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iPod Largest iTunes library
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this is what I have in iTunes
1044 songs, 2.7 days, 25.22GB
(this is just music not movies or TV shows)
I also have spotify which has like 8 million tracks, but that doesn't count.
1044 songs, 2.7 days, 25.22GB
(this is just music not movies or TV shows)
I also have spotify which has like 8 million tracks, but that doesn't count.
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yeah you guessed correct all of it is lossless (I do have all the free singles of the week and Christmas free stuff but they aren't included in there),
I don't have anything that can benefit from the 'lossless' sound but as I have far more HDD space than I need I though I may as well, I still have about three quarters of my CDs still to rip too.
All,
It's good to see that this thread is still alive and thriving.
My library as of 9-26-11:
71,372 songs; 464.04GB
401 Movies; 62.15GB
It's good to see that this thread is still alive and thriving.
My library as of 9-26-11:
71,372 songs; 464.04GB
401 Movies; 62.15GB
You can count time (in days), so the same song always counts the same. Then of course there is the question whether audiobooks should count. War & Peace alone is about 50 hours, same as about 750 songs.
Think I'm a Contendor for Largest iTunes Library
Hows 530 GB of just music. Getting this much has no been a walk in the park. Three weeks of burning CDs on three computer at a time. Adding/converting windows format songs. Using Dupin to clean out duplicates. Using TuneUp to Fix track info. Using Dupin to delete more dupes. Two weeks of the mac running all night either converting, sorting, patching track info. Thank god for Genius Playlist because theres no way in hell I could learn or find good songs.
Ohh Library would be larger if I didn't delete all the Classical Music. Those songs are so long.
Hows 530 GB of just music. Getting this much has no been a walk in the park. Three weeks of burning CDs on three computer at a time. Adding/converting windows format songs. Using Dupin to clean out duplicates. Using TuneUp to Fix track info. Using Dupin to delete more dupes. Two weeks of the mac running all night either converting, sorting, patching track info. Thank god for Genius Playlist because theres no way in hell I could learn or find good songs.
Ohh Library would be larger if I didn't delete all the Classical Music. Those songs are so long.
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I've got about 400GB of music (mostly 128 and 192, but anything new is getting ripped at 320); that's somewhere in the lines of 80,000 songs. From there I have several Terabytes of movies (~200 1080p m4v's make up 1.3TBs), then have 400 DVD's ripped mostly to VTS (have 200 convertedto m4v), which takes up another 3TBs or so.
Overall, I have over 15TBs of media (where about 7TBs are full BD backup images), with the rest covering my music, converted videos and and full DVD backups.
If it's not blatantly obvious, I spend many nights alone in front of my computer batch encoding videos in Handbrake...
Overall, I have over 15TBs of media (where about 7TBs are full BD backup images), with the rest covering my music, converted videos and and full DVD backups.
If it's not blatantly obvious, I spend many nights alone in front of my computer batch encoding videos in Handbrake...
~275,000 music tracks and building...
Closing on 275,000 music tracks (plus TV Shows & Movies) running on 2x2TB external drives with RAID backup...
As an avid LP collector (some 15,000+ albums collected over the years), have been moving things over to iTunes can stream through the house, carry on the iThingy's, etc. All with lyrics where available, organized into genre, best artwork available (or otherwise scanned from the album covers) and the rest. Still nothing close to an LP for sound (!!) but the digital (ala iTunes) does offer convenience. Unfortunately stuck with only digital on the new stuff though
Question to any out there with over 1.2TB of music. Any of you having trouble with updating Genius? When I hit 1.208TB of music (exactly) - getting a consistent error when trying to update. Tried all as you can see in the thread on what I went through in attempt to solve (scroll to the end) https://discussions.apple.com/message/12584815#12584815. To date have not been able no luck with a solution. Genius is still working and have captured the first (1.208TB ) music captured, but cannot update after. Would love to have this on the newer stuff imported in Genius so would be interested to hear from those with a similar size library if any problems updating Genius...
Btw, just discovered a little gem called Billboard http://sidetree.com/billboard.html few weeks back which is a great iTunes front-end with fullscreen and window views. Great for the media center we put together and also using this to play on the big screen at a little bar we just opened up...also great for us multi-screen Mac users..
Closing on 275,000 music tracks (plus TV Shows & Movies) running on 2x2TB external drives with RAID backup...
As an avid LP collector (some 15,000+ albums collected over the years), have been moving things over to iTunes can stream through the house, carry on the iThingy's, etc. All with lyrics where available, organized into genre, best artwork available (or otherwise scanned from the album covers) and the rest. Still nothing close to an LP for sound (!!) but the digital (ala iTunes) does offer convenience. Unfortunately stuck with only digital on the new stuff though
Question to any out there with over 1.2TB of music. Any of you having trouble with updating Genius? When I hit 1.208TB of music (exactly) - getting a consistent error when trying to update. Tried all as you can see in the thread on what I went through in attempt to solve (scroll to the end) https://discussions.apple.com/message/12584815#12584815. To date have not been able no luck with a solution. Genius is still working and have captured the first (1.208TB ) music captured, but cannot update after. Would love to have this on the newer stuff imported in Genius so would be interested to hear from those with a similar size library if any problems updating Genius...
Btw, just discovered a little gem called Billboard http://sidetree.com/billboard.html few weeks back which is a great iTunes front-end with fullscreen and window views. Great for the media center we put together and also using this to play on the big screen at a little bar we just opened up...also great for us multi-screen Mac users..
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As an avid LP collector (some 15,000+ albums collected over the years), have been moving things over to iTunes can stream through the house, carry on the iThingy's, etc. All with lyrics where available, organized into genre, best artwork available (or otherwise scanned from the album covers) and the rest. Still nothing close to an LP for sound (!!) but the digital (ala iTunes) does offer convenience. Unfortunately stuck with only digital on the new stuff though
Rip in a higher quality than CD, like 96kHz 24-bit. Have the best of both worlds.
Also you can apply post-processing to remove pops and clicks and distortions, using software such as Audition and ClickRepair. There are some people making terrific rips on some very high end equipment out there and combined with click removal vinyl never sounded so good.
All right, who has the largest iTunes library?
I currently have 372GB...
Habitus
Currently I have 110,13 GB of music, and every item has a cover, correct track id, etc etc..
Full screen coverflow is awesome
Are we counting content as reported by iTunes or content stored in the lib which might not report all to iTunes? I am running about 1.5 TB on one sever (media server to Mac Mini to Apple TV), and about 2 TB to massive backup server.
Currently I have 61.7 days of music. That includes very few (<20) long spoken word tracks. Most is in 256VBR AAC quality, 25% in Apple lossless format.
Total of 23785 tracks, 151.23GBs.
All organized to the 'T' and backed up 3 times in different locations. This is very important data!
Total of 23785 tracks, 151.23GBs.
All organized to the 'T' and backed up 3 times in different locations. This is very important data!