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Who has the biggest iTunes library on Mac Rumors?
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hmmm
Well, although i can't give you the exact numbers as they are now,
the xserve at work connected to a xserve raid has an itunes library of more than 30,000 songs..
Although a large portion of that is just production music and sound fx
(I work at a television production company)
Currently working on capturing in the CD collection at home,
a rough estimate would put the cds in the number of over 20,000,
and a vinyl collection of about 10,000.
(That what you get from having a father who used to be a warner music australia executive and still running an independent record company with contacts with every label...)
Now all I need is the storage space...
And it would seem pointless to capture it all in compressed
I was given the task a few years back to setup a iTunes server for a record label that wanted to have the entire catalog captured in and available to listen to over the network and have the songs available for email etc..
That was about 50,000 songs, and would have grown quite a bit since then...
+ With people in the company going on trips to music industry functions all over the world and now being able to take the whole companies catalog on a few ipods ready to listen to where-ever (itrips included) without having to lug huge amounts of cds overseas.
You go to midem now and everyone have got ipods.
Well, although i can't give you the exact numbers as they are now,
the xserve at work connected to a xserve raid has an itunes library of more than 30,000 songs..
Although a large portion of that is just production music and sound fx
(I work at a television production company)
Currently working on capturing in the CD collection at home,
a rough estimate would put the cds in the number of over 20,000,
and a vinyl collection of about 10,000.
(That what you get from having a father who used to be a warner music australia executive and still running an independent record company with contacts with every label...)
Now all I need is the storage space...
And it would seem pointless to capture it all in compressed
I was given the task a few years back to setup a iTunes server for a record label that wanted to have the entire catalog captured in and available to listen to over the network and have the songs available for email etc..
That was about 50,000 songs, and would have grown quite a bit since then...
+ With people in the company going on trips to music industry functions all over the world and now being able to take the whole companies catalog on a few ipods ready to listen to where-ever (itrips included) without having to lug huge amounts of cds overseas.
You go to midem now and everyone have got ipods.
I've just finished putting in about 1300 CDs, which comes out to about 16,700 songs, 97GB (at AAC 224), and 43 days. I'll eventually re-import as Apple Lossless when there is a convenient way to down-rez them for syncing with an iPod...or is there something like that now?
mad jew said:
no, not edited. what doesn't look right about it? or are you trying to figure out where the rest of the songs came from since 400 CD's doesn't equal 23,000+ songs?
I'm working on importing the rest of my CD's as Apple Lossless right now.
I'll probably have over 30k when I'm done.......
1644 songs 4.2 days 6.43 GB
what the hell would anyone do with 10,000+ songs in their libriry? its insane, you can't possibly listen to more then 1000 of them on a regular basis.
what the hell would anyone do with 10,000+ songs in their libriry? its insane, you can't possibly listen to more then 1000 of them on a regular basis.
3,115 songs, 8.9 days, 11.87GB (all at 128kps AAC) 
nothing special compared to some, but it gets the job done
nothing special compared to some, but it gets the job done
RAS admin said:
Sorry, wasn't trying to sound all accusing or anything but there's a weird light grey box around the stats. I was just trying to figure out why.
Size doesn't matter, but...
10,483 songs, 47:10:40:56 total time, 103.59GB, with plenty of CD's left to rip that are of a lower priority.
Most is 224 AAC. Lossless would be nice, but after spending so much money on CD's, there's not much left for backup drives.
10,483 songs, 47:10:40:56 total time, 103.59GB, with plenty of CD's left to rip that are of a lower priority.
Most is 224 AAC. Lossless would be nice, but after spending so much money on CD's, there's not much left for backup drives.
2645 songs, for a 4G 40GB ipod, is not filled, Why you guys use Apple loseless, is so big!, and your ipods battery doesnt last long! (spinning disk all the time)
dollystereo said:
i have an G3 that acts as an iTunes server (apple lossless) ... my G5 holds the selected 192 AAC versions for my iPod.
peace | neut
Well, I don't even use my iPod, so the fact that I use Apple Lossless matters little as far as that's concerned.dollystereo said:
I'm redoing my iTunes Library yet again because I felt like it. At least I don't have a whole lot to do over...
You probably wouldn't want it anyway, since I had it engraved when I bought it. I think you forgot a 'd' in "nudge".neut said:So you wanna send that useless iPod my way ... ? ... nuge, nuge.
peace | neut
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