Glenn Wolsey said:
I know it's not directed at me but I find new music by looking at what others have bought on iTunes when I'm buying my own favourite tracks.
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I know it's not directed at me but I find new music by looking at what others have bought on iTunes when I'm buying my own favourite tracks.
mad jew said:I know it's not directed at me but I find new music by looking at what others have bought on iTunes when I'm buying my own favourite tracks.
I like that feature too.
But the biggest money gurgle for me would be the iTunes "Just For You". I love that feature in the music store, I could spend money all day using that...if i had iTunes credit.
Glenn Wolsey said:
Yeah, seriously. It's unfathomable to me. I only manage to find 1 or 2 new songs a day (that I like), if I'm lucky.
But I suppose that if I were to start downloading artist discographies indiscriminately, I could rack up 100K songs rather quickly. (Paying, of course, would be a difficulty.)
This thread still going after a full year? Wow.
The addition of Video to iTunes (both in 'native handling' and more recently in selling,) has ballooned many libraries, I'm sure.
My own is up to 20 GB. Only 11 GB if you subtract videos. All audio is either Audible type 4 audiobook (1 GB,) or 128 kbps AAC (either ripped from CD or purchased from iTMS.)
Unfortunately, I had just finished re-ripping my 200+ CD collection to AAC three days before Apple announced Lossless. I'm in no hurry to rerip my collection, so it'll be awhile. (Plus, even a 60 GB iPod wouldn't hold my library as lossless. I doubt even a 100Giger would fit my audio+video+photos.)
The addition of Video to iTunes (both in 'native handling' and more recently in selling,) has ballooned many libraries, I'm sure.
My own is up to 20 GB. Only 11 GB if you subtract videos. All audio is either Audible type 4 audiobook (1 GB,) or 128 kbps AAC (either ripped from CD or purchased from iTMS.)
Unfortunately, I had just finished re-ripping my 200+ CD collection to AAC three days before Apple announced Lossless. I'm in no hurry to rerip my collection, so it'll be awhile. (Plus, even a 60 GB iPod wouldn't hold my library as lossless. I doubt even a 100Giger would fit my audio+video+photos.)
After losing about half of my songs and trying to get back what I can I now have:
1742 songs
4.7 Days
6.92 GB
1742 songs
4.7 Days
6.92 GB
i got.. wait for it... wait for it.. here u go
this was after cutting 3000 songs from my music library...
this was after cutting 3000 songs from my music library...
To quote Steve on weekend update:
Fifty...Million... Songs.
Every...photograph...ever...taken.
Pong.
Actually, I only have:
911 items, 4.2 days, 17.46 Gbytes (Mr. T, Jack, Kate and Locke take up a lot of HDD space!)
Fifty...Million... Songs.
Every...photograph...ever...taken.
Pong.
Actually, I only have:
911 items, 4.2 days, 17.46 Gbytes (Mr. T, Jack, Kate and Locke take up a lot of HDD space!)
Just got rid of 2 GB, mostly duplicates and some live albums I never listened to. (Of course I archived them to a DVD before thrashing them ).
Now I got 10429 items, 27.5 days, 35.38 GB on my much to small 60 GB (55.88 real capacity) iBook HD. Not too much but my iTunes library still takes more than 63% of my HD (was almost 67% before the cleaning project mentioned above) and that's pretty much...
).Now I got 10429 items, 27.5 days, 35.38 GB on my much to small 60 GB (55.88 real capacity) iBook HD. Not too much but my iTunes library still takes more than 63% of my HD (was almost 67% before the cleaning project mentioned above) and that's pretty much...
Mitthrawnuruodo said:Just got rid of 2 GB, mostly duplicates and some live albums I never listened to. (Of course I archived them to a DVD before thrashing them
Now I got 10429 items, 27.5 days, 35.38 GB on my much to small 60 GB (55.88 real capacity) iBook HD. Not too much but my iTunes library still takes more than 63% of my HD (was almost 67% before the cleaning project mentioned above) and that's pretty much...
Get yourself an external drive and start ripping in lossless. Its well worth it
Mine:
1432 Tracks - 3.9 Days - 22.65GB
Just got myself an external yesterday...Glenn Wolsey said:Get yourself an external drive and start ripping in lossless. Its well worth it
Transferred my iPhoto Library and some other things I don't need... but I want my iTunes library on my iBook...
...and for someone grown up with mixed taped on cassettes recorded from vinyl or (shudder) other cassettes, aac@128 is more than good enough...
Lossless is a compressed format that doesn't "lose" any information in the compression process - and consequently reduces the original file size only by about half, compared to lossy compression formats like AAC and mp3 that throw away information to make the file size smaller - the harder the compression, the more that gets lost, which is why 128 mp3s sound different, tinnier, than ones encoded at 256, but the files are a lot smaller.
Every time you re-compress or convert a file from one lossy format to another it throws away more info. Lossless stays the same as the original. I'd go that way myself, but am still waiting for Terabyte drives to come out.
Every time you re-compress or convert a file from one lossy format to another it throws away more info. Lossless stays the same as the original. I'd go that way myself, but am still waiting for Terabyte drives to come out.
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