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1000 Songs - Just Right?
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flyfish29 said:Funny this comes up today...I just realized I have 993 songs in my computer right now. I have more Cd's but that is what I have in my computer and would have in my iPod if I had one.
I think a lot of people here are like you. They have a good sized collection, but have more CD's they could rip. I have CD's I listen to regularly that are not on my computer.
But that's the problem, and only Neonart gets it. If I had an iPod, I would live and plan my listening needs around what I have available, and since I would have an iPod, I would make sure that all my music is in mp3 or AAC format so that I can bring the songs I want with me. My 900 song collection, perfect for an iPod mini, would be inadequate quite quickly once I ripped all my CD's onto my computer. And yes, all the music on my computer are songs I listen to regularly. Music always seems to be on in my room.
Someone with only a small mp3 collection would make more of an effort to get that music onto his computer so that he could put them on his iPod once he got one. A need for digitized music only comes from the availability of software and hardware. Getting an iPod would automatically get people into expanding their digital music collection.
Essentially, this IS a 2 iPod sale for Apple, like Neonart said.
It depends
I've recently learned that you really can't use statistics to give a nice square box view of the world. UNFORTUNATELY, and much to my disappointment, it doesn't work that way.
The same with my iPod. I got 2G iPod about a year ago, and I've just about hit the half-way mark. I have enough music to fill it up, though. I just dread the thought of getting to the 4999th song, and the darned thing won't take the last one.
What I'm really interested in is a 4G iPod, with FM tuner, and being able to see my digital pictures on it. Somewhat like an integrated iTunes and iPhoto device.
I've recently learned that you really can't use statistics to give a nice square box view of the world. UNFORTUNATELY, and much to my disappointment, it doesn't work that way.
The same with my iPod. I got 2G iPod about a year ago, and I've just about hit the half-way mark. I have enough music to fill it up, though. I just dread the thought of getting to the 4999th song, and the darned thing won't take the last one.
What I'm really interested in is a 4G iPod, with FM tuner, and being able to see my digital pictures on it. Somewhat like an integrated iTunes and iPhoto device.
I've got 1181 songs. Maybe this should be the next MacPoll...how many songs do you have on your computer?
Once this "Home on iPod" feature materializes (fingers crossed . . .) these extravagent hard drives will make more sense.
Omad0n said:
(whips out calculator) woah, that's about 10 Mb per song! Either they're really long, or you use a crazy sample rate. . .
do you have super-hero hearing abilities?
dukemeiser said:
Already done....i think a month or two ago. I was suprised at the results. The Macrumors community certainly doesn't fit into the statistics that Jupiter provided. There were hardly any under 1000, and most were over 3000
I don't know what I'd do.
I don't know what I'd do without only 4 GB of space. Right now I have a 15 GB iPod (Sadly, it's really only about 14 GB formatted). I think I have it half full, and my collection is always increasing. I would personally find it frustrating to have to alternate which songs I put on my iPod, because I'd, no doubt, want to listen to a song not on my iPod but on my computer.
I don't know what I'd do without only 4 GB of space. Right now I have a 15 GB iPod (Sadly, it's really only about 14 GB formatted). I think I have it half full, and my collection is always increasing. I would personally find it frustrating to have to alternate which songs I put on my iPod, because I'd, no doubt, want to listen to a song not on my iPod but on my computer.
Great thread! I actually spent the last few months ripping my CD collection which boils down to 18746 songs according to iTunes at 167.53 gigs (I've been ripping at 320K since drives are reasonably cheap but ripping this many cds is something I never want to do again since it took so long). This is allegedly 1686 cds but many of those are EP's or part "2" of a 2CD set.
Its *really* nice to have ones entire record collection on random as you end up "rediscovering" lots of good music that you wouldn't have thought of listening to..
I suppose it will be a while before we get the 200 gig ipod
I've got the thing set up so at some point i'll run a icecast station
Its *really* nice to have ones entire record collection on random as you end up "rediscovering" lots of good music that you wouldn't have thought of listening to..
I suppose it will be a while before we get the 200 gig ipod
I've got the thing set up so at some point i'll run a icecast station
bloosqr said:Great thread! I actually spent the last few months ripping my CD collection which boils down to 18746 songs according to iTunes at 167.53 gigs (I've been ripping at 320K since drives are reasonably cheap but ripping this many cds is something I never want to do again since it took so long). This is allegedly 1686 cds but many of those are EP's or part "2" of a 2CD set.
Its *really* nice to have ones entire record collection on random as you end up "rediscovering" lots of good music that you wouldn't have thought of listening to..
I suppose it will be a while before we get the 200 gig ipod
I've got the thing set up so at some point i'll run a icecast station
I guess you can haul around a G5 with an LCD and generator duck tapped to the side. Then it could be like a 250GB iPod, or more. Weight and expense aside, it could work...
I have a ton of music as it is, but in particular, I record the BBC Radio One Essential Mixes every week, and have every show since 1993 (save about 10). That's a 2-hour show every week for 10 years - in other words, 1040 hours, give or take (some mixes are 3, 4 or 5 hours in length), so this works out to about 45 days of music right there - and at 170 MB each, when encoded, well, I have over 100 GB of these mixes on their own - not to mention the rest of my large music collection. Yah, I'm a freak!
Incidentally, if anyone enjoys the Essential Mixes, I could probably sort you out with some tunes!
Incidentally, if anyone enjoys the Essential Mixes, I could probably sort you out with some tunes!
looking through the "shared music" users on my university's network, and about half of the people have only 3 to 6 gigs of music. there are a small handful that have 12 or more gigs.
I can easily imagine that most people only want to carry around 1000 songs with them. Not everyone wants their entire music collection on their ipod. they just want some music to work out to or something for the daily commute. and a portable that holds 30 or 40gigs just doesn't look attractive at all to them.
There is a line where more is better in terms of a portable player loses its attractiveness. I only have about 8 gigs of music on my 15 gig iPod, but I have 25 gigs of music on my computer.
I don't want all of it with me all the time. there is only so much music albums you can listen to and only so many hours that you can listen to in a single charge.
I can easily imagine that most people only want to carry around 1000 songs with them. Not everyone wants their entire music collection on their ipod. they just want some music to work out to or something for the daily commute. and a portable that holds 30 or 40gigs just doesn't look attractive at all to them.
There is a line where more is better in terms of a portable player loses its attractiveness. I only have about 8 gigs of music on my 15 gig iPod, but I have 25 gigs of music on my computer.
I don't want all of it with me all the time. there is only so much music albums you can listen to and only so many hours that you can listen to in a single charge.
I'm always agonising over what to take on my 3G 30GB iPod; my iTunes library just hit 17800 songs, at 126.8GB. Many of these tracks are continuous mixes more than an hour in length, and about 1/3 of all my music is encoded as AAC files. I've been digitizing my tracks since Soundjam; I think choosing music on your computer screen is the best, as is making playlists.
It really was a revolution for me. And I was a freak to begin with.
So, what I'm patiently waiting for is the 200GB iPod Maxi.
By the time that comes out, I'll be up to a TB...
It really was a revolution for me. And I was a freak to begin with.
So, what I'm patiently waiting for is the 200GB iPod Maxi.
By the time that comes out, I'll be up to a TB...
rikers_mailbox said:
I wish I had superhero abilities. No no, what i have is sets that run a couple horus long, smapled at 192. Those blessed/cursed things add up real fast.
seanessey said:I'm always agonising over what to take on my 3G 30GB iPod; my iTunes library just hit 17800 songs, at 126.8GB. Many of these tracks are continuous mixes more than an hour in length, and about 1/3 of all my music is encoded as AAC files. I've been digitizing my tracks since Soundjam; I think choosing music on your computer screen is the best, as is making playlists.
It really was a revolution for me. And I was a freak to begin with.
So, what I'm patiently waiting for is the 200GB iPod Maxi.
By the time that comes out, I'll be up to a TB...
i'm in the same boat. though, admittedly, about half of where you are. i almost lost all my stored music yesterday. damn not checking permissions! can't afford to backup though... maybe if i can get hold of a dvd-r...
oh and i use a 2g 10gb happily never wishing i had a larger harddrive. in fact, i had a dream i had an 80gb iPod and it looked like a brick.
now, what i want! is decent battery capacity and support for ogg! c'mon apple! you can do it!
yep, Apple definitely knows what it's doing!
well now this has got me curious to see how many songs i've got in iTunes... about 1880. well i've got alot more that i haven't put on, not enough free space on my PB.
i wouldn't go for a iPod that just fit my music collection though. people forget that you're not just buying a MP3/AAC player... you're buying an external HD. i'd much rather have only 1/3 of my iPod filled and have the rest so i can back up my stuff.
well now this has got me curious to see how many songs i've got in iTunes... about 1880. well i've got alot more that i haven't put on, not enough free space on my PB.
i wouldn't go for a iPod that just fit my music collection though. people forget that you're not just buying a MP3/AAC player... you're buying an external HD. i'd much rather have only 1/3 of my iPod filled and have the rest so i can back up my stuff.
I find that 4Gb should be a fairly manageable size of mp3s to have. I have about 12Gb of Mp3s on my 20Gb iPod and it's really eating into my hd space, since iTunes requires me to have a copy on my computer's hard drive. I wish apple would remove that requirement and just let me store 1 copy of everything on the ipod
Unless you want to redecode AAC files to linear (for editing/mixing purposes and the like) there's absolutely no need to encode higher than 160k. I am a professional producer/composer and encode my music at 128k AAC for playback purposes. I really don't understand why some people go so much higher....
my Library: 11'000 songs - 50GB
my Library: 11'000 songs - 50GB
What about people who don't encode 128kps?
I have 714 songs but i have hit 5.5Gb's, I encode at 256kps.
I have 714 songs but i have hit 5.5Gb's, I encode at 256kps.
I've got about 7gb's of music on my computer but I still consider a 4gb mini would be more than enough for my needs, but as you can't get the mini's in the UK yet it's a bit irrelevant at the moment...
I can see why some people would want the bigger iPod's - extra storage space, no need to swap files, or they simply just want the ultimate iPod - all of which are valid reasons.
However, I think for a lot of people the smaller size/weight of the mini, it's looks and the fact 4gb will still hold a thousand tracks will be all they want and need. I include myself in that group. Make it a touch cheaper an it would be perfect...
As a side note, a girl I work with saw the mini iPod in pink, squealed with delight and asked 'how much and where from' - the fact that it was 'only' 4gb never entered into the equation.
I can see why some people would want the bigger iPod's - extra storage space, no need to swap files, or they simply just want the ultimate iPod - all of which are valid reasons.
However, I think for a lot of people the smaller size/weight of the mini, it's looks and the fact 4gb will still hold a thousand tracks will be all they want and need. I include myself in that group. Make it a touch cheaper an it would be perfect...
As a side note, a girl I work with saw the mini iPod in pink, squealed with delight and asked 'how much and where from' - the fact that it was 'only' 4gb never entered into the equation.
I have just under 900 songs in my music library but a year ago I had less than 200. Just goes to show how much My music collection has grown in the past year, I'm sure it will do nothing but get larger and larger.
While I love the iPod mini's size, I'm just not sure I could live with the small size. I have a 10GB Classic iPod Now. It's just enough for me to sync all my songs, and backup my entire documents folder with a few GB to spare. Room to grow!
Using the iPod as a travel/backup hard drive to me is one of it's most appealing features.
-Katie
While I love the iPod mini's size, I'm just not sure I could live with the small size. I have a 10GB Classic iPod Now. It's just enough for me to sync all my songs, and backup my entire documents folder with a few GB to spare. Room to grow!
Using the iPod as a travel/backup hard drive to me is one of it's most appealing features.
-Katie
I wonder if there's a plugin for iTunes for a lossless audio codec, for those that like to encode their music at 320k. Because you can get lossless compression for only a slightly bigger filesize (than 320k/s).
I have 2,903 songs in my library, thats 8.5 says and 11.23 GB. The 15 GB iPod I have is growing ever so small each day.
MikeH said:
I love the physical size and the design of the iPod mini, I just could not deal with having to manage a playlist evertime I sync. Sure I probably only listen to 10% of the music on my 15 GB iPod, but I just like the feeling of knowing I have it all there if I choose to listen to something else.