sounds cool. what's the address for the site? theres some video game music it'd be pretty cool to have lolwrldwzrd89 said:
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I used to have 1 song in mine, before I went to a new profile -- probably don't have any now.
But I'm not one to brag about how much I have or how much I spend.
If you brag too much, you deserve the withdrawl of assets somebody is likely to inflict on you.
But I'm not one to brag about how much I have or how much I spend.
If you brag too much, you deserve the withdrawl of assets somebody is likely to inflict on you.
I currently have 2318 songs - 11.2 days - 15.03GB.
Several years back my CD collection stood at 1200+, but it stands at around 100 today. I ended up selling off the vast majority because:
a new baby in the house left little free time to listen
the cash supplemented my growing DVD obsession (and the extra mouth that needed feeding)
a townhome = insufficient space for collections of books, cd's, and dvd's to co-exist
who needs the complete CD catalog of every artist they like, anyway
If I'd spent a little effort to convert those cd's into 192kbps mp3 files, my collection would have an additional 75GB or so of music. Short-sighted, but thems the breaks.
Several years back my CD collection stood at 1200+, but it stands at around 100 today. I ended up selling off the vast majority because:
a new baby in the house left little free time to listen
the cash supplemented my growing DVD obsession (and the extra mouth that needed feeding)
a townhome = insufficient space for collections of books, cd's, and dvd's to co-exist
who needs the complete CD catalog of every artist they like, anyway
If I'd spent a little effort to convert those cd's into 192kbps mp3 files, my collection would have an additional 75GB or so of music. Short-sighted, but thems the breaks.
all my tunes are backed up to cdr (as data) at the moment .. but i just got a 60gb ipod photo yesterday so i'm slowly but surely putting them on 'podpod'. should be around 28gb when i'm done... but currently only stands at 2114 songs transfered.. still soooo many to go.. most are in AAC at 128.. tho' some are mp3 at 160.
oh, n i haven't bought any songs from the itunes shop because it's 'not currently avaliable in (my) country" ho hum.. have to make do with pitchfork free downloads for the time being!
.. but i just got a 60gb ipod photo yesterday so i'm slowly but surely putting them on 'podpod'. should be around 28gb when i'm done... but currently only stands at 2114 songs transfered.. still soooo many to go.. most are in AAC at 128.. tho' some are mp3 at 160. oh, n i haven't bought any songs from the itunes shop because it's 'not currently avaliable in (my) country" ho hum.. have to make do with pitchfork free downloads for the time being!
powermac666 said:
*ahem!* pft!
i actually don't have the complete collection of many bands but it's not for want of trying!
After sorting through all the junk, it's down to 10.34 GB of MP3s from http://www.vgmix.com/. The site focuses on video game music remixes. I got banned there just for saying I was bored with the site, and they never bothered to unban me when I said I wanted to returnhomerjward said:
iPod mini 6gb is full (3.5 days worth of music, about 1600 songs)
my old iPod now my girlfriends had 9.5 days of music, dunno song number
PowerBook has 11Gb of music.
BUT im waiting for the wireless network to be installed so the downstairs PC which has oh... about a few hundred GB's of music (mostly crap though) streaming around the entire house. going to get a few FireWire HD enclosures stocked with 250Gb drives just for music/video streaming.
not a fan of lossless AAC. instead of having 1600 songs on my mini it'd jump down to about 40 (provided the 160kbs AAC songs are 40x smaller than their full sized counterparts).
sidetrack; this is so typically the future. people have 56k so downloading (legal) music is 3mb a track, but then broadband appears. people start downloading entire albums 30-100mb which takes the same time as a 56k to download 1 track. as hardware and connection speeds gets faster people want more from them so they see no benefit. my iPod can have days worth of music compressed but wont store more than a few albums in lossless, taking me back to the days of having a 128mb MP3 player, only bigger. [/rant]
my old iPod now my girlfriends had 9.5 days of music, dunno song number
PowerBook has 11Gb of music.
BUT im waiting for the wireless network to be installed so the downstairs PC which has oh... about a few hundred GB's of music (mostly crap though) streaming around the entire house. going to get a few FireWire HD enclosures stocked with 250Gb drives just for music/video streaming.
not a fan of lossless AAC. instead of having 1600 songs on my mini it'd jump down to about 40
(provided the 160kbs AAC songs are 40x smaller than their full sized counterparts).sidetrack; this is so typically the future. people have 56k so downloading (legal) music is 3mb a track, but then broadband appears. people start downloading entire albums 30-100mb which takes the same time as a 56k to download 1 track. as hardware and connection speeds gets faster people want more from them so they see no benefit. my iPod can have days worth of music compressed but wont store more than a few albums in lossless, taking me back to the days of having a 128mb MP3 player, only bigger. [/rant]
This is after I deleted roughly 3,000 songs that I absolutely do not listen to. How do I have so much music? I listen to music all the time, jazz, new wave, indie, electronic, classic rock, you name it, I have it. I used to go to the record store at the end of each month and drop $200 on music... until I got to college, so the vast majority of this is what I own. All my tracks have album art, corrected ID3s and ratings. About 5,000 songs are 160 AAC, 3,000 192 mp3, 5,000 128 mp3 and the rest is higher level mp3 (like LAME, 256 or 320)
Right below 5500 songs for me. Most of them are 128 AAC, but I recently switched to 160 AAC for the slight quality increase (or peace of mind). All total at 21GB. It was a huge loss for me to give up on my Automatic iPod fill feature, but I'm learning the advantages of Manual fill at this point.
I'm in the process of reorganizing my music collection. As a result, the size of my library has temporarily shrunk to ~20 GB. I'll rebuild it back to the level it was at before eventually, and surpass that old level - assuming I don't encounter any more speed bumps like the one that prompted this reorganization.
D0ct0rteeth said:
Well, it looks like you're the winner. I've just finished ripping 20 years' worth of CDs: 4,400 songs for 20 GB.
with libraries as big as some here, i'm surprised your people don't spend all your time messing with the tags and album art mine's at 3168 songs for 14.33 GB. i collect a lot of live stuff, and for each show i'm constantly editing the tags and whatnot. it's not one of my favorite things to do, hehe.
mine's at 3168 songs for 14.33 GB. i collect a lot of live stuff, and for each show i'm constantly editing the tags and whatnot. it's not one of my favorite things to do, hehe.
vieoray -vieoray said:with libraries as big as some here, i'm surprised your people don't spend all your time messing with the tags and album art
That's exactly what I spend most of my time doing when I import stuff into my library. Tagging isn't my favorite task either - but it sure makes songs easier to find when I want to listen to something in particular.
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jayscheuerle said:
More likely he got them from the *original* napster. Not that I have inside information or anything...
65.19 Gb
12,046 Songs
37 days, 14 hours, 9 minutes and 49 seconds
297 Artists
1098 Discs (Albums/EP's/Singles etc)
Currently encoding in VBR, Normal Stereo, Medium Quality, Minimum bitrate 192 kbps. No smart encoding or filtering below 10Hz. Average file is about 200-210 kbps. Getting VERY nice results with these settings!
Using computers as jukeboxes is THE way forward!
12,046 Songs
37 days, 14 hours, 9 minutes and 49 seconds
297 Artists
1098 Discs (Albums/EP's/Singles etc)
Currently encoding in VBR, Normal Stereo, Medium Quality, Minimum bitrate 192 kbps. No smart encoding or filtering below 10Hz. Average file is about 200-210 kbps. Getting VERY nice results with these settings!
Using computers as jukeboxes is THE way forward!
Right now, I'm at 1,000 songs, 2:16:46:03, 23.33 GB. However, 183 of those 1,000 songs haven't been fully tagged yet. I decided to re-rip everything using a higher quality ripping method. 1,000 songs isn't anywhere near the final size - my latest estimates put the final song count between 12,000 and 13,000.
Yay! I finally broke through the 50gig barrier! And only a few more (hundred?) CDs left to go...
I don't understand how so many people have such small libraries. I've got really mixed taste an so I need a little bit of everything.
Oh, and that's 160kbs mp3.
I don't understand how so many people have such small libraries. I've got really mixed taste an so I need a little bit of everything.
Oh, and that's 160kbs mp3.
Well, i have 4607 songs, which is like 11 days (audio books and stuff included). Compared to my friends, i have the rather "short one" though.
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