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Who has the biggest iTunes library on Mac Rumors?

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CharlieX said:
54,274 songs. 139.4 days. 224.28 GB.

I WIN! I WIN! I WIN!
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i bet that you havnt even listened to a tenth of that... btw-how do u have ythat many songs????!!!!?!?!!?!? :confused:
 
63954 songs, 246 days, 384Gb
and growing... (only just begun on the vinyl really)
my car is crap and iTunes is running on a second-hand g3 - something has to give after all.
 
Someone should have initially named this thread:
"Who has the most crap they never listen to on iTunes?"

I am comfortable with my amount even though I need to add to it so I won't say how much I have.

I don't win!!!!! I don't win!!!!! I don't win!!!!!!!!
 
15,900 songs, 85GB.

I used to work at a used record/CD store.

I have a smart playlist "playcount 0" so when I set it to shuffle, it plays things that have not yet been played.

So far I have listened to over 9,000 songs. It's really cool to hear stuff I'd completely forgotten about.

Back when there were albums, you'd prefer one side to the other and not even know the songs on the other side. :)
 
xyian said:
Someone should have initially named this thread:
"Who has the most crap they never listen to on iTunes?"
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all depends how you define crap i guess. you mean to say that in the entire history of recorded music there are only 1000 or 10000 "good" songs?
Classic hits radio obviously believes it but I think you're severly underestimating the phenomenal wealth of artistic brilliance out there in the world.
Even if you limited yourself to one genre from one country in one decade i'd be suprised if it weren't possible to come up with at least a thousand tracks to move your mind body and/or soul. And it's only getting better with the increasing ease with which artists can record, release and distribute their own stuff to anywhere in the world.
NZealand indie bands from the 80's, US hip-hop from the 90's, 70's Jamaican reggae, 60's English psychedelia, jazz, r&b, soul, funk, dance, rock, country, electronica, opera.......
Load it all up, hit shuffle, free your mind and your ass will follow. :)
 
Well, I have plenty of songs on my iTunes but I can't say that I want to listen to all of them. I have a lot of obscure(by MTV & radio's standards) stuff but I guess I'm moody. I would tend to think that the more you have the less you have. Wasn't an attack or anything though.:)
 
not attacking either...:)
just love the music
quite moody myself sometimes - that's what The Cure and The Smiths are there for, whenever you need them, and everything else when you need something else.
That's what i love about iTunes shuffle - it's constantly digging up old classics that i'd forgotten about, that i never would have thought of pulling out the cd (or even less on vinyl) to listen to. It's completely changed my ability to actually enjoy all the music i've bought over the years.
 
Well Said!

Cless said:
Well, of course a lot of it sits around (I just hit 10,000 myself, almost 60GB), but it's about having it, in case you want to listen to something. I might not get the urge to listen to Shadowfax for several months, but when I do, I sure am glad I have it at hand. Obviously, new stuff or things you're REALLY in love with get played a lot. But it's good to have selection and choice for when you want something different.
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I agree, I'm at 13,700 and I have a Top 100 list that drops off at about number 86. But once in a while I like to go through and listen to things I havent heard in a long time. But some things never get listened to because they are off of an album I olnly liked one song on.
 
wnameth said:
I am interested to see how big some of your libraries are in iTunes, anyone beet 100GB? thats 50x my library (5.89GB)
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I am currently at around 110 gigs..all aac 192

Highlights include the entire Bob Dylan Discography, as well as the Beatles.

And around 30 gigs of live Phish shows..


all sitting nicely on an External Lacie Drive...I still have a long way to go to achieve my ultimate virtual jukebox...

I love setting the whole library to random, and then broadcasting it as a random radio show mix using NiceCast and listening to all my tunes at work..
 
12047 items, 35.2 days, 46.23 GB.

I've been ripping CDs 3 or 4 hours a day since I got my iPod Christmas morning. I have about half of my CD collection ripped, and the drag is I "only" have a 30 GB iPod. I'm looking forward to the eight-generation 100 GB model (will there be such a thing? ... ) Already it takes me about 30 seconds to scroll through all the albums -- I wish iPod had a better way to jump to the one you want, like alphabetical groups (A-E, F-J, etc.), but that's one of my few quibbles with this amazing piece of technology.

... and, since I notice people are casting aspersions --- 100% legal, almost all CDs, plus half a gig of iTunes Music Store purchases, and a tiny fraction is The Onion Radio News.
 
Yeah, A-Z is a must in the iPod software soon.

I figure it will work by having an "A-Z" option underneath the 'All' option that you can find under Artist, Album, Songs etc. So after you clicked Artist or whatever, the menu would look like this:

All
A-Z
2pac
50 Cent
A Tribe Called Quest

etc etc.
 
How do you get 12000 songs?

All of the songs on my iPod are first-rate. It's a lean, mean, "crap"-free machine! I imagine that those who have enormous iTunes libraries have two things in common: 1. a passionate love of music, and 2. eclectic tastes. To give you an idea how it comes together in one case, here's some of the genres, size of the genre, and sample artists from my iTunes library:

'50s Rock -- 1.47 GB (Elvis, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly)
'60s Rock -- 2.33 GB (Beatles, Stones, Who, Yardbirds)
'80s Rock -- 1 GB (Smiths, Cure, R.E.M)
Indie --- 1 GB (Pixies, Pavement, Liz Phair)
Metal -- 0.5 GB (Slayer, Metallica)
Punk -- 0.5 G (Sex Pistols, Clash, The Misfits)
Reggae -- 1 GB (Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Black Uhuru)
Dub -- 2 GB (King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, Lee "Scratch" Perry)
Hip-Hop/Rap -- 1 GB (Jay Z, Three 6 Mafia, The Pharcyde)
Blues -- 2 GB (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James)
Funk -- 1 GB (James Brown, Parliament)
Soul -- 3 GB (Motown, Stax, Philly Soul)
French -- 2 GB (Serge Gainsbourg, France Gall, Francoise Hardy)

And on and on. Plus, about 2/3s of my collection is "classical", so there you're talking about loads of the greatest music in some of the great recordings of the century.

So, it can be done, and it offers all kinds of opportunities for playlists that bring together your music in a way that just isn't possible with CDs.

There you have it -- a recipe for an "All Killer/No Filler" massive iTunes music library.
 
Songs: 2270

Capacity: 27.8 GB
Available: 14.5 GB

All ripped at 192Kbs from my CD Collection.
 
uhdavid said:
All of the songs on my iPod are first-rate. It's a lean, mean, "crap"-free machine! I imagine that those who have enormous iTunes libraries have two things in common: 1. a passionate love of music, and 2. eclectic tastes.
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could also be:
3. are old bstards who've been buying music for years
4. have understanding or not very attentive spouses
5. get freebies because they work in radio or do reviews
6. are filthy rich and don't have anything else to do
7. are anl completists (must buy that third greatest hits comp because it has one previously unreleased dodgy live track on it)
8. pirates
 
where do you get all your beats from ,sharing devices or something!!!:eek: you lot have got tonnes. iv only got 989 songs :D
 
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