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Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

jabbysmash — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:59:09 EDT

i got about 42GBs now on an 80GB classic...with a Touch in the mail. Most of the files are ripped from library CD's. This is seriously a good place to get music. Your local library probably has some good stuff...

jabbysmash

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

ChowderFacial — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:43:30 EDT

Wow...my Led Zeppelin discography...alone is close to 12gigs. No, most of it isn't legal as they are rare bootlegs or over seas recordings.

ChowderFacial

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

DozeUser — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:20:55 EDT

@laxm.com: Can you seriously need that much porn?!?!?!?

DozeUser

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

DozeUser — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:18:08 EDT

@soggy_cheerio: Metal and Frank Zappa mostly. Also why bother saying what someone listens to is crap i mean taste in music is subjective, there is no right or wrong no crap or non-crap only what you like and what you don't like.

DozeUser

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

rudeadly — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:26:14 EDT

712 gigs.

rudeadly

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Interl0per — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:17:39 EDT

I got about 60Gb these days through a lot of LAN parties, torrents, my own ripped discs, and "legal" sites like allofmp3/mp3sparks. I think I top about 10,000 mp3s and about 70 in FLAC as I just started converting to lossless audio for my favorite discs.

Oh and F the RIAA/EMI

Interl0per

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

someToast — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:11:02 EDT

@Denver_80203: And for the record I would love to meet people in the Denver area who want to swap drives. [...] I'll take anything my philosophy is 1. I may not like it but the next guy will and 2. fuck the RIAA

That sounds less like "fuck the RIAA" than it does "fuck the artists and give the RIAA an excuse for their dickish ways".

someToast

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

alter — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:19:30 EDT

@Barry99705: yeah, don't play stupid, you know what I meant

alter

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

dub4u — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:40:03 EDT

2.7TB and counting. only about 750GB is MP3 format, the rest is flac or shn.

dub4u

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

cloudnine — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:31:59 EDT

106.21gb... hopefully to be about double that soon... I need to re-rip my mp3's into a quality that's actually "presentable". Little did I know about encoding rates a few years ago :/

cloudnine

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Tayng — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:26:16 EDT

@OMG! Ponies!: Haha yeah, I dont know why in highschool I though I need EVERY Peral Jam live bootleg.

Tayng

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Tayng — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:25:12 EDT

160gb, but I've got like 50 more thats yet to be sorted.

Tayng

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Nyle — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:39:24 EDT

Should have had two votes - one for legally obtained and one for pirated. My collection is 46.5GB of 100% legal MP3s in 13,225 songs.

Nyle

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Snakeman1 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:01:17 EDT

675 CDs, 8500 tracks of mp3@320kbps. 65gb. 100% legit and ripped from my CDs.

Took a weekend and 4 weeknights to rip using Windows MP11.

Duplicate directory stored on External HDD

Snakeman1

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

laxm.com — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:52:50 EDT

40gb of music, 2tb of porn.

laxm.com

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

1roll20s — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:47:19 EDT

You sure can see on the curve where people who legally obtained their music drop off.

1roll20s

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Claystil — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:17:27 EDT

I have 10 BILLION songs. Bitches.

Claystil

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Amalas — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:24:03 EDT

Only about 18GB right now. I would have more, but I haven't finished ripping all my real CDs to mp3. Once those are done, it'll probably be about 30+GB.

Amalas

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Spaztrick — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:09:49 EDT

All I know is my MP3's weight a ton.

Currently have five 500GB external drives full of music. Yeah, some of it is duplicated at different bitrates. And at least half are live concerts that have never been available for sale. Not really sure as to how much is legit. I own over 3000 cd's and 500 pieces of vinyl.

Spaztrick

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

ideaman2020 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:34:04 EDT

@NeoAkira: Poorly written? I don't think so.

But it may not have been the best analogy.

How about this one:

It's like not buying an insurance policy because you were screwed over once by a shady insurance company.

Does that make more sense to you?

ideaman2020

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Narfmaster — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:16:03 EDT

About 200 gigs or so.

Yeah I'm saying no more.

Narfmaster

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Metropolis — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:15:52 EDT

I have about 40-50 Gb worth of music. I only listen to about 10 gb of it. Ill dowload discographies for a single song nad just let it sit there. I'll discover a band and listen to them for a week then never give a try again then just let the music rot on my hard drive. are completely

Metropolis

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

ideon — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:12:52 EDT

right now i have about 80gigs of music on my hd, but its mostly old records that are too expensive for me to buy on ebay, or to rare to find for sale at all.

ideon

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

keysereble — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:07:51 EDT

does this include cds?

i have over 2000 cds, with about 500 of them original.

i moonlight as a dj

(that count will go up once i continue converting my 10 remaining crates of vynil to mp3) :)

keysereble

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

pcs800 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:43:59 EDT

I have a file server in the home with a 250GB drive that is about 1/4 full of music.
All music is either ripped from cd or purchased online. Being a musician who has music being traded via p2p, i don't mind paying people for their products.

pcs800

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

kc2idf — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:33:28 EDT

There is a problem with this in that it doesn't really address density....

All MP3s that I create myself are CBR at 192kb/s. I have some that were created elsewhere that are lower, but very few below 160kb/s. This tends to inflate the size of my collection due to 128kb/s being more typical for MP3, for some stupid reason (they very rarely sound even reasonably good at that low bitrate).

The big clinker, though, is that I have a handful that are AC3, as well as some that are video (usually with AC3 or PCM soundtrack). For example, I have some David Bowie videos with 720x480 resolution, 7Mb/s video and 48/16/2 PCM audio. Those things are monsters.

Someone using FLAC would tend to have atypically large space requirements; someone using AAC would have similarly shrunken disc space requirements.

kc2idf

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Slab — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:35:31 EDT

I'm still in the process of archiving my CD collection in .flac for use with my Squeezebox Duet. From where I am now it will probably be in the 201 to 250 gig range. That's all just from CDs.

Slab

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

yogibimbi — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:57:42 EDT

@Kaiser-Machead: second that. I am not a great music listener any more, so there is stuff even in my 2 DVDs worth of MP3s that I have not yet listened to.

Anyway, here is one question: If you ripped songs as MP3s from your CD collection and then gave away the CD collection to your local library because you didn't want to carry the weight around with you anymore, could the RIAA kick your sorry ass?

yogibimbi

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

cbdsteve — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:45:21 EDT

That picture - isn't it Whispering Bob Harris?

(for the benenfis of non-UK readers: [www.bobharris.org] - he presented an awesome music show in the 70s called The Old Gray Whistle Test, had great bands playing live in the studio, no backing tapes, no miming)

cbdsteve

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

soggy_cheerio — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:11:40 EDT

Frankly, I'm far more interested in what Gizmodoians listen to, than how much they have.

soggy_cheerio

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

soggy_cheerio — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:08:15 EDT

What a bunch of pussies. I have a couple thousand CDs(my tastes have matured). I got sick of trading music way back in the day... used to trade by the gig on IRC back when the only way to get an mp3 was to crack the actual codec. It took longer to rip a song than it did to listen to it.

Nowadays, I only rip lossless.

If you think it doesn't matter, you should seriously reconsider the music you listen to.

That's what baffled my mind about how much disk space gizmodo readers have. THERE HASN'T BEEN THAT MUCH GOOD SHIT RELEASED--movies OR music. And, I know, I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE music. (most of what you listen to is absolute CRAP.)

soggy_cheerio

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

epistemus — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:51:56 EDT

I have well over 300+ gigs, but it really isn't that many songs. I have a lot of friends who are DJs and we work on things at my place (because I have a nice studio). It is all in raw, typically sampled directly out of the mixer coming from a couple of decks. Then there's a whole chunk of it that's just re-compressed versions of the raw stuff. I haven't bought music in a long time, but then again I haven't listened to music I should have paid for in just as long.

epistemus

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

mangochutney — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:25:51 EDT

Mine is around 70GB and nearly all of it it legit.
What take up a huge amount of space are all those classical albums ripped in ALAC with iTunes.
But I'm one of those guys who thinks that lossless is the only right way to store classical music.
No dublicates either, I keep everything well sorted.

mangochutney

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

brucefdavis — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:14:37 EDT

500GB duplicated on 2 WD MyBooks and an additional 150 on my laptop. I'm a DJ, and you never know what song you will be asked to play.

brucefdavis

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

turbofreak — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:36:51 EDT

Right now I am right under 20GB
That's about 4,300 songs now...all mostly compressed at 168 VBR to save space on the iPod which is nearly full. Then i'll have an excuse to buy an new iPod. Hurray!

turbofreak

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

DozeUser — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:29:59 EDT

about 16GB made about 10GB from my own personal CD collection and about 6GB in music that has been ripped from CD's i have borrowed from friends, i dunno what borrowing a friends CD and ripping it counts as (and if anyone knows tell me) but i would say that it is legit

DozeUser

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

everybody000 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:18:29 EDT

450 GB and counting. Non legit.
And here's the kick. I don't own an media player yet!
I'm thinking Zune 80 or iPod 80.

everybody000

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

thatzac — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:30:07 EDT

i guess i'm running at around 450G, I had a huge music collection (cd, tape and vinyl) to begin with, and it just made sense to digitize everything for space reasons.
i listen to a ton of different music, and it's just easier at this point to have all the music easily accessible digitally. it probably doesn't help that i'm totally a collector and i'll rip my friends' cd collections as well. i'd have to say that i'm probably 95% legal as far as downloads go anyway.

thatzac

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

KenjiFinster — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:21:07 EDT

34GB, ~6,000 songs / ~400 albums always on with me (in the laptop). The main backup has around 65 or 70GB and about 800 albums. All in 128/256k AAC (My ears are shattered, so I don't mind).

And yes, everything is original (My dad had a record store until the late 90s)

KenjiFinster

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Ryanraven — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:20:45 EDT

Over the years it's been alot more, i delete stuff i don't listen to. Right now i clock in at like 5 gigs. spring cleaning soon?

I have about 200 gig's backed up on DVD's. The largest my colllection has got in one sitting is 40 gig's. over a week i slimmed down to 12.

Ryanraven

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

opus13 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:55:07 EDT

i ripped over 2200 cd's at 320 vbr

dear lord it took forever

opus13

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

videoCWK — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:44:21 EDT

2.66GB, though it's rapidly expanding.

videoCWK

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

riancurtis — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:41:49 EDT

you need every version of Pearl Jam's Daughter you can get. Period.

riancurtis

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

mdamianc — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:40:21 EDT

@EQC spelled it out explicitly... my pops paid $20,000+ when CD's cost $15/per (1982-1997) and every single one is legit because I touched it personally when my bloody fingers loaded it into the tray. If you have ~500 G "legally", did you really spend $100K (at avg itunes cost of $10/per) of your hard-earned cash on this collection? Again, professional DJ's aside...

mdamianc

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

mdamianc — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:33:00 EDT

Follow up being, if 22 or so full-length classical CD's = 1 G of storage, those folks with 500 G of music equates to 11,000 full-length CD's. Totally doable if you are a career DJ, but what about everyone else? Do you really know to search for 11,000 solid albums worth of music? Calling to task isn't my style, but it took me 9 FULL days to load and catalog my dad's "small" 100% legal library... Again, just curious... (Movies and DVDs excluded, of course...)

mdamianc

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

jammin80503 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:26:22 EDT

25 gigs, mostly legit. If the RIAA wants me, they can have a cage match with me. :P

jammin80503

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

mdamianc — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:24:50 EDT

Meh...
Not to be a total hater or anything here, but I just finished uploading my father's 1,367 CD long classic music collection and it only took up 61.8 G in iTunes. GraceNotes found all but a handful of the discs (which I manually entered), and everything was loaded straight and proper. He and my mom moved to a retirement community and donated the whole lot, so I cataloged, labeled, stickered, and put them on a new 180G iPod classic for him. (Along with a "check-out" system for their new housing community's library...) How are you all getting 10G + when I entered over one thousand three hundred full classical discs and ended up where I am today? Just curious...

mdamianc

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

devianaut — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:18:06 EDT

130 GB > music. 70% legit (real and not dl'd)....

500 GB > movies. 50% legit....

2 TB > any other digital stuff.... (music projects, digital art, etc).

i need another internal drive :( it's hard to keep up with all the storage increase!

devianaut

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

otaking241 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:10:41 EDT

This is like a dick size poll for nerds: most people making the most extravagant claims are gonna be lying.

My own collection? 1.4TB

(read: 90GB in 15K songs)

otaking241

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

God made the pretty girls pretty because he likes them more — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:02:23 EDT

About 85 GB or 14000 tracks. There's not much duplication in there either, except from live albums.

I sometimes wonder how many live performances of Pearl Jam's "Daughter" I really need.

God made the pretty girls pretty because he likes them more

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

josejuan05 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:01:16 EDT

So, all you OCD people out there have nothing on me. You want some seriously precise stats? I use Foobar2000 and I pulled these all up in 10 seconds...

3818 Songs
1wk 3d 9:31:18.599
20.3GB (21 860 013 474 bytes)
MP3 CBR (41.0%);
MP3 VBR V7 (0.2%);
MP3 VBR V3 (2.0%);
MP3 VBR V2 (32.1%);
MP3 VBR V1 (15.9%);
MP3 VBR V0 (3.6%);
MP3 (3.1%);
MP3 VBR (1.3%);
MP3 ABR (0.8%);
Average bitrate: 195 kbps

~50% Legit. There's about 1.5 Gigs of orchestra concerts that I've played in...

josejuan05

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Jamaces — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:57:48 EDT

I have about 30 gigs.
bought a time capsule so my 60g power book could still have all the music I wanted no matter where I was in the house.

Sucks if im on the go on it that I have to then use my ipod but ehhn

Jamaces

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

limpits — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:53:06 EDT

redo the vote by # of songs, i said i have ~50gigs but some of the songs are lossless etc while others aren't. # of songs is much more accurate, im at about 7000

limpits

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

themightykorean — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:45:17 EDT

About 837 gigs worth of music. Had to buy another 500GB hard drive. True story.

themightykorean

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

yooper1019 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:11:14 EDT

could we have a redo by number of songs? i'm about deaf so my quality is set low but i feel i have a lot of songs; about 15,000

yooper1019

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

fussnfeathers — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:01:54 EDT

I've got about 350gb or so, most of which I've listened to.

fussnfeathers

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

blindaxs — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:55:55 EDT

100-200 GB spread out over multiple devices, hdds, media laying around...

Who's this Riaa girl, and why are people so mad at her? ;)

blindaxs

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

erwinmayer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:48:09 EDT

i've been downloading music since napster appeared... i thought i had them all well organized until coverflow came along. now i feel the need to get all the album covers for all of them! 50gb. of album cover search all over again.

erwinmayer

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

riancurtis — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:47:10 EDT

my music is 237 gigs (1411 Artists, 3421 albums, 44896 songs)....my movies 236 gigs ( 236 movies) my tv shows.... 126 gigs (7 full series)

it is the community hard drive...passed a 300gb to all my friends 4 years ago...kept growing .. now have a 1.5TB maxtor external.

The CHD is a true blessing to tons of friends I have.. . . .
thanks to my friends, iTunes, and Handbrake for making this dream a reality.

hey, maybe it is all legal.

riancurtis

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

vicsells — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:46:35 EDT

I don't really care about music as much as Photography. I've got about 20gb of music.

I've got about 80 gb of photography

vicsells

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

shenanigans — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:39:49 EDT

10,000 songs. 11 gigs. 99% illegal. 1% legit.

My ass going to jail. Priceless.
For everything else, there's Limewire. Fucking the RIAA over wherever computers exist.

shenanigans

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

mechfluff — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:24:19 EDT

I have around 60gb

Some of that is music videos.

Lots of it is crap I never listen to.

mechfluff

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

xkl — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:22:16 EDT

over ~35 gb, all proudly illegally downloaded and wishing for more.. otherwise the artists are there for the music not only for the money right ?!
anyways the quest is after 100gb how tha heck you get that organized?

xkl

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Tsumi91 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:19:22 EDT

~6gb music(half ~300kbps .flac, half mp3)
~20gb spoken word
~300gb video(anime, movies, etc.

Tsumi91

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

astrograph — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:10:55 EDT

i'd say its now between 100-150 gigs

astrograph

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

phryed — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:05:45 EDT

a good question would be, what bitrate do you rip your music at?

phryed

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

kylo4 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:02:05 EDT

49GB with nearly 11,000 tracks. I'm 18 too, and music is my life.

kylo4

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

tuanye — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:52:37 EDT

I have slightly over 500 GB. Most of it is on my external 750 GB WD. It is backed up on hard media (DVD-R's). I am in the process of purchasing another WD external and backing up my media files on there as well.

About 70% of of my albums and promo CD's are official group scene releases. I am still in the process of archiving my retail CD's into digital format as well. I use EAC as the grabber, LAME as the encoder and mp3Releaser to tag and create .nfo and .sfv files. Everything is categorized by genre, single PROMO CD's, LP's, OST's and Mixtapes. mp3's are encoded as at least 192kbps CBR or a higher quality VBR.

Before I discovered mIRC, warez and Rapidshare --I spent at least $10k alone in retail albums in 1999. But that's still not to say I don't support the artists I enjoy. I still buy retail.

How about a survey on the size of Gizmodo reader's digital pr0nz collection?

tuanye

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

AppleSalsa — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:52:19 EDT

41 GB

10,118 songs

and an unimported, previous generation's vinyl and CD collection.

I feel kind of like a dick considering I haven't listened to all of it yet, but hey, it makes shuffle interesting.

Not bad for a 16 year old.

AppleSalsa

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Snowrunner — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:48:12 EDT

Looking at my iTunes right now it claims

552.66GB, but I haven't ripped a few CDs yet I bough earlier this week.

Then there are ~82GB in audio books (or mainly spoken word material).

So all in all I am well above 600GB.

Seriously, you guy's top out at 300GB? Who are you? Apple?

[thedarkerside.to]

Snowrunner

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

M_Mickey — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:26:08 EDT

650 GB (+backup)
206 days of nonstop music!
73537 songs(all from complete releases, all tagged and organized)

Organized in J.River Mediacenter 12

Ditched the cd as a format in 2003, most of my cds are in storage. Not shure why I keep then.
at all.

M_Mickey

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

illiniguy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:24:27 EDT

I've only got around 35 gigs, but my dad has over 600gigs at home, I would have a copy myself if I had the space for it...

illiniguy

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

x23 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:17:55 EDT

288GB... i forget how many songs. digitizing all the CDs to get to that point took a very very long time.

not that all of it is from digitized CDs or 100% legit. but 1000s and 1000s of albums worth were.

i've probably spent 10x as much on my legit portion than the average "100% legit" collector has.

x23

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

o0adam0o — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:59:58 EDT

19500 all MP3. Its all spanish music so the RIAA doesnt care about me jejeje *hears knock on the door*..jej...

o0adam0o

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Skorpius — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:58:22 EDT

Once I'm finished ripping my CD collection, it will be around 430 gigs, CD to ALAC (Apple Lossless), no lossy garbage for me.

Skorpius

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

ungivenglory — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:57:22 EDT

close to 90 gigs of digital music, according to itunes 41 days worth.

15-20% of which is ripped from my own cds or purchased, rest is downloaded :)

ungivenglory

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Josh_Geyer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:45:17 EDT

About 75 GB all AAC and MP3

Josh_Geyer

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

aamith — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:22:51 EDT

30162 songs, 327gb. all ripped from around 2000 legally purchased (many used) cds. the average price of the cd's in my collection is $8.29. why pay more for DRM and mediocre sound?

aamith

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Denver_80203 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:22:49 EDT

And for the record I would love to meet people in the Denver area who want to swap drives. Sneaker net is where it's at.

Just don't come with 128kbs bullshit and no organization skills. I'm sick of that crap. I'll take anything my philosophy is 1. I may not like it but the next guy will and 2. fuck the RIAA

Denver_80203

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

kyledwards — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:21:48 EDT

I have 3.8TB of music all encoding in 96k. It's about 100,000,000,000 songs and recordings of girls farting.

Seriously, I have 11GB of legit stuff.

kyledwards

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

frigg — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:20:32 EDT

@NeoAkira: Actually, I think a better analogy would be like buying an insurance policy for your house, and simultaneously backing up your hard drive. However, the next day your hard drive crashes, and when your insurance agent calls to confirm the policy, you're so pissed off that you can barely concentrate on what she's saying, and so even though she says something about blanket coverage, you think she's complaining that you're hogging the blankets, and even though you've never actually met her, you tell her you can't help the way you tug blankets onto your body while you're sleeping and it's your damn bed anyway, and then she gets all upset and calls a mutual friend who comes over and kicks your ass, and then the both of you think it's actually kind of funny and order a pizza, which would ordinarily be fine, but for some reason the pizza is made with some kind of oil derived from nuts, and you're allergic to nuts, and your face starts to swell up and you have to ask this dude who just kicked your ass to give you some kind of shot, which is... awkward.

frigg

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

currentresident — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:17:08 EDT

1.5TB online, Probably another 1TB archived. Mostly boots and full discographies. I have 93GB of the Greatful Dead alone, not even my favorite band. Just some info, 13.3GB is all of the Jimi Hendrix in at least 160bps. A random playlist takes on a whole new meaning.

currentresident

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Denver_80203 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:16:33 EDT

250 - 300 GB
All 192kbs or better mp3 with nice clean tags in a nice clean folder structure. maybe 70% full albums. 51784 tracks

Denver_80203

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jackfrost132 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:13:54 EDT

21,000 or so songs.

jackfrost132

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

bradc2755 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:10:26 EDT

300.32GB 49,817songs.

bradc2755

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Lizard_King — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:06:27 EDT

@AndyMac: Yes, you are right about the number of tracks. I started ripping early on, so most of my collection is 128K (I don't need quality in the car, on the motorcycle or on the bicycle) and always wanted to rip them in lossless if a portable player that I actually liked supported it - I am still waiting for that day. In fact, I thought that with 32GB and maybe 64GB flash players by the end of the year, we would see FLAC and lossless become more prevalent, however, I see people shifting to multimedia devices, and 128K songs will sit alongside teeny-tiny movies - *sigh*.

For the record, I have 9804 Songs spanning about 800 CDs. Not a lot, but certainly an investment.

Lizard_King

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

priceytoys — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:01:00 EDT

I have about 100GB. Probably 98% legit (ripped from my own stuff- about 1000 CDs, plus downloaded content, vinyl, etc.). I don't think 100GB is all that unusual for a 39-year-old music lover who's been buying CDs since the 80s. And I do still prefer my CDs, because of sound quality, even though they take up so much space.

priceytoys

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MasterYong — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:58:18 EDT

@cashoverass: Unless there is some sort of INCREDIBLY high quality format that you have archived your CDs into that I'm completely unaware of- that's UNPOSSIBLE. I have over 2000 albums in my iTunes library and they only take about 180GB or so- seems unlikely that you have 1,500 that takes over 300GB. More likely you have a LOT more CDs than you think you do!

MasterYong

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cliston — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:46:15 EDT

I have 12 500 gig drives full. 95% is live music, mostly of live Grateful Dead and Widespread Panic, plus many many others.

cliston

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NeoAkira — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:44:38 EDT

@Fierock:

Hahah I agree, that's probably more accurate to this case.

NeoAkira

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pickleprince — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:41:08 EDT

700 gigs. :)

pickleprince

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Fierock — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:41:07 EDT

@NeoAkira: I was thinking more along the lines of going to put insurance on the car and on the way home getting in an accident - then realizing the insurance company went bankrupt before processing your claim.

Fierock

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

AryzonaBay — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:40:13 EDT

@AlanIn4D:

You are correct about this. However, I have the whole enchilada backed up on an external drive as well. *knocks on wood*

AryzonaBay

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Barry99705 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:35:53 EDT

@alter: Cause we all know, cds aren't digital.....

Barry99705

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AlanIn4D — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:35:52 EDT

@AryzonaBay: Not when a hard drive fails..

AlanIn4D

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Gimmeslack12 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:34:21 EDT

Just to clarify.
Non-digital = music stored on anything but your computer.
Digital = music stored on computer.

Yeah it's not that technical of definitions, but then again it's not that hard to understand either.
I have 41gigs, 95% of which the internets provided gratis.

Gimmeslack12

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

iStig — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:34:20 EDT

About 50GB here. Mostly legit, and at at decently high quality. Around 4500 tracks total.

Not to troll, but all of the people who have (or claim to have) 300 GB+ music libraries - how many of the songs do you actually listen to? How much of it have you played, and liked?

Almost everything in my music library is stuff I like, and have listened to multiple times.

iStig

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Xsteven — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:34:12 EDT

well, it´s about 4Gbs right now....only like 20 or 30 legal songs...i´d have more legal songs if there was an iTunes Store in Dominican Republic...i hate going to the CDs store cause they always have the music at least at twice of the price. A normal cd that in the US costs like 14 or 15 dollars here costs between 700 and 1200 pesos, thats like 30 dollars.

Xsteven

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

elislider — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:31:31 EDT

about 65gb, all 192-256 vbr or cbr
and about half legit

if anyone hasnt tried mediamonkey, do it now

elislider

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

11hawkinst — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:31:06 EDT

What a coincidence! I'm actually burning my entire music collections onto my new external hard drive!

It's gonna be a long night (I got like 500 cds)

11hawkinst

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

AryzonaBay — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:29:02 EDT

A quick check of my MP3 folder says 60.0GB - 13,351 files, 992 folders. I'd say most of these files are 260kbps and up. Add to that my wife's folder (separate from mine for good reason lol), which is 4.89GB.

Some of my collection is stuff that I'll probably never get to listen to, but I've sorta taken to archiving things in case I "might" ever want to listen to something. I've bought a lot of CDs since I was a teenager, and a lot of this archiving is just me restoring my collection (damaged, lost or stolen CDs) and then some.

Also of note, my wife and I did a lot of spring cleaning over the weekend and I got rid of a LOT of CDs and CD cases. I did this because the physical copies are obsolete at this point.

AryzonaBay

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

alter — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:27:41 EDT

I think about 30Gb...everything illegal! yeah!
free download! free music! I'll never pay for digital music.
But I'd pay for a CD, for example.

alter

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rospaya — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:24:14 EDT

Couple of GB's less than 100. All legal, paid for via blank tape laws.

rospaya

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NeoAkira — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:22:43 EDT

@ideaman2020:

I couldn't really understand your analogy as it was poorly written, but I'll do you one better.

It's kind of like buying insurance only to get in an accident the next day and have your insurance company tell you to fuck off and pay all the damages yourself.

NeoAkira

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G for GRENADE — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:20:36 EDT

*aiff, not tiff (CS on the brain...)

G for GRENADE

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G for GRENADE — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:20:11 EDT

Well, the type of file should also be taken in consideration. mp3s? wave? tiff?

G for GRENADE

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daftrok — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:19:00 EDT

Why in God's name do you people have more than 10,000 songs? I can't even THINK of 10,000 songs!

daftrok

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flatmap — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:16:57 EDT

81GB here, of which 70% is in Apple Lossless and another 30% in uncompressed AIFF.

There are starting to be sites (e.g. Linn Records) which offer 24/96 files, so I expect I'll be up in the 300GB range by this time next year.

Currently almost all of these are from my CD collection.

flatmap

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jedimaster0103 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:14:51 EDT

I get all my music from the iTunes store, which also sells videos as you all must know, so my tunes and my TV shows are mixed together, so most of my 24 GB music collection, space-wise, is probably videos.

jedimaster0103

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AndyMac — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:12:02 EDT

My home music collection is 133GB of FLAC files consiting of 409 albums/5472 tracks. That collection is duplicated on my antique 3G iPod in the car as 21GB of 128K MP3. All legal, 99.9% ripped from original CD which are stored away or very small number of Amazon.com downloads.

It might have been better to ask how many tracks vs how much space since different people are going to store in different compression rates or formats.

AndyMac

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Fierock — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:11:59 EDT

I'm right in the middle of the pack - 25GB, hardly any of it is paid for, and I barely listen to any of it - in fact a lot of it is crap, but thanks to torrents when I want a particular song I just usually download the entire album or even the artist's discography.

Since their is such a vast library of music available if you are willing to infringe on the artist's copyright (or alternatively share it with the worldwide network of your friends). It is a waste of resources to back any of this up since it is only a couple clicks away.

Fierock

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Videas — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:10:38 EDT

@EQC:

I bought my first vinyl in 1981. I purchased my first CD in 1987. I have been an avid music collector for nearly 30 years now. If I were to calculate all the money I've paid in records, I would get depressed indeed. :(

Although I got rid of most of my vinyls (Ebay), I still keep around many of my original CDs, especially those I really like. Sentimental value, I guess.

Videas

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

James D — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:10:23 EDT

~240 gigs and probably 99% of it is legit. The only stuff I download is things I can't buy, I'm a lossless weenie so the total number of songs isn't that huge compared to some other people.

James D

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dead_red_eyes — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:10:16 EDT

@Boognish:

How big your song collection is.

dead_red_eyes

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dead_red_eyes — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:09:52 EDT

@ideaman2020:

Same here.

dead_red_eyes

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Jones Foyer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:08:10 EDT

CD's are digital, dumbass.

Jones Foyer

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Boognish — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:07:59 EDT

Are you asking to find out hard drive size or quantity of songs

Boognish

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William Hook — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:05:36 EDT

8GB or so.

William Hook

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MiddleOfNowhere — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:01:21 EDT

150 GB, circa 60% from my own CDs, most of the rest from friends' CDs, which is/was totally legal in my country.

Now what I find more interesting is how my interest in all that music *dropped* when that collection was expanded from the CDs I had purchased myself (3-5 per month) to what friends were willing to share: "Hey, here is a hundred CDs worth of music; help yourself." I thought that a bigger collection would be a gift, but now I find myself listening to *less* music.

Someone once said "The things I wanted made me happier than the things I got." True, for whatever reason.

MiddleOfNowhere

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Jesustron — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:58:46 EDT

only 30 gb, but i mean, thats about 6000 songs, I don't see any anyone needs more music than this. Then again my brother does own more than twice this much in CDs and its way more impressive to see than digital music.

Jesustron

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st.bao.luo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:57:48 EDT

I have about 60GB of music, but I think I only actively listen to about 15-20GB at anytime.

st.bao.luo

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

EQC — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:57:07 EDT

1) What sort of crazy world do we live in where CD's aren't considered "Digital Music?"

2) On average, those who are "legit" probably pay about $1 per song -- whether your legit digital music is from a CD you ripped or from some online store. Say the average compressed song is about 5 MB. That's 200 songs per gigabyte. $200/GB. Got 10 GB of legit MP3/AAC/Whatever? That's $2000. 100 GB? Try $20,000.

3) Let me just repeat that: if you've really got 100 GB of legitimately paid for digital music, you may well have paid $20,000 for it . Over 300 GB? You're dangerously close to $100,000 on music!

4) Holy cow! That's just shocking for me to think about (I'm not judging...we've all got our own tastes...)

EQC

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

bbfreak — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:51:19 EDT

Geeze, lots of music, hopefully you somehow listen to it all. I mean the shuffle feature pretty much sucks, and isn't nearly as smart as it should be. Which is why I downgraded from 40 gigs to 13, I only want stuff I actually want to listen to. Everything else goes away, granted I've a long way to go till I'm done adding to my collection but like I said before quality instead of quantity for me.

bbfreak

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Videas — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:51:00 EDT

@brutek:
Same here. I like the fact that Apple at least started to sell music encoded at higher rates (320 kbps) through iTunes Plus.

If space is not an issue (either on an iPod Classic or using a large hard drive), it is the way to go. Encoding at higher or lossless rates always involves very large audio files (25 MB or more for a song that's usually under 5 MB if encoded at 128 Kbps).

Like you, I was a bit peeved with the compression levels in MP3. I use AAC at 320 Kbps, and recently I started to play around with FLAC. My only concern is making sure that the format I use for my music is compatible with other devices (my iPod), and that it passes the test of time. I want to be able to enjoy my high-quality digital music in the future.

Videas

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ideaman2020 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:50:38 EDT

@NeoAkira: Yeah, that's kind of like not buying insurance because after the day after you bought your last insurance policy you were in an accident...

ideaman2020

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liveinvt — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:50:34 EDT

My music collection is as big as the CDs I legally purchased!

FTW

liveinvt

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anon26 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:47:45 EDT

Digital Smigital
Its Analog + Vynal all the way man.

anon26

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Inepsa — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:46:48 EDT

I have 350GB of music. The rest of my 2 TB is movies.

Inepsa

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jkbuster — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:45:18 EDT

my music library is only 10GB or so (100% legit), but with all of my TV shows and movies my iTunes library is well over 300GB. (so that I can stream to my Apple TV)

jkbuster

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codywalker — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:43:29 EDT

Does anyone remember the story of a guy who was trying to archive every song ever? anyone know if he ever pulled it off? Would LOVE A LINK to that story.

codywalker

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akgw — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:41:12 EDT

110 GB, all legit with CD backups

akgw

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

davesjoint — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:40:34 EDT

I download alot of live music in FLAC and Shorten formats from bit torrent sites. I convert to Wave files and store on CD's. I must have 400 to 500GB's of that alone. Not to mention another 500 commercial CD's and whatever is on my HD at the time (another 20 Gigs). My wife says "when are you gonna listen to all of that?" It's CRAZY! You can find a great Live Music Download resource at Dave's Music Links. Also check out Darkstarjamblog if your into Jambands and the Dead.

davesjoint

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jgravitas — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:38:53 EDT

Damn, so close to that magic 300Gb mark! I'm just under that now, all stored on a home server so I can listen to any of it wherever I have a net connection.

I think about 80-100Gb of mine is "legitimate," meaning that I own the original CD from which the music was ripped.

jgravitas

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

brutek — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:38:20 EDT

...close to a terabyte, but I collect in FLAC format.

I also have a translated version in AAC format for mobility.

When I hear distortion in select songs that are mp3 or AAC encoded, I go back to the FLAC and encode in a higher rate.

Ideally I want to carry at least a third of my collection in FLAC format, if not all of it.

Apple has AAC and mp3; so why not ALAC and FLAC? Is that too much to ask to put into iTunes and iPod?

brutek

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

kclofter — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:36:57 EDT

99 Gig, compressed but not lossy (FLAC). Survey should accommodate for differing file types - eg, 99G of MP3 is lot more hours of music than 99G of WAV files.

kclofter

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deadsylent — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:36:23 EDT

70gb+ all 320kbs or better.

deadsylent

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Galavoxx — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:35:49 EDT

176GB and I wish I had more. There are still a ton of albums I want but cannot afford to buy and aren't available through the news groups.

Galavoxx

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tehronin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:34:37 EDT

80 - 100 due to a lot of .flac discogs.

tehronin

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Weezie — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:34:04 EDT

110GB, all at 256 AAC, 85% legit.

Weezie

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Videas — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:32:27 EDT

Quick note: Yes, my music collection is also a subset of my CD/vinyl collection, and I am used to digitizing at very high rates (320 Kbps most of the time). This, of course, creates very large digital files.

I like good sound quality overall, and I often can't stand overtly compressed music. Call me an audio snob, but I can tell when it's poorly compressed and it bothers me a little.

I'm sure if I were using the average 128 Kbps compression, my collection would be one third the size it is today (probably 150 GB instead of 400+ GB).

Videas

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

stirgeon — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:32:11 EDT

I have a little over 135 GB. I have heard most of it too. Its about 50% legit and 50% jacked.

Fuck you RIAA.

stirgeon

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

Balaw28 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:30:21 EDT

IM at 876.07gigs of music most of it from online and my biggest collection is teh grateful dead with 85 gigs of live show. i hope thats legal

Balaw28

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NeoAkira — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:29:32 EDT

@bbfreak:

I once bought a 500GB external harddrive to back up my stuff. I transferred about 250GB of data onto the external and next day it crashed and lost all that info. That's why I find external HDD's worthless. That's why I don't feel the need to back stuff up, lesson learned.

NeoAkira

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sisedi — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:29:03 EDT

Holy shnikeys 300gb!?!?! I'm surprisingly in the popular range, 21-40, and of course most of it is "borrowed" from the a ton of my IP friends.

Haha, 67.345.23.578, good one!

sisedi

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rawtoast — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:28:50 EDT

120gb I think

rawtoast

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

lpeterson23 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:28:24 EDT

Organizing my ID3 tags is like an obsession. As of last night, I was pushing 76,000+ songs - about 387GB worth. Not many are FLAC or WAV, I'd say average 256Kbps MP3.

Happy to say I listen to nearly all of it as I'm on my computer about 18 hours of each day.

lpeterson23

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Fall-Apart — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:28:23 EDT

Yay for Canadian downloading laws... my collection is around 55GB

Fall-Apart

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bbfreak — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:28:08 EDT

Mahahah, yes, I deleted about 30 gigs of music on purpose! I'm so evil! In my defense, it was heavy metal, country, and other crap I don't remember where it came from.

bbfreak

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bbfreak — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:27:20 EDT

@Samifumi: That's why you back stuff up, well you sure learned you lesson I hope.

bbfreak

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bbfreak — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:26:51 EDT

Of course it was 40 gigs, so obviously I deleted a lot of it... Oops.

bbfreak

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Samifumi — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:26:28 EDT

A few years ago, I had a hard drive failure and lost everything: pictures, documents, videos, music. I miss the pictures and documents, haven't done anything really to replace the videos or the music.

Samifumi

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phijef — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:24:50 EDT

I only have 13.6 gigs...I feel unworthy.

phijef

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ideaman2020 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:23:41 EDT

My digital music collection is mostly a subset of my CD/vinyl music collection...

Which is substantial.

But not obsessive.

Honestly.

ideaman2020

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bbfreak — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:22:32 EDT

@TallDudeFromBrazil: Agreed, quality over quantity any day.

bbfreak

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Videas — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:20:56 EDT

I started collecting CD's since the late 1980's.

Then started digitizing my CDs and vinyls to MP3 in the mid-1990's.

Then along came Napter in the later 1990's, and digital music became the main format.

Since then, I have bought and digitized more and more music.

As of today, I have a 500 GB hard drive almost full with my music collection.

Videas

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TallDudeFromBrazil — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:20:37 EDT

I only get musics that i like,,,,its 11 GB now....

I heard all of them. Could probrably shrink it by half if i needed to...

TallDudeFromBrazil

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synth7 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:20:18 EDT

~12300 songs, 96GB, 0% legit. its all on my 160GB iPod classic and my current favs on my 8GB iPhone.

am i going to jail?

synth7

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bbfreak — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:19:58 EDT

Eh, only 13 gigs for me.

bbfreak

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outinthedark — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:17:53 EDT

Sad to say I am in the 300+ category. Had to add in an additional hard drive to my mac because I like to download the discography of band I enjoy. Even some I just found out about I will download whatever they have released.

outinthedark

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cashoverass — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:16:48 EDT

i dont understand. i have a 60 gig and an 80gig ipod full, plus a few gigs on my computer and a 160 gig external harddrive that i use to back it all up.
but i own 99.9% of all that stuff on cd in my 1,500 cd collection

cashoverass

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Lizard_King — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:12:14 EDT

40GB...every single song is 100% legitimate. I have the bookshelves full of CDs to prove it - though nowhere near as many as the guy in the pic above.

Lizard_King

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Darrone — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:11:00 EDT

Don't tell the RIAA, but its prob 350 gigs.... most i don't listen to I just enjoy pissing off the RIAA.

Darrone

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Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:10:44 EDT

Right now, it's just about 10GB, and even then there's a good amount of stuff that I could do away with.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!