CRM114

Post your iTunes stats. Here are mine:

9,617 Songs, 26.3 Days, 61.93 GB

Most are from my CDs or emusic. I bought a few albums from iTunes but once they broke Hymn, I haven't bought since. Ironic, huh? If I can't play the songs on other software/devices, I have no need for it. I'm back to buying the physical atoms. I rip them and then can play them back at any stereo or computer in the house.

It seems like yesterday when my roommates and I would argue over who was going to flip the album. If I was in college now, we'd only have that argument once every 26.3 days.

Ranger

Are they all at 128 kb AAC?

That's a pretty big collection to start off with.

I don't really use Itunes. I only have just over 400 mp3s which probably is a couple days worth and just under 2 gbs but I'm always trying to keep my computer HD space down. I had many as 1200 songs but I only kepy my most favorite songs on my computer.

edit: Yes, I stopped buying music from Itunes after they broke Hymn too!

Big Dave

Current is:

1,378 Songs, 3.5 Days, 6.81 GB

That is with maybe 1/4 of my CD collection ripped so far and I am also missing probably another 500 songs that were downloaded during my college days that I have to find.

I do all of my rips in 192.

Leechboy

7628 Songs, 22 days, 28.95 gb

All encoded 128kb

127 Artists 629 albums

DrRingDing

i got y'all beat. this is my current stat and it is WITHOUT my classical or jazz collections, which would at at least another 20GB and also without a lot of my classic rock which will add at least another 70GB - long story short, my first external HD crashed and took my classic rock cds with it, which i left at home so i won't get them uploaded again until June.

anyway, here goes:

22,858 songs, 62:14:47:51 total time, 127.10GB

-ringding-

edit to add: 1110 artists, 1959 albums

Evil

22063 items, 79:17:57:45 total time, 134.83 GB

2743 artists, 1731 albums

About half are encoded 160kbs, MP3-VBR

The other half are a mix of 192kbs MP3-VBR, 192kbs AAC-VBR, and a smattering of Apple Lossless thrown in there.

Mostly original CD's and a few Itunes.

KV12482

21583 items, 60.5 days, 111.68 GB

Most are 192kbs MP3 or 192kbs AAC

DamingR

9177 Items, 26.8 Days, 74.58 GB

ALL at 320 KB/SEC!!!!

Josh H

3401 Items 9.5 days 13.04 GB.

All at 128kbs, care more about space than sound quality as I can't tell the difference between 128 and higher levels anyway.

Pretty much all ripped from cds, with a few being legal downloads or ones I ripped off cds I borrowed or have burnt copies of.

fiver

23778 files, 139 gb
I think I have maybe 2 itunes downloads...i don't really like paying for downloads...if I'm going to pay I prefer the cd to rip at whatever quality I choose. Usually alt-preset-standard vbr

Still working on ripping my collection though...there's a lot more to do still.

Michael

Ergyu

15587 Songs
96.34GB
318 Artists and 1266 Albums.

This is pretty much everything; I think I have a few cd's I haven't ripped yet, and a few that are super audio cds.

chino77

21125 songs 57.5 days 105.02 gb

CRM114

All of mine are ripped at 256kps mp3. I play them through my stereos via Tivos networked in the house so they cannot be AAC. (Although there is a hack.) I bought a few albums from iTunes and converted them to mp3 specifically to play through the Tivo interface. With the loss of Hymn, I cannot use iTunes music any longer unfortunately.

The computers in the house just use iTunes sharing. The server is an eMac with an external firewire drive.

Tom Banjo

4746 files
15.4 days
24.27 GB

The Bus

I don't use iTunes to listen to music, browse it, or rip it; I use it to buy stuff from iTMS and listen to the stuff I bought there, which is maybe about 50 songs.

Otherwise, I have somewhere around 27,000 MP3s. As soon as I buy a CD, I convert to mp3 and archive the CD. Even for the car, it's easier to put two albums on one CD.

mndtrp

15970 songs
54 days
111.85 GB

3812 Artists
2302 Albums

The only itunes songs I have are the free ones they give out every week. Or the few I picked up with Pepsi's promotion.

PopcornTreeCt

Wow, how many of those songs do you actually listen to?

DVD Josh

I'm not going to count the songs (I don't use iTunes), but I have 160 GB worth of MP3s, whatever that equals out to.

CRM114

Speaking for myself, the coolest thing about it is being able to shuffle play 9,000 songs. My interface is a Tivo and a Harmony remote. You just keep the remote handy to skip a song when desired. I do wish I could shuffle albums though. I also frequently listen to particular albums. The Tivo software picks up all the artists and albums from the iTunes xml file.

mndtrp

If you're asking me, pretty much all of them. I've started setting up playlists to pull songs pertaining to criteria, allowing me to hear songs I don't get to during normal listening.

For instance, I've got a playlist that pulls one song from each year, based on least recently played. So far, that's only 38 songs, but it can last anywhere from 4-6 hrs, depending on the songs. Since it pulls the least recently played song, it's something I don't hear very often.

Another one, in a similar way, is pulling one song from an artist that starts with each letter of the alphabet. This is done more randomly, using a slightly complex system of multiple playlists.

I've got around 40 playlists that I use to cycle through familiar and unfamiliar songs. The rest of the time I'll listen to whatever tickles my fancy.