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How many songs are in your iTunes Music library (or libraries in total, if you use more than one)?
1/1: How many songs are in your iTunes Music library (or libraries in total, if you use more than one)?
Other polls | 5,200 votes | 29 comments
More tunes to add
Currently there are about 1,600 tunes in my iTunes catalog. Still to digitize for backup purposes and listening enjoyment are my 400+ CD collection and my 100+ vinyl records which I can't find CD's for, which would add slightly to that.
"song count" not best measure
I have mostly classical in my iTunes library. A 20 minute symphony movement counts as 1 track and 1 song. A 30 second fanfare counts as 1 track and 1 song.
"song count" not best measure
Playing time isn't good because, as you said, it includes audiobooks and podcasts.
"song count" not best measure
I listen to classical and have another problem. Most symphonies, etc., come as separate movements for separate tracks. I rip the separate movements and then use iTunesJoin to join them into one, but keep the movements. That way, my shuffle sometimes just get individual movements and sometimes get the whole thing. But I have a bit less "songs" than "files".
"song count" not best measure
Note that you can set shuffle to "album" or "grouping", as well as "song". My classical collection plays 24x7 on album shuffle. I'd actually prefer grouping shuffle (more 'diversity') but most of the CD Database Entries don't have grouping info. Now when I add a new CD, I add the grouping info before ripping it. Eventually (when I'm totally bored :-) I'll go back and retro-fit grouping info on the existing collection.
stats
Pretty median list at 5,331 but growing at around 100/month. All are 256k AAC with the exception of iTunes free songs (I won't buy 128k). Average song length 4:34.
406
What I did was go through my CD library and rip the songs that I knew I loved. My CD library is about 4,800 CDs; this means I missed a lot because I couldn't place precisely what was on the compilation in hand. But a lot of music -- a great deal from the 70's, for instance -- simply was no longer of interest to me. I did this long ago on a PPC Mac mini with an 80 GB drive, and have simply moved the library from machine to machine as I upgraded.
too many
well I'm at the high end of the curve with 114,204 songs (311:21:06:16 total time, 628 gigs). and that doesn't include another 300gigs of recently ripped and/or downloaded that I can't add in to my main iTunes library because it would probably make it unusable.
too many
I wrote about this recently on my blog and got many comments that go in the same direction:
http://www.mcelhearn.com/article.php?story=20080129103804465 At 42K items, it is very slow, especially when changing tags. I use a separate library to rip, because it works twice as fast. And Archive.org - yea, tons of stuff I don't keep in my library. I have hundreds of Grateful Dead concerts, as well as tons of other jam band music. I have a separate library for that too. Kirk ---
try pruning your smart playlists
Try pruning your smart playlists.
try pruning your smart playlists
I have no smart playlists and only 3 other playlists.... its SOOoooo slow and annoying that I don't do anything anymore with playlists. It is slow without playlists. as someone else indicated, after 30 or 40,000 tracks, the whole thing slows to a crawl.
too many
Eh, beat ya. Almost 130K songs. I have a NAS that is raid-5ed that holds it all. Connected via Gigabit ethernet. Works great.
not quite enough
last I looked was 247,609....
8318
8318 items, 581 days, 55.94 GB
go emusic.com :)
45244 songs, 16.7 days, 346.67 GB 60% personal CD collection, 15% family, friends, and or local library, 10% from emusic.com, (i've been a member for a few years now), and yes, i will admit, 15% from usenet downloads. and no, that does not mean that all 15% were privately copyrighted and/or "pirated" copies. mostly it's equal parts rock, jazz, and electronic. on another note, i'll say that, over time, dealing with an iTunes library of this magnitude hasn't been without problems! after all, i started with version 1.0!! more and more i find myself using "Play" (from sbooth.org) when i don't feel like launching that bloated beast whore of an app known as iTunes.
not bad for a relatively new library
Just started my library up two years ago, and I am at almost 2000 tracks (roughly 1000 a year). I listen to classical music, and about half is from CDs and half from downloads (legal downloads; this is classical music, check out musopen.com, classiccat.net, or even Wikipedia for hundreds of free and legal classical music downloads). I am a real tag nut, I won't listen to any track until I have entered all relevant tag information and made it conform to the rest of my library, so the music importing can be a slow process for me. It pays off when I am looking for a song, however.
Disk space
I'd be very interested to see a poll on the disk space used up by iTunes. I keep a modest library of under 6,000 tracks, and yet I've got almost 60GB of music. The reason is about 1,000 tracks I have in Apple Lossless, and even a CD ripped from vinyl into 24-bit/192kHz lossless (over 3MB per 5 seconds of music).
Wow...
We may have to do a follow-up poll for all you heavy iTunes users, just to see how big some of these collections really are! :)
Just over 45,000
This sounds like a lot of music (and lots of possibly illegal downloading) until you take a couple things into consideration: I'm a 50 year old semi professional musician with eclectic tastes and I've not only been building my music collection since I was about 12 but I also inherited a substantial collection of jazz and big band from my uncle, who was a professional musician and a bluegrass collection from my grandfather who was a semi professional bluegrass musician. I took advantage of eMusic during the early days when a monthly subscription fee meant unlimited downloads which accounts for as much as 25% of my collection. I've ripped every CD I own and I've ripped close to 50% of my vinyl - a slow tedious process.
Probably too much
2,548 songs, 1,202 in my favorites playlist (4×★+).
What kind of songs are all those?
I've got five thousand tracks of just accordion music! (Out of 11,000 total with the other stuff.) 15 days is enough to get me through my weekly squeezebox radio show. Any other oddball playlists out there?
What kind of songs are all those?
I don't know if this is unusual, but I'm guessing it is.
What kind of songs are all those?
And I thought I was bad with an average of 3.62 copies of every officially released Hawkwind track :-)
What kind of songs are all those?
Well I just checked and I seem to have collected about 435 CDs worth of Christmas/Holiday/Winter tunes... so there's about 6000-7000 tracks of just christmas music there (and I'm not even Christian anymore, just that it brings up such great childhood memories I guess). The weird thing is that I love it beginning in mid November and thru the holidays, but the day after xmas (Dec 26) I don't want to hear anymore....
54 days
17967 tracks, 84 GB. Serving it throughout the house on a Rev B. TiBook 400 that's still going strong (at least for this kind of thing and quick web browsing).
Wow...
How do people get such huge collections? I have 1,841 items in my library, and have always thought that was huge! I'd have more, but there just isn't that much good music out there. Although I do have to admit I might be a bit of a music snob- while I like some of just about everything, it has to meet my standards to make it into my library. Unless the lyrics are good, it flows well, and it's performed well, it's unlikely to make it into my library (although I do admit to having a few mediocre tracks).
Wow...
'being old' is a good start.
7036
I have 7036 songs, and at 35 GB, that's 5 GB more than the original drive was in this G4!
It's OVER 9000!!!
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