32,955 songs / 188 gb. It could be bigger but... I've been too lazy to rip all of my CDs. I'm happy with my size... I think I can say that I've pleasured everything in my collection at least once.
Only 114.3 GB/14381 tracks: less than 2% rips, and there are a goof number of mp3 albums that I never transferred from DVD. That averages to 4:46 per track.
Until froggie swings by, I guess I'll wear the crown:
Total Collection = 57612 songs, 377 GB, 24 weeks 2 days 20 hours 2 minutes and 30 seconds long.
From CD = 12546 songs, 71.9 GB, 5 weeks 1 day 14 hours 54 minutes and 15 seconds long. (not everything, but most of it)
This does not include my live music collection. That's just too big.
iTunes is telling me 32,317 tracks and 197GB.
About 300 vinyl albums and 50 cassettes. A few years ago I thought I'd transfer them to digital format. Ha, ha. No, now I know I won't.
Us classical types don't do "tracks" - and anyway I still have a lot of music on CD - but my classical collection is on the order of 123 days' worth of music.
* All my CD rips (1,600+ albums) were done at 128k since HD space was not as cheap or abundant when I started ripping my CD collection as it is now. I may re-rip some at a higher bitrate. Maybe.
In order to play this game, I installed MediaMonkey and finally added all three external HDs (120MB, 250MB, and 1GB). Until this week, I never had all of the files in a single library. On these three devices are:
99920 Files, 772.5 GB, 8462+ days of music, that's just a smidge short of a year.
My guess is that there are a number of repeats, and when I just dumped everything I noticed bad-tagged files (alot of free tracks from the Big-O are un-tagged, a few bootlegs with the file name but no tags, etc.) I am guessing I have 25-30 GB on my laptop from AmieStreet that needs to be sorted and added in the future. I also have a couple of hundred of data CDR's and maybe a hundred data DVD's with files, sorted by genre, many of which are not on the hard drives.
In the event I ever get a 2GB HD I'll add some of those. Yet I still fear FrogKopf's numbers.
Crap... that was supposed to be a secret. (in the interest of full disclosure, I am not a math major. I dived by 24 and assumed that was days. You know what assuming does.)
My extradimensional music collection is managed by Hilbert's Grand Media Hotel. It has a countably infinite number of library entries, all of which are full. This has the advantage that I always have space to add another track: HGMH just moves each track to the next-highest slot to free up the first slot.
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my itunes library lists 14,469 tracks, 195 gig; a lot of that is not currently on the computer but I guess it all was at some point.
I've ripped almost all of my cd's.
Subset that are rips = 4175 Songs, 335 Albums, 187 Artists, 46.30GB
We've ripped maybe a half our cd's and the bulk of our collection is through eMusic over the past 9 years.
Total Collection = 57612 songs, 377 GB, 24 weeks 2 days 20 hours 2 minutes and 30 seconds long.
From CD = 12546 songs, 71.9 GB, 5 weeks 1 day 14 hours 54 minutes and 15 seconds long. (not everything, but most of it)
This does not include my live music collection. That's just too big.
About 300 vinyl albums and 50 cassettes. A few years ago I thought I'd transfer them to digital format. Ha, ha. No, now I know I won't.
Posters so far only show a factor of 2 or so variance, not much. frogkopf won't upset that, since he's already a known outlier.
eMu portion: 17,479 tracks, 100.0 GB, 1,162:13:36
AmieStreet portion: 17,526 tracks, 145.9 GB, 1,225:31:77
CD rips* portion: 30,449 tracks, 103.7 GB, 1,915:18:53
* All my CD rips (1,600+ albums) were done at 128k since HD space was not as cheap or abundant when I started ripping my CD collection as it is now. I may re-rip some at a higher bitrate. Maybe.
99920 Files, 772.5 GB, 8462+ days of music, that's just a smidge short of a year.
My guess is that there are a number of repeats, and when I just dumped everything I noticed bad-tagged files (alot of free tracks from the Big-O are un-tagged, a few bootlegs with the file name but no tags, etc.) I am guessing I have 25-30 GB on my laptop from AmieStreet that needs to be sorted and added in the future. I also have a couple of hundred of data CDR's and maybe a hundred data DVD's with files, sorted by genre, many of which are not on the hard drives.
In the event I ever get a 2GB HD I'll add some of those. Yet I still fear FrogKopf's numbers.
Yeah, if you're on Saturn!
I may well have the smallest collection on the boards. I'll have to get the exact numbers tonight.
Craig
Oh wait......what was the question?
Crap... that was supposed to be a secret. (in the interest of full disclosure, I am not a math major. I dived by 24 and assumed that was days. You know what assuming does.)
Craig
49 Days, 2 Hours, 40 Minutes, 48 Seconds
99.23 GBs
amclark2: I know for a fact that my music exists in another dimension.
Craig
63:02:10;20
129 GB
I'd guess a good half of that is eMu. CDs were all ripped long ago.
There will be more if/when I add all this newly DL'd Amie stuff.