iPod Largest iTunes library

[ObsidianIce]

Currently I'm at 36220 items 103.6 days and 262.35 GB. It actually grows every day lol and legally!

 

[ironsienna]

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[AppleDApp]

Anyone have any tips has to how to get all he proper info for every song? Album art, album title, artists and such?

 

[aPple nErd]

24.659 TB 45,967,543 songs and 567 movies.

all saved on like 30 1TB hdd drives plugged into me mac pro...

 

[iRooney]

24.659 TB 45,967,543 songs and 567 movies.

all saved on like 30 1TB hdd drives plugged into me mac pro...

46 million songs? I call bs. Screenshot or it didn't happen.

 

[AppleDApp]

24.659 TB 45,967,543 songs and 567 movies.

all saved on like 30 1TB hdd drives plugged into me mac pro...

I fail to see how you have 26 HDD's plugged into your mac pro. unless you are troll. please post picture.

 

[PatrickW98]

I thought my music library was big. I only have 2 GB. ;\

 

[aPple nErd]

kidding kidding.

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no actually i have 660.9 MB

 

[iRooney]

I've got 7533 songs...don't store movies in iTunes.

 

[TheGdog]

I keep mine fairly small, being that I now use Spotify. I have not bought music in a long time, no need when I can stream it at fairly decent quality.

 

[Chrisg2014]

I uses Spotify now so I have some much music I can't count. WIN! But in my iTunes I have 30GB. Mostly movies. But I also have netflix so win again!

 

[sapporobaby]

I'm running about 1.51 TB on a 10TB Drobo. Make sure you have reliable back up and storage guys...

 

[Rockoar]

My iTunes music library is roughly ~35 GB. All CDs are tagged (cover art, info, etc.) I don't have my films or TV shows in iTunes as I have a lot of them and I don't find iTunes the best way to organize them. I have like +1.2TB worth of TV series.

 

[pvtjokr88]

This is my current iTunes music folder.

a few years ago i had about 45000 songs that i had acquired while serving overseas, unfortunately the hard drive they were on was dropped and its not nearly as easy for me to replace it as it was to get them all in the first place.

 

[GR33NIE]

Just under 10,000 songs here and about 55GB, no movies stored in iTunes that's all music

 

[botwa]

my library has about 4800 tracks and about 100 gb because I prefer ALAC. but I've been collecting for a loooong time. not all of the songs are in ALAC and it's a pity for me.

 

[Dregoth]

Cool thread guys...

80-90% ripped by yours truly in ALAC/AIFF (music) / MP4 (movies/TV)
some are downloaded due to lost or damaged discs or not being available on DVD (anime).

everything correctly tagged and organized

Although sometimes having too much choice sucks...

 

[Inopia-Vi]

Anyone have any tips has to how to get all he proper info for every song? Album art, album title, artists and such?

Rinse is good.

 

[AppleDApp]

Rinse is good.

Anything free by chance I've invested to much in these tagging software that give mixed results.

 

[h1r0ll3r]

10,575 songs, 36.7 days, 84.23GB.

Still have bunches of imports/bootlegs/etc that need to be ripped so the figure above could easily double in the near future.

 

[sakau2007]

To those who are asking... by far the best music organizer/tagger that I've used is J. River Media Center. They currently don't have a Mac version though. It absolutely obliterates iTunes.

 

[futuresmkt]

All right, who has the largest iTunes library?

I currently have 372GB...

Habitus

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I have iPhone4/32Gb but with 5600 songs I only have 1 Gb remaining. I have less than 2 Gb of other files. Why is my music file consuming so much memory per song 5600/26.3Gb?

 

[gnasher729]

I doubt everybody with 1TB of music got ALL of it legitimately. Unless you've collected CDs for decades.

If you say "everybody" - sure. I would suspect that some people with enormous collections fall into the category "hunter and gatherer" who download everything they can lay their hands on, with the goal of creating a large collection, not listening to music.

But one CD ripped in ALAC is probably around 300-350 MB, so 1 TB is about 3,000 CDs in ALAC. Buying 2 CDs a week for 30 years gets you there. Easier if you are into classical music. Just checked on Amazon and found:

Bach complete, 157 CDs, £90.
Mozart complete, 170 CDs, £120.
Haydn almost complete, 150 CDs, £180.
Beethoven complete, 85 CDs, £70

and so on. That small list alone is about 550 CDs, about 200 GB in ALAC.

 

[-MRB]

If you say "everybody" - sure. I would suspect that some people with enormous collections fall into the category "hunter and gatherer" who download everything they can lay their hands on, with the goal of creating a large collection, not listening to music.

But one CD ripped in ALAC is probably around 300-350 MB, so 1 TB is about 3,000 CDs in ALAC. Buying 2 CDs a week for 30 years gets you there. Easier if you are into classical music. Just checked on Amazon and found:

Bach complete, 157 CDs, £90.
Mozart complete, 170 CDs, £120.
Haydn almost complete, 150 CDs, £180.
Beethoven complete, 85 CDs, £70

and so on. That small list alone is about 550 CDs, about 200 GB in ALAC.

Which is possible & I'm not doubting that at all. Not to mention audiophiles that rip their vinyl collection to WAV etc. My own father had quite an extensive collection of CD's to which he decided to rip to his PC & it was huge lol.

I just think a lot of people with libraries that big will have downloaded a bunch of it illegally.

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On topic - I have 231 songs @ 2.74GB (90% are 320Kbps from Beatport)

 

[Born2Run]

I've just finished updating my library for when I go back to work on cruise ships next week...

Music: 295GB
Movies: 1.9TB
TV: 2.9TB