Poll: How many songs do you have on your Computer?

[MacRumors]

Vote: Poll: How many songs do you have on your Computer? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=404)

[senseibiz]

I have about 3124 and counting

[winmacguy]

2041 at this stage, all ripped from my CD collection since we dont have iTMS store in NZ

[Flowbee]

5274. And so many CDs yet to rip... (My old cube likes to take its time ripping CDs). ;)

[pepeleuepe]

3771 and growing :D

[DreaminDirector]

2717 and growing.

[Viv]

8209 tunes 34.33Gb bit of a problem that as I have a 30Gb IPod! I will get a bigger one when they do the next gen.

Viv

[redAPPLE]

me, music lover. 14000+. honest to goodness, no stolen goods. just need an "apple-like" way to digitalize my audio cassettes (remember those?).

[zyuzin4]

6530 most from the library
81 from iTMS

[Anonymous Freak]

Yup, 90 from the Music Store (8 from the Pepsi promotion, none of those from an actual Pepsi, all from Big Gulps filled with Coca-Cola products.) 2527 from my CD collection. (That is my entire CD collection.) 10.01GB.

I'm slowly digitizing my cassettes and importing my MiniDiscs. Unfortunately, I don't have a record player, but that's not a huge loss, as my two vinyls are 'Ghostbusters' and 'A-ha' (Ah, nostalgia from the early '80s. I've owned them since they were brand new.) But none of those have been added to the library yet. (I'm still testing importing methods.)

I should be getting a friend's 30GB iPod soon. He just broke the 30GB barrier, and will either be getting a 40GB iPod, or an iPod mini. (His reasoning is that if he's going to be choosing just a subset, he might as well HAVE to make good choices, rather than just omitting one or two things. Or he'll just go for enough to hold it all.) Even when my tapes and MiniDiscs are imported, I'll still be well short of 15GB. But I still haven't fully decided on if I want a mini or not. If I do decide to go for my friend's 30Giger, he'll sell it to me for the price of a new 15GB. (He has kept his in pristine condition, the metal back is absolutely flawless, not a single scratch.) And he'll throw in an iTrip and a Belkin Voice Recorder for only an extra $50. I don't think I want those, though. (I already have an FM transmitter, and I don't think I need a voice recorder.)

[IndyGopher]

About 60,000.. but I figure a good 10,000 are duplicates.. of those I suspect I actually care to have 12,000-15,000. When I get time I will delete the ones I know I will never listen to. One of the other techs made it a practice to copy every MP3 off of every computer that came into the shop. Before I left, (long after he had left) I bought the 200gig drive they were stored on... it has about 10 gig free on it. I'm trying to decide how I feel about having them at all, with their dubious origins, but at the moment, that's how many I have. On my drive, from my CD's, (plus the whole 2 songs I bought from the ITMS) I have 7,500. (all of which are duplicated on the 200gig drive, and included in the 60K number)

[Nermal]

I've got 676 in iTunes, and a couple of hundred elsewhere on my HD.

[Knox]

2252, although that is a bit misleading given that a fairly large number of them are over an hour long, so instead of needing 2.2 iPod minis i need 21 of them to carry my whole iTunes library.

[wrldwzrd89]

I have only 308 in iTunes, 284 in CocoModX (module player), and 1574 MIDIs. That's 592 songs (2166 if you include the MIDIs).
<edit> Here's where my music comes from:
iTunes Library: GamingForce Audio (no longer operational), VGMix (http://www.vgmix.com/), VGMP3 (http://www.vgmp3.com/)
CocoModX Library: The Mod Archive (http://www.modarchive.com/), PlayerPRO CD (commercial, no longer distributed)
MIDI collection: Video Game Music Archive (http://www.vgmusic.com/)</edit>

[applefans]

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I have lots of classical tracks which are more than 10 minutes long, and some short pieces lasting only 1 or 2 minutes. So the number of songs may not be that indicative, but the total duration do.

Also, ipod is much more than a mere MP3 player, it is a hard disk, photo storage .......


:p

[MattG]

At the moment..3466! About 300-/+ of which came from the iTMS.

[davecuse]

4522 currently and always adding more

[applefans]

4522 currently and always adding more

I'm waiting for iTMS come to HK, I got 3000+ CDs, only rip a handful of them, it takes tooooooo long!! :eek:

[ipacmm]

2282 and growing.

[cabes]

15,551... ripped selected songs from my CD collection... about 100 iTMS. Glad I went for the 15GB iPod and not the mini like I was going to. I didn't like the wheel on the mini... it feels too "cheap".

[fixyourthinking]

I've got 27,721

I'd say about a 1/4 came from a friend who gave them to me when Mp3's were pretty new - I remember getting MacAMP 1.0 and him giving me over 500 songs - then I moved on to Soundjam (what iTunes was) about 2 years later and we shared another 2500 or so. Over the course of the next few years we shared more, then iTunes was released.

I'd say another 1/4 comes from ripped CDs

Another 1/4 comes from legal downloads iTMS (mainly)

I'd say an 1/8 come from Limewire

Another 1/8 come from Library CDs that I have "checked out"

There's also a number of live recording s and DVD Video rips like oompa loompa songs from Willy Wonka

[djdarlek]

I have only 308 in iTunes, 284 in CocoModX (module player), and 1574 MIDIs. That's 592 songs (2166 if you include the MIDIs).
<edit> Here's where my music comes from:
iTunes Library: GamingForce Audio (no longer operational), VGMix (http://www.vgmix.com/), VGMP3 (http://www.vgmp3.com/)
CocoModX Library: The Mod Archive (http://www.modarchive.com/), PlayerPRO CD (commercial, no longer distributed)
MIDI collection: Video Game Music Archive (http://www.vgmusic.com/)</edit>

please don't say you listen to midi files for leisure.. :/

dave

[wrldwzrd89]

please don't say you listen to midi files for leisure.. :/

dave
I consider myself a collector of video game music. I used to have a collection of NSF, SPC, GBS, and GYM files as well. That is why I have so many MIDIs - all of them are from video games.

[eyelikeart]

12447 & counting... ;)

[pivo6]

Only about 550 in iTunes, but about twice that on my iPod. I listen to my iPod more than my iMac.

[daddy-mojo]

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6099 (25.85gb) songs and I still use my 5 gigger ipod . Although I am planning on upgrading to a slightly larger model. That whole 1000 song thing, sounds about right. Really how much can you listen to at one time, besides having it all on demand. :D

[encro]

2166, I have about 900 CD's but have not imported most of them because I need hard drive space for other things...

[Jovian9]

6806
...but that excludes classical, Miles Davis, Eno, and Vangelis

[g30ffr3y]

around 9314...

just under 43 gigs which sucks because i have a 30 gig ipod...
most are ripped from my own and friends music collections...
always adding more...

[djdarlek]

I've got 27,721

I'd say about a 1/4 came from a friend who gave them to me when Mp3's were pretty new - I remember getting MacAMP 1.0 and him giving me over 500 songs - then I moved on to Soundjam (what iTunes was) about 2 years later and we shared another 2500 or so. Over the course of the next few years we shared more, then iTunes was released.

I'd say another 1/4 comes from ripped CDs

Another 1/4 comes from legal downloads iTMS (mainly)

I'd say an 1/8 come from Limewire

Another 1/8 come from Library CDs that I have "checked out"

There's also a number of live recording s and DVD Video rips like oompa loompa songs from Willy Wonka

you mean to say you've spent around $6,931 in the itunes music store already>!>!>!>!>>!>! OMG!

[numediaman]

Around 20 -- am I on the low side? :D

[wrldwzrd89]

Around 20 -- am I on the low side? :D
And I thought I had a small collection! Yours is TINY compared to mine. (See my earlier post for the size of my collection and where I got my music from.)

[howard]

About 60,000.. but I figure a good 10,000 are duplicates.. of those I suspect I actually care to have 12,000-15,000. When I get time I will delete the ones I know I will never listen to. One of the other techs made it a practice to copy every MP3 off of every computer that came into the shop. Before I left, (long after he had left) I bought the 200gig drive they were stored on... it has about 10 gig free on it. I'm trying to decide how I feel about having them at all, with their dubious origins, but at the moment, that's how many I have. On my drive, from my CD's, (plus the whole 2 songs I bought from the ITMS) I have 7,500. (all of which are duplicated on the 200gig drive, and included in the 60K number)

don't know if you know about it already, but www.itunesregistery.com will help you find duplicates in your library

anyway i have 2112 songs in my library 41 from itms, they are all songs that i like, i never put stuff i don't like on my harddrive.

[aricher]

13132 Songs on my HD - 95.97 GB - 44 days, 19 hours, 29 minutes and 19 seconds. And that's not even counting my collection of audio books and "This American Life" shows.

I've been digitizing everything for a few years now. LP Records being done soon.

[Raid]

According to my 3rd Gen 15GB iPod I have 2775 songs in there. I would have more, but I have no Canadian iTMS to shop in! :( Like I've said before I'd budjet (i.e. Minimum spend) $1 a day just for Music purchases. So hurry the hell up Apple! :mad:

[Counterfit]

1672 songs, 42 added Sunday night. Just over five days total time: 5:00:21:45. 9.73 GB.
For reference, in the last 7 days, I have listened to 2:06:38:41 (2 days, 6 hours, 38 minutes, and 41 seconds) of music :eek:

[stromie952]

11365 and moving on up!

[Bunzi2k4]

close to 3,000

[wdlove]

I actually have no idea. I iTunes, just what come prepackaged with the program. Also currently two on my desktop.

[elmlish]

I've got over 400 of my own cds ripped to mp3 and I'm currently reripping them as ogg's but _man_ the ogg codec for mac os x is a slooow on. There is a huge wait before a song plays and before a song gets loaded in the finder.

[requies]

6792 songs

3403 AAC (50.1%)
3383 mp3 (49.8%)

122 from the itms (1.8%)


i STILL haven't finished ripping all my classical cds. i've been trying for years, but the tags are almost always screwed up and so it takes so much time to do them. i've had a stack sitting on my desk since february. but i only have about 50 left to do at this point so i'll finish after the semester is over. the itms number might have been higher except i only use it to try out new artists and a bit of classical. if there's a cd coming out from an artist i like, i'm always going to go buy the cd. just how it goes.

[DOUBLEADESIGN]

I've been hovering around 19,000 for a while.

A few are dups.

maybe a 1,000 are audio books which quite a few of them are broken up into smaller tracks. Wasn't the max something like 150,000?

Most are from my own and my wife life time CD collection.

Most of the rest are from friends collections when it was cool to ask to "tape it" before most people even knew WTF an MP3 was. So there is the bulk there.

Another huge chunk is from Stream Ripper, supposedly some of you guys are finally catching on to this.

Another chunk are MP3s from friends collections not downloaded (is this considered ilegal?).

I love iTMS but don't spend a ton of dough there. I think I had a dozen or so Pepsi caps!

You gotta love Limewire for hard to find stuff.

Also, I think more than 50% of the collection I could lose and not care, I would never have bought the CD anyway.

[requies]

You gotta love Limewire for hard to find stuff.

i'm gonna have to respectfully disagree with that. a large part of my collection is indie stuff and you just can't find it on limewire, even some of the more popular acts.

[sethypoo]

I'm picky about my music: 761 so far.

:o

[cxny]

3745 tunes - none from iTMS although I've spent about $200 on gift certificates. I buy tons of stuff used through Amazon, you can find some real bargins there and I do a lot of "research" with acquisition!

[crazytom]

4344 so far. Though only a little over 500 are on my favorite list. No iTMS music, all ripped from CD except for 1 illegal mp3. :o

[Dahl]

1593 songs.
Mostly from labels and bands own sites etc.
One day I rip my CD collection.

[bennetsaysargh]

3363 songs. wow. 7% is no doubt, so it's needless to say that im a big no doubt fan, even though i just said that.

[Sun Baked]

2 or 3, can't remember...

[SilvorX]

1359 and still rising strong

[baby duck monge]

4,319 at the moment. more added as i continue making it through my cds.

i used to think that was a lot... :eek:

[MacFan25]

About 1200 songs currently, though it is steadily growing by about 5 songs a month from the iTMS. :)

[stuckwithme247]

12,086
http://users.adelphia.net/~stuckwithme247/library.html

[Tideswimmer]

I made a smart playlist in iTunes of songs I hadn't yet listened to. The count is about 5,200, or about half my collection.

This means I have more unheard songs on my computer than most people have on their computer.

What's dumber is that now, lately, I'm listening to the "Never Played" playlist for the lone purpose of clearing a song off the playlist, because having that many songs unlistened to on my computer, I think, shows some sort of compulsive mania to collect songs; so, since I'm not nuts, really, I want to get it out of the Never Played list in order to prove that I'm not obsessed with getting new music.

I think I need help! :)

[requies]

12,086
http://users.adelphia.net/~stuckwithme247/library.html

and no vast? that's a crime, man. ;)

[requies]

...I'm listening to the "Never Played" playlist for the lone purpose of clearing a song off the playlist...

i have a similar situation. i'm going through listening to songs that i want to get sucked into my smart playlist mechanism for possible inclusion on my ipod. i have unplayed songs excluded from that mechanism because i have this ocean of classical music that i enjoy but don't necessarily want on my ipod and most of it is still unplayed as i only ripped it relatively recently.

oh yeah, and i also have a large number of unplayed songs that used to have high playcounts but they got reset last year when i reorganised where i kept stuff on my hard drives.

weeeeeee!

[Giaguara]

on pb hard drive 986 tracks.
on external hard drive about 30 GB of music.

[jalagl]

1269, most are rips of my CD collection.
I also have some (around 25 songs) that are from my musician friends. Some of them used to have them on mp3.com, but they're not available anymore.

[requies]

1269, most are rips of my CD collection.
I also have some (around 25 songs) that are from my musician friends. Some of them used to have them on mp3.com, but they're not available anymore.

yeah, sad thing the demise of mp3.com. i found lots of great music there and met some cool people, too.

[X_Ranger]

About 7000 - 26 Gigs and counting. Expect to get to about 10,000. Waiting for the the next model of the iPod.

[sjk]

Current iTunes library on my iBook is 1427 songs, 14.1 days, 17.04 GB. Many of those are on a Firewire drive, and others on the Firewire drive aren't in this library. Plus I have a tracks on an old Sun workstation.

Anyone have recommendations how to best manage tracks that are originally saved on one volume (e.g. iBook, outside the iTunes Music folder), archived to another (e.g. Firewire drive), then some removed from the original volume and some copied from the other as needed? Obviously the library gets confused when it can't find tracks in their original locations and it's far too much trouble manually changing to their new location. And dragging an updated folder onto iTunes won't work as desired (and messes up original Date Added info). So, I'm looking for some way to copy tracks between volumes *and* preserve the integrity of the iTunes library. Even with multiple libraries it's not clear what strategy to use. I haven't found any clear explanation how to do such a thing. TIA for any advice or references!

Once I get a desktop Mac I'll merge all tracks into one master library and clean that up, then keep a subset of it on my iBook.

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

2487 Checked songs on my 12" iBook G4, and of 756 on my preciousss iPod mini.

Don't expect the number to increase much before iTMS is launched here in Europe. :(

[Alte22a]

6901, since I have over 700Gb of storage space and I am working at my desk. Its nice to just chuck stuff on the compter instead of reaching for a CD when you feel like a mood change. so what I usually do is look up something if is not there then I rip it, cause I cant remember whats been ripped, I've got a bunch of Late 80s and 90s stuff. Yeap I'm old... first CD madonna "true blue" and M jacksons "BAD". :p

[jkojima]

I'm in the neighbourhood of 3200 songs, give or take, which consume about 13 gigs of my iPod's 30 gig drive. I have quite a few duplicates, and more than my fair share of mis-tagged ones from my pre-iTunes days. I keep saying one of these days I'm going to go through my entire collection and clean it up/ update ID3 tags. Maybe it'll be a good summer project.

I've only managed to rip about half of my CD collection, and while I do admit to being an occassional pirate, I'm cleaning up my act. Once ITMS hits Canada I plan to eschew CDs forever.

[Nny]

I consider myself a collector of video game music. I used to have a collection of NSF, SPC, GBS, and GYM files as well. That is why I have so many MIDIs - all of them are from video games.

Check out www.minibosses.com. They do punk/rock covers of video game themes. Pretty good stuff, mostly.

My collection right now: 5734 songs, 16.2 days, 23.88 GB

[awinn233]

1442 songs and growing
442 from ITMS :)

[Macmaniac]

908 songs, its a mix of all kinds of genres, from movie music to rap, to punk, to classic rock.

[Koodauw]

I have 257.

Do you guys and gals really listen to all that stuff?

[Iron Rogue]

1260 songs (56 from ITMS the rest from my CD's)

[minstryoffunk]

6017 at the moment

this is a number that goes up rather frequently, however

[macka]

I have 3190 songs and steady at at that. I delete songs I don't like anymore and I'm not actively looking for new songs unless I hear a random one every now and then.

[fixyourthinking]

you mean to say you've spent around $6,931 in the itunes music store already>!>!>!>!>>!>! OMG!

I got a $1000 gift certificate from [most] all of my clients (and client employees) pitching in $2 this past Christmas. I was also given about 240 iTunes Music Store Pepsi caps. I've bought $111 from the iTunes store, the rest come from free use Mp3's or legal [free] websites on the net. I don't know off the top of my head, but I have been given a song or two from buymusic.com and from Napster 2.0. I've just put them in from an iPaq and brought the music into my Mac via sound in and converted them to MP3's.

I would say the actual total is about $5000 by these means.

Take into account that not everything I have is music - there is spoken word, movie quotes, themes .... heck... I even have the sounds downloaded from the Nintendo and Sony websites for game soundtracks. Celtic Moon from Final Fantasy is beautiful and Wario saying, "Ima a Wario I'ma gonaa win!"

[michaelrjohnson]

1868

[Savage Henry]

Has this thread established what sort of maniac has over thirty two thousand songs on thir computer? :eek:

:rolleyes:

[taylaner]

3051...not on my mac ...on my ipod :) ipod is always connected to my mac...

[sorryiwasdreami]

12,086
http://users.adelphia.net/~stuckwithme247/library.html

DAM. I especially appreciate the Donovan.

I've got 1578.

[Blue Moon]

I plan on breaking 10,000 tonight. The real challenge is going to be getting all those album covers... :rolleyes:

[SeaFox]

51 Genres

456 Artists

Less than 10% from CD's on the shelf. I don't see any reason to rip my entire music collection to my hard drive, I don't own an iPod, my portable music player uses a different format, and I don't have enough room to rip everything at a quality I want to anyway.

[Blue Moon]

I think CD's will go the way of the 8-track within a decade or so, might as well stay ahead of the game.

[Patmian212]

I've got 7822 songs but some of them are like 12 hours long(like club mixes)
mostly hip hop and trance.
Its almost 30 gb of music
I get it mostly from itunes music store and Hotline Client/Server :cool:

[wordmunger]

I think CD's will go the way of the 8-track within a decade or so, might as well stay ahead of the game.
I think it's too late for CDs to "go the way of the 8-track." The 8-track was a brief fad in the '70s and was never the dominant mode of music distribution. CDs have already lasted two decades and continue to dominate the (legal) music market. Even if they cease to be the preferred format, there will need to be CD players produced for at least another 50 years, just so people can play their old music (just like vinyl record players are still produced today).

[macnews]

6574 songs and growing. Ripped all my cd's on to the HD. Then went through and bought songs that were skipping off the cd's that were not in the best condition. Now, I am recording my tapes on to HD where I can not find the CD, don't really care to buy the CD/download. Still have some albums that I would like to burn to the HD but I have to find a cheap ass stereo player (turn table) that has RCA out.

[Jag31X]

....of the 3000+ on my powerbook, 271 are from the iTunes Music Store!!

[Blue Moon]

I think it's too late for CDs to "go the way of the 8-track." The 8-track was a brief fad in the '70s and was never the dominant mode of music distribution. CDs have already lasted two decades and continue to dominate the (legal) music market. Even if they cease to be the preferred format, there will need to be CD players produced for at least another 50 years, just so people can play their old music (just like vinyl record players are still produced today).

I see your point but what I was originally trying to say was that they'll probably become something of a novelty (regardless of the popularity lifespan), even more so than the comparison that you made of LP's. People still buy LP's not only because somethings just aren't available in digital format but also LP's have a distinct aural quality that many people enjoy over the relatively "clean" sound of a CD. With a compact disc there is no professionally distrubuted material that is exclusive to that format and the the sound quality is hardly unique, in fact, its best attribute, the ability to lend a certain purity to the sound, can even be "improved" upon.

[Counterfit]

Woo, I've broken 1700! Tanks in part to redeeming my 25 free songs, and the one from the iTunes anniversary. (Courtney Love on Friday?! WTF?!)

[wdlove]

Thanks to the Pepsi iTunes and one free song I now have 22 songs. I downloaded 13 songs from "The Passions of Christ," and the rest are John Williams.

[173080]

~11,500. That's over 33 days of music. :D

I only listen to about 500 though, that's why I got an iPod mini. The other 11,000 are just for show. :D

[JJC80]

whoaa!! some of you have a grip!! i have 1517 songs.

[macka]

~11,500. That's over 33 days of music. :D

I only listen to about 500 though, that's why I got an iPod mini. The other 11,000 are just for show. :D

I have 3200 songs and my iTunes library makes an extensive list. It's never failed to astound non-mac users. :)