How big is your music library?

[Buffalohed 10+ year member]

Heh, just skimming through this thread, is kinda funny.

I have a hard time believing many peoples figures on how much music they have. On Oink, my ratio and uL/dL is extremely good and much better than average, and I only have 56 GB downloaded.

I also have extremely broad taste in music and spend 4-6 hours dedicated listening to music every day in my car, delivering pizza, yet I don't claim to have gone through all the 1000 or so albums on my computer, but I have listened to probably 85% of them. And looking at this thread, 1000 albums on my computer is piddly squat compared to a lot of you.

Do you people with 10 bajillion songs even listen to them? I don't get it. I think some people just download ****tons of shit (from where, I have no idea, obviously not a site that requires you to keep a ratio) and never listen to most of it.

 

[captaincheesey 10+ year member]

I'm only sitting 14.4 GB of music and album art and have a playlist that is 24 hours long, thats as long as I need it to be.

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

2.5TB, 2,000 CD's, 400 vinyl, ~100 tapes (most rare rap singles from 90's)

edit: and I forgot to say that I have about 40 concert DVD's as well.

 

[Buffalohed 10+ year member]

You realize a Terabyte is roughly 10,000 albums. Thus, 2.5 TBs is 25,000 albums. You either downloaded the entire discography of American music, or you keep your music in DDS 7.1 ultra digital OGG format and each album takes up 1 GB.

Anyway. Have fun listening to all that. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[grizzly 10+ year member]

Heh, just skimming through this thread, is kinda funny.
I have a hard time believing many peoples figures on how much music they have. On Oink, my ratio and uL/dL is extremely good and much better than average, and I only have 56 GB downloaded.

I also have extremely broad taste in music and spend 4-6 hours dedicated listening to music every day in my car, delivering pizza, yet I don't claim to have gone through all the 1000 or so albums on my computer, but I have listened to probably 85% of them. And looking at this thread, 1000 albums on my computer is piddly squat compared to a lot of you.

Do you people with 10 bajillion songs even listen to them? I don't get it. I think some people just download ****tons of shit (from where, I have no idea, obviously not a site that requires you to keep a ratio) and never listen to most of it.

i have almsot 3tb which i figured to be roughly 700,000 songs and there is no way i listen to all of them. but ive been buying cd's since early 88-89 and this is how much ppl have all together so add that up plus with dl for almost 10years its actually easy to have alot of music. also im not even counting tapes or vynil which could add even more. most stuff is full albums and no i dont listen to everyone but if i want a song i get the whole album or discography. stuff on my computer is usually what i havent burnt yet and i use my ipods as my playlist. so yes i have roughly 3000songs on my 30gb that i play on random and constantly change. just to help u understand how its easy to have alot of music if u starting buying music or have had the internet more than 10years.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

thats kind of sad to see how much time you spend on a computer....

It's sad how little time you spent thinking before you posted that shitty sentance.

all i have to do is click a few links and wait for my 1200kb/s downloads to finish. Takes no time at all.

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

You realize a Terabyte is roughly 10,000 albums. Thus, 2.5 TBs is 25,000 albums. You either downloaded the entire discography of American music, or you keep your music in DDS 7.1 ultra digital OGG format and each album takes up 1 GB.

Anyway. Have fun listening to all that. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

I have three machines running the following...
DJ machine - running four 500 GB Seagate drives

Home machine - running three 320 GB drives, 2 with all music, 1 with one quarter music + OS and other shit.

Laptop with about 60 GB of stuff I listen to when I'm studying...

Not only do I have tons of CD singles downloaded from 1998-2007 with acapellas, instrumentals, and remixes, but I have albums upon albums of everything. Everything.

How many people do you know with 16 remixes of Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood?

Music is my passion, and I never take my passions lightly.

 

[Buffalohed 10+ year member]

What the hell does internet for 10 years have to do with it. Most people aren't using the same HDs they had 10 years ago... I'm sure as shit not.

I was around and actually had cable internet when Napster first came out. I never downloaded music before that, but even if I had, I don't see how that would have had an appreciable effect on my music collection. Certainly not enough to expand it from over 100gb to over 1000gb.

According to my calculator, I could sit down right now and queue up 306.56 gigabytes of music downloads from Oink and maintain a 1.0 ratio. I spend a shitload of time researching music and I don't think I could think of 306 gigabytes to download if I got the entire discography of every single artist I have ever considered maybe possibly trying out in every different genre.

Oh well. This isn't worth arguing about. I'm just really tired and can't sleep so wasting my time here seems like a good idea.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

Heh, just skimming through this thread, is kinda funny.
I have a hard time believing many peoples figures on how much music they have. On Oink, my ratio and uL/dL is extremely good and much better than average, and I only have 56 GB downloaded.

I also have extremely broad taste in music and spend 4-6 hours dedicated listening to music every day in my car, delivering pizza, yet I don't claim to have gone through all the 1000 or so albums on my computer, but I have listened to probably 85% of them. And looking at this thread, 1000 albums on my computer is piddly squat compared to a lot of you.

Do you people with 10 bajillion songs even listen to them? I don't get it. I think some people just download ****tons of shit (from where, I have no idea, obviously not a site that requires you to keep a ratio) and never listen to most of it.

i have almost 300 gigs uploaded on oink and thats not my main source for music.

how many people have hundreds of movies? are they going to watch all of those? no.... hundreds of books. will they read them all? probably not. most will get read once if that. So whats your point? My watch is good to 1000 feet. are you going to heckle me for never diving deeper than 10 feet?

 

[grizzly 10+ year member]

What the hell does internet for 10 years have to do with it. Most people aren't using the same HDs they had 10 years ago... I'm sure as shit not.
I was around and actually had cable internet when Napster first came out. I never downloaded music before that, but even if I had, I don't see how that would have had an appreciable effect on my music collection. Certainly not enough to expand it from over 100gb to over 1000gb.

According to my calculator, I could sit down right now and queue up 306.56 gigabytes of music downloads from Oink and maintain a 1.0 ratio. I spend a shitload of time researching music and I don't think I could think of 306 gigabytes to download if I got the entire discography of every single artist I have ever considered maybe possibly trying out in every different genre.

Oh well. This isn't worth arguing about. I'm just really tired and can't sleep so wasting my time here seems like a good idea.

i have over 2300 data disk of all my old computers so yes dl for last 10years on over 10 computers all backed up does add up and im not arguing just explaining how ur bashing doesnt add up but my disk do.

 

[Buffalohed 10+ year member]

I have three machines running the following...
DJ machine - running four 500 GB Seagate drives

Home machine - running three 320 GB drives, 2 with all music, 1 with one quarter music + OS and other shit.

Laptop with about 60 GB of stuff I listen to when I'm studying...

Not only do I have tons of CD singles downloaded from 1998-2007 with acapellas, instrumentals, and remixes, but I have albums upon albums of everything. Everything.

How many people do you know with 16 remixes of Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood?

Music is my passion, and I never take my passions lightly.

Dude, believe me when I tell you that no matter how strong your passion for music is, I guarantee that it does not exceed mine, if it even matches it. Be sure of that.

And you don't need to list your harddrives. Anyone with a few hundred bucks can get TBs of storage space.

Having 47 google plex digital albums doesn't impress me. Demonstrating that those albums represent a good taste in music, however, would.

 

[grizzly 10+ year member]

quantity doesnt matter but quality does

 

[Buffalohed 10+ year member]

i have almost 300 gigs uploaded on oink and thats not my main source for music.
how many people have hundreds of movies? are they going to watch all of those? no.... hundreds of books. will they read them all? probably not. most will get read once if that. So whats your point? My watch is good to 1000 feet. are you going to heckle me for never diving deeper than 10 feet?

I dunno, I've watched every movie I own. I haven't read every book I own, books take a lot of time, but I try very hard not to buy new ones unless I am making progress on the ones I do own. I have listened to every CD I own multiple times, and have very nearly listened to everything I have downloaded, short of stuff from the holiday when I grabbed 6-8 albums from one artist and stuff I have snatched in the past few weeks.

I get your point, but I don't see the point, if you know what I mean. A lot of research goes into me downloading music. I don't download something unless I think I have a fair chance of liking it. Maybe if I were indiscriminate with my downloading, I could have 3x as much as I do now. But what's the point? I would be wasting hours upon hours listening to shite that I have no interest in. As it is, downloading stuff that I think I will like is hit or miss, at least 1/3 of it I end up not liking, and more than that ends up being just mediocre.

 

[Buffalohed 10+ year member]

i have almost 300 gigs uploaded on oink and thats not my main source for music.

Curious, your main source for music is ______ ?

 

[Buffalohed 10+ year member]

AllStar1500bd, it makes more sense if you are a DJ. Techno? Yeah, that would make more sense. I know techno people like to keep recordings of every single set, etc. So I can understand having possibly a few GBs worth of stuff from a single artist. Whereas, with my music, and I very rarely listen to live stuff, I might have 2 GB max if I had an entire discography in FLAC if the group has been around for a while. But more often than not a discography will mean 4 albums and 400MB.