My itunes
11356 songs; 31 days; 258.83 GB (Without Podcasts)
12119 songs; 42 days; 268.79 GB (With Podcasts)
11356 songs; 31 days; 258.83 GB (Without Podcasts)
12119 songs; 42 days; 268.79 GB (With Podcasts)
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Who has the biggest iTunes library on Mac Rumors?
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Well, I dunno if this is the largest, but I have well over 17,250 songs. As my iTunes refuses to work (grrr) I can't tell you how many GBs it is, but it's all on a 250gb hard drive in AAC format.
Before you point fingers, not a single MB of that collection was ever stolen. I've spent a lot of time and money and effort building up that collection, with a LOT of rips from tapes and records and even some live jam sessions with myself and my friends that have gone marvelously well (enough so that we're about to start our own live jam podcast).
Plus I live in a dorm, and I borrow other people's CDs to burn. Gotta love the collection!
Before you point fingers, not a single MB of that collection was ever stolen. I've spent a lot of time and money and effort building up that collection, with a LOT of rips from tapes and records and even some live jam sessions with myself and my friends that have gone marvelously well (enough so that we're about to start our own live jam podcast).
Plus I live in a dorm, and I borrow other people's CDs to burn. Gotta love the collection!
savar
macrumors 68000
1699 "items" (not songs), 5.1 days, 7.37GB
i'd have a lot more except when I used to have an ipod (before it was stolen) i kept the library hovering just above 5GB so i could fit it on my ipod without having to selectively cut out a whole bunch of stuff. i'm getting a 60GB ipod in the next week (its been a year and a half, i need it like heroin) and i'm thinking i'll start by ripping a bunch of my favorite cds. maybe before this thread dies i'll double my library. also i'd really like to get family guy onto my ipod, anybody know where to do this? i've got a g4, so ripping the DVDs is out of the question...i already tried and it looks like about 20-24 hours to rip 2 hours of video to ipod on my machine. i need a "family guy for ipod" torrent. i looked at podtropolis but their torrents are all pretty weak (low activity)
i'd have a lot more except when I used to have an ipod (before it was stolen) i kept the library hovering just above 5GB so i could fit it on my ipod without having to selectively cut out a whole bunch of stuff. i'm getting a 60GB ipod in the next week (its been a year and a half, i need it like heroin) and i'm thinking i'll start by ripping a bunch of my favorite cds. maybe before this thread dies i'll double my library. also i'd really like to get family guy onto my ipod, anybody know where to do this? i've got a g4, so ripping the DVDs is out of the question...i already tried and it looks like about 20-24 hours to rip 2 hours of video to ipod on my machine. i need a "family guy for ipod" torrent. i looked at podtropolis but their torrents are all pretty weak (low activity)
funkychunkz
macrumors 6502a
i have 65gb and id say the overwhelming majority is legal (as in 95%......only stuff thats not are cds that are like japan or UK only that would cost 60 dollars to buy and ship here)......most of my collection are live concerts and bootlegs (but by bands that allow and promote it) and around 500 ripped cds between me and my dads collection
neut
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derajfast said:
That makes me wonder ... if sharing collection in a household family is ok (is it?) shouldn't it also be true for roommates? what happens when said family members (roommates) no long live together? when is music illegal? when does borrowing/sharing become stealing?
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~Shard~ said:
Well, I don't claim to have a perfectly unstolen collection. I do burn other's CDs to see if I like it, but normally I delete it if I don't want it or I purchase the disc myself. I have a few CDs that I burned but haven't yet bought.😱
Well, just for the record in case the companies start suing us, mine would be in the upper 99% margin depending on my undeleted preview albums currently loaded. Fortunately I haven't been to the library in a while or that might drop me down into 98%!!😉
4968 Songs
16.8 Days
27.64 GB
VBR - from 128-320+ MP3
if I wanted lossless I'd put the CD in my stereo.
16.8 Days
27.64 GB
VBR - from 128-320+ MP3
if I wanted lossless I'd put the CD in my stereo.
Kobushi
macrumors 6502a
jbembe said:
Heh, one of the CD shops in my town went as far as to create a whole ad campaign on ripping CD's. "Buy it, Rip it, Burn it, Return it" They actually encourage everyone to "steal" music. They let you buy a CD (new or used), rip it and burn it of course (because you own it), then they let you return it for 50% of what you bought it for. Apparently it's all legal.....just a bit dodgy.
I tried running 170 GB, but iTunes in Windows ended up using 40 mb constantly and took a very long time to shut down... It's set to keep my tunes organised, which may be the cause. Now I just drag the songs in I want to listen to/transfer to my iPod.
close but no cigar?
11,658 tunes
32.2 days
46.58 GB
I have wanted to know about size mostly because of the extreme sluggishness of iTunes for me. Wondered if there was a limit to good performance. I get a lot of freezes.
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11,658 tunes
32.2 days
46.58 GB
I have wanted to know about size mostly because of the extreme sluggishness of iTunes for me. Wondered if there was a limit to good performance. I get a lot of freezes.
my blog: I Never Metaphysical I Didn't Like
Jaffa Cake
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Doing some sums myself, that's not so hard to believe...freeny said:
Say a couple have got their music stored on the household Mac (for example, I've got more or less all of mine and my girlfriend's music stored on my Power Mac) – $16,000 works out at just over £9,000, which with a CD at £10-15 a pop works out at at about 300-450 CDs each. And that's even before you take into account free (and legal) music they've acquired, such as free iTMS songs, online giveaways and music from those free CDs you get each weekend in the newspapers. If you're talking about a couple in their early thirties with quite wide tastes in music, then they'll have acquired quite a few CDs over the years.
Apologies if any of my maths is flawed – I went to art college so I'm not too hot on numbers. 😛
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