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iPod How big is your music library?

I keep my music under 7.8 GB or whatever the capacity of the iPhone is once formatted. If it goes over i delete some old stuff, generally theres a few things i can delete without missing too much. I used to keep all my music all the time, then I had about 40GB, but i decided that was too much and i never listened to half of it. I boxed up the CDs, and deleted it. It would take hours to re-import it now.
 
46.77 GB for Music, 6536 songs - only about 2% of that is actually purchased from iTunes, almost everything is ripped/encoded from FLAC

12.87 GB for TV shows, 45 items

7.38 GB for Movies, 6 items

Everything encoded at 197 AAC; all TV shows/movies in H.264 at 1500

[ I listen to a lot of Classical music, that's why there are so many songs Per GB.] :cool:

Also, every songs has album art - I'm anal about that!
 
PupnTaco said:
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*Jaw drops*

I....that's....wow....
 
RumMunkey said:
Plus, I have about 20 GB of Christmas music that I only import in December and delee again in January.
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LOL. Personally, I've already heard enough already. I wish Target had a delete Christmas music option.
 
About 22GB. Almost all the really big files seem to be Fela Kuti and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, neither of whom appears to know when to pack it in.
 
Music: 92Gb
Movies: 187Gb
I don't do TV Shows

Someone asked how someone can listen to so much music. And well, it's easy when your computer is always on and iTunes is always playing music(except when watching a movie) even while I sleep I have music going, or work on homework, or anything I do. I have had my computer for over a year now, and the only time it has had a break, is when I am taking it somewhere in my car and I shut it down.
When I am gaming in windows, I still have music going. I only have about 250-300mb of music in vista though, I just imported the albums that I like the best for now, I usually just keep it playing quietly in the background.
Music is great.:apple:
 
12.000 tracks
1300+ albums
300 GB lossless
All legal :cool:

And I haven't even started importing my compilations and soundtracks, not to mention the huge pile of 12" singles. :p
 
hankolerd said:
Music: 92Gb
Movies: 187Gb
I don't do TV Shows

Someone asked how someone can listen to so much music. And well, it's easy when your computer is always on and iTunes is always playing music(except when watching a movie) even while I sleep I have music going, or work on homework, or anything I do. I have had my computer for over a year now, and the only time it has had a break, is when I am taking it somewhere in my car and I shut it down.
When I am gaming in windows, I still have music going. I only have about 250-300mb of music in vista though, I just imported the albums that I like the best for now, I usually just keep it playing quietly in the background.
Music is great.:apple:
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Sometimes I cant concentrate with music around me , but sometimes I can ;)
 
330GB.

Most of it is movies and TV shows, and about 10GB of music.

that being said my 1TB drive died and so (hopefully) I will be getting all the above back soon. If not, I am £1000s out of pocket and it was a waste of 12 months time and effort.
:mad:

Lacie are *****! Brand new drive, died!
 
hankolerd said:
Music: 92Gb
Movies: 187Gb
I don't do TV Shows

Someone asked how someone can listen to so much music. And well, it's easy when your computer is always on and iTunes is always playing music(except when watching a movie) even while I sleep I have music going, or work on homework, or anything I do. I have had my computer for over a year now, and the only time it has had a break, is when I am taking it somewhere in my car and I shut it down.
When I am gaming in windows, I still have music going. I only have about 250-300mb of music in vista though, I just imported the albums that I like the best for now, I usually just keep it playing quietly in the background.
Music is great.:apple:
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I have to have my music on 24/7 aswell
It was funny, up until I had my first iPod and started to have my music on the PC I never had an interest in music nor really cared but after the iPod, I could't stop listening to it.
Now that was about 2 years ago and I've moved on a bit, I always have my iPod with me and whenever on my Mac iTunes is always open and playing :)
I find when I can't have my music I start to get withdrawal symptoms :(
 
250 GB of music.

Here's how I got to this point. I'm in my early 30's and I've been a huge music fan my whole life. I started collecting CDs when I was 13 and would spend most of my money on them. When I was in my late teens early 20's I started working in the music biz while still living at home, so all my meager earning were pure profit. Then once or twice a year I'd go to a record store and buy like $300 worth of CDs. I did that for many years. Then when I got further into the music biz I started to get lots of free CDs that were castoffs from higher up people who bought CDs for references or received as promos and then were done with them.

Then when I got highspeed net access and could download "borrowed" music I went crazy with it. It was partly because as a musician I wanted to have a large reference library that I could examine at a moments notice which included much music that I wouldn't have bought otherwise, and also because the record companies had stolen literally thousands of dollars from me by engaging in illegal business practices that lead me to buy much more (or at least much different) music than I otherwise would've had they been acting within the law, so I was doing a little rough justice.

And that's not even including my GIGANTIC collection of vinyl!


(Being a rabid music lover)
x (around 20 years of collecting)
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= a zillion years of music to listen to, but without a zillion years to listen to it all.
 
Hmm - currently around 270 Gb. All legal.

Still trying to find some stuff that I had on vinyl, though (I had over 3,000 records that had to go when I moved into this house - no room).
 
MacboobsPro said:
330GB.

Most of it is movies and TV shows, and about 10GB of music.

that being said my 1TB drive died and so (hopefully) I will be getting all the above back soon. If not, I am £1000s out of pocket and it was a waste of 12 months time and effort.
:mad:

Lacie are *****! Brand new drive, died!
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Oeh, I was about to buy a LaCie drive. Sorry to hear yours died. :(
 
SXR said:
Oeh, I was about to buy a LaCie drive. Sorry to hear yours died. :(
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Many places I have worked always seemed to have problems with LaCie stuff. I just thought it was coincidence. So I stumped up for a 1TB (2x500GB raid) and within the first 2 weeks it was acting up. Then eventually (after I had put my entire iTunes library on it) it died.

I paid £250 for the drive. Its going to cost £200 minimum to retrieve the data (if at all possible). I have had to buy another drive (£200) to put any retrieved data onto and if I can't get my data back (there is a hell of a lot of iTS bought stuff) then I am going to be well out of pocket. Not to mention all the many hours of encoding my 106 DVDs.

Like I said I thought it was just coincidence but now I don't believe that. I think they are just plain crap. :mad:
 
I would never buy a RAID disk again... too unreliable. Cheaper to buy a SATA enclosure and put a 1TB drive in there; they're about £160 these days.
 
With my cd's uploaded its about 67 GB, without cd's its 10GB. I'm a huge music fanatic. I always borrow cd's and upload them as well. I had to buy an external HD for all my music!:D
 
Blue Velvet said:
I would never buy a RAID disk again... too unreliable. Cheaper to buy a SATA enclosure and put a 1TB drive in there; they're about £160 these days.
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I know that now. :rolleyes: I have bought a 500GB Iomega MiniMax to go with my 250GB MiniMax. Includes Firewire and USB hub, looks cool and is dead silent. I just need another 500GB drive to back up the first using Time Machine. :D My 250GB backs up my G5 but its too small to back up my iTunes library. :eek:
 
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