Just added another 732 non-video-game-music songs to my library today. They're still untagged - I plan on tagging them tomorrow. That also boosted the size of my music library by 16.58 GB (they're all Apple Lossless files).
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iTunes... How many songs in your library... how many Purchased from iTunes?
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way too many...
37,265
220.4 GB
iTunes Store = 7 (Pepsi caps)
All the rest are personally ripped or legal FLAC distributions of live concerts.
Stored in my PowerMac G5 1.8 DP (four internal drives- 250GB boot disk and 480 GB RAID 0 array) and backed up in MP3 LAME Alt-Standard format to more than 50 DVD's- and counting...
FYI, iTunes wasn't really designed for this. Maybe if it had a MySQL back-end... ;-)
37,265
220.4 GB
iTunes Store = 7 (Pepsi caps)
All the rest are personally ripped or legal FLAC distributions of live concerts.
Stored in my PowerMac G5 1.8 DP (four internal drives- 250GB boot disk and 480 GB RAID 0 array) and backed up in MP3 LAME Alt-Standard format to more than 50 DVD's- and counting...
FYI, iTunes wasn't really designed for this. Maybe if it had a MySQL back-end... ;-)
You must have converted the FLAC files to Apple Lossless (ALAC), since FLAC can't be played directly in iTunes, correct? My, that's one big library. I thought 7516 songs, 76.13 GB was big (that's my library as of when this was posted).dburges said:
FLAC
I archive the FLAC to disc and store them as MP3 VBR (LAME 3.92) in iTunes. A little bigger than AAC 128 but sounds a little better to me and that way the TiVo and the iPod can both play them. Yes, the library is a monster. More than anyone can listen to, really, unless you want to go three months without hearing something twice (assuming you don't sleep)!
wrldwzrd89 said:
I archive the FLAC to disc and store them as MP3 VBR (LAME 3.92) in iTunes. A little bigger than AAC 128 but sounds a little better to me and that way the TiVo and the iPod can both play them. Yes, the library is a monster. More than anyone can listen to, really, unless you want to go three months without hearing something twice (assuming you don't sleep)!
Since this thread is still going strong, I'll post again since I am always updating my iTunes Library
4762 songs, 91.04gb (almost all lossless), 14.3 days
71 purchased from iTMS, the rest from my CD collection.
4762 songs, 91.04gb (almost all lossless), 14.3 days
71 purchased from iTMS, the rest from my CD collection.
I have a whopping 98 songs in my iTunes Library, zero purchased from Apple.
I keep all my music on my iPod for the most part. The songs in my library are stragglers I use with my iTunes Alarm. I think my music collection is somewhere around 8 gigs, all ripped at 160 kb AAC.
I keep all my music on my iPod for the most part. The songs in my library are stragglers I use with my iTunes Alarm. I think my music collection is somewhere around 8 gigs, all ripped at 160 kb AAC.
Oh dear this has to stop..!!
Since my last post:1659 songs
Of which:76 are purchased from the itms
I have found some old cds and have done some serious burning today!
Gotta stop though!
Since my last post:1659 songs
Of which:76 are purchased from the itms
I have found some old cds and have done some serious burning today!
Gotta stop though!
I too use my iPod almost daily and tend to keep my library impeccably organized, but I despise of album art. It's pretty, I'll admit, but a waste of space -- especially when you have a 60 GB hard drive where 30.63 GB of that is iTunes music. I use iTunes Dupes Barrier, a VERY fast duplicate song locater.alywa said:
Composition of my Library:alywa said:
180 iTMS purchases (2.93%, 727.2 MB)
5953 ripped/downloaded from others (97.06%, 29.91 GB)
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6133 total (30.63 GB, 18.5 days)
Most of the music I ripped is courtesy of my local public library system. A few others are friends' borrowed CD's and about 10 albums are my own. What can I say, paying for music just isn't my thing!
6409 Songs. 93 of those are from ITMS (and a lot of those are the free singles of the week).
I'd rather just buy a DRM-free CD most of the time...
I'd rather just buy a DRM-free CD most of the time...
6127 Songs, 10 from iTunes. I'm a library freak as well. Everything is tagged and genrefied. Scary sometimes how obsessive one can get about organization. Especially around macs.
3009 songs (mostly 128kbps AAC with a few MP3) - 8.4 days, 11.65 GB.
Almost all ripped from CDs, some GarageBand masterpieces (20-30) and 44 purchased songs from iTMS (all single songs, about 5 are free singles).
iPod mirrors iTunes.
Almost all ripped from CDs, some GarageBand masterpieces (20-30) and 44 purchased songs from iTMS (all single songs, about 5 are free singles).
iPod mirrors iTunes.
How do you go about getting video game music into iTunes? A couple of MegaDrive games had good music but I'd have no idea how to get the music off a cartridge based system onto my Mac, let alone how you'd get it into a format that iTunes would understand.wrldwzrd89 said:
EDIT: Ah I guess you answered it - P2P. Problem is, I can only find crappy MIDI versions, not the originals.
3182 songs / 8.8 days / 14.78 GB
of which ITMS 192 / 12.2 hrs / 738.9 MB (all now on CDs "just in case").
Everything from Bach to Beethoven to Bizet to Billie Holiday to Black Sorrows to Bob Marley to Boom Crash Opera to Buddy Holly to Black Eyed Peas.
of which ITMS 192 / 12.2 hrs / 738.9 MB (all now on CDs "just in case").
Everything from Bach to Beethoven to Bizet to Billie Holiday to Black Sorrows to Bob Marley to Boom Crash Opera to Buddy Holly to Black Eyed Peas.
4884 Songs 18.8x Gb
0 from ITMS
They're probably 90 percent ripped cds (70 - 30 split mine and not mine) and 10 percent gained through 'other' methods.
I've pirated more music from my library (which has a very current and excellent collection of indie rockish music) than I have online. Mmmmm untraceable...(they keep no records once the item has been returned.)
Justin
0 from ITMS
They're probably 90 percent ripped cds (70 - 30 split mine and not mine) and 10 percent gained through 'other' methods.
I've pirated more music from my library (which has a very current and excellent collection of indie rockish music) than I have online. Mmmmm untraceable...(they keep no records once the item has been returned.)
Justin
914 songs
3.7 days
4.51 GB
Don't know how many purchased from iTMS. I don't keep downloaded songs in the purchased music playlist. I would say the majority of the songs I own the CD. Maybe I've purcased about 7% from ITMS.
I prefer to have the physical CD. Most of my iTMS purchases are one hit wonders or old skool songs from back in the day.
3.7 days
4.51 GB
Don't know how many purchased from iTMS. I don't keep downloaded songs in the purchased music playlist.
I would say the majority of the songs I own the CD. Maybe I've purcased about 7% from ITMS. I prefer to have the physical CD. Most of my iTMS purchases are one hit wonders or old skool songs from back in the day.
18658 songs, 57.8 days, 75.70 Gb - just waiting for that 100Gb iPod...
35 show as iTMS tracks, although it's probably more like 200 as I'm currently using a backup copy of my audio files
iTMS came in really handy recently as a bunch of my CDs got nicked from a friend's flat and I was able to replace the ones I really missed as I remembered them.
35 show as iTMS tracks, although it's probably more like 200 as I'm currently using a backup copy of my audio files
iTMS came in really handy recently as a bunch of my CDs got nicked from a friend's flat and I was able to replace the ones I really missed as I remembered them.