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stwain2003
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Sep 22, 2007, 05:13 PM
 
Mine is 24.79GB and I have 6485 songs. You?
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Sep 22, 2007, 05:23 PM
 
eh...haven't seen one of these in a while.

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55.10 GB and 7871 songs.
     
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I'm currently importing my entire collection. It's at 52 GB, 8100 songs. I'm about 1/3 through.

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'sup?
     
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7554 songs, 21.2 days, 37.48GB
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Sep 22, 2007, 05:47 PM
 
Hmmm...
I have it split it two, one is higher quality bit rate which is:
~653 songs, 1.5 days, 5.24GB
the other is lower bit rate quality and off the top of my head it is:
~18.xx gb, the actual songs & days I do not remember.

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2323 / 6.9 days / 12.34 GB
     
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4516 songs, 12.2 days, 172.82 gig (mostly AIFF) 2000 or so from Vinyl

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Originally Posted by starman View Post
I'm currently importing my entire collection. It's at 52 GB, 8100 songs. I'm about 1/3 through.
How long have you been collecting your music for?!?!?!
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4,180 songs / 12.8 days / 41.44GB
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39.26GB, 7926 songs, 23 days
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Sep 22, 2007, 07:01 PM
 
15113 items, 55.7 days, 88.84 GB

A lot of Drum n Bass and a lot of crap I haven't even listened to in years. I should probably delete some of it but then I would want to listen to it again. I have about 300 CDs that are there as well.
     
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Sep 22, 2007, 07:39 PM
 
short version: 8032 items, 32.3 days, 49.11 GB

long version: 8032 items, 32:08:56:07 total time, 49.11 GB

That's about 1/4 of my cd collection that I deemed iTunes worthy :-)

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Eleventy Billion songs, of course.

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4474 items, 12.7 days, 52.41GB
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Sep 22, 2007, 08:03 PM
 
2796 items, 7.5 days, 22.34GB (I rip CDs at 320kb/s). That's a lot of music by itself, but some of you guys have me left way back in the dust. MONTHS worth of music? Wow. Just wow.

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Originally Posted by ghporter View Post
2796 items, 7.5 days, 22.34GB (I rip CDs at 320kb/s). That's a lot of music by itself, but some of you guys have me left way back in the dust. MONTHS worth of music? Wow. Just wow.
i know right. i do believe that nerd is winning so far


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I wish iTunes handled external drives better. I have some on my internal, and some external. I need to have two libraries to make things work - I wish it just detected whether a volume was plugged in and let you know what was available....
     
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Sep 22, 2007, 08:51 PM
 
can that really be done? have more then one library for one user? say i had some on my actual hd that i like to listen to when i am on the road, and all the rest on an external for when i am at home.


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Sep 22, 2007, 08:58 PM
 
Hold down option when you start iTunes. You can have as many libraries as you like, but only one open at once. The problem is you have to choose one - you can't index both at once.
     
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Originally Posted by rickey939 View Post


'sup?
I believe the word is, 'Zup?
     
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Sep 22, 2007, 09:21 PM
 
No, it's definitely 'sup.
     
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Sep 22, 2007, 09:21 PM
 
Beat this.

     
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1551 items, 4.9 days, 16.83 GB
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Originally Posted by sek929 View Post
No, it's definitely 'sup.
I've been spelling it, 'zup.

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Sep 22, 2007, 09:30 PM
 
4948 songs, 14.3 days, 20.55GB.
     
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Originally Posted by brassplayersrock² View Post
short version: 8032 items, 32.3 days, 49.11 GB

long version: 8032 items, 32:08:56:07 total time, 49.11 GB

That's about 1/4 of my cd collection that I deemed iTunes worthy :-)

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Originally Posted by Tiresias View Post
Beat this.



I already have


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Sep 22, 2007, 10:17 PM
 
3402 songs, 9:12:58:35 total time, 17.38 GB (mostly LAME-encoded MP3s at -V2 --vbr-new).

I rip everything to lossless first, which I store on an external drive. Not sure how big that is at the moment.

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Originally Posted by brassplayersrock² View Post
I already have


Alex
Hey brassplayers. You like Bach, if I remember correctly. Me too. I have "Bach: The Complete Works" which accounts for 15 GB of my library. I am happy to be bested by you.
     
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Sep 22, 2007, 10:51 PM
 
3403 songs / 9.9 days / 17.51 GB

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Brassplayers likes Bach? That's really good to know. I'm glad that there are some musically sophisticated people on this forum.
     
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Sep 22, 2007, 11:21 PM
 
you and i might have to do some IMing tiresias. i don't nearly have that much. only 11 hours worth in fact i did pick up the well-tempered clavier book 2 cd performed on piano by Glenn Gould the other day.


oh, and macgeek2005. heh heh. check out your conducting video on youtube the one in d minor for some tips.

i'm always like that when instructing btw, don't take it personally


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Sep 22, 2007, 11:37 PM
 
At the moment, I'm up to

7003 songs - 17:11:14:52 - 26.03 GB

But there's a ton more that I haven't added to iTunes yet.
     
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Sep 22, 2007, 11:45 PM
 
thing with me, is that I'm sure that I can over 60 days worth, but not every cd i own i really want to rip to itunes.

peeb, thanks for the tip. that'll come in handy me a thinks


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Originally Posted by macgeek2005 View Post
Brassplayers likes Bach? That's really good to know. I'm glad that there are some musically sophisticated people on this forum.
I don't like Bach, but I like Back.

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btw, macgeek, just because someone else doesn't like the style of music you do, or you theirs, doesnt mean that one music kind is supiorer to the other. why do you think there are so many genres and sub-genres and even sub-sub genres of every type of music out there? because people like different things. in the end all you have to do is play it nice and loud and all the deamons will go away; and it doesn't matter what type of music either, if you like what you hear and it's what can relax you (even hard metal can relax me sometimes), so be it.


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Originally Posted by stwain2003 View Post
How long have you been collecting your music for?!?!?!
1979

First 45 that I bought with my own money was "My Sharona" by The Knack

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Originally Posted by peeb View Post
Hold down option when you start iTunes. You can have as many libraries as you like, but only one open at once. The problem is you have to choose one - you can't index both at once.
Not to derail, but that also works in iPhoto.
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That's only music though. My entire library including video and podcasts tally 18795 items.

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Originally Posted by brassplayersrock² View Post
btw, macgeek, just because someone else doesn't like the style of music you do, or you theirs, doesnt mean that one music kind is supiorer to the other. why do you think there are so many genres and sub-genres and even sub-sub genres of every type of music out there? because people like different things. in the end all you have to do is play it nice and loud and all the deamons will go away; and it doesn't matter what type of music either, if you like what you hear and it's what can relax you (even hard metal can relax me sometimes), so be it.


Alex


*sorry that i butchered the saying.
Wow, what a mature response! You've matured so well!
     
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about 3,600 songs
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16,105 - 45.7 Days - 80.42 GB
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Originally Posted by brassplayersrock² View Post
you and i might have to do some IMing tiresias. i don't nearly have that much. only 11 hours worth in fact i did pick up the well-tempered clavier book 2 cd performed on piano by Glenn Gould the other day.


oh, and macgeek2005. heh heh. check out your conducting video on youtube the one in d minor for some tips.

i'm always like that when instructing btw, don't take it personally


Alex
Yeah, I got those comments on my video. Thanks! You seem really intelligent.
     
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Originally Posted by macgeek2005 View Post
Yeah, I got those comments on my video. Thanks! You seem really intelligent.
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2TB exactly
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All those songs! Why so many?

I used to have thousands but I've narrowed it down to "Lilly the Pink" by the scaffold, actually I only really like the chorus so I've used garage band to edit just that bit.

It fits on my 160GB ipod classic.
     
 
 
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