How big is your music collection?

[RamenBooko]

The other day, a co-worker showed me a picture thousands of vinyl and CD's he had collected over several decades (along with some nice equipment). I then told him I have the same amount of music, on a 3.5" hard drive whereas his took up an entire room.

Well, what's your count folks?

[Telp]

What's the total count of yours, in GB?

[JoshLV]

About 600 iTunes songs, with about 10 CDs. I'm still a novice, but 600 keeps me happy :)

[nomar383]

60-70GB of music
100+ Movies in digital form

I could play music for over 40 days straight and never hit the same song twice. I could never listen to all of it, but nice to have around :)

[rhett7660]

250+ gigs worth of ripped and purchased music. Over 600+ cd's. My cd collection takes up a nice shiny metal carring case and two really big brown boxes in the garage!

:D

[LeahM]

400 Itunes songs and about 50 CDs that aren't on itunes.

[bartelby]

There is this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=282671) from last year.

I've got about 100 more LPs and maybe 150 more cds from the photos in that thread.

I love looking at toothpaste's photos.

My iTunes library stands , currently, at 11,735 tracks. I add about 150 a month to it.

[Telp]

21 GB and still growing/adding from CDs. I want to get one of those things so that i can burn vinyls to the computer.

[Cyburnclassic]

Mine only about 2GB at the moment.

[sunfast]

I still buy all my music on CD and rip it before putting it in a MASSIVE box. I've got hundreds....

[TheSpecialist]

All songs with cover art and ID3 tags 100% perfecto:cool:
Began with this January 1st 2007. Pretty neat in my opinion and I'm very, very proud of it.

[muldul]

I have got 1027 songs, 79 full length movies and 84 tv shows. Sadly they don't fit on my 16 GB ipod touch

[applegoddess09]

wow. i feel like such a beginner. lol.
i have 260 songs [1.5GB], with a couple CDs I need to rip, and about 200 songs I need to get from a friend. Then you add in four movies, some music videos, two shorts and a ton of podcasts and that equals my library for now.

I plan on ripping my DVDs but waiting to get the Mac mini for the storage.

[iJohnHenry]

I have 218 vinyl, 70 Cd's and a few tapes.

And some "library" stuff on my HDD (about 4 gig).

[kflook]

I used to buy CDs, now I pretty much buy everything on iTunes to save space.

[Mugs]

6996! So close to that 7000 mark! mostly cd's which are piled up around my house! hehe

[gtyper]

629.87 Gb, 26,635 songs.

All FLAC, All the time. Lots of rare vinyl and MFSL/DCC remasters.

Perfectly tagged and all with artwork of 600X600.

[applegoddess09]

629.87 Gb, 26,635 songs.

All FLAC, All the time. Lots of rare vinyl and MFSL/DCC remasters.

Perfectly tagged and all with artwork of 600X600.

Where do you store all of this?!

[killmoms]

The other day, a co-worker showed me a picture thousands of vinyl and CD's he had collected over several decades (along with some nice equipment). I then told him I have the same amount of music, on a 3.5" hard drive whereas his took up an entire room.

Perhaps... but his collection will always be more impressive and say a lot more about his commitment to music (and his opinion of its worth) than yours.

This is exactly why I am starting to build my physical collection up to the size it ought to be—which is to say, "massive." :)

[Satori]

Surely size is not as important as what you do with it? ;)

[slimjim247]

3500...

3499 downloaded on limewire :D

[nomar383]

3500...

3499 downloaded on limewire :D

What is the one that wasn't? lol
Must've been frikin real good

[RaceTripper]

I have over 3000 analog jazz and classical LPs and I wouldn't trade them for 10 times that amount of music on iTMS.

I only play these on a Linn Sondek LP12.

[ryannel2003]

Most of my music is from CD's, but about 100 or so songs are purchased from iTunes.

[buckycat36]

826 songs 3.95gb
64 videos 11gb

[slimjim247]

What is the one that wasn't? lol
Must've been frikin real good

That was the free song of the week lol

[AceWilfong]

About 100 78s, 2000 lps, 250 cds, a few gigs worth of iTunes.

[xXriderXx7]

I know the thread said music, but I decided to share my entire media collection:

Music first, movies second, and tv shows last;

[iphone.luke]

800 Songs 4 GB

[RamenBooko]

Forgot to post mine, duh!

I am at about 16,300 songs. Movies is another story (DVD's...no digital). I also have the 3 latest episodes of about 6 video podcasts. Then there is my TV shows, but that's going off topic.

[gtyper]

Where do you store all of this?!

I store this in three places:

1) My Mac Pro (3rd HDD bay)
2) An external drive connected to my home theater
3) In the bahamas, same as number 2.

[roland.g]

I have 7500-8000 or so songs. Somewhere in the 48-50GB range along with another 450+GB of movies and tv shows, though it is 95% movies.

[scotty96LSC]

11 gb.

[carfac]

Just hit 250 gigs... just CD rips.

Well north of a TB of videos, and that is JUST childrens videos (don't trust my kids to use DVDs yet, so they can pull anything up on my media center from the ripped library by pushing a couple of buttons on a remote rather than handling the actual DVDs).

[hollerz]

Pretty much all stuff I listen to quite often.

[RamenBooko]

629.87 Gb, 26,635 songs.

All FLAC, All the time. Lots of rare vinyl and MFSL/DCC remasters.

Perfectly tagged and all with artwork of 600X600.


What genre of music do you listen to mostly? I've built my collection mostly on classic Rock.

[nick9191]

How do you accumulate all this music, most I've ever had in iTunes is 100ish songs.

[natw308]

i have about 8200 songs (quite a lot from limewire) but i only have 1200 on my iphone

[bartelby]

How do you accumulate all this music, most I've ever had in iTunes is 100ish songs.

I've been buying records and cds for 22 years. My collection of LPs is 1/3 of what it could have been, I've sold about 1000 over the years.

[heatmiser]

Perhaps... but his collection will always be more impressive and say a lot more about his commitment to music (and his opinion of its worth) than yours.

Not necessarily.

I used to think this way too; that a person's physical collection somehow meant they valued music more.

Then I came to understand that the physical manifestations of someone's interests (whether in book libraries, film libraries, or music libraries) rarely had anything to do with a person's inner appreciation of said interests.

Simply put, I love music.

But I also cherish simplicity.

I don't need to be able to point to my music collection to demonstrate my appreciation of it any more than I need to have my parents in the same room with me to love them.

Inevitably, the things we own end up owning us; possessions and the trappings of wealth are just a form of imprisonment without bars.

I resolved to never collect physical treasures again--not books, not films, not music.

For me, containing my favorite records on an iPod or hard drive is worth infinitely more for my peace of mind than having them occupy space in the physical world.

If someone gave me the chance to have my entire collection on LPs or CDs, I would thank them, and happily decline.

I'd much rather have my music fit in the palm of my hand than in two hundred pounds of plastic and vinyl in a corner of my room.

Simplicity is the way.

[DaftUnion]

Still got about 400 cd's to import...but it's getting there...the huge year...or two year project.

[BillyBobBongo]

....and it's always getting bigger!

[rouxeny]

So, of the people with massive music collections, how much do you actually listen to?

I've bought maybe 250 CD's in my life, I can honestly say that I listen to maybe 20-30 of them. My iTunes collection isn't large, at most 3-4 GB, but again, I probably only listen to 100 songs consistently.

I guess I have the rest around "just in case," but I'm not sure in case of what.

But then again, I only really use the iPod when I'm exercising. I've noticed that some people wear them basically all the time, I've even had a few face to face conversations while the other person is rocking out with the headphones on.

[heatmiser]

Mine's not massive by any stretch (roughly 5500 songs and dropping), but I listen to all of it. About 5% of them are unplayed, and most of those are actually my (as in me the musician) songs.

I've spent the last two months getting rid of things I realized I no longer listened to, and my collection is much more satisfying as a result. I don't want the just-in-case stuff. I want the can't live without stuff. It results in fewer songs, but it feels good knowing I'm not hanging on to albums because I'm afraid to get rid of them.

With regards to listening time, I pretty much listen to music all day. During school, my iPod went everywhere with me, and when I got back to my room, I listened to stuff while studying and getting work done. Now that it's summer, I don't use the iPod much, but whenever I'm at the laptop, my headphones are running.

[mavis]

I have 6933 songs, 44.34GBs.

I keep about 900 songs on my iPod Touch (8GB) and will be able to bump that to 1500 when I get my 16GB iPhone 3G next week. Every one of my songs is rated, so I use Smart Playlists (based on rating + playcount) to fill all of my iPods, and will do the same with my two new iPhones.

[bov]

5,708 Songs, 27.16 GB

[David G.]

___

[richthomas]

^ hmm you must have some long songs there…

my library stayed steady at about 12GB for a while but its starting to increase a bit in recent times.

121696

[Nosoforos]

close to 12.000 songs, approaching 80GB of diskspace. I like to have a real library, where I can actually look things up, discover songs I forgot I even had them. For relaxed music listening I do however nearly always use the original cd, or preferably even the LP (about 5000 of the songs are old jazz and blues)

[hexonxonx]

8522 songs 27.2 days 49.95 GB

[adamerr]

sigh.
7.4GB, 1450 songs...
upstaged.

[Julien]

http://photos.imageevent.com/williamjulien/forsale/small/iTunes%20music.jpg

[Tom B.]

Music: 2726 items, 13.43 GB

Movies: 77 items (only 19 are actual feature-length movies), 29.89 GB

TV Shows: 70 items, 8.56 GB

Podcasts: 344 items, 17.63 GB

Total: 3217 items, 68.51 GB

[Cadium]

My iTunes music library has 2001 items (which is 5.4 days or 11.60 GB worth). I keep all of this synchronized to my iPod classic 80 GB.

[EgbertAttrick]

8124 items, 22 days, 45.28 GB

We shall not speak of video (too effin' much).

[gcmexico]

1700 songs, 81 movies, 189 tv shows:cool:

[MacHappytjg]

1996 songs and 13.10gb

[gonyr]

About 2000 songs in itunes on my computer.
About 350 cds on my shelf that I've never gotten around to ripping to mp3.

It's one of those projects that always gets pushed to the back burner.

[atoothelex]

17,000+ songs. I get about 150 new songs a week.
150+ movies
Lots of TV shows
I use about 260 GB, but have a 500GB hard drive

[Jolly Jimmy]

99,9% Ripped from CD's in Apple Lossless
(Including 1 day's worth of The Beatles)

[i.shaun]

2995 songs, 9.1 days, 17.52 GB

not the largest collection im sure, but It's not bad. It will grow with time.

I just wish I didn't have to un-DRM-ify iTunes purchases, because if I attempt a library backup on Data CDs, those don't copy. (preventing me from pirating my own purchases, and moving them to safe storage place, such as DVD discs)


such a hassle.

[ashjamben]

just thought i'd mention that comparing size of music collections in GB isn't very comparable. i only rip my music in 128kbps to keep as much space on my ipod as possible, or else it wouldn't all fit! but some audiophiles will rip at much, much higher quality.

plus i think we should compare music we legally own. a couple of days ago me and a friend compared our music collections. his was alot bigger than mine, but not once i asked how much he had legally bought and owned. i personally deleted all the music i had obtained illegally but still have a fairly strong music collection. i can't quote the exact amount as i dont have my ipod on me, its about 4 thousand tho :)

[SmartIndianKid]

2050 items, 6 days, 13.71 GB - Songs
4 items, 6.4 hours, 1.12 GB - Movies
29 items, 10.6 hours, 3.39 GB - TV Shows
13 items, 5.2 days, 3.47 GB - Audiobooks

2096 items, 11.9 days, 21.69 GB - Total

Most of it is ripped, except the TV shows. I'm pretty horrified at how much I paid iTunes for shows that I can only watch on my computer and iPod.

[magid]

A little over 20k songs and ~100gb

[magid]

Music: 2726 items, 13.43 GB

Movies: 77 items (only 19 are actual feature-length movies), 29.89 GB

TV Shows: 70 items, 8.56 GB

Podcasts: 344 items, 17.63 GB

Total: 3217 items, 68.51 GB

Porn FTW

[mperkins37]

I have about:
2300 Lp's (About 1/3 are picture discs & Bootlegs)
3-350 CD's
96 GB of mp3's
7-750 DVD's of Live Shows

[bobertoq]

17,000+ songs. I get about 150 new songs a week.
150+ movies
Lots of TV shows
I use about 260 GB, but have a 500GB hard driveWOW :eek: I get about 25 new songs a year..... That's why I listen to the radio now.

1081 songs, (it was 1062 but my library got f'ed up) 3 days, 5.59 GB

--------------

Music: 2726 items, 13.43 GB

Movies: 77 items (only 19 are actual feature-length movies), 29.89 GB

TV Shows: 70 items, 8.56 GB

Podcasts: 344 items, 17.63 GB

Total: 3217 items, 68.51 GB:eek: Now what exactly are all these movies? :p

[gmeddles]

Last time I checked I was around 89 days of music (it wont fit on my 80GB ipod), but I know there are a few duplicate tracks (where the same song is on 2+ albums) and some less-than-perfect tags in there. I've never used napster/p2p/sharing to acquire music, not even a single song. The RIAA should love me.

[kptl]

Quality > Quantity

[GGJstudios]

30,887 songs, 153.31GB

[thegoldenmackid]

Quality > Quantity

Agreed, with that said...

13,447 Tracks at 97.92 GB all from Limewire...


Kidding...no seriously, all are perfectly tagged and all with artwork except for three or four bootleg vinyls.

[a104375]

currently at:

[fazox]

still growing

[Indohottie]

10000 songs, 45 gb
47 movies, 32 gb
161 TV episodes 70 gb

[drummerbooker14]

Just broke over 5000 songs, trying to add around 200 per month.

[opivy1218]

I have 6.69 GB of music on my 8 GB touch (also my whole collection right now). Now I'm probably gonna have to sell my iPod Touch to get an 80 GB classic.

[MacGeek7]

I have a 20GB U2 bootleg collection along with 16GB of other music

[toolbox]

I currently have 880 songs, 2.2 days and 5.28 gb on my windows rig

[Forest91]

Currently I'm at 6602 at just over 40 gigs. Modest size.
Anyone else?

[iBecks]

3860 Songs - 22.8GB

[chrmjenkins]

Rather small, 1027 songs, 6.65 GB.

[Abstract]

I'm at 24.74 GB, and 4285 songs.


Here's another question for all you people out there: How much of the music on your computer did you pay for, or receive as a gift for holidays and special occasions? ;)

[maestro55]

5.60GB (1,567 songs) on this machine. The MacBook Pro might have a bit more and I still have CDs I haven't ripped to MP3.

[Forest91]

Maybe purchased half of mine, rest are gifts, friends cd's etc

[chrmjenkins]

I'm at 24.74 GB, and 4285 songs.


Here's another question for all you people out there: How much of the music on your computer did you pay for, or receive as a gift for holidays and special occasions? ;)

I paid for it all. My music taste is too obscure for people to consider giving music as gifts :D

[adamerr]

Is it even possible for someone to listen to 200GB of music?
Realistically?


I mean sure, you can just listen to songs once and listen to 20,000 songs... but what is the point?

[Benguitar]

Here is a screenshot.

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee180/Benguitar2/Picture1-7.png

[lostfan916]

2331 songs, 12.25 GB

I don't understand how people can have such libraries... it's insane.


Probably paid for 20% of my music, rest torrents/google.

[iPhoneNYC]

My music takes up 62 gigs, it's about 5700 songs. I've become quite a convert to iTunes and playing the music via the airport to speakers around the apartment. What is interesting about my 62 gigs is originally I insisted on AAIF and never MP3. Because of the Apple Store I began to add AAC. Then the size just started getting too big. So I have some MP3 now - and they take up much less space. While I never touched an MP3 years ago, I now feel it's fine for music recorded before the mid 60s. I have alot of old jazz and blues and the limited range of those recordings doesn't suffer with the inferior format - and the music is only at 62 gigs. I also went for Time Machine and back up hard drive because at this point I it would be almost impossible to track down music - I stopped keeping CDs long ago...

[hexonxonx]

I have 11080 songs at 66.73 GB. I have a few hundred songs that I've downloaded and haven't been added yet.

[OriginalFormula]

2794 items, 8 days, 18.59 GB

Not gigantic, but also not small. It works well.

[raggedjimmi]

6982 songs at 26.65gb. Most of it being ripped game soundtracks and other obscure stuff.

[Cassie]

700 songs, 2.64 GB. I'd love to have more, but it's hard for me to find new stuff. :(

[Little HZ]

5322 songs. I keep my CDs (and the "covers," but not the jewel cases) in a bank deposit box), but I do not buy CDs any more. I like not having the clutter. I back up my iTunes library in three places. I listen to 20% of my library regularly, and 60% occasionally. The rest I probably could purge and not miss ... :rolleyes:

[Shotglass]

4000 songs. My GB count is irrelevant because my music is encoded in Apple Lossless.

[MattG]

Currently...7150 songs @ 48GB. I also have a bunch of CDs that I haven't yet ripped.

[remmy]

3657 songs, 10.7 days.

Think some of it I don't like any more so will need to be removed at some point.

[Cassie]

700 songs, 2.64 GB. I'd love to have more, but it's hard for me to find new stuff. :(

Huh, I should have waited until today to post. Up to 792 songs and 3.12 GB now.

[gnasher729]

The other day, a co-worker showed me a picture thousands of vinyl and CD's he had collected over several decades (along with some nice equipment). I then told him I have the same amount of music, on a 3.5" hard drive whereas his took up an entire room.

So you purchased as much music as he did?

[remmy]

Huh, I should have waited until today to post. Up to 792 songs and 3.12 GB now.

Lol, were did 92 songs appear from?

[gnasher729]

How do you accumulate all this music, most I've ever had in iTunes is 100ish songs.

There are two legal ways: One just takes time. At some point I used to buy 10 CDs or so every month. Do that for twenty years, and you have about 30,000 songs. The other method: There are sources of cheap music. You can get an awful lot of classical music really cheap. For example: Bach complete works on eBay, 155 CDs for £69. That would get you from zero to 2000 songs / 8 days / 20 GB of music very quickly. And you can buy some indie music really cheap.

[GGGUUUYYY]

I'm at 24.74 GB, and 4285 songs.


Here's another question for all you people out there: How much of the music on your computer did you pay for, or receive as a gift for holidays and special occasions? ;)

Not one.


413 songs, 21.9 hrs, 1.88 GB

[gnasher729]

I just wish I didn't have to un-DRM-ify iTunes purchases, because if I attempt a library backup on Data CDs, those don't copy. (preventing me from pirating my own purchases, and moving them to safe storage place, such as DVD discs)

That's strange. Backup onto data CDs should be no problem. That is supposed to be the point of DRM: You back it up, I "borrow" your backup DVD and copy it onto my computer, the music doesn't play. You lose your music, you restore from your backup, and the music plays.

[Keniff]

7000 .mp3's and .wav's in my iTunes.

15,000 records.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6163/657569996l.jpg

[ViciousShadow21]

I got 84,121 songs it takes up 421.77GB on the 1TB WD studio edition external. i do some free lance DJ work so i've accumulated a lot of music. also went to a music conservatory so i got a lot of classical as well.

[Mr. lax]

4697 Songs, 13.2 days, 28.85 gb
399 Movies, 297.12 gb
1205 TV shows, 169 gb

I love external hard drives <3

[Hrududu]

2558 songs in iTunes. I've also got music on tapes and whatnot that never made it onto the computer.

[Schtumple]

5432 songs, 162 Artists, 405 Albums, 14.6 days, 28.95GB.

A good 130 are songs I've made though.

[fireshot91]

2127 Songs, 5.5 Days, 10.55GB
183 Albums
99 Artists
23 Genres


Payed for 1 Album- Nellyville

[Watabou]

I think my music library grew a lot this month. Before it was a measly 4 GB of music that would happily fit into my 8GB iPhone.

But I just got into more music and bands so now its close to 10GB. :)

[jecapaga]

Fun...all ripped at 256k or above:

24162 songs
182 genres (wow I need to clean up this, no way it's 182 unique genres)
2261 artists
2310 albums
170GBs roughly

[ViciousShadow21]

Fun...all ripped at 256k or above:

24162 songs
182 genres (wow I need to clean up this, no way it's 182 unique genres)
2261 artists
2310 albums
170GBs roughly

yea i hear you on the Genre thing. my collection is pretty much in good order except i have 301 Genres!!!:mad: im going to try and get it down to 20 if i can.

[jaydub]

Around 200GB. I don't even listen to a great majority of it, but I can't handle deleting it.

[Dmac77]

I have around 10GBs worth of stuff in iTunes, most of it is in Apple Lossless though. I've sold off all of my CDs, but I am starting to collect Vinyl.

So I have ~10GB digital, thirteen LPs, & one 45.

Don

[Cassie]

Lol, were did 92 songs appear from?

Smashing Pumpkins - "Rarities and B-sides". The whole album is about 120 songs, but I already had a few of them in my library.

[nobunaga209]

I've gone completely digital...roughly 50ish GB's or so of music.

[rhett7660]

I got 84,121 songs it takes up 421.77GB on the 1TB WD studio edition external. i do some free lance DJ work so i've accumulated a lot of music. also went to a music conservatory so i got a lot of classical as well.

I am in awe. That is killer. I have a 4th of that and craving more. I have over 1000 cd's.

Which music conservatory did you go to?

[tersono]

A little over 300gb...

[Fake Hipster]

bout 4,800 songs.

[ViciousShadow21]

I am in awe. That is killer. I have a 4th of that and craving more. I have over 1000 cd's.

Which music conservatory did you go to?

New England Conservatory in Boston. Music was passed around quite a bit there. i also worked at the audio music library where they had over 20,000 CD's and about 35,000 LP's. Their collection is monster.

[tman07]

i have just recently discovered the wonders of flac/apple lossless(thanks gizmodo/audio week).. so my collection is going to get much bigger very soon. Apple lossless + a good set of head phones + Dave Matthew's Band Live=jaw dropping.

i have 100gb+ of movies im working on putting into itunes. i was young and windows based, so i have a bunch of .avi's that are in the process of being converted over to mp4->itunes

[mscriv]

Over 50,000+ songs in my collection and constantly growing. But, I've been a mobile DJ for over ten years so it's not really a fair comparison to those just collecting for personal use. Computers have made my job a whole lot easier though. It was no fun carrying 500+ CDs around in a big case back in the day.

[doubleohseven]

I've got 545 songs, which equals 1.5 days or 2.38GB.

I've got 44 movies and 117 apps.

[Melrose]

My Music library says 3,862 songs sitting in 20.57GB... I'm assuming that doesn't count my CDs I don't have loaded on my computer or my movies, etc in iTunes. Mostly, it's Apple Lossless (which is betetr sound for marginally larger space usage). Some songs I have in disc quality, but only a very few.

For physical CDs, I used to have close to 300 but I've started liquidating the ones I'm not that attached to. I've already got them on my iPod and laptop, so I figger I don't need the hard copies anymore. Certain albums I'd just never sell tho.

[wrldwzrd89]

Wondering why this thread is sitting idly, as I'm wondering the same thing as the thread starter.

Anyway, my music collection is rapidly approaching the 100 GB mark. I have over 11,000 songs, 100% of them are in Apple Lossless format.

EDIT: Just thought I should add, got 5 movies and 1 app in my iTunes as well.

[steve2112]

Mine is around 3000 songs, most of which came from my 200+ CD collection. Most of them are in 192 or 256k format, but I have been thinking about re-ripping the collection. I bought a few MP3 albums from Amazon. I never bought anything from iTunes because of the DRM, but I guess that will be changing now. I haven't been buying much music because I am turning into a grumpy old man who doesn't like most new music. Oddly enough, my podcasts take up more room on my 30GB 5th gen than my music collection.

[Apple Ink]

Everything either Lossless, MP3-320 or AAC-256.
Seriously how do people get 400GB worth of Music.. and how do they even remember or enjoy their collections.

[shivermetimbers]

I have 3900 and change in iTunes... and 300 plus in CD's off on the side.

[tristangage]

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/5752/picture1exf.png

To be honest, I'm not sure how I built up so much music. I'm only sixteen, and only really got into music properly two or three years ago. Before that, I was kinda wandering with the crowd with the music they liked. Now, I like whatever I like, dislike whatever I don't, and have deleted all that old music, so I reckon I'm doing alright :)

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/9832/picture2lhl.png
To be fair, a lot of those artists are from compilations...

P.S... I'm currently downloading more White Stripes and the Rolling Stones discography too... :cool:

[iObama]

As of right this second, I have 5555 songs, which is 16.3 days or 22.15GB's worth. All songs are 128kbps AAC, except for around 35 songs that I bought from iTunes Plus. Most songs are from torrents and Limewire (Yes, I know. I have no money. I feel horrible about it, and I would MUCH rather have the actual CDs), but about 400 of them are from iTunes (collected since 2004).

However, in addition to my iPhone, someone gave me an 80GB iPod video and I've been cleaning up songs I don't like (via both looking at full albums and deleting tracks I don't like and putting my library on shuffle and if a song comes up I don't like, I delete it) so I can use shuffle on it without going through 100 songs before I find one I like.

I had like 6200 songs before I started this process, I believe. ~27GB.

[tristangage]

After spending a long long time updating my library (several painful hours) from my old computer, I have an updated image. 8907 songs, over 25 days, 50GB of Music.

[ntrigue]

http://gallery.me.com/ntrigue/100092/Picture%202/web.jpg?ver=12479413520001

[MattG]

Not sure how many CDs I have...can't be bothered to count. Between those that are ripped to my computer, plus anything I've bought electronically, I've got about 7300 songs on here, 600+ albums.

[tristangage]

http://gallery.me.com/ntrigue/100092/Picture%202/web.jpg?ver=12479413520001

I gotta say... WOW!
That's a pretty intense amount of songs man.

[ntrigue]

I gotta say... WOW!
That's a pretty intense amount of songs man.

I still have some lingering Dupes that need to be removed, hoping to manage things under the 400GB mark.

[MacBOS]

7,385 Songs :cool:

[Love]

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My TV library is 95 GB.

[MegaMillions]

I did a little cleanup of my library before replying in here. I had some CD projects I was working on in iTunes in AIFF format, taking up a lot of space. There are now no AIFF or MPEG audio files. Only AAC, Purchased AAC, Protected AAC, PDFs (digital booklets) and a few MPEG videos (music videos from iTunes).

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[seven7seven]

2425 Songs (14.32 GB) but it is only the good stuff I like - my PC has closer to 5000 songs but I hand selected what to put on my MBP.

Oh and I have 50 GB of movies/tv shows

[conch575]

I like to go through every once in a while and delete out songs which I don't listen to. I have 734 songs, 1.9 days and 3.19 GB. It used to be around 1,500 but I deleted it all.