Largest iTunes library - Page 2

h1r0ll3r · Jan 17, 2011, 02:49 PM

~9700 files = 108GB of music + 40GB of vids

ssdeg7 · Jan 17, 2011, 06:35 PM

I have about 200 movies some in HD and others not. And here is a screenshot of my music.

KeithJenner · Jan 17, 2011, 06:47 PM

My music total is attached. It includes live DVDs, and there are about 500 tracks still to go on.

I've got about 3TB of other video files as well (TV shows and films). Quite a lot of them are my wife and Sons though.

ortuno2k · Jan 17, 2011, 06:54 PM

359 GB, mostly lossless music in AIFF format.
About 20 GB from there is from the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3 purchases.
I don't have my movies/tv shows in my iTunes library... yet.

hexonxonx · Jan 17, 2011, 09:11 PM

Songs range from 128Kbps to 320Kbps.

TV shows, all iTunes bought. I had allot more but I deleted some that I was bored with such as Lost, all seasons of 24 and supernatural.

applemike · Jan 18, 2011, 10:11 AM

Music, only 17303 items so 93.67GB

Movies, only 145 items 297.68GB

Tv shows, only 400 items 132GB

Podcasts 4.3GB

Not a massive collection as far as some of you have got. But I am content. and my movie library is constantly increasing in size.

jahala · Jan 18, 2011, 10:47 AM

My friend has 1 TB of music alone. I am not sure about the Movies or TV shows.

Casey4147 · Jan 18, 2011, 12:45 PM

I've been working on my iTunes back-end for a little while. External MyBook drives have given way to a brief dalliance with Windows Home Server. The home of the media is now a Drobo, which is loaded with three 1.5TB drives (from the WHS box) and a 2.0TB drive - slightly under 4TB useable space if memory serves, Drobo claims the largest of the drives plus a bit of space off each of the data drives for data protection. It's about half full, but I've been working on acquiring content for awhile.

Before you ask, let me tell you. There's an oldish G4 Mac Mini whose sole purpose in life is to house the iTunes library - it's got the Drobo connected to it. I'm currently at SD in my house, but am hopeful that the HDTV will come along this year. My kids (7 and 10) have the DVD player and Dish Network system down pat but I'm looking to secure the extensive DVD library somewhat from further damage by the aforementioned 7 and 10 year olds, never mind my various Season Passes and whatnot I've gotten through iTunes. iTunes/Front Row/Apple TV offers that simple menu-based access, and now the back-end is in place. Next purchase for the system will be an HDTV, hopefully followed quickly by an Apple TV since the G4 Mini is nowhere near capable of actually playing HD content but can serve it up well enough.

Mark-Buckle · 01:20 PM

Boys and Girls... I dont mean to humiliate you all with your small iTunes libraries, but I currently have a 7.1TB iTunes Library... all my media is stored on a 12TB DroboPro, My Library is hosted on an early 2010 Mac Mini running SnowLeopard Server, my v2 Apple TV is connected to my 42" TV

vincenz · Jan 18, 2011, 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark-Buckle

Boys and Girls... I dont mean to humiliate you all with your small iTunes libraries, but I currently have a 7.1TB iTunes Library... all my media is stored on a 12TB DroboPro, My Library is hosted on an early 2010 Mac Mini running SnowLeopard Server, my v2 Apple TV is connected to my 42" TV

How much of that is music?!

malnar · Jan 18, 2011, 04:15 PM

I'm going the opposite direction of you guys.

I used to have close to 300gb of music, and only music, but decided to start weeding it out. Got down to about 230gb of music by Oct. of last year. I got a huge help in weeding it out when my Macbook Pro with all of that was stolen, so what was recovered from the Ipods and Iphones in our house amounted to about 130gb.

It's not all bad - I am really looking at it as an opportunity to figure out what was truly important. I have most of that music on CD, and realized that if it wasn't on an Ipod, it probably wasn't all that important. Ultimately, I'd actually like to halve that.

judgejohn82 · Jan 19, 2011, 02:02 AM

355.72GB in total for me.

59.42GB music, 215.26GB movies and 81.04GB TV Shows.

elmateo487 · Jan 19, 2011, 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark-Buckle

Boys and Girls... I dont mean to humiliate you all with your small iTunes libraries, but I currently have a 7.1TB iTunes Library... all my media is stored on a 12TB DroboPro, My Library is hosted on an early 2010 Mac Mini running SnowLeopard Server, my v2 Apple TV is connected to my 42" TV

and no screenshot? Im calling your BS

Heats · Jan 19, 2011, 02:48 PM

I have about 32,000 mp3's.

PopCulture · Jan 19, 2011, 04:04 PM

Gosh! And here I was thinking I was doing something grand with my 3K songs. I need to get my numbers up *runs to iTunes with credit card*

WiiDSmoker · Jan 19, 2011, 08:58 PM

Music: 19.29 GB
Movies: 499.11 GB
TV Shows: 1.2 TB

pooryou · Jan 19, 2011, 09:05 PM

182 GB of pretty much all music.

With hundreds of CDs still yet to be ripped...

I listen to all different kinds of music, and I like variety.

EDIT almost forgot I also have a laptop with another 40 GB or so of exclusively jazz that is not in the other library.

Bye Bye Baby · Jan 20, 2011, 12:37 PM

My library used to be around 2.5 tb.

I moved my 750 films and 2000 tv episodes to use in plex.

Bye Bye Baby · Jan 20, 2011, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark-Buckle

Boys and Girls... I dont mean to humiliate you all with your small iTunes libraries, but I currently have a 7.1TB iTunes Library... all my media is stored on a 12TB DroboPro, My Library is hosted on an early 2010 Mac Mini running SnowLeopard Server, my v2 Apple TV is connected to my 42" TV

I would say that you are exaggerating. Screen shot or nothing. Perhaps even a photo just for good faith.

padapada · Jan 20, 2011, 01:02 PM

So how long does it take you guys to watch/listen all that media?

KeithJenner · Jan 20, 2011, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by padapada

So how long does it take you guys to watch/listen all that media?

I listen to music a lot, I have it on most of the time at work and listen for a few hours more in the car and the evening. When I used last.fm I was averaging about 100 tracks a day.

I would say that I listen to my whole collection once a year, and then there are obviously albums that I listen to multiple times on top of that. Basically, it would take about 9-10 months to play through once.

As for video, I don't watch all that much, but a lot of my collection is actually my wife and sons. I suspect that if I started watching through everything then it would take a good few years to watch through.

With TV stuff though, it doesn't bother me as much if I don't watch something for a long time. It's just nice to know it's there when I want it.

pooryou · Jan 20, 2011, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by padapada

So how long does it take you guys to watch/listen all that media?

In the case of music, you don't have to listen to all of it in order to benefit from the amount available when populating Smart Playlists, etc.

But if you really want a literal answer, it's easy enough to calculate...

Leet Apple · Jan 23, 2011, 06:21 PM

2059 songs 5.5 days 10.68 GBs

22 Movies 1 day 5.45 GBs

204 Podcasts 7.8 Days 6.20 GBs

i have barely anything compared to you guys

Habitus · 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark-Buckle

Boys and Girls... I dont mean to humiliate you all with your small iTunes libraries, but I currently have a 7.1TB iTunes Library... all my media is stored on a 12TB DroboPro, My Library is hosted on an early 2010 Mac Mini running SnowLeopard Server, my v2 Apple TV is connected to my 42" TV

You have to attach a screen shot of your iTunes' size!

Mine's attached.

Habitus

Abyssgh0st · Jan 23, 2011, 07:51 PM

About 1TB of movies (all 1080p), 500GB of TV Shows (mixed between standard def and 720p), and approximately 40GB of music. Pretty much all metal/rock/etc.

Jan 17, 2011, 02:49 PM	#26
h1r0ll3r macrumors 68040 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Maryland	~9700 files = 108GB of music + 40GB of vids __________________ 15" MBP iPad (3rd Gen) iPod Nano (6th Gen) & 160GB Classic ATV Galaxy Note 2
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Jan 17, 2011, 06:35 PM	#27
ssdeg7 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jul 2010	I have about 200 movies some in HD and others not. And here is a screenshot of my music. Attached Images __________________ MacBook Pro 15.4'', 2.53 GHz iPhone 4 16GB iPhone 3G 16GB iPad 16GB WiFi iPod Touch 8GB 1G iPod Photo 20GB
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Jan 17, 2011, 06:47 PM	#28
KeithJenner macrumors 6502a Join Date: Sep 2010	My music total is attached. It includes live DVDs, and there are about 500 tracks still to go on. I've got about 3TB of other video files as well (TV shows and films). Quite a lot of them are my wife and Sons though. Attached Images
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Jan 18, 2011, 10:11 AM	#31
applemike macrumors 6502 Join Date: Aug 2008	Music, only 17303 items so 93.67GB Movies, only 145 items 297.68GB Tv shows, only 400 items 132GB Podcasts 4.3GB Not a massive collection as far as some of you have got. But I am content. and my movie library is constantly increasing in size. __________________ Hey, the sooner we realize We cover ourselves with lies But underneath we're not so tough And love is not enough
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Jan 18, 2011, 12:45 PM	#33
Casey4147 macrumors newbie Join Date: Jun 2010	iTunes overkill I've been working on my iTunes back-end for a little while. External MyBook drives have given way to a brief dalliance with Windows Home Server. The home of the media is now a Drobo, which is loaded with three 1.5TB drives (from the WHS box) and a 2.0TB drive - slightly under 4TB useable space if memory serves, Drobo claims the largest of the drives plus a bit of space off each of the data drives for data protection. It's about half full, but I've been working on acquiring content for awhile. Before you ask, let me tell you. There's an oldish G4 Mac Mini whose sole purpose in life is to house the iTunes library - it's got the Drobo connected to it. I'm currently at SD in my house, but am hopeful that the HDTV will come along this year. My kids (7 and 10) have the DVD player and Dish Network system down pat but I'm looking to secure the extensive DVD library somewhat from further damage by the aforementioned 7 and 10 year olds, never mind my various Season Passes and whatnot I've gotten through iTunes. iTunes/Front Row/Apple TV offers that simple menu-based access, and now the back-end is in place. Next purchase for the system will be an HDTV, hopefully followed quickly by an Apple TV since the G4 Mini is nowhere near capable of actually playing HD content but can serve it up well enough.
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Jan 17, 2011, 06:54 PM	#29
ortuno2k macrumors 6502a Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Hollywood, FL	359 GB, mostly lossless music in AIFF format. About 20 GB from there is from the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3 purchases. I don't have my movies/tv shows in my iTunes library... yet.
	0

Jan 17, 2011, 09:11 PM	#30
hexonxonx macrumors 601 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Denver Colorado	Songs range from 128Kbps to 320Kbps. TV shows, all iTunes bought. I had allot more but I deleted some that I was bored with such as Lost, all seasons of 24 and supernatural.
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Jan 18, 2011, 10:47 AM	#32
jahala macrumors regular Join Date: Feb 2008	My friend has 1 TB of music alone. I am not sure about the Movies or TV shows.
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Jan 18, 2011, 01:10 PM	#34
Mark-Buckle macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2011	Boys and Girls... I dont mean to humiliate you all with your small iTunes libraries, but I currently have a 7.1TB iTunes Library... all my media is stored on a 12TB DroboPro, My Library is hosted on an early 2010 Mac Mini running SnowLeopard Server, my v2 Apple TV is connected to my 42" TV Last edited by Mark-Buckle; Jan 18, 2011 at 01:20 PM.
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Jan 18, 2011, 04:15 PM	#36
malnar macrumors 6502a Join Date: Aug 2008	I'm going the opposite direction of you guys. I used to have close to 300gb of music, and only music, but decided to start weeding it out. Got down to about 230gb of music by Oct. of last year. I got a huge help in weeding it out when my Macbook Pro with all of that was stolen, so what was recovered from the Ipods and Iphones in our house amounted to about 130gb. It's not all bad - I am really looking at it as an opportunity to figure out what was truly important. I have most of that music on CD, and realized that if it wasn't on an Ipod, it probably wasn't all that important. Ultimately, I'd actually like to halve that. __________________ "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother." --Albert Einstein
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Jan 19, 2011, 02:02 AM	#37
judgejohn82 macrumors member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Glasgow, Scotland	355.72GB in total for me. 59.42GB music, 215.26GB movies and 81.04GB TV Shows. __________________ 13" MBP, 2.4Ghz C2D, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD + 256GB Samsung 830 SSD 64GB iPhone 5, 64GB iPad 3rd Gen (WiFi) TV, Time Capsule, 160GB iPod Classic
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Jan 19, 2011, 02:48 PM	#39
Heats macrumors newbie Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Vancouver, BC	I have about 32,000 mp3's. __________________ 2010 MacMini, iPhone 4G, iMac G5 PPC 2.1gHz, 160GB iPod Classic
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Jan 19, 2011, 04:04 PM	#40
PopCulture macrumors member Join Date: Jan 2011	Gosh! And here I was thinking I was doing something grand with my 3K songs. I need to get my numbers up runs to iTunes with credit card
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Jan 19, 2011, 08:58 PM	#41
WiiDSmoker macrumors 65816 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Hermitage, TN	Music: 19.29 GB Movies: 499.11 GB TV Shows: 1.2 TB __________________ Windows 7 64 \| FreeNAS 30 TB \| White iPhone 5 32GB \| TV 3 \| iPad 3 White 32GB
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Jan 19, 2011, 09:05 PM	#42
pooryou macrumors 65816 Join Date: Sep 2007	182 GB of pretty much all music. With hundreds of CDs still yet to be ripped... I listen to all different kinds of music, and I like variety. EDIT almost forgot I also have a laptop with another 40 GB or so of exclusively jazz that is not in the other library.
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Jan 20, 2011, 12:37 PM	#43
Bye Bye Baby macrumors 65816 Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: i(am in the)cloud	My library used to be around 2.5 tb. I moved my 750 films and 2000 tv episodes to use in plex. __________________ 27" iMac i7 + 27" ACD + 11" Macbook Air i7 + Mac Mini iPhone 5 + iPad 4G + iPod Touch G4 Cube + 15" ACD + 17" iMac G4 + Color Mac + Mac Classic II
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Jan 20, 2011, 01:02 PM	#45
padapada macrumors member Join Date: Jun 2010	So how long does it take you guys to watch/listen all that media?
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Jan 23, 2011, 06:21 PM	#48
Leet Apple macrumors 6502a Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Canada	2059 songs 5.5 days 10.68 GBs 22 Movies 1 day 5.45 GBs 204 Podcasts 7.8 Days 6.20 GBs i have barely anything compared to you guys __________________ MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz 15.4" White iPhone 4S 16GB
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Jan 23, 2011, 07:51 PM	#50
Abyssgh0st macrumors 68000 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Norman, OK	About 1TB of movies (all 1080p), 500GB of TV Shows (mixed between standard def and 720p), and approximately 40GB of music. Pretty much all metal/rock/etc. __________________ 27" 2.93 i7 iMac 11" 1.8 i7 MBA iPhone 5
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