Who has the biggest iTunes library on Mac Rumors?

[mad jew]

I have 2300 songs. How do you acquire 10,000 plus songs? That is a ton of music! You guys must all be former D.J.s!

It makes you wonder just how much music we NEED? I can press play on my iPod with shuffle enabled and usually get something good (something I'm actually in the mood for as well) within about ten hits of the next button. Then again, I am pretty picky as to what I'll listen to.

 

[AnewMac]

It makes you wonder just how much music we NEED? I can press play on my iPod with shuffle enabled and usually get something good (something I'm actually in the mood for as well) within about ten hits of the next button. Then again, I am pretty picky as to what I'll listen to.

I am in the same boat. Listening to my pod on shuffle almost seems like a chore, always clicking next, makes me wonder why I dont delete some songs. Must be an ego thing?

 

[wnameth]

I have a mere 980 songs, but its always growing. Thats big for some one who is 17.

I am 15 and i have 1736 songs (age means nothing)

 

[runninmac]

I have a mere 980 songs, but its always growing. Thats big for some one who is 17.

I am 15 and i have 1736 songs (age means nothing)

...well good for u!

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Not quite at the top of the list:

8744 songs, 22:18:44:09 total time, 32,84 GB

Had different sized mp3s but are in the process of re-ripping everything into aac@128, good enough for me...

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Not quite at the top of the list:

8744 songs, 22:18:44:09 total time, 32,84 GB

Had different sized mp3s but are in the process of re-ripping everything into aac@128, good enough for me...

Here's mine right now:

2468 songs, 4:01:25:15 total time, 32.38 GB

100% of my library is in Apple Lossless format.

My library is also growing at a steady pace (about 5-10 GB per week on average)

 

[killmoms]

My iTunes library has 6920 tracks, 18.1 days, 36.33GB. It's a Frankenstein-ish mix of 128kbps MP3 (OLD rips and downloads), LAME VBR MP3 (newer downloads and rips), 192kbps MP3 (newish downloads), and 192kbit AAC (newest rips and downloads), with the odd 320kbps MP3 album tossed in for good measure (random downloads from audio freaks). I guess there's a few 128kbps AACs in there too, from the iTMS. Mostly singles there though.

 

[john1123]

i have a mere 264 songs (what a coincidence! )but i like every single one!

 

[Foucault]

I have 4,480 songs taking up 18.13GB in my powerbook. I actually have over 6,000 songs in my 60GB iPod, I can't believe I'm at about 50% capacity on my iPod, I can probably fill my 60 GB in a couple of years.

 

[Loge]

3559 songs, 13:05:13:59, 18.64GB. (268 from iTMS). The rest from CDs, only about 1000 CDs still to go

 

[SFVCyclone]

10,265 songs and 41.02 GB but there are still a few cd's that need to be imported and im 21

 

[Vader]

1521 songs, 3 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes, and 21 seconds of music, 5.17GB. I could fit it all on the new mini! w00t!

 

[aplasticspork]

6699 ( ) songs. 17 days, 13 hours, 33 minutes, 47 seconds. 22.44 GB

still sorting through everything and deciding what i want to keep, but i may just leave it at 6699 songs.

currently listening to the "good music" playlist of 666 ( ) songs. 1 day, 23 hours, 37 minutes, 8 seconds. 2.54 GB

everything encoded at 128 kbps AAC

Edit: number of total songs, and number in good music playlist are complete coincidences

what do i win?
--andrzej

 

[cyanide]

a dj i know has 30k+ songs on his powerbook+external hard drive. sweet!! then again its not all something i would want to hear, lol

 

[rainman::|:|]

i'm at a measly 1644 songs, 4.2 days, 7.31gb. But that's considering my entire CD collection was stolen before I ripped any of them, and the fact that I keep my library pretty clean of bad music. I think once I upgrade out of my 10gb iPod, I'll feel less constrained and will probably get a lot more music.

 

[homerjward]

y'all are makin me feel inadequate...
i'm at 656 songs, 2.52gb, 1:18:45:22 total time, but growing by ~100mb a day because of audio hijack pro and internet radio and ive got like 10 cds to import but thats pretty insignificant lol
i rip at 128aac, but if it's an erm...downloaded/from friend mp3 i take what i can get and dont re-rip unless its like 320 or something

 

[killuminati]

I have a small but nice library. I have 834 songs but at least I listen to all of them. I bet you guys with 10,000 never listen to 3 quarters of them.

 

[jbembe]

I have a small but nice library. I have 834 songs but at least I listen to all of them. I bet you guys with 10,000 never listen to 3 quarters of them.

This made me curious. One of the major benefits of iTunes is the way it allows me to listen to stuff I might not pick out on my own. So, out of ~9000 mp3s, ~1800 are played 2 or less, 250 are played once or less, and about 40 haven't been played - mostly those several song compilations I got free in iTMS that I haven't gotten around to. Not bad (this is after maybe 2 years of tracking my listening with iTunes).

 

[virividox]

about 7000

 

[baby duck monge]

well as it stands right now i have 5008 songs (15.2 days, 22.44 gigs), but i have about 50 live shows left to rip, so that number will go up a little, though not nearly to the level of a lot of y'all.

i do listen to almost all of it, though. mostly through clever use of smart playlists, and month-long musical moods that end up taking me back to the things that sometimes get left behind

 

[Doctor Q]

I have the biggest iTunes library of anyone: 4,348,654,387 songs!

Oh wait, that's bytes. Never mind. My library is actually a little over 1,000 tunes. I've got about 40 CDs I haven't ripped yet and some Pepsi tunes trickling in too.

 

[warcraftmaster]

I have a mere 980 songs, but its always growing. Thats big for some one who is 17. I can attest that my uncle has a whopping 11,000 songs!!!!!!! He has a whole room of CDs and records that we put into itunes one weekend.

well, am 17 too i got 5777 15.8 days 21.13 and its mostly ripped from cds at 128 aac you know how many cds i own too. get this 2 the halo 2 soundtrack and a 2pac cd. i had a 15gb 3g iPod now i have a 4g iPod 40gb and a 1gb shuffle witch i love it sounds so greati think i use it more then my 4g

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I'm now at 4172 songs, 5:21:07:47 total time, 46.09 GB - and still growing. I also have ~10.7 GB worth of MP3s that I downloaded (not all of them are properly tagged) that I've archived to DVD until I decide what I want to do with them.

For the curious:

No, those aren't illegal P2P downloads. I wrote an automated downloader script for this one video game music site that works in concert with gnu's wget and ran it to download all 10.7 GB. It took about 15 hours to download.

 

[Solafaa]

1587 somgs, 4.2 days, 5.67 GB

I have a list of about 20-30 cd's that i am going to get so i might hit the 2k mark soon.

 

[shoe11]

14,521 songs, 39.8 days, 349.97 GB

I have over 1,000 CD's all encoded in Apple Lossless. Prior to Lossless becoming available, I had all of them stored as .AIFF's

~shoe