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How big is your music collection?
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Forgot to post mine, duh!
I am at about 16,300 songs. Movies is another story (DVD's...no digital). I also have the 3 latest episodes of about 6 video podcasts. Then there is my TV shows, but that's going off topic.
I am at about 16,300 songs. Movies is another story (DVD's...no digital). I also have the 3 latest episodes of about 6 video podcasts. Then there is my TV shows, but that's going off topic.
I store this in three places:
1) My Mac Pro (3rd HDD bay)
2) An external drive connected to my home theater
3) In the bahamas, same as number 2.
Just hit 250 gigs... just CD rips.
Well north of a TB of videos, and that is JUST childrens videos (don't trust my kids to use DVDs yet, so they can pull anything up on my media center from the ripped library by pushing a couple of buttons on a remote rather than handling the actual DVDs).
Well north of a TB of videos, and that is JUST childrens videos (don't trust my kids to use DVDs yet, so they can pull anything up on my media center from the ripped library by pushing a couple of buttons on a remote rather than handling the actual DVDs).
What genre of music do you listen to mostly? I've built my collection mostly on classic Rock.
I've been buying records and cds for 22 years. My collection of LPs is 1/3 of what it could have been, I've sold about 1000 over the years.
Not necessarily.
I used to think this way too; that a person's physical collection somehow meant they valued music more.
Then I came to understand that the physical manifestations of someone's interests (whether in book libraries, film libraries, or music libraries) rarely had anything to do with a person's inner appreciation of said interests.
Simply put, I love music.
But I also cherish simplicity.
I don't need to be able to point to my music collection to demonstrate my appreciation of it any more than I need to have my parents in the same room with me to love them.
Inevitably, the things we own end up owning us; possessions and the trappings of wealth are just a form of imprisonment without bars.
I resolved to never collect physical treasures again--not books, not films, not music.
For me, containing my favorite records on an iPod or hard drive is worth infinitely more for my peace of mind than having them occupy space in the physical world.
If someone gave me the chance to have my entire collection on LPs or CDs, I would thank them, and happily decline.
I'd much rather have my music fit in the palm of my hand than in two hundred pounds of plastic and vinyl in a corner of my room.
Simplicity is the way.
So, of the people with massive music collections, how much do you actually listen to?
I've bought maybe 250 CD's in my life, I can honestly say that I listen to maybe 20-30 of them. My iTunes collection isn't large, at most 3-4 GB, but again, I probably only listen to 100 songs consistently.
I guess I have the rest around "just in case," but I'm not sure in case of what.
But then again, I only really use the iPod when I'm exercising. I've noticed that some people wear them basically all the time, I've even had a few face to face conversations while the other person is rocking out with the headphones on.
I've bought maybe 250 CD's in my life, I can honestly say that I listen to maybe 20-30 of them. My iTunes collection isn't large, at most 3-4 GB, but again, I probably only listen to 100 songs consistently.
I guess I have the rest around "just in case," but I'm not sure in case of what.
But then again, I only really use the iPod when I'm exercising. I've noticed that some people wear them basically all the time, I've even had a few face to face conversations while the other person is rocking out with the headphones on.
Mine's not massive by any stretch (roughly 5500 songs and dropping), but I listen to all of it. About 5% of them are unplayed, and most of those are actually my (as in me the musician) songs.
I've spent the last two months getting rid of things I realized I no longer listened to, and my collection is much more satisfying as a result. I don't want the just-in-case stuff. I want the can't live without stuff. It results in fewer songs, but it feels good knowing I'm not hanging on to albums because I'm afraid to get rid of them.
With regards to listening time, I pretty much listen to music all day. During school, my iPod went everywhere with me, and when I got back to my room, I listened to stuff while studying and getting work done. Now that it's summer, I don't use the iPod much, but whenever I'm at the laptop, my headphones are running.
I've spent the last two months getting rid of things I realized I no longer listened to, and my collection is much more satisfying as a result. I don't want the just-in-case stuff. I want the can't live without stuff. It results in fewer songs, but it feels good knowing I'm not hanging on to albums because I'm afraid to get rid of them.
With regards to listening time, I pretty much listen to music all day. During school, my iPod went everywhere with me, and when I got back to my room, I listened to stuff while studying and getting work done. Now that it's summer, I don't use the iPod much, but whenever I'm at the laptop, my headphones are running.
I have 6933 songs, 44.34GBs.
I keep about 900 songs on my iPod Touch (8GB) and will be able to bump that to 1500 when I get my 16GB iPhone 3G next week. Every one of my songs is rated, so I use Smart Playlists (based on rating + playcount) to fill all of my iPods, and will do the same with my two new iPhones.
I keep about 900 songs on my iPod Touch (8GB) and will be able to bump that to 1500 when I get my 16GB iPhone 3G next week. Every one of my songs is rated, so I use Smart Playlists (based on rating + playcount) to fill all of my iPods, and will do the same with my two new iPhones.
^ hmm you must have some long songs there…
my library stayed steady at about 12GB for a while but its starting to increase a bit in recent times.
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my library stayed steady at about 12GB for a while but its starting to increase a bit in recent times.
close to 12.000 songs, approaching 80GB of diskspace. I like to have a real library, where I can actually look things up, discover songs I forgot I even had them. For relaxed music listening I do however nearly always use the original cd, or preferably even the LP (about 5000 of the songs are old jazz and blues)