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Over Weight iTunes?

quigleybc

quigleybc

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Jun 17, 2005
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My iTunes library is getting really fat, obese even...

Closing in on 100 gigs.

Is there a cap to the amount of songs/gigs one can store and still have iTunes correctly index them and play them?

I bought a new external HD, so I plan on the iTunes Library getting even fatter.

Thoughts?
 
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croshtique

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Apr 28, 2005
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I don't think there is a maximum size that the iTunes library can cope with; but if you're going to have some music on an external HD and some on your main HD make sure you turn off the "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" option in the prefs.
 
mad jew

mad jew

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Apr 3, 2004
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100GB is child's play. I personally only have about 70GB but I've used 600GB libraries with no issues. It's not even noticeably slower or anything like that. I would have expected it to at least slow down the scrolling.
 
alexstein

alexstein

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Aug 23, 2004
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mad jew said:
100GB is child's play. I personally only have about 70GB but I've used 600GB libraries with no issues. It's not even noticeably slower or anything like that. I would have expected it to at least slow down the scrolling.
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Are you guys collecting all the songs that were ever recorded? :D :confused:
My library reached 20GB and I'm freaking out!!:cool:
 
quigleybc

quigleybc

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alexstein said:
Are you guys collecting all the songs that were ever recorded? :D :confused:
My library reached 20GB and I'm freaking out!!:cool:
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I am trying to have a massive jukebox of tunes, but obviously every song would be impossible.

Also, I have a lot of my own tracks recorded in Ableton Live and Logic, and they are saved in AIFF format, so they are all quite large.

600 Gig libraries, nice, now that's what I wanted to hear..

Onward and Upward!
:D
 
frankblundt

frankblundt

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Sep 19, 2005
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shuffle issues

i have 400Gb (60,000 tracks) in my library, and it does run a little slow, sometimes hesitating when scrolling and switching tracks, on my B&W350. The only major issue i have with it is my shuffle won't autofill from the library, only from playlists - i don't know if this happened once i went over about 50K tracks or when i changed to iTunes 5 from 4 around the same time, but it just locks and dies - the iPod/iTunes updates haven't fixed it so far.
 
frankblundt

frankblundt

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compressed

mostly at 224 with a few 128 - i started out doing them as AAC but mostly do mp3 now for wider compatibility. Started ripping my vinyl collection too now, but it's a pretty slow process cutting up the tracks so i'm mostly just doing old stuff that never got re-released onto cd and the odd rare 12".
i like the shuffle autofill - it gives me a chance to re-discover stuff i'd forgotten about - and making playlists out of a library this size is a bit tedious. maybe if i upgraded to a G4 it would be a bit smoother.
 
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spacepower7

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I have about 180gigs (34,000+) songs and iTunes has definitely gotten slower.

I have a DP 1.25 G4 1.25gig RAM
 
frankblundt

frankblundt

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what i'd be interested in knowing is what the minimum upgrade i'd need is to run this kind of library comfortably - my g3 350 can certainly do it, but i get the spinning wheel a lot (it is running as a web server also tho) - would a 1.25 mini be enough?
 
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