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Resurrection
09.11.10, 17:05
Just a general question I've always end up asking everywhere I go...
You can answer anyway you want to...
Number of artists...
Number of songs...
GBs...
whatever...
Remember to post proof if you can..
I'll start....
http://www.sb-innovation.de/attachment.php?attachmentid=8601
200GBs worth of music...
10000+ artist in my library...
12 years in the making...
I aim for variety...I don't like downloading full albums...I usually only download the best songs...
Size: 28,4 GB (30.567.292.443 bytes)
Contains: 4.888 files, 312 folders
Mostly stuff that's waiting to be listened to and then archived on a DVD.
Haha... too much, over 2 TB :x
Music Freak and Home DJ :P
Not much. I guess 300Gb+ (Classical music, OSTs & Bollywood).
30G. Lol and I tought, I was a freak :DD
desodorante
09.11.10, 23:55
I have no idea...somewhere between 500gb and a TB, maybe more.
Anyway, it is not about quantity but quality ;)
My "collection" has some very rare contents, and it is mostly in VBR 256kbps
Number of artists...hard to say, a few thousand
Number of albums...around 40,000 (multiple same-name entries not included, all types of releases included, like cdm/cds/dvda/VA... so the number of actual full-length albums from individual artists is lower)
Number of songs...around 400,000 (40,000*10)
Preferred genre(s)...metal in all flavors (in the collection - metal:other = roughly 5:1)
TBs...around 0,5-1 inadequately sorted on cd's, 2+ sorted on dvd's, 1-1,5 unsorted/new on hd's
Quality...roughly 90% scene releases, 9,9% homebrew, 0,1% lossless (cd's excluded)
Years in the making...5+3~8
I don't like downloading full albums...I usually only download the best songs...
used to download single songs (or supposed top 5-10) of different artists, later on switched to full albums, pretty much collect all metal related material, discographies of favorite artists (everything or full albums only), best-of compilations from other known/decent artists (sometimes their top albums), have an average number of general compilations and to less extent soundtracks
as for the 'best songs', i noticed how different sources/reviewers/... have a number of different tastes (personally dependent or influenced by mainstream opinion-makers) in picking top rated songs/albums, which collided with mine enough times, thus i tend to avoid their questionably useful suggestions and try to use my own criteria while listening to the audio material in order to select what is worth a replay (or many :biggrin:) or a special favored status among the lot
Resurrection
10.11.10, 04:06
I'm not a big fan of discographies I must say...
Even the best of artists sometimes have 'filler songs' in albums...My storage memory is precious to me and I would hate to waste it on crappy songs...
I usually keep the bitrate preference somwhere between 128 - 256...Most of my collection usually has songs in 192KBPS VBR...
I found a little something for you guys...
http://www.sb-innovation.de/attachment.php?attachmentid=8605
See if it helps you...
Even the best of artists sometimes have 'filler songs' in albums...My storage memory is precious to me and I would hate to waste it on crappy songs...
the filler-problem appears everywhere, but imo only when one personally listens (sometimes multiple times) to an album, can one decide/choose which song would be quality/medium/filler material (top rated songs and compilation choices being a deceptive way of measuring, leaving out much valuable contents, especially in less mainstream music) according to personal preferences, also, some/most albums have a certain logic regarding song placement, thus maintaining the overall album/songs flow/interconnection/wholeness
as for the 'quality chart', the 10 is not cd-quality (as someone might assume), here's another one (fig. 3 is cd-quality) - check the unusually small differences between 128k and 320k encoding (fig. 5 & 7), which supports the 192k or VBR (newer) choice for mp3 (quality/compression/size), which were/are fi. used by the scene groups
Although they are universally described in the mainstream press as being of "CD quality," MP3s and their lossy-compressed ilk do not offer sufficient audio quality for serious music listening. This is not true of lossless-compressed formats such as FLAC, ALC, and WMA lossless... But lossy files achieve their conveniently small size by discarding too much of the music to be worth considering.
Both MP3 and AAC introduce fairly large changes in the measured spectra, even at the highest rate of 320kbps. There seems little point in spending large sums of money on superbly specified audio equipment if you are going to play sonically compromised, lossy-compressed music on it.
But "CD quality"? Yeah, right!
http://www.stereophile.com/features/308mp3cd/index1.html
around 300GB and its growing and growing
pimphead07
10.11.10, 10:25
213gb as of this moment. I only keep discographies at atleast 192kbps and above. I am weird that way. Took me 5 yrs and running
Around 200 gigs. Mostly discographies.
I have nearly 40 GB. Quite big for me.:P
3T on pc...and 186 dvd's with mp3's.Since 2009 i have'd put aal the track's that i have'd download on dvd's....now only the tracks's that i like.
Just a general question I've always end up asking everywhere I go...
You can answer anyway you want to...
Number of artists...
Number of songs...
GBs...
whatever...
Remember to post proof if you can..
I'll start....
image (http://www.sb-innovation.de/members/resurrection-albums-wh-picture8601-untitled.PNG)
200GBs worth of music...
10000+ artist in my library...
12 years in the making...
I aim for variety...I don't like downloading full albums...I usually only download the best songs...
OMG! "Resurrection",
200GB of music damn that's awesome.
And "Freak69" 2TB damn that's insane.
I have till now around 70Gigs of Music, though I like to have the full album, though I don't listen to the whole of it. Just to keep it in order and complete.
I have like 300-320 gb on a external HDD and about 70 in the current one...like Ressurection said, i rarely keep full albums or discographies but my collection is mostly soundtracks
Around 50 GB, mostly discographies and full albums.
Somewhere in the ballpark of 400gb. My ears are bad, so quality isn't really an issue.
Around 500GB excluding karaoke and music videos.
I got only 23 GB's of lossless and 13 GB's of mp3's, I like to keep my collection in A-one form, Full albums only, Proper album info's/tags, Full covers/artworks if i have found them.
150 dvd-s of mp3's
Now i only looking for loosless
SaintShaolin
06.03.11, 15:51
At the moment I have 18GB worth of MP3s.
wordreader
14.03.11, 21:53
I have about 127G Downloaded 22k files saved as mp3, FLAC, ACC etc. some comps, most complete albums, most pop/rock. And have approx 80 CD-R's of folk, jazz (mostly), and classical (do the math ), since 2005
Master Razor
29.09.12, 22:48
Approx 36GB / 4.366 mp3 v0.
roberto1972
30.09.12, 07:42
more than 1TB but I don't collect since 2007 (only download new albums of bands which I have) most of them are in mp3 and I change it for lossless.
Just 46 GB , I have lost many music because of formatting and bad back ups through the years
roberto1972
02.10.12, 05:32
when i start collect I also lost many of my music collection because of formatting but this didn't happen since 2006. i always had a back up of my music collection
Not that big. I listen from youtube as needed.
I never understood downloading entire albums and discographies of bands when you only liked a particular song within it. I guess it must be a collectors thing
Escuchar y subir musica online gratis - goear.com (http://www.goear.com/)
That's like YouTube, but specifically for music.
Escuchar y subir musica online gratis - goear.com (http://www.goear.com/)
That's like YouTube, but specifically for music.
I was checking it out just then and it's actually a very cool site for music. Though the language's not in English looks like you can just plug in the music you want just like that. Thanks for the link anon.
You're welcome. Language can be changed using that drop-down at the bottom left of the main page. It's possible to upload your own tracks too, but I never did it.
my Musik inklusive HD Videos is ~2TB
mfg
My music collection weights almost 400GB of pure flac goodness.
Edit:
That's 5 weeks, 2 days, 16h51m27sec.
Digital?
Around 3TB. The bulk is V0's, but I've got around 300GB of FLAC I've ripped and uploaded to various places over the years. That said, if anyone knows a good tagger that will also change the directory structure of where the songs are placed--hit me up. I prefer my albums nested in a certain way, and finding a tagger that will do this has proven to be difficult.
Physical?
Probably a bit over a thousand albums. I pretty much only keep CD or cassettes that I know are rare or would be hard to replace. Everything else is vinyl.
I prefer my albums nested in a certain way, and finding a tagger that will do this has proven to be difficult.
I've been using Tag&Rename for years now and it does that too:
It can get tags from filename or rename file from tags. If you define the filename as "artist\album\track name" it'll generate the directories and rename the files at the same time. I've configured this in the mask editor. (http://s1.postimg.org/aagw9zn4v/TAG_RENAME.png)
Like similar applications - it can also get tags tags&covers from freedb, discogs.com, amazon.com, tracktype.org and more.
It can do all sorts of tag-filename tricks but I'm too lazy to type it all :)
Can't recommend it enough.
134 GB, soon to be ~234 GB once the torrents are finished. Flac <3
around 30 GB now,
also i have some playlist in groooveshark and spotify
just music or +music vids??
if it's only music it's about 100 GB mostly in itunes plus format
anyway since one year I'm not actively downloading music due streaming services
Almost 3 years of unique sound :D
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