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Who has the largest Media Library?? Time to show it off!!!
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Movies: 10 days, 16 hours, 25 minutes, 45 seconds 146 movies
Music: 44 days, 17 hours, 44 minutes, 54 seconds 12934 songs
TV shows: 68 days, 19 hours, 11 minutes, 7 seconds 2739 TV shows
I had more TV shows but I deleted many of them such as Lost (HD) that I got bored with and never watched till the end.
Music: 44 days, 17 hours, 44 minutes, 54 seconds 12934 songs
TV shows: 68 days, 19 hours, 11 minutes, 7 seconds 2739 TV shows
I had more TV shows but I deleted many of them such as Lost (HD) that I got bored with and never watched till the end.
Mixed reviews, while it does work and I can access it all from anywhere. They give the appearance that you can view movies from it, but have not been able to to do so as of yet. It has a process built in to create thumbnails, but after weeks of running still wasnt finished.
DS411j was bought becuase it was cheaper than most. It works and has given me very little problems except for premission issues. Since it's backend is linux, there is some issues with sharing between windows and mac. The premissions get screwy at times. They know it and have yet to issue a fix. But as far as NAS goes, it just works...
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555 Movies and it takes 2.75 TB? I have well over 1000 and just hit 2.8 Tb..
media storage
i used to keep about 3T of just movies. HWat I realized was that I would not watch most of them a second time. Now Imy server never has more than 1T -1.5T of movies at any time. I go through about every quarter and literally delete rips, re-encodes, Tv, Movies.
I could do the same with the 800 MB of music, but I'm far too lazy .
I have friends who DL 24/7 and keep it all. I think they just like DLing and encoding, filing, etc. I don't think they give a damn about watching the movies...just collecting them
i used to keep about 3T of just movies. HWat I realized was that I would not watch most of them a second time. Now Imy server never has more than 1T -1.5T of movies at any time. I go through about every quarter and literally delete rips, re-encodes, Tv, Movies.
I could do the same with the 800 MB of music, but I'm far too lazy .
I have friends who DL 24/7 and keep it all. I think they just like DLing and encoding, filing, etc. I don't think they give a damn about watching the movies...just collecting them
This.
I had ~200GB of music and deleted it all and never miss it
Pandora and Netflix solves 99% of the problem without requiring some silly expensive storage solution in your man (or woman) lair. I think the model of physically 'having' these things is really becoming long in the tooth these days
At some point it's just a form of hoarding. Almost no movies or TV shows are worth watching a 2nd time and 10k or 20k songs is just absurd. I've got 1 movie on my computer actually (MBA 128GB)
I'm converting them to whatever handbreak spits them out as when I select the apple tv option (as that's how I watch them back later ) no idea what the format is off the top of my head
When Do You Have Too Much?
At work, so this is only an approximation, but I have three full 1TB drives of music, 1 partial 1TB drive of music, and a couple of 500GBs with various bits. For movies and tv, I have 1 500GB drive filled and 1TB half filled. Do I watch it or listen to it all? Not enough time in the year, but I also have 4000cds, 500 DVDs, 1000 lps, 600 cassettes.
At work, so this is only an approximation, but I have three full 1TB drives of music, 1 partial 1TB drive of music, and a couple of 500GBs with various bits. For movies and tv, I have 1 500GB drive filled and 1TB half filled. Do I watch it or listen to it all? Not enough time in the year, but I also have 4000cds, 500 DVDs, 1000 lps, 600 cassettes.
To the people screaming pack rats...I'm sorry but I really hate Netflix, I don't like being on other peoples schedules, nor do I like Netflix's "HD". I love being able to pull up a movie right away though, and I love having a list of movies downloaded that I haven't watched so that when things slow down I have something to do. I also like encoding, I think after encoding a couple hundred if not more videos/films, you can learn about what works best...its fun! I've been building my video library since I was 12 too. My friends dad had 3 media servers in his basement filled with every song you could ever imagine, so my friend followed in with movies and we both did encoding allot. I remember when H.264 hit, we were blown away at how small files could be from this new mysterious "AVC" format...haha I'm laughing because of how bloated we used to have to make videos in the original MPEG-4 visual format :O.
Eventually I will delete movies that I'm sick of having take up space but I will never delete my TV show collection...I have every season and episode of 24 in standard def and half of the last season in HD...I'd kill to have every season of 24 in 720p though...I bought every DVD set, I lost the 3rd season and I bought the disk set again! Loved that show. Gonna get started on 'Breaking Bad' soon, I always miss it but I have the first two seasons on DVD.
I've been building my video library since I was 12 too. My friends dad had 3 media servers in his basement filled with every song you could ever imagine, so my friend followed in with movies and we both did encoding allot. I remember when H.264 hit, we were blown away at how small files could be from this new mysterious "AVC" format...haha I'm laughing because of how bloated we used to have to make videos in the original MPEG-4 visual format :O. Eventually I will delete movies that I'm sick of having take up space but I will never delete my TV show collection...I have every season and episode of 24 in standard def and half of the last season in HD...I'd kill to have every season of 24 in 720p though...I bought every DVD set, I lost the 3rd season and I bought the disk set again! Loved that show. Gonna get started on 'Breaking Bad' soon, I always miss it but I have the first two seasons on DVD.
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Wow, I was surprised anyone thought the same way. Everyone is gobbling up disk like crazy and I'm still only using 60GB of disk on my primary machine.
You have one more movie than I do on my computer.
Hoarding... That seems a bit harsh... So you don't like anything but new stuff... Ok, that's a fair opinion. It's not mine, but it's a fair opinion.
As for me, I have a Smart Playlist with all my TV Shows in it, I hit shuffle on nights when there isn't anything new AND good on tv, which seems to be more and more...
Anywho, once I hit, I get an assortment.Last night, I got an episode of a comedy from the 60's, a cartoon from the 80's, two episodes of a sitcom from the 90's and mixed in there somewhere was an episode of a TV show in its current season. Could I do that with Netflix... Maybe, I'm not even sure that everything I like is available on Netflix, especially some of the older stuff.
I've seen people with a house full of what I would call junk. I would think to myself they should be on the show hoarders, but then, they start to tell the stories of the stuff they collect, the history it represents to them. Hoarding is an uncontrollable obession. Collecting things that bring back your childhood, that capture times in your life that meant something... That's something completely different.
Just consider that there are more experiences in the world than in your own imagination... One man's trash and all...
As for me, I have 90 days worth of media, most of it TV Shows consuming around 3TB of space. 87~ days of TV shows I think.
Just something respectfully submitted for your consideration...
That's only your opinion, which doesn't apply to everyone else. I watch my favorite movies (over 500) and TV shows over and over, and my music library of over 31K songs gets played extensively.
Hoarding... That seems a bit harsh... So you don't like anything but new stuff... Ok, that's a fair opinion. It's not mine, but it's a fair opinion.
As for me, I have a Smart Playlist with all my TV Shows in it, I hit shuffle on nights when there isn't anything new AND good on tv, which seems to be more and more...
Last night, I got an episode of a comedy from the 60's, a cartoon from the 80's, two episodes of a sitcom from the 90's and mixed in there somewhere was an episode of a TV show in its current season. Could I do that with Netflix... Maybe, I'm not even sure that everything I like is available on Netflix, especially some of the older stuff.
I've seen people with a house full of what I would call junk. I would think to myself they should be on the show hoarders, but then, they start to tell the stories of the stuff they collect, the history it represents to them. Hoarding is an uncontrollable obession. Collecting things that bring back your childhood, that capture times in your life that meant something... That's something completely different.
Just consider that there are more experiences in the world than in your own imagination... One man's trash and all...
As for me, I have 90 days worth of media, most of it TV Shows consuming around 3TB of space. 87~ days of TV shows I think.
Just something respectfully submitted for your consideration...
The movie is "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari" which is from like 1920 and almost everything I listen to on Pandora is from 90's 60's or early music -- so it's definitely not old vs new
And of course everyone has their own opinion and digital life and decisions
I use AnyDVD to rip the DVD and then HandBrake to encode the movie or TV show. I use the MKV format, but if you want to use it only on Apple devices, go with MP4 format.
I have:
1,555 SD movies
306 Blu-ray movies
14 IMAX DVDs (Combination HD & SD)
148 TV Series
169 Concert DVDs (Combination HD & SD)
294 Audiobooks
35,594 Songs in Apple Lossless format (with a complete duplicate in FLAC)
1,248 Songs in MP3 format
15,000 Photos
47 Home videos
All stored on a Synology DS1511+ NAS with a DX510 expansion unit. These hold five 3TB drives and 5 2TB drives.
1,555 SD movies
306 Blu-ray movies
14 IMAX DVDs (Combination HD & SD)
148 TV Series
169 Concert DVDs (Combination HD & SD)
294 Audiobooks
35,594 Songs in Apple Lossless format (with a complete duplicate in FLAC)
1,248 Songs in MP3 format
15,000 Photos
47 Home videos
All stored on a Synology DS1511+ NAS with a DX510 expansion unit. These hold five 3TB drives and 5 2TB drives.
How long did it take you to collect that much? I am bordering 6000songs in ALAC but i am only 16 and started a short while ago.
1.46TB iTunes Library on 4TB WD external (all backed up on 2 separate externals)
829 movies
151 TV Show Seasons
10,721 songs
On my computer's hd I have all angelina jolie's movies as blu ray rips haha (158gb) and a TB of random vids, pics, etc on another external.
829 movies
151 TV Show Seasons
10,721 songs
On my computer's hd I have all angelina jolie's movies as blu ray rips haha (158gb) and a TB of random vids, pics, etc on another external.
Predominantly blu-ray rips then re-encoded (keeping the HD Audio). There is about 30% of those 555 movies that are DVD rips but the majority are blu-ray.
To those that say that keeping that much is just plain hoarding, just remember that some people do like to watch things more than once, they also like to be able to just watch something at a whim without having to go and find the DVD/blu-ray and then load it into the BD player just to watch it.
I also like to watch things again, and sometimes again and again. It depends on the mood and what I am doing, sometimes it is nice to have something playing in the background whilst I am doing chores or reading or just surfing the web. Plus it is nice to scroll through the list of movies or TV series as there may be something there that just tickles your fancy without having to remember what you've got
Well, I sure as hell am going to need something to do during the zombie apocalypse ...
About 2.5 tbs of movies and tv shows. Why I even have some of them is beyond me. Do I really need all original episodes of Iron Chef? Can't get rid of them though. I keep my videos on a separate server in the house while my music is on my iMac. Works for us but running out of space. Nothing compared to some of you boys that have over 6 tbs. Well done.