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How much music you have on your mbp?
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About 12 GB (2k songs) on google music. 0 MB on my machine.
It used to be all CDs, but then I decided that I don't want to move ~200 albums over to the US.
I know that some people are more enthusiastic music collectors, but do some of you really own over 100 GB of legally acquired music?
It used to be all CDs, but then I decided that I don't want to move ~200 albums over to the US.
I know that some people are more enthusiastic music collectors, but do some of you really own over 100 GB of legally acquired music?
Yes. I have 6018 songs that I ripped from CDs that I own. 40 songs that I have purchased from iTunes. 11 songs that I downloaded from the artist's website.
All of my music was ripped from CDs or vinyl, or received directly from the artists over the past 10 years. I've never purchased through iTunes.
It feels like a lot, until you actually start thinking about it. Both my wife and I are music fans, but not big collectors of records. We still ended up with ~300 CDs over the years, and one box of LPs that is stored in my fathers basement.
We have a few friends that have incredible amounts of music... I don't even want to think about how long it takes to rip them all.
These days I use youtube and pandora to listen to songs I don't own.
I'm still not finished ripping, as I still have vinyl that hasn't been added. It's an ongoing process to rip and edit tags, add lyrics, etc. I just work on it when I have time and feel motivated. At just over 31,000 songs, I'd guess my library is probably about average. My goal isn't to have the biggest library, but rather to have only the music I actually like and listen to frequently. I keep some albums for historical purposes, even though I may not listen to them often.
I have 600+ CDs in four or five different languages that I'd purchased from 1988-present. Don't do that much anymore, but if I can't find an old artist I like on iTunes or Amazon, sometimes I will grab a used CD off Amazon for cheap and rip it.
Also buy roughly an album a week from iTunes.
Consider the size of the files as well; when I matched all my music and downloaded 256kbps AAC versions, it probably increased my library size by 30-40%.
Back in the good ol Napster/IRC days I had a solid 200,000 songs. Now I'm at about 6,000....paying for music has made me reevaluate things a bit.
Was around 4,000 songs, reduced to around 1,000 songs. Cleaned out the crap I don't listen to anymore.
Out of curiosity what format are your movies? I have a big blu ray collection but want to start to build a digital collection. Im trying to figure out what is the optimal file size and format for 1080 HD content. Thanks
Edit: By the way I would only store the movies on my mac, they'd be viewed on external hardware that is part of my home theater set-up - not the MBP's screen.
They are all M4V's encoded in full quality. Some of the larger ones are 15 gb. I just decided i'd rather buy extra storage instead of sacraficing quality.
So what do you do when you want to listen to music and don't have an internet connection?Made a move over to Spotify about 6 months ago.
Went from 60GB down to nil...
I'd be screwed
, but as its extremely rare the Campus WiFi goes down I'm fine... Got offline mode on my iPhone so I could resort to using that.
