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iPod Largest iTunes library

Ccrew said:
I know well what OCD is thank you for your concern.
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Obviously not judging by your post.

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Intelligent said:
I am educated about ocd, i have it myself and 50% of my songs aren't rated etc and my iTunes library is a mess but i don't bother fixing it.

lol
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If you have OCD you don't shout about it on forums. Or relate it to iTunes libraries.

"lol".
 
Brian Y said:
If you have OCD you don't shout about it on forums. Or relate it to iTunes libraries.
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Of course since this is the internet you're surely right. Thanks for all your concerns.

Actually it has many different iterations, but of course you know that.
 
Brian Y said:
Obviously not judging by your post.

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If you have OCD you don't shout about it on forums. Or relate it to iTunes libraries.

"lol".
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But i don't shout about it on forums, there was someone that was stereotyping about ocd, i am anonymous on this forum so i can talk about whatever diagnoses i have if i want to. I wasn't the first to relate to it on iTunes libraries, i just replied to someone.
 
I have just over 5TB right now for iTunes. I also download both HD and SD copies of TV and Movies though.

Lately I've been adding about 15GB per month and when I get my new Mac Mini I'll be able to start ripping all my CD purchases so that alone should add a solid 50GB.
 
Heats said:
I'm at about 55,000 songs now.
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With that many songs, I assume you're not using iTunes Match. I had hit 64K songs but wanted to use Match, so I shaved the library down to about 24K. The ones that didn't make the cut are available in the original library when I want to listen to old-time radio tunes and the like.

I do like Match--Radio alone is worth the $25 per year.
 
DUCKofD3ATH said:
With that many songs, I assume you're not using iTunes Match. I had hit 64K songs but wanted to use Match, so I shaved the library down to about 24K. The ones that didn't make the cut are available in the original library when I want to listen to old-time radio tunes and the like.

I do like Match--Radio alone is worth the $25 per year.
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I used Match when it came out. I might go again and create a 2nd library just for it, only importing what I want synced. I would love to use Amazon as their cap is 250,000 songs but it's not yet available in Canada. :-(
 
iTunes library itself tops out at 179GB...I don't let my TC back it up, I use my R4, but that too is petty much full...hence today's purchase of a 4TB drive to get the medial library backed up.

Still need another 2TB drive for iTunes though.
 
I'm would like to move my large (70GB) iTunes library and playlists from my Laptop (running Windows 7 64 bit) to my new desktop (also running Windows 7 64 bit).
 
I might be a little late to this thread however my library is small compared to everyone else.
710 Songs at 6.47 GB
14 Movies at 52.45 GB
161 TV Shows (Mostly HD) at 136.73 GB
I bought all of these from iTunes....
 
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Music: 2488 Albums/32,592 Songs/93.2 Days/254.44 GB
Movies: 297 Movies/22.2 Days/489.07 GB

Plus another 1TB of movies in an external...
 
Enough

I've got about 5000 songs a couple hundred movies, most of several tv series, over time I've ripped almost all the optical media that I've come across, and have a basement full of silvery polycarbonate. A respectable collection by most measures. It all lives in about 2TB on an external HD attached to my plastic intel iMac.
Most of the movies and TV shows are only in SD though.
 
OK here goes !!! - 2.541 TB's in my iTunes Media Folder

Music - 4135 Items, 12.2 Days, 45.24 GB
Movies - 610 Items, 33.3 Days, 1,218.88 GB
TV Shows - 376 Items, 46.6 Days, 1,203.80 GB
Mobile Apps - 420 Apps, 73.62 GB (All Previous Versions of Apps have been saved)
Other folders are insignificant

Everything is running on a Synology DS1512+ NAS
 
Total size of iTunes Library - 3.65Tb

Movies - 1,215 movies. 91.2 days, 1,697.65Gb
TV shows - 15 TV shows, 5.6 days, 117.74Gb
Music - 48,386 songs, 3,744 albums, 169.1 days, 169.1 days 1,461.70Gb
Books - 439 items, 4.93Gb
Apps - 88 Apps, 3.25Gb



Still need to finish adding my TV series - I have quite a bit more to go, and I am running out of space on my RAID.
 
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About 375 albums in Lossless (still Ripping)
12000 TV Shows
900 movies

TV Shows and Movies are all ripped from my personal collection
 
I understand the need (want) to store a library of data. But, honestly, if someone has an iTunes library of multiple terabytes of data, how useful is it to anyone other than the Library of Congress?

I have a fairly large DVD and BluRay collection that I have not added to my iTunes library. But, there is a big world out there to explore. How many hours should someone spend watching or listening to anything?

Trust me, I enjoy watching and listening to many songs and movies I own. I just think many people are too focused on their media instead of actually experiencing the real world while they are on it.
 
cosmos said:
I understand the need (want) to store a library of data. But, honestly, if someone has an iTunes library of multiple terabytes of data, how useful is it to anyone other than the Library of Congress?

I have a fairly large DVD and BluRay collection that I have not added to my iTunes library. But, there is a big world out there to explore. How many hours should someone spend watching or listening to anything?

Trust me, I enjoy watching and listening to many songs and movies I own. I just think many people are too focused on their media instead of actually experiencing the real world while they are on it.
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Excellent points; however, I love allllll of my music :)
 
cosmos said:
I understand the need (want) to store a library of data. But, honestly, if someone has an iTunes library of multiple terabytes of data, how useful is it to anyone other than the Library of Congress?
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"Useful"? It's entertainment! I have a large library on an iPod touch that lets me hear thousands of my favorite classical, country, rock, alternative and other genre tunes whenever I want to listen. It's the first time in history such a thing as a personal soundtrack has been possible, and I'm enjoying the heck out of it.

I have a fairly large DVD and BluRay collection that I have not added to my iTunes library. But, there is a big world out there to explore. How many hours should someone spend watching or listening to anything?
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Are you criticizing people with large libraries for spending too much time managing the media or experiencing it? It doesn't take much time to manage my library (maybe 10 minutes a day while the iPod syncs with my Mac Pro). Hardly excessive.

As for listening/viewing, I spend hours every day listening to music and audiobooks but I do that while driving, walking, taking photos, etc.

Still not sure what you think I'm missing.

Trust me, I enjoy watching and listening to many songs and movies I own. I just think many people are too focused on their media instead of actually experiencing the real world while they are on it.
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So you have a large library that you enjoy yet you're just CERTAIN that others aren't as smart/mature as you. Interesting take on things.
 
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