What is the size of your physical and digital music collection?

well i've gone and upgraded most of my collection to flac. it's now over 500gb, and it's growing bigger every day.the only stuff left in mp3 is rare singles or obscure banRAB that i can't find flac rips of.

i hope to god my drive doesn't crash before i get a chance to buy a backup!
 
I'd rather waste my money on something else to be honest, something I'll get use out of, like clothes!
But seriously, I have other stuff to buy other than cd's.
I never play them either, and I don't give a **** about them. They just sit there.
 
Actually, when I made these, I wanted them to be comparable in a sense that you could use them in statistics. If I had done what you suggest and make the song span of the groups progressively larger, you would make the categories less comparable and actually lose a lot of information.

Dealing with the two first smaller categories is simple because you can just add them together to make one ranging from 1 to 4999 which is about the same range as any of the others (also explains why they're not f.ex from 1 to 2999 and then 3000 to 5999). Making them increasingly large in the other end wouldn't make much sense, though I can see why one might think it does ;) The thing is we know there are some people who have way larger collections than others - we know there are statistical outliers. If we make supergroups spanning many more songs than the ones the averages fall into that we toss the outliers in, we lose a lot of information about them and they really are the most interesting.

.. But if you have any good arguments as to why you think I should do what you suggest, I'll read and consider.
 
Just did a cleanup of all the things that I didnt need on my iTunes anymore. Im packin like 30.66 gigs right now. But even then, I can trim down more soon Im sure.
 
I have no idea the exact amount of music I have. According to my music file properties I used 306 gigbytes hard drive space for music and I have 75,822 individual music files on my hard drive. I recently purchased a computer with a 1 terabyte hard drive specifically to migrate most of tangible music collection to my computer which is hooked up to my stereo rig, my sound board, and all of my tangible recording and music prodction gear. With everything hooked up to my computer I can listen to music, record music, remix music, broadcast music, film videos, produce & edit videos and even watch television in one seamless process from the same chair in front of my computer.

I'd recommend a 1 terabyte hard drive with expansion capabilities to another terabyte to anyone who wants to store their music collection entirely on their computer. It costs just a little bit more to upgrade a new computer from a standard 250 or 500 gig hardrive to a full terabyte of space. I spent years storing music on external drives and flash drives because I only had a 100 gig hard drive and it really sucked.

A 1 terabyte hard drive can be purchased for $125 uninstalled, but if you do a custom upgrade to a 1 terabyte hard drive when you buy a new computer, it usually costs less that $50. It's worth it because a 500 gigabyte external drive ( which has half the storage space of a 1 terabyte drive) costs around $90.

I put my entire vinyl and compact disc collection into storage, mostly because all the shelves I used to store my tangible music collection on occupied a lot of dead space in my office and I wanted to use that space for both video and digital music production gear.

All of my cRAB and vinyl abums are archived in waterproof, airtight crates in my basement. The crates are well organized and I usually can find what I'm looking for in under a minute. And I frequently need to find stuff fast for my radio broadcast or a sound system gig. I've never bothered to count or inventory my physical collection because time involved in doing so.
 
^ I've got 105.9 gigs. I've probably listened to about 70% of it, and I'm working on getting a 1 next to the play count for every single song.
 
haha yeah, well it's taking a lot more time to re-tag everything! luckily with MP3tag i can copy/past tags from the mp3 album to the flac album, then all i have to do is re-calculate replay gain values and it's all set to go.

i have fast internet and what.cd recently had a 5-day freeleech marathon so i just left my computer rolling and grabbed nearly 1000 albums ;)

i know that flac is overkill, but i have the net speed, the bandwidth, and the drive space, so i figured - why not?
 
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