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Tiresias · Jan 30, 2007, 02:35 PM

I'm just in the process of importing Bach: The Complete Works

. Over 700 CDs. So far my library's at 5002 songs, 14.5 days, 25.50 GB, and aren't close to finished.

So I'm just wondering how big your libraries are.

Let the showboating begin.

Dakar² · Jan 30, 2007, 02:36 PM

I've seen numbers far, far larger than mine (8400 files) on here.

Tiresias · Jan 30, 2007, 02:40 PM

Does iTunes get sluggish when you get up around 5000, or is it my imagination? This is my real reason for posting.

At start up I get a "Loading iTunes library" progress bar that takes about, well, a few seconds, but I've never seen it before. Plus most executions—like changing information for multiple tracks—is taking longer. It's not harddisk space, cos' I still got 30 GB free.

Dakar² · Jan 30, 2007, 02:42 PM

Yes, I noticed once I hit 7500 it actually takes time to start up and shut down.

Scares the **** out of me, honestly.

Edit: I also suspect iTunes 7 isn't as efficient as its predecessor's because that's when I started noticing those symptoms.

Gossamer · Jan 30, 2007, 02:46 PM

There was someone sharing their library on my network a while back that had 85+ gigs.

Rumor · Jan 30, 2007, 02:49 PM

I'm somewhere between 20 and 25 gigs. I'm not entirely sure since I'm not home.

::maroma:: · Jan 30, 2007, 02:53 PM

My ~30GB seems tiny compared to my friend's library which is easily over 100GB. He's the type that just downloads anything and everything he can find just to make his library as big as he can get it. He doesn't even know 75% of what he has.

Dakar² · Jan 30, 2007, 02:55 PM

The % of your library you've listened to is a good indicator.

kmkkid · Jan 30, 2007, 02:55 PM

I only have 2200 songs in my library. And I thought that was a lot

My 40 GB iPod hasn't even reached half capacity (and it's 2 years old). 11.7 GBs...

BRussell · Jan 30, 2007, 02:57 PM

I don't know my exact number, but I've recently started putting movies into iTunes for network sharing and, in the future, appleTV. At around 1 gig per movie, and potentially hundreds of movies, it could get up there pretty high.

hickey · Jan 30, 2007, 03:01 PM

2224 songs. 9.71 gigs.

thinking about dropping my 30gig pod for an 8gig nano since I dont need all that space, and it's big.

kmkkid · Jan 30, 2007, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by hickey

2224 songs. 9.71 gigs.

thinking about dropping my 30gig pod for an 8gig nano since I dont need all that space, and it's big.

Once I get an iPhone I can see my iPod usages dropping. 7 GB is fine for me, cause it's more than I listen to on a regular basis anyways. I'll just make a smart playlist with my 5 GBs worth of most played songs, the rest can be pictures and small vids

Gossamer · Jan 30, 2007, 03:05 PM

Goldfinger · Jan 30, 2007, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by Tiresias

At start up I get a "Loading iTunes library" progress bar that takes about, well, a few seconds, but I've never seen it before.

iTunes 7 started to do this. The older versions never did.

I've got 18832 songs, 91,29GB.

Dakar² · Jan 30, 2007, 03:07 PM

Good someone agrees with me.

Edit: Why am I not surprised Auric has the biggest one so far.

mitchell_pgh · Jan 30, 2007, 03:13 PM

0

Music is for suckers

abbaZaba · Jan 30, 2007, 04:05 PM

10,356 songs, 45gigs, 24 days, 23 hours, 11 minutes, 46 seconds

I have more but I threw the stuff I didn't listen to a lot onto an external drive. that probably is 5-10 gigs there that's not in my iTunes library

Tiresias · Jan 30, 2007, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by Gossamer

What's up with "No album info" ? Looks like martian.

Dakar² · Jan 30, 2007, 04:15 PM

I think it's a glitch caused when they added "Album Artist"

Gossamer · Jan 30, 2007, 04:15 PM

There's a newer version of the widget out, but the site seems to be having problems today.

ort888 · Jan 30, 2007, 04:20 PM

Almost 14,000 songs and around 50 gigs.

rickey939 · Jan 30, 2007, 04:22 PM

'sup?

Dakar² · Jan 30, 2007, 04:23 PM

Your sig makes me want to pee.

ThisGuy · Jan 30, 2007, 04:30 PM

and my internet cock is huge.

rickey939 · Jan 30, 2007, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar²

Your sig makes me want to pee.

I shall change it. What flavor do you want?

Dakar² · Jan 30, 2007, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by rickey939

I shall change it. What flavor do you want?

Urine, please.

...crap, that was aloud.

Rumor · Jan 30, 2007, 04:34 PM

Eww

rickey939 · Jan 30, 2007, 04:36 PM

No, in dedication of the new iPod shuffle......

Dakar² · Jan 30, 2007, 04:38 PM

Tangy

Rumor · Jan 30, 2007, 04:47 PM

At least it wasn't in dedication of the zune.

Mr Kino · Jan 30, 2007, 04:57 PM

=)

Brien · Jan 30, 2007, 05:01 PM

I've got about 20/30GB of music, ~6000 songs. Been trimming it down, though.

If you include videos, it's closer to 40 GB.

Gossamer · Jan 30, 2007, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by ThisGuy

and my internet cock is huge.

kc311v2 · Jan 30, 2007, 05:10 PM

2850 (15GB), too much in my estimation.

SeSawaya · Jan 30, 2007, 05:21 PM

8336 songs, 40 gigs

SSharon · Jan 30, 2007, 05:58 PM

37gb not including videos. I have been getting more picky about what I add to my library, but at the same time I am also importing CDs at higher bitrates so they take up more space.

Sub · Jan 30, 2007, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by mitchell_pgh

0

Music is for suckers

Soulless asshole.

volcano · Jan 30, 2007, 06:22 PM

19848 items, 56 days, 116.82GB

I keep all my music on an external hard-drive (because my MBP has the 120GB hard-drive), and iTunes isn't slow at all. It has to 'Load the Library' everytime I launch iTunes, but honestly it takes maybe 3-5 seconds to execute that task. I think it's faster than iTunes 6 was.

What widget is that, by the way?

shifuimam · Jan 30, 2007, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by ::maroma::

My ~30GB seems tiny compared to my friend's library which is easily over 100GB. He's the type that just downloads anything and everything he can find just to make his library as big as he can get it. He doesn't even know 75% of what he has.

Hah...that sounds exactly like me. I don't use iTunes, but my iPod reports 7,916 songs, for a total of 39.3 GB or so. Some of that is used up with RockBox.

When i2Hub was still around, I download craploads of music while at work. I worked at IUPUI, so connections to computers at IUPUI, IU, and Purdue were insanely fast (the three campuses have direct WAN links to each other over fiber optic cable). I got so much music I didn't know what to do with it all.

Now I listen to three, maybe four albums in any given month. I could probably get a shuffle (I desperately want the orange one, btw) and it would be adequate for my needs.

abbaZaba · Jan 30, 2007, 06:44 PM

right now I have my music on my macbook's hard drive but it's almost 50 gigs and taking up a lot of space. I have an external drive I can throw all the music on but I am worried my library will get messed up. when I move all the files won't they come up as missing in iTunes and I'll have to re-add them?

Peter · Jan 30, 2007, 06:58 PM

Peter · Jan 30, 2007, 06:59 PM

and spoon rocks.

volcano · Jan 30, 2007, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by abbaZaba

right now I have my music on my macbook's hard drive but it's almost 50 gigs and taking up a lot of space. I have an external drive I can throw all the music on but I am worried my library will get messed up. when I move all the files won't they come up as missing in iTunes and I'll have to re-add them?

Nope. In fact, I have my iPod synced up to my external iTunes library as well, and everything works wonderfully.

Just create a place on your external hard-drive for all your music and drag it over from your MacBook. Make sure you also grab the iTunes related files, which should be in the 'iTunes' folder within your Music folder, and put those on your external hard-drive as well.

Now that you have your music and the related iTunes files on your external hard-drive, quit iTunes. Then go to Applications and Option-Click on iTunes... it will ask you to choose your iTunes library. Hit 'Choose Library...' and direct it to the iTunes Library Database File. This will direct iTunes to your external library, and it will keep your ratings, play counts, playlists, and everything else intact. It's awesome.

volcano · Jan 30, 2007, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by Peter

and spoon rocks.

Austin, TX represent yo!

I'm curious what the smart playlist 'PWNNNN' looks like and what rules you set for it. Mind sharing? Haha.

Gossamer · Jan 30, 2007, 07:09 PM

It's called iTunes Stats

Tenacious Dyl · Jan 30, 2007, 07:22 PM

23,737 Songs here

It used to be over 130 GB's, but I re-encoded the whole library down to 128 / sometimes 160 kbps, and now it is down to 103.9 GBs' for the library.

It is 64 days, 2 hours, 53 minutes, and 33 Seconds (64:02:53:33)

EDIT: I didn't think it would be, but I think this is the most on the thread so far! Anyone else have more that hasn't spoken up?

mdc · Jan 30, 2007, 07:34 PM

4698 songs, 12 days, 21.58 GB.

I need to clean it up since there is a lot in there I don't listen to.

Sub · Jan 30, 2007, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by Peter

Wish I could see what songs were in the Pwnnnn playlist...

lavar78 · Jan 30, 2007, 09:36 PM

14587 songs, 42.8 days, 61.82 GB

I also need to do some pruning.

Peter · Jan 31, 2007, 03:58 AM

The PWNNN list has the 5 albums that pitchfork rated 5/5:

they're all very very good!