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Who has the biggest iTunes library on Mac Rumors?
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flat6 said:
Why are you buying (or stealing?) music that you don't like? Might want to use better judgment when acquiring music ...
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neut said:
Yeah, that's one good thing about buying your music. It forces you to only get the stuff you actually like. (Unless, of course, you have far too much money.) I'm buying all the music I'm keeping, deleting everything I'm not willing to pay for.
That's one thing with piracy, too often it's just ooh-I-have-a-cable-connection and you end up with thousands of songs that iTunes never ends up playing, even once. Haha, there's a philosophical dilemma: if you steal a digital music file that you never play, have you really stolen
Used to have a much larger library, now I am down to 8,395 songs (44.4GB or 53 days,23 hours, 33 minutes, and 33 seconds).
I do have another 80GB of music burned to DVD-R's in mp3 format though thats not in my library.
I do have another 80GB of music burned to DVD-R's in mp3 format though thats not in my library.
flat6 said:Yeah, that's one good thing about buying your music. It forces you to only get the stuff you actually like. (Unless, of course, you have far too much money.) I'm buying all the music I'm keeping, deleting everything I'm not willing to pay for.
That's one thing with piracy, too often it's just ooh-I-have-a-cable-connection and you end up with thousands of songs that iTunes never ends up playing, even once. Haha, there's a philosophical dilemma: if you steal a digital music file that you never play, have you really stolen
That's true ... currently i have:
That's music the majority of 3 separate music libraries (severely retarded by triplicates) ... i thought i'd hit 500 by now, but we've been lazy to import the rest (or let alone find the damn CDs). A lot of the new stuff goes straight into my iPod i hate ripping things twice. I really only listen to approx. 40G worth of music (in AAC), but i like to keep the rest as a central location for the contributers. we're all artists and it's very handy to have access to a nice eclectic library for myriad reasons. Communism ... oops, i mean sharing
is great. Current iPod stats:
8,188 songs, 25.4 days of music, 36.71G + 320 Photos
*all songs we're bought and paid for ... a small minority were received as a gift.
peace | neut
neut said:
Guess its the same as buying a CD from the store and hating half the songs on it, as usual.
MacTruck said:
Really? I guess the iTunes single song purchase works for you than huh?
Most artists i like i end up liking the lesser known songs on the album and rarely listen to the hits (except for that first week or two). I insist on owning a whole album ... one of the guys who contributes to our music server will only load single songs; usually leaving out the one i want to hear.
What ever floats your boat as they say ... though it seems your only half-alfoat with your current musical tastes.
I have been know to purchase singles on a need basis and occasionally pre-releases. peace | neut
flat6 said:Haha, there's a philosophical dilemma: if you steal a digital music file that you never play, have you really stolen
Good question but personally, I dont believe in piracy, being a lawyer by profession and a musician as a hobby, i know how hard it is for artists (not so much the big record labels) to earn a living. by stealing music, we'll be making it next to impossible for the artists to survive. remember, out of every one rockstar or rapper that makes it big, there are hundreds of other artists (perhaps with more talent) who have to struggle to make ends meet.
4,192 songs, 15GB
mannix87 said:
I completely agree. That's why I'm buying my music
By the way, who here can tell me where my money's going for Son House's stuff? Billie Holiday's? They've been dead for a few decades. So have quite a few other artists I've been buying from. Probably their families, I hope.
Lacero said:
Wow!
Lacero, I didn't know that many songs had ever been written...
Are they really all songs, and more importantly, do you actually like all of the music on your iTunes, or do you just rip anything you ever come across in case you might need it some day?
Are they really all songs, and more importantly, do you actually like all of the music on your iTunes, or do you just rip anything you ever come across in case you might need it some day?
I started this thread way back when!
now i have 1886 songs 5.2 days and 9.18GB
i recently lost around 700 songs because i sold my ipod and my computer, and could only store a certain number on my dads HD, so im regaining that stuff now on my ibook.!
now i have 1886 songs 5.2 days and 9.18GB
i recently lost around 700 songs because i sold my ipod and my computer, and could only store a certain number on my dads HD, so im regaining that stuff now on my ibook.!
jbembe said:9200 songs. Not the most apparently...
That prompted me to look, now I'm at 10,078. I think I need to spend more time listening to my music instead of buying so much.
currently:
3530 items
12.1 days
18.85 GB
I "cut out the fat" of my library so sometimes a ranges.
Also, I know a lot of you debate on how to buy music. Here's my take:
First, I find music from 1. searching online and listening to clips, 2. friends or 3. other. I use a lot of sites like music mobs and lastfm to find similar artists.
Then, if i like the band I buy the cd. Generally if I like a band I'll like most of the cd, or at least down the road I will end up liking it, plus then I have a hard copy in a high quality sound medium. then I rip to use on the go with my iPod. If I want a song or two from an artist I don't normally like I'll buy it from itunes. This saves money, and usually I don't care then if its hi-fi audio. And lastly. If I love love love a record, I mean top 3 of the year, i'll buy it on vinyl. So sometimes I buy stuff twice, but you'll never beat the experience of hearing your favorite album on vinyl whenever you want. I don't normally buy full albums off itunes because for the same price, or a dollar or two more i get better quality, and a fail-safe in case in 5 years from now they come up with better quality compression.
and as for the digital compression-vs.-cd-vs.-analog debate:
as for the hi-fi audio snobs: if people don't notice the difference, who cares
as for the people who think there is no difference: there is, and if you ever do hear it watch out, cause there is no going back.
3530 items
12.1 days
18.85 GB
I "cut out the fat" of my library so sometimes a ranges.
Also, I know a lot of you debate on how to buy music. Here's my take:
First, I find music from 1. searching online and listening to clips, 2. friends or 3. other. I use a lot of sites like music mobs and lastfm to find similar artists.
Then, if i like the band I buy the cd. Generally if I like a band I'll like most of the cd, or at least down the road I will end up liking it, plus then I have a hard copy in a high quality sound medium. then I rip to use on the go with my iPod. If I want a song or two from an artist I don't normally like I'll buy it from itunes. This saves money, and usually I don't care then if its hi-fi audio. And lastly. If I love love love a record, I mean top 3 of the year, i'll buy it on vinyl. So sometimes I buy stuff twice, but you'll never beat the experience of hearing your favorite album on vinyl whenever you want. I don't normally buy full albums off itunes because for the same price, or a dollar or two more i get better quality, and a fail-safe in case in 5 years from now they come up with better quality compression.
and as for the digital compression-vs.-cd-vs.-analog debate:
as for the hi-fi audio snobs: if people don't notice the difference, who cares
as for the people who think there is no difference: there is, and if you ever do hear it watch out, cause there is no going back.
Well, let's see, if I actually loaded all my music into iTunes... hmm... well my BBC Radio One Essential Mix collection (which is every weekly mix from 1993) alone would be 160 GB... I have about 60 GB in iTunes right now, maybe another 80-100 GB of MP3s burned to disc from way back... then there's all my audio CDs... kay, my final answer for now will simply be lots GB.
5137 songs, 14.4 days, 21.83 GB...
some p2p from the halcyon days, most ripped from CDs, most recently i've been downloading from emusic- 951 songs to be precise.
some p2p from the halcyon days, most ripped from CDs, most recently i've been downloading from emusic- 951 songs to be precise.
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