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iPod Largest iTunes library

janstett said:
Music:
2.46 TB
93,987 songs
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Your average song is 27MB each, what format is it in?

It would have to be lossless to take up 2.46TB with just 93k songs.

15TB of Movies/TV how many HD, how many SD approximately, to the nearest 10,000

9,000 TV SD episodes is about 4TB in H.264

1,000 DVD SD Movies at 3.5MBs 2 pass HB rip, don't really get much benefit going higher than that and you run other risks for playback, is about 2TB

So at that rate 15TB would be 7,500 SD DVD rips which would have taken two newish iMacs, with at least 4 external DVD ROMs attached each (so you could keep the rip going throughout the night, reloading them all three times a day), about a year flat out 24x7.

A massive accomplishment.

It has taken me a year to get a poultry 9,000 TV shows done, and I am now 250 DVDs into a 2,000 DVD collection and I and my two iMacs are pretty drained by the effort of the Big Rip.

Mine is complicated because I am capturing all the DVD extras and sound tracks/subtitles etc I don't want ever want to do this again!
 
MrMister111 said:
Can I ask you all what you stream to? An Apple TV?
It's just I'm busy getting it all organised at moment and have an iMac, Apple TV 1. The problem/question I'm asking is regarding streaming the iTunes library to the Apple TV.
So do you all leave your external disks/NAS constantly on with an iMac etc? My problem is not letting my iMac sleep otherwise my Apple TV won't wake it.
I've considered buying an Airport Extreme router to see if this works. I dont really want to leave the iMac running all day without sleep.
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I currently use a refurb Mac Mini as a media server/encoding station. Very energy efficient. I've installed Plex on it, which allows me to stream all my media to my iOS devices as well. Until I pulled the trigger and got this setup, I had an ATV2. My Synology can 'mimic' an iTunes share (not home sharing but rather that old sharing protocol) and play off of that. I leave it running all the time, but it sleeps its hard drives after 20 minutes of inactivity.

If you're thinking of doing the APE route, you might consider getting a small Synology NAS instead. Note that it won't be able to stream DRM music or video, but rather just the unencrypted media that you have in iTunes. If you don't use iTunes for videos (and just have them in a folder), it can be a file source for XBMC on a JB ATV2.

Here is a link to the 2-bay Synology. And Here is a link to the 1-bay. If you have 2 drives in it, they'll continually back each other up (only the free space of one of them) in case one of the drives kicks the bucket. The 1-bay offers no redundancy besides the ability to backup to an attached USB drive. I wrote a review on the Synology firmware (all of the DS line use the same software. It's available Here. Hope this helps!
 
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Busta999 said:
Your average song is 27MB each, what format is it in?

It would have to be lossless to take up 2.46TB with just 93k songs.
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Most of it is lossless (from my CD collection & vinyl), with some high bitrate MP3. But the bulk of the space consumption comes from the high res/surround subset, which is in FLAC. A 96-24 5.1 FLAC of a typical song can be 300-400 MB. 1.5TB is invested in these kinds of files.

Busta999 said:
15TB of Movies/TV how many HD, how many SD approximately, to the nearest 10,000
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The DVDs are ripped 1:1, the whole VIDEO_TS structure. It's more of an archive than a rip. A few hundred of those. And then there are a few dozen Blu-Rays which are also not ripped but archived as ISOs. That's the bulk, but then I also have some SD and HD cable rips.

It takes a lot of space but my philosophy is that I want the entire thing preserved as a representation of the disc, not a ripped facsimile. What you said about missing subtitles and extras, same idea, I'd rather grab the thing whole and be done with it.

I know, I could severely reduce disk space by ripping to MKV, but that's not what I'm after.
 
432.33GB of music!

I've recently experienced a problem when importing additional music into iTunes on my Mac and, to make a long story short, I lost all of my playlists :(

However, I found TuneAid and restored some of them via my iPhone!

Habitus :apple:
 
Well. I feel quite behind compared to some of you guys ;)
I have 1100 songs, but I am quite the Hi Quality freak, so it all adds up to 15GB :)
I have 10GB of TV Shows, 25GB of Movies, 23GB of Podcasts (I don't even know why). To top it all off, i have close to 300GB of Photos! I know that doesn't count for "iTunes Library", but figured I would say anyways ;)
All of that is just in my internal HD, i don't even know how many pictures I have on my external, nor do I know how many Movies or TV Shows are on there. Probably a good 200GB of video. At Least 300GB of extra pictures. I guess shooting RAW does add up in the end ;)

:apple:
 
I have "only" 70GB of music, and I'm working on cutting that down. Makes me feel like I have no music though when looking at some of the people here... :eek:
 
almost 3 TB of Concerts

Habitus said:
All right, who has the largest iTunes library?

I currently have 372GB...

Habitus :apple:
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Light Weight !!!!

I have 2.7 verifiable TERRIBYTES onn my Itunes Library. Its an external
box with four 1TB drives. I have a problem though...Im running this box from my IMAC Core 2 Duo with 4 gigs of ram, and its too slow.

Do you think if I change the box to Firewire, it will help ?:)

Mike S
 
175gb at about 23500 songs. I'm working on trimming down. But when you like jazz, r&b, hip-hop, somes blues and some alternative/rock music, they start adding up.
 
Got it down to 167GB and around 22k songs...

My jazz music alone is 50GB, hip hop at 40GB and R&B at another 50gb. The rest is rock/alternative, folk, reggae, pop.
 
Well my iTunes only library is around 20GB music, 5GB movies/tv shows. But stored on external devices and not in iTunes: 150GB Music, 3.46TB Movies (2 Drives), 7.7TB TV Shows (4 drives). Not to mention over 5TB of software and games on other drives, all bundles in an 18TB storage server.
 
~225GB of music; ~7,500 songs; 95% of which is ALAC

That's like a thumb drive of music compared to some of you. Yikes!!!!
 
Interesting thread but it's hard to compare video against audio since movies take up so much space. It's even hard to compare audio against audio since some use ALAC and others used compressed. A good variation is: who has the largest library and has actually listened to all of the tunes?
 
7thMac said:
Interesting thread but it's hard to compare video against audio since movies take up so much space. It's even hard to compare audio against audio since some use ALAC and others used compressed. A good variation is: who has the largest library and has actually listened to all of the tunes?
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Agreed, but the number of unique tracks of music/movies/TV episodes is as good an indicator as any. The quality of the individual files is a different issue and whether or not they have been played is nigh on impossible to determine.
 
A friend who sold a local radio station copied me a 2 Tb disc with 4500 music vids, 850 iPhone vids and somewhere near 500 000 songs. Created a new iTunes library and got to 177 days worth of music and had only imported a small portion! I've had the disc for a week and have had still not delved into all the folders - theres just so much. He said he had some more albums if I gave him another drive and 25 euros - got it back with another 700 albums - Mental!
 
I have 14,500 MP3's (90GB) in my library as well as ~4TB of movies and about 2TB TV shows. I don't bother adding movies or TV shows to iTunes any longer as I had to transcode them for the Apple TV. I've since given up and just use Boxee now.

pac
 
Damn, I just looked at some of the posts and my jaw dropped. What's the point of having all that music if you'll never listen to it? I mean what is the likely hood that you'll get to listen to all of it. 250 gigs of music, 50 gigs, 150 gigs, I mean I have 8 gig Ipod touch and even when it's full, I listen to at most like 200 songs. However, I can understand if you want all that just to be able to go in and find whatever you're looking for. I'm actually planning on storing everything on a network hard drive and hooking it up to my router and streaming it from there. I pose this question to everyone who's answered so far, how do you store your music? And how do you keep it clean? I mean 200 gigs of music must get messy and cluttered to access. And I'm just gonna assume here that you don't own the cd's so with that may gigs of dl'd music isn't anyone afraid the RIAA or some other giant entity might come after you for illegal music?
For the record, I have 20 gigs of music. :D lol not much compared to everyone else here. And to be honest I listen to like 5 gigs of it at most.
 
I have quite a bit of music, but I should say I have a lot more iTunes "content" than music itself. Movies, TV shows (many of which are HD) and plenty of apps for both iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad.


Only 21 GB of music, but my entire library is 182GB.
 

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