How big is your Music Folder?

[InfestedDemon]

I've noticed mine is rahter big...

933 Songs, 3.36Gb (1.8 Days)


Yours? :thumb:

[Templarian]

Thats not very big... I've seen music folders in the 100's of gigs (like terra). I lost all my music 2 years ago due to hard drive failure but now a days its only (it use to be 26 or something):
14.9gb (2984songs).

//edit, aww I'd probably be to where butters is if I hadn't lost everything.

[Butters]

Almost 50GB - 8,500 songs.

Takes forever to backup :P

My music is probably my most prized possession. I back it up on 2 HDs incase one fails :cap:

[Voetsjoeba]

3612 songs, 20.76GB, 11.2 days :)

[Jeff Wheeler]

5268 songs, 19.5gb. Just recently un-DRMd it all, so it’s now all on my Mac, it’s backup, and my Debian system.

[glosrfc]

My Music Folder is about 48 x 48 pixels big...



...hope that helps :)

[BS]

3,664 17.8 Gigs I have it backed up on 3 Hard drives.

[graylensman]

My Music Folder is about 48 x 48 pixels big...

:lol:

Mine is almost 32 gb. I've got about twenty five CDs worth of MP3s sloshing around as well.

These days, though, I'm becoming a bit more choosy about what I rip. Most of what's on those CDs I haven't listened to in years.

[InfestedDemon]

0_o i guess mine wasnt big after all :thumb:

[fester8542]

5.3 GB :(

It used to be 35. I was formatting my machines for a reinstall and left my usb external with all my cherished music and smut backed up plugged in.

It found that volume and I blindly told it to format and install windows on that. Was the only copy of my backups by that point. That was a tough lesson to learn.

[DanontheMoon]

http://www.senocular.com/smilies/doh.gif That blows. There IS an app called 'recover my files' that might be able to recover them.

[garyzero]

25 gig but I only use a 20 gig ipod. Have to uncheck alot of it.

[Seb Hughes]

Not much only 5GB. I'm more of a listen to whatever is on the radio kinda guy.

[mikken]

around 10200 songs, 50 gig. I sometimes take a kill frenzy and delete some of the music i never listen to. Luckily, i have an 80 gig iPod, so i don't need to uncheck stuff. w00t!

[mlk]

Ahh if we had to pay for all this.


I just listen off the uni network, it's a neverending audio library.

[MTsoul]

Large libraries here. I got a question for you all if I may hijack this thread. Do you keep entire albums or just the songs you like? For each album I listen to, I take out the songs I don't particularly favour and shove them into an archive folder that I wouldn't even backup. The rest I put in the normal music folder.

[darkmotion]

6.08 :(

[Theros]

Something like 14.06...

[mikken]

If i had to pay for all this, i don't think i'd have Nicole Scherzinger in my library, but now i do... :mu:

I keep full albums... Who knows, maybe at some junction you'll love songs you didn't listen to before?

[Templarian]

I keep full albums, mostly because its how I archive my music.
Artist_Name > Album_Name > #_Name

Pretty simple organization... plus theres no reason to sort music when there are playlists and nowadays hard drive space is so cheap.

//edit, now my folders 2.5gigs more.

[TheCanadian]

11.1gb

I always buy whole albums (the shiny discs, not online) except for like 10 songs I like which I would never buy the entire album for because I would die from embarassment.

[hl]

9.78gb

[Phenex]

~34 Gb

[Syous]

30 bazillion gigs, 123987 songs, 3 eternities to play them all.

I win.

[Esherido]

I think it's about 2 gigs. :( I feel insecure about the size of my music folder. :hurt:

[jsauni]

7 Gb at the moment. Usually stays around that from cleaning it out and adding new music.

[Phenex]

I think it's about 2 gigs. :( I feel insecure about the size of my music folder. :hurt:

Enlargement pills... I mean... Downloads... :chinaman:

[Esherido]

^ :lol: I was waiting for someone to say that. Maybe I should put my music folder on Enzyte.

[ajcates]

Well it also depends on how you keep your music, what format?? FLAC or mp3? I have had times when it reached 10gig, but lost it all due to formating.

[paddy.]

74.25GB
15107 Songs
41.7 Days

[McGuffin]

14.33 GB

I probably need to clean some older stuff out. What I tend to do is get new stuff and listen to it heavily and then drop it in favour of newer stuff later on.

[directory_guy]

Mine is 2413 songs. Its enough to play for more than 7 days if played continuously.

[Templarian]

I lost everything a few weeks back so I only have Dave Matthews folder and The Beatles.

7gig (6.5 dave 1.5g of beatles).

[hl]

Woah, when did I post in this thread? I don't even remember it existing. I'm at 2222 songs, 5.7 days, 10.15gb. All recently unDRMed similar to Jeff.

[paddy.]

Mine is 2413 songs. Its enough to play for more than 7 days if played continuously.
85.75GB
16,886 songs
47 days

:pirate3:

[directory_guy]

85.75GB
16,886 songs
47 days

:pirate3:

I thought I had enough until I met you.:hurt:

[.soulty]

I'm a freak, my 'music folder is' 96.2GB and that's missing almost half of the albums still on cd (not converted to mp3) and I haven't even mentioned the music that's on vinyl!!. I personally have been collecting music since early 90's, lol.

[mattrock23]

12247 items
33.6 days
63.09 gb

I am always looking for more music.

[mattrock23]

I lost everything a few weeks back so I only have Dave Matthews folder and The Beatles.

7gig (6.5 dave 1.5g of beatles).

That adds up to 8 gigs...

[redelite]

3505 songs, 9 days 9 hours, 22.82 GB and climbing... I <3 music

[Templarian]

That adds up to 8 gigs...
Do not question my math.

yea... I must of not noticed it after i edited in my beatles stuff in. Btw it did say 7gig (6.5 dave).

[fasterthanlight™]

excuses, excuses

i purged 60% of my library a few months ago, it was all garbage, so now i'm at 1831 songs (8.85gigs) of pure good

[matthewjumps]

7772 songs
23.6 days
46.28 Gig

[ShadowViper]

~ 3 gigs, ~580 songs. some 128kbps mp3 and some VBR mp3.

Yup, I have proactically nothing compared to all of you :P

~Cody

[sekasi]

3350 items, 10 days, 27 GB.

Bought every single song too.

[BS]

^That sounds expensive

[TheCanadian]

3350 items, 10 days, 27 GB.

Bought every single song too.
You must have some long songs, cause in iTunes I have 2000 items, 4.8 days and 7.3 GB.

I just have the stuff I like in iTunes. Overall my music folder is 15.7 GB.

I buy all my music too :pleased:

[skrolikowski]

Not so big anymore.
Had to reformat my computer and all 4000+ songs are just on my iPod.
My computer is a lot faster now :)

[saxx]

168 hours 13.7 gigs, its not all in one folder its kind of scattered :) alot of that is from all my beatles music

[darkmotion]

I've only got 1281 songs, 6.56 gigs hehe

[ShadowViper]

You must have some long songs, cause in iTunes I have 2000 items, 4.8 days and 7.3 GB.

I just have the stuff I like in iTunes. Overall my music folder is 15.7 GB.

I buy all my music too :pleased:

His avg. song length: 4.3 minutes
Your avg. song length: 3.5 minutes
My avg. song length: 4.3 minutes

So his aren't substantially shorter than yours and are right in line with mine..

Alot depends on the genre I guess. I listen to alot of metal and most of my songs are well over 5 minutes, with many breaking 10 minutes and some 20 minutes. Then again, for certain sub-genres, songs are often under 2 minutes with the focus being on intensity for a very short amount of time. Other genres than metal have songs that can tend to be alot shorter or longer.

~Cody

btw, I bought most of my songs. Some are gifts and/or from other peoples collections. No p2p-ing or anything though.

[McGuffin]

14.33 GB

I probably need to clean some older stuff out. What I tend to do is get new stuff and listen to it heavily and then drop it in favour of newer stuff later on.

That was Feb 10. Now it's 11.40 GB / 1991 songs / 5.6 days.

[DanontheMoon]

The RIAA loves this thread. :look:

[ShadowViper]

The RIAA loves this thread. :look:

Bah, doesn't bother me. I have all of my music legally. :P That's why I have so little.

~Cody

[TheCanadian]

His avg. song length: 4.3 minutes
Your avg. song length: 3.5 minutes
My avg. song length: 4.3 minutes

So his aren't substantially shorter than yours and are right in line with mine.

His avg song file size: 7.6 MB
My avg song file size: 3.7 MB

It's twice mine for some reason :wt:

[ShadowViper]

His avg song file size: 7.6 MB
My avg song file size: 3.7 MB

It's twice mine for some reason :wt:

My avg song file size: 4.7 MB (611 songs, 2.8 GB)

Probaly just a higher quality. I know alot of people that won't listen to anything less than FLAC (lossless). I'm personally fine with 128 kbps mp3 (along with a sprinkling of VBR from eMusic), my headphones aren't good enough to show a very big difference anyway.

~Cody

PS, I love being on a techy, nerd forum. Where else would we take the time to analyze our relative song length and file size :P

[logan5]

1350 - quality not quantity

[motionman95]

0 bytes. Top that.

[ShadowViper]

oIs that a joke? Or do you just have only non-digital music?

I can't even conceive going for more than a few days without music. :p Outside of my house my mp3 player never leaves my pocket (save for when I am actually using it).

~Cody