iPod Largest iTunes library

[Yumunum]

Okay, who's the actual winner here? Who has the most?

 

[g0odfr1end102]

I run with 3567 songs: 17,88 gigs. I still know them all by heeart, and god knows my iTunes is continuously filling up!!

 

[janstett]

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.

Personally I like to hit shuffle, that's how I usually listen (I'm coming up on 900GB). But then there are days I find myself hitting next -> next -> next -> next, and I think I should pare things down into a sub-collection of songs that just always do it for me or at least make a playlist.

And the vast majority of it I have on CD or vinyl.

A collection like this is like making a snow man. You start out with the purest, whitest, tightly packed pristine snow packed by hand. And then you roll it on the ground to pick up more snow and it picks up some dirt, grass, and dog poop along the way.

As for keeping it organized I've imported my CD collection at least 3 times -- once for WMA (back when I had a Windows CE PDA), once for higher bitrate MP3, once for lossless. It takes a lot of discipline, but now that it's at a steady state I just make sure everything is formatted to my liking when it gets imported. One regret is that I never addressed genre (because it's so ambiguous).

 

[Delexo]

Keeping everything organised, like the above poster said, takes quite a bit of work. I personally like everything to be tagged correctly, right down to the actual file names (songs bought from iTunes have a habit of being shortened by cutting parts of the track title out). I then use Musicbrainz to tag correctly within iTunes. For the genre I tend to use Last.fm, or just go with my own opinion.

I can see why lots of people just can't be bothered, it does take a lot of work. But equally it's quite rewarding to have everything tagged correctly and it makes searches more accurate and you can create really in depth smart playlists - great for music lovers like me.

 

[Habitus]

Keeping everything organised, like the above poster said, takes quite a bit of work. I personally like everything to be tagged correctly, right down to the actual file names (songs bought from iTunes have a habit of being shortened by cutting parts of the track title out). I then use Musicbrainz to tag correctly within iTunes. For the genre I tend to use Last.fm, or just go with my own opinion.

I can see why lots of people just can't be bothered, it does take a lot of work. But equally it's quite rewarding to have everything tagged correctly and it makes searches more accurate and you can create really in depth smart playlists - great for music lovers like me.

How does musicbrainz work? I always run into the problem of receiving music that's incorrectly tagged.

Habitus

 

[Pmoser]

How does musicbrainz work? I always run into the problem of receiving music that's incorrectly tagged.

Habitus

By recieving you mean downloading. I run into the same problem.

 

[houdiwho]

I've got 87,720 items in my itunes. Equivalent to 254.4 days or 454.88gb. My goal is 100,000. I honestly can say that although I listen to all genres of music, I don't like every song I own.

 

[miclebarbossa]

Glen Wolsey has an interview up with Will Friedwald, the self-proclaimed owner of the world's largest iTunes collection.Glenn Wolsey published an interesting interview with the owner of the largest iTunes music collection.

 

[djtree2u]

Music - 419gb
Movies - 37gb

Both are still growing!!

 

[torbjoern]

Is this contest some Freudian thing or what?

I have 16 gigs of music and 85 gigs of video files in my iTunes library. I also have a few hundred gigs of movies, but I don't keep them in my iTunes library, though.

 

[stu1965]

13682 songs
322 movies
296 tv shows

and of course, backed up to a second internal 2tb drive

anyone using different hard drives for each genre? I want to put my music, tv and movies EACH on a different drive. i often wonder is this (one drive for all) is part of the reason why my audio and video 'occasionally' are out of sync.

lastly...who will buy me a dobro?

Happy Holidays folks!

Best,
Stu
www.stuartphotography.com

 

[And1ss]

22,895 songs 66.4 days 146gigs.

Having a big library has one interesting side effect, you are constantly discovering songs that haven't been played in ages.

 

[Labaguette]

Music

2198 Albums - 27424 Songs - 76.2 Days - 423.34GB
283.39GB Apple Lossless Audio. Less than 10% of Songs 192kbit/s or lower

Movies

184 Movies - 477.44GB

TV Shows

265 Episodes - 323.63GB

 

[Delexo]

How does musicbrainz work? I always run into the problem of receiving music that's incorrectly tagged.

Habitus

It pulls data from Musicbrainz's server and edits your metadata on your music files. In your case the data that is being pulled is incorrect which is strange. I very, very rarely run in to that problem. Musicbrainz is user created so granted every now and again there might be the odd mistake. But it seems strange that it would incorrectly tag every track or album you try and do.

Unfortunately I am not really of much use so perhaps head over to their forums and ask? I'm assuming you're using Musicbrainz Picard?

 

[CHSeifert]

My Apple lossless library takes up 400 GB
My AAC/Mp3 library takes up 800 GB

Movies takes up 250 GB.

So a total of 1.2 TB MUSIC & 250 GB MOVIES for me, which I think is in the top 10% among music freaks

 

[shelant]

Music (mostly lossless) - 27007 items, 92.2 days, 504GB
Movies (mostly HD) - 763 movies, 56 days, 2226GB
TV Shows - 1241 episodes of 78 shows, 28 days, 740GB
Books (audio & text) - 238 items, 87 days, 100GB

Total size of iTunes folder is 3.84TB

I know and love ALL of my media files!!!

 

[msugarpants]

i win

104,365 songs in itunes. yeah, some repeats but I am working on that

 

[TheGenerous]

Mine was about 60GB, it's been trimmed to 15 GB because I erased all the music I've never listened to or where downloaded illegally.

I'm bound to a magic number of 100 albums, no more.

 

[iDuel]

Gosh! And here I was thinking I was doing something grand with my 3K songs. I need to get my numbers up *runs to iTunes with credit card*

Steve Jobs thanks you!

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On topic..I have a really small library totaling at 473.4MB If there was a contest for the smallest library size, i'd probably win it.

 

[dvdlovr24]

Music- 5668 tracks, 14.5 days 106GB
Movies- 1463 movies, 115.5 days, 2222GB
TV Shows- 4003 episodes of 34 shows, 95.3 days, 1995GB

Total of a about 4.5TB's of data

 

[AppleDApp]

if you want lots of music hijack the spotify servers.

 

[iBug2]

My iTunes library is 1.8 Terabytes.

 

[Mr. Gates]

Music - 800 gigs

No Movies, I use other programs for those

 

[dndlnx]

3293 songs...


Not the largest by any stretch. But when you start pruning the "unnecessary" stuff, your collection tends to shrink.

 

[cooperblac]

3293 songs...


Not the largest by any stretch. But when you start pruning the "unnecessary" stuff, your collection tends to shrink.

I agree.. I have 3600 songs and I'm constantly trimming down the collection. Yea it's kinda cool to have all this music but at the end of the day.. I really don't want random songs, I barely listen to or don't like, taking up space.