PlaceofDis]

60gigs or right around 12,500 songs.

[TimJim]

Music = 4.1GB
Video = 43GB

[cnealuk]

Currently:

80.26GB Music
18.59GB Movies
141.54GB TV Shows
25.33GB Podcasts

[toru173]

18151 songs @ 90.85GB

I haven't counted movies and TV shows, coz I don't use iTunes for them

[thebassoonist]

About 30 GB.

[psychofreak]

6859 Songs, 17.5 days, 40.20 GB

[PupnTaco]

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/8358/picture2ll0.png

[kwood]

1.16Gb of Music, or 21 Hours.
4.54Gb of Movies, or 1.5 days.

I compressed the size and resolution of the movies for my iPod using iSquint.

[Dagless]

25gb music
50gb film (100 films, iPod viewing only)
120gb TV shows (thanks EyeTV, TheyeTV)
Can't remember podcasts. I delete them when I've heard them anyways.

And for the road, 2gb photos.

Yea. I'd like an iPod Touch or iPhone but I wouldn't even get my whole music collection on either of them :D

[CANEHDN]

21.81GB - TV Shows
7.92GB - Music

[Tom B.]

12.13GB Music
2.5GB Video
3.45GB Podcasts
1GB Other
19GB Total

[jabrowntx]

8517 items
24.1 days
42.07 GB

[David G.]

477 Songs 9.3 Days 6.22 GB
5 Movies 11.2 Hrs. 7.71 GB
16 TV Shows 11.5 Hrs. 7.65 GB

[RumMunkey]

Music, 90.99 GB / 16,633 items
Movies, 53.19 GB / 104 items
TV Shows, 65.19 GB / 537 items
Audiobooks, 10.40 GB / 181 items.


Plus, I have about 20 GB of Christmas music that I only import in December and delete again in January.

[KafkaWasRight]

Music: 25,065 items, 72.4 days, 141.96 GB
I don't really keep any movies or TV shows in iTunes, just a few things I want to dump onto the iPod.

[jSunbeam]

70 gigs at last check.

[SXR]

You can have a Genuisse if you like. Make mine a Guinness.


Ohh yeah sorry for the typo. Thats about the first time i tried to write that name. ;)

Darn , some people have so much music. How can you listen to all of that!?

[MacDaddy.G5]

Music is my concern and at last count, it is a little under 80 gigs. I'm not to sure what the data count is on my other stuff. I all I know is that I have 8 music videos and one movie, so far. :)

[xxstatic]

15.5 gb total.

[notsofatjames]

I keep my music under 7.8 GB or whatever the capacity of the iPhone is once formatted. If it goes over i delete some old stuff, generally theres a few things i can delete without missing too much. I used to keep all my music all the time, then I had about 40GB, but i decided that was too much and i never listened to half of it. I boxed up the CDs, and deleted it. It would take hours to re-import it now.

[JFreak]

15GB, all legal

[Squonk]

54.2 GB of legal music.

A GB or so of that is probably podcasts.

[hexonxonx]

Music: 6568 Songs, 38.23 GB
TV Shows: 78 Shows, 24.79 GB
Purchased in iTunes: 2396 items, 35.92 GB

[Creibold]

46.77 GB for Music, 6536 songs - only about 2% of that is actually purchased from iTunes, almost everything is ripped/encoded from FLAC

12.87 GB for TV shows, 45 items

7.38 GB for Movies, 6 items

Everything encoded at 197 AAC; all TV shows/movies in H.264 at 1500

[ I listen to a lot of Classical music, that's why there are so many songs Per GB.] :cool:

Also, every songs has album art - I'm anal about that!

[Creibold]

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/8358/picture2ll0.png

*Jaw drops*

I....that's....wow....

[ntrigue]

Plus, I have about 20 GB of Christmas music that I only import in December and delee again in January.

LOL. Personally, I've already heard enough already. I wish Target had a delete Christmas music option.

[bombboy]

Audio - 37.95 GB (6,595)
Movies - 33.11 GB (51)
TV Shows - 172.64 GB (916)

[skunk]

About 22GB. Almost all the really big files seem to be Fela Kuti and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, neither of whom appears to know when to pack it in.

[hankolerd]

Music: 92Gb
Movies: 187Gb
I don't do TV Shows

Someone asked how someone can listen to so much music. And well, it's easy when your computer is always on and iTunes is always playing music(except when watching a movie) even while I sleep I have music going, or work on homework, or anything I do. I have had my computer for over a year now, and the only time it has had a break, is when I am taking it somewhere in my car and I shut it down.
When I am gaming in windows, I still have music going. I only have about 250-300mb of music in vista though, I just imported the albums that I like the best for now, I usually just keep it playing quietly in the background.
Music is great.:apple:

[c-Row]

12.000 tracks
1300+ albums
300 GB lossless
All legal :cool:

And I haven't even started importing my compilations and soundtracks, not to mention the huge pile of 12" singles. :p

[SXR]

Music: 92Gb
Movies: 187Gb
I don't do TV Shows

Someone asked how someone can listen to so much music. And well, it's easy when your computer is always on and iTunes is always playing music(except when watching a movie) even while I sleep I have music going, or work on homework, or anything I do. I have had my computer for over a year now, and the only time it has had a break, is when I am taking it somewhere in my car and I shut it down.
When I am gaming in windows, I still have music going. I only have about 250-300mb of music in vista though, I just imported the albums that I like the best for now, I usually just keep it playing quietly in the background.
Music is great.:apple:

Sometimes I cant concentrate with music around me , but sometimes I can ;)

[blipper]

24.15GB music (4,573 songs, many at 256), 13.29GB TV shows (not synced to IPod), 15.53GB podcasts.

[MacBoobsPro]

330GB.

Most of it is movies and TV shows, and about 10GB of music.

that being said my 1TB drive died and so (hopefully) I will be getting all the above back soon. If not, I am £1000s out of pocket and it was a waste of 12 months time and effort.
:mad:

Lacie are *****! Brand new drive, died!

[Slip]

Music: 92Gb
Movies: 187Gb
I don't do TV Shows

Someone asked how someone can listen to so much music. And well, it's easy when your computer is always on and iTunes is always playing music(except when watching a movie) even while I sleep I have music going, or work on homework, or anything I do. I have had my computer for over a year now, and the only time it has had a break, is when I am taking it somewhere in my car and I shut it down.
When I am gaming in windows, I still have music going. I only have about 250-300mb of music in vista though, I just imported the albums that I like the best for now, I usually just keep it playing quietly in the background.
Music is great.:apple:

I have to have my music on 24/7 aswell
It was funny, up until I had my first iPod and started to have my music on the PC I never had an interest in music nor really cared but after the iPod, I could't stop listening to it.
Now that was about 2 years ago and I've moved on a bit, I always have my iPod with me and whenever on my Mac iTunes is always open and playing :)
I find when I can't have my music I start to get withdrawal symptoms :(

[motulist]

250 GB of music.

Here's how I got to this point. I'm in my early 30's and I've been a huge music fan my whole life. I started collecting CDs when I was 13 and would spend most of my money on them. When I was in my late teens early 20's I started working in the music biz while still living at home, so all my meager earning were pure profit. Then once or twice a year I'd go to a record store and buy like $300 worth of CDs. I did that for many years. Then when I got further into the music biz I started to get lots of free CDs that were castoffs from higher up people who bought CDs for references or received as promos and then were done with them.

Then when I got highspeed net access and could download "borrowed" music I went crazy with it. It was partly because as a musician I wanted to have a large reference library that I could examine at a moments notice which included much music that I wouldn't have bought otherwise, and also because the record companies had stolen literally thousands of dollars from me by engaging in illegal business practices that lead me to buy much more (or at least much different) music than I otherwise would've had they been acting within the law, so I was doing a little rough justice.

And that's not even including my GIGANTIC collection of vinyl!


(Being a rabid music lover)
x (around 20 years of collecting)
_______________________________
= a zillion years of music to listen to, but without a zillion years to listen to it all.

[Tarkovsky]

104 GB of ALAC.

[tersono]

Hmm - currently around 270 Gb. All legal.

Still trying to find some stuff that I had on vinyl, though (I had over 3,000 records that had to go when I moved into this house - no room).

[SXR]

330GB.

Most of it is movies and TV shows, and about 10GB of music.

that being said my 1TB drive died and so (hopefully) I will be getting all the above back soon. If not, I am £1000s out of pocket and it was a waste of 12 months time and effort.
:mad:

Lacie are *****! Brand new drive, died!


Oeh, I was about to buy a LaCie drive. Sorry to hear yours died. :(

[MacBoobsPro]

Oeh, I was about to buy a LaCie drive. Sorry to hear yours died. :(

Many places I have worked always seemed to have problems with LaCie stuff. I just thought it was coincidence. So I stumped up for a 1TB (2x500GB raid) and within the first 2 weeks it was acting up. Then eventually (after I had put my entire iTunes library on it) it died.

I paid £250 for the drive. Its going to cost £200 minimum to retrieve the data (if at all possible). I have had to buy another drive (£200) to put any retrieved data onto and if I can't get my data back (there is a hell of a lot of iTS bought stuff) then I am going to be well out of pocket. Not to mention all the many hours of encoding my 106 DVDs.

Like I said I thought it was just coincidence but now I don't believe that. I think they are just plain crap. :mad:

[Blue Velvet]

I would never buy a RAID disk again... too unreliable. Cheaper to buy a SATA enclosure and put a 1TB drive in there; they're about £160 these days.

[ClassicMac247]

With my cd's uploaded its about 67 GB, without cd's its 10GB. I'm a huge music fanatic. I always borrow cd's and upload them as well. I had to buy an external HD for all my music!:D

[MacBoobsPro]

I would never buy a RAID disk again... too unreliable. Cheaper to buy a SATA enclosure and put a 1TB drive in there; they're about £160 these days.

I know that now. :rolleyes: I have bought a 500GB Iomega MiniMax to go with my 250GB MiniMax. Includes Firewire and USB hub, looks cool and is dead silent. I just need another 500GB drive to back up the first using Time Machine. :D My 250GB backs up my G5 but its too small to back up my iTunes library. :o

[ClassicMac247]

*Jaw drops*

I....that's....wow....

That is alot of music! what do you tend to listen too?:apple:

[FleurDuMal]

30GB. All legal(ish). All encoded at 192kbs.

[SXR]

Many places I have worked always seemed to have problems with LaCie stuff. I just thought it was coincidence. So I stumped up for a 1TB (2x500GB raid) and within the first 2 weeks it was acting up. Then eventually (after I had put my entire iTunes library on it) it died.

I paid £250 for the drive. Its going to cost £200 minimum to retrieve the data (if at all possible). I have had to buy another drive (£200) to put any retrieved data onto and if I can't get my data back (there is a hell of a lot of iTS bought stuff) then I am going to be well out of pocket. Not to mention all the many hours of encoding my 106 DVDs.

Like I said I thought it was just coincidence but now I don't believe that. I think they are just plain crap. :mad:

I was only interested because of the price tag. 100 euro for 500 GB Drive , thats amazing. Other perhaps more reliable companys sell 160 - 250 drives for 100 euro.

Get LaCie to replace everything , because thats just ridiculous. Its a new drive and it died..

[Osarkon]

21.26GB and in need of more...

[SXR]

I just tipped over the 1000 songs ;)

[macmike47]

4324 songs. Just under 30GB. Currently limited by 80GB HD.

Will be ripping all my CDs when the 250GB MacBook arrives :D

[Slip]

I just tipped over the 1000 songs ;)

Same, well 1,174 :)

[SXR]

Same, well 1,174 :)

I'll get there, eventually :) 1022 now , just got a new album ( ITS ) :D

[MacBoobsPro]

I was only interested because of the price tag. 100 euro for 500 GB Drive , thats amazing. Other perhaps more reliable companys sell 160 - 250 drives for 100 euro.

Get LaCie to replace everything , because thats just ridiculous. Its a new drive and it died..

I spoke to Lacie about it and they said "the warranty does not include data recovery and if the drive needs opening to recover data the warranty is void."

So what they are saying is 'you can buy our drives, but you shouldn't really use them because when they break you are up **** creek.' You either lose all your data and get your drive fixed or hopefully recover 'some' of your data and throw your brand new drive away.

Luckily I didnt buy direct from Lacie so I fed Amazon a load of crap and they will give me a full refund (when I get the drive back from the recovery guys).

[SXR]

I spoke to Lacie about it and they said "the warranty does not include data recovery and if the drive needs opening to recover data the warranty is void."

So what they are saying is 'you can buy our drives, but you shouldn't really use them because when they break you are up **** creek.' You either lose all your data and get your drive fixed or hopefully recover 'some' of your data and throw your brand new drive away.

Luckily I didnt buy direct from Lacie so I fed Amazon a load of crap and they will give me a full refund (when I get the drive back from the recovery guys).

Thats crap support. when I get my Mac i'll just buy a external HDD from apple.com , they have good stuff there i think. I'll avoid LaCie , thats for sure.

So sad you lost all your iTunes content , I have my current machine for 3 years or so now and im scared my harddrive fails , so I store my music on DVD's for now.

[tba03]

253 GB music
1,1 TB tv shows/movies

[SXR]

253 GB music
1,1 TB tv shows/movies

where do you keep that!

[skuzzy]

Music library sits at around 22GB.

[rockthecasbah]

Presently I've got 7710 songs (35.40GB, 22+ days) and looking to add to that a bit when Chanukah rolls around this week ;)

[Schtumple]

3250 songs - 15gb

I delete all my videos after watching them, one day ill buy a 2tb external to keep them all on.

[Cristian]

3949 Songs, 10.3 Dyas, 20.61 GB

[powerchord]

8,200 songs, about 42 gbs.

[pjarvi]

In iTunes:
5.97GB - Music
28.06GB - Movies
28.93GB - TV Shows
0.5GB - Podcasts
0.2GB - Audiobooks

I keep DVD rips, MP3's, and OGG files from my Windows days out of iTunes, and store them seperately:
42GB - Music
61GB - Movies
31GB - TV Shows

[babyj]

I just went past the 36,000 mark - coming in at 212Gb.

All ripped from cd's, with lossless copies as well stored separately (most are on hard drive as well but I've run out of space at the moment till I build my new raid storage server).

Before anyone asks, I dj hence the large library and lossless copies plus music is pretty much my only hobby / pastime.

[eric55lv]

Music:422 songs 1day 1.55gb
TV Shows:19 shows 8.9 hours 5.42gb
Movies:16 items 13.5mins 39.8mb (apple ads downloaded from google video)
Podcasts:45 items 33.1 mins 240.5 mb

[chedda]

14476 songs 50.2 days 619.22 GB (all aiff legal) including recorded (CD spindoctor roxio) tape and part of my vinyl collection.

[***moviemaker**]

353.57 GB
37.5 Days
13486 Songs

(Mostly AIFF files with some MP3s)

[2112FCA]

Music = 3962 items, 12.4 days, 17.42 GB
Movies = 11 items, 18.1 hours, 8.86 GB
TV Shows = 42 items, 17.2 hours, 11.12 GB

[killerrobot]

3991 songs 10.7 days 15.73g.

I've been whittling down my itunes collection over the past few years to stuff that I've actually listened to recently - it used to be over a 700g -yeah I went a little nuts at first trying to create a "digital" music library.
I still have all the CD's and a stereo system with a CD player so if I feel I want to listen to someone I normally don't, then I'll just pop in the CD.
I still plan on whittling more as I add new music.

[tdport92]

115386 Songs = 509.55 gigs!

300gigs of movies

20gigs of pics.

[roland.g]

Music: 44.6GB. 8123 songs. 24.4 days.
Movies: 449GB. 256 movies. 20.5 days.
TV Shows: 83GB. 152 episodes. 3.1 days.