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819 songs, 2.5 days, 3.51 GB

Pretty measly, but when my 15gig iPod out does my 10gig iBook there's only so much I can do...especially when the iBook's HD has been maxed out for a while!

All of that will change when my rev.B iMac arrives, though!!! Can't wait for my iPod to finally be too small!
 
16,496 songs 44.3 days 366.44GB mostly AIFFs, I don't like dirty mp3s

setting up a RAID O 800GB seagate monster to hold all of my music.
 
TyleRomeo said:
16,496 songs 44.3 days 366.44GB mostly AIFFs, I don't like dirty mp3s

setting up a RAID O 800GB seagate monster to hold all of my music.
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WTF?!?!?
 
TyleRomeo said:
16,496 songs 44.3 days 366.44GB mostly AIFFs, I don't like dirty mp3s

setting up a RAID O 800GB seagate monster to hold all of my music.
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Why don't you use Apple Lossless? You could save a few GB that way, maybe even 50 or so.
 
Cless said:
Why don't you use Apple Lossless? You could save a few GB that way, maybe even 50 or so.
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On average, Apple Lossless is half the size of AIFF...that 366.44 GB music library could shrink down to as little as 183.22 GB with zero loss of quality.
 
I think that's a little optimistic. On average ALAC is about 65% - 75% of the size of the original. It CAN get as low as 50% but that's relatively rare. Still though, when you're talking nearly 400GB of stuff, even a 25% - 35% savings is quite significant.
 
Cless said:
I think that's a little optimistic. On average ALAC is about 65% - 75% of the size of the original. It CAN get as low as 50% but that's relatively rare. Still though, when you're talking nearly 400GB of stuff, even a 25% - 35% savings is quite significant.
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I dont think 180GB is unreasonable. Doing some quick math ALAC would take up about 150GB. He would save a ton of space. I have everything saved at 192 or ALAC (depending on when I ripped it) and My library is almost twice the files, in substantially less space.

30073 : 97.8 days : 203.17 GB

edit: For those playing the home game my quick math was (203 x 16496 / 30073 = 111) plus 30% for padding = 150GB
 
Cless said:
I think that's a little optimistic. On average ALAC is about 65% - 75% of the size of the original. It CAN get as low as 50% but that's relatively rare. Still though, when you're talking nearly 400GB of stuff, even a 25% - 35% savings is quite significant.
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It really varies, Cless. I've gotten ALAC files as small as 5% of the AIFF (a 95% savings) and as large as 95% of the AIFF (a 5% savings).
 
I still have almost 300 more CD's that I decided not to import, mostly rock and jazz that I don't listen to very much. About 10,000 songs I imported as Apple Lossless, and the rest are mp3/AAC of various bitrates... I recently killed all my playlists (not sure what I was thinking :confused: ), now I need to go through them all over again....................
 

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I have 1214 songs, about 160 of them are U2. All 128 kbps, started ripping at 160kbps about two months ago. Once I get another iPod, which will probably be a 30 GB or 60 GB I'm going to re rip all my music at 192kbps, I would like to now but that would fill up my 10 GB iPod. $449. Bummer. I'm going to hold off a year or so before I get a new iPod, because I have a feeling that something really different and cool is about to come out in the comming months.
 
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Mostly aac/ogg/mp3 VBR or up and around 192kbps, a few in AIFF or apple lossless...also have some in flac but i can't find an iTunes plugin for that kind of thing.

Went through my library looking for songs to use in a project, and I realized I have like complete TMBG, Björk, death cab, radiohead, weezer, NIN, white stripes, david bowie, pink floyd and others...and that a dresden dolls song has a play count of like 100, which is probably the highest - very interesting :p
 
My current iTunes Library stands at :

6861 songs, 20.8 days and 36(ish) GB. Does not take into accout the 2 TB* of MP3s I'm still to import. Currently and slowliny going though all my MP3 library making them itune ready.

Will report back when I have the entire colection in iTunes. I'm suspcting I'll have to hive off into multiple libraries. Anyone know what the iTunes max is? What's the current record in this thread, i;ve not seen above 200 GB. Mos peeps personale sotorage limit I guess. I'm lucky I have 10 TB!!!

* I used to work for a company which had a dedicated SAN for it's iT dept to use for MP3 and DVD rip usage. Thats ahy have so many mp3s. That Co. was Enron.
 
jestershinra said:
Me too- desperately! I'm at 49GB now.
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i gave up on iPods storing all my music a long time ago :p

so after trying to get progressively bigger iPods, I'm just happily using my iPod mini (of course, yesterday i ran into a bit of trouble trying to add too much music, but..)
 
*laughs*

Yeah, I'm managing now. I haven't sat down and made a great system with playlists and such, so I've been manually choosing songs/podcasts and such for now. Sometime I'll get my act together and set it up so it's automatic.
 
I have a bit over 53000 tunes.

I was glad when Apple removed the 34000 tunes limit in Itunes 3.


192 days of music. 250 gig.

And I stopped DL music over 18 month ago.
 
shompa said:
I have a bit over 53000 tunes.

I was glad when Apple removed the 34000 tunes limit in Itunes 3.


192 days of music. 250 gig.

And I stopped DL music over 18 month ago.
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Jesus Tapdancing Christ!!!! Wow...I've got iTunes envy :p

I've got 6000+ songs in mine, mostly 320kbps, some lossless (workin' on that), and some from the iTMS. I haven't even ripped all of my CDs yet!
 
shompa said:
I have a bit over 53000 tunes.

I was glad when Apple removed the 34000 tunes limit in Itunes 3.


192 days of music. 250 gig.

And I stopped DL music over 18 month ago.
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Don't tell the RIAA ... :rolleyes:


peace.
 
ummm... around 8.5 GB, if I remember correctly (I'm not on my mac right now :(). Not sure about number of songs, but somwhere between 2000-3000, i think.

Wouldn't mind having some more, too.
 
As of now I have 12,949 songs at 44.92GB. Mostly legal, everything else is from Soulseek and is stuff that is only available on vinyl for outrageous prices on ebay and gemm.com. So it's alright in my book. If they ever re-release them, I'll toss them and get the CD.

Fishes,
narco.
 
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