How big is your music collection?

[gnasher729]

How do you accumulate all this music, most I've ever had in iTunes is 100ish songs.

There are two legal ways: One just takes time. At some point I used to buy 10 CDs or so every month. Do that for twenty years, and you have about 30,000 songs. The other method: There are sources of cheap music. You can get an awful lot of classical music really cheap. For example: Bach complete works on eBay, 155 CDs for £69. That would get you from zero to 2000 songs / 8 days / 20 GB of music very quickly. And you can buy some indie music really cheap.

 

[GGGUUUYYY]

I'm at 24.74 GB, and 4285 songs.


Here's another question for all you people out there: How much of the music on your computer did you pay for, or receive as a gift for holidays and special occasions?

Not one.


413 songs, 21.9 hrs, 1.88 GB

 

[gnasher729]

I just wish I didn't have to un-DRM-ify iTunes purchases, because if I attempt a library backup on Data CDs, those don't copy. (preventing me from pirating my own purchases, and moving them to safe storage place, such as DVD discs)

That's strange. Backup onto data CDs should be no problem. That is supposed to be the point of DRM: You back it up, I "borrow" your backup DVD and copy it onto my computer, the music doesn't play. You lose your music, you restore from your backup, and the music plays.

 

[Keniff]

7000 .mp3's and .wav's in my iTunes.

15,000 records.

 

[ViciousShadow21]

I got 84,121 songs it takes up 421.77GB on the 1TB WD studio edition external. i do some free lance DJ work so i've accumulated a lot of music. also went to a music conservatory so i got a lot of classical as well.

 

[Mr. lax]

4697 Songs, 13.2 days, 28.85 gb
399 Movies, 297.12 gb
1205 TV shows, 169 gb

I love external hard drives <3

 

[Hrududu]

2558 songs in iTunes. I've also got music on tapes and whatnot that never made it onto the computer.

 

[Schtumple]

5432 songs, 162 Artists, 405 Albums, 14.6 days, 28.95GB.

A good 130 are songs I've made though.

 

[fireshot91]

2127 Songs, 5.5 Days, 10.55GB
183 Albums
99 Artists
23 Genres


Payed for 1 Album- Nellyville

 

[Watabou]

I think my music library grew a lot this month. Before it was a measly 4 GB of music that would happily fit into my 8GB iPhone.

But I just got into more music and bands so now its close to 10GB.

 

[jecapaga]

Fun...all ripped at 256k or above:

24162 songs
182 genres (wow I need to clean up this, no way it's 182 unique genres)
2261 artists
2310 albums
170GBs roughly

 

[ViciousShadow21]

Fun...all ripped at 256k or above:

24162 songs
182 genres (wow I need to clean up this, no way it's 182 unique genres)
2261 artists
2310 albums
170GBs roughly

yea i hear you on the Genre thing. my collection is pretty much in good order except i have 301 Genres!!! im going to try and get it down to 20 if i can.

 

[jaydub]

Around 200GB. I don't even listen to a great majority of it, but I can't handle deleting it.

 

[Dmac77]

I have around 10GBs worth of stuff in iTunes, most of it is in Apple Lossless though. I've sold off all of my CDs, but I am starting to collect Vinyl.

So I have ~10GB digital, thirteen LPs, & one 45.

Don

 

[SkyBell]

Lol, were did 92 songs appear from?

Smashing Pumpkins - "Rarities and B-sides". The whole album is about 120 songs, but I already had a few of them in my library.

 

[nobunaga209]

I've gone completely digital...roughly 50ish GB's or so of music.

 

[rhett7660]

I got 84,121 songs it takes up 421.77GB on the 1TB WD studio edition external. i do some free lance DJ work so i've accumulated a lot of music. also went to a music conservatory so i got a lot of classical as well.

I am in awe. That is killer. I have a 4th of that and craving more. I have over 1000 cd's.

Which music conservatory did you go to?

 

[tersono]

A little over 300gb...

 

[Fake Hipster]

bout 4,800 songs.

 

[ViciousShadow21]

I am in awe. That is killer. I have a 4th of that and craving more. I have over 1000 cd's.

Which music conservatory did you go to?

New England Conservatory in Boston. Music was passed around quite a bit there. i also worked at the audio music library where they had over 20,000 CD's and about 35,000 LP's. Their collection is monster.

 

[tman07]

i have just recently discovered the wonders of flac/apple lossless(thanks gizmodo/audio week).. so my collection is going to get much bigger very soon. Apple lossless + a good set of head phones + Dave Matthew's Band Live=jaw dropping.

i have 100gb+ of movies im working on putting into itunes. i was young and windows based, so i have a bunch of .avi's that are in the process of being converted over to mp4->itunes

 

[mscriv]

Over 50,000+ songs in my collection and constantly growing. But, I've been a mobile DJ for over ten years so it's not really a fair comparison to those just collecting for personal use. Computers have made my job a whole lot easier though. It was no fun carrying 500+ CDs around in a big case back in the day.

 

[doubleohseven]

I've got 545 songs, which equals 1.5 days or 2.38GB.

I've got 44 movies and 117 apps.

 

[Melrose]

My Music library says 3,862 songs sitting in 20.57GB... I'm assuming that doesn't count my CDs I don't have loaded on my computer or my movies, etc in iTunes. Mostly, it's Apple Lossless (which is betetr sound for marginally larger space usage). Some songs I have in disc quality, but only a very few.

For physical CDs, I used to have close to 300 but I've started liquidating the ones I'm not that attached to. I've already got them on my iPod and laptop, so I figger I don't need the hard copies anymore. Certain albums I'd just never sell tho.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Wondering why this thread is sitting idly, as I'm wondering the same thing as the thread starter.

Anyway, my music collection is rapidly approaching the 100 GB mark. I have over 11,000 songs, 100% of them are in Apple Lossless format.

EDIT: Just thought I should add, got 5 movies and 1 app in my iTunes as well.