[NiceCans]

5,500 Albums (counting multi-disc albums as 1)

 

[Serge44]

Over 400 Gb, more than 5 000 albums in mp3.

 

[bracket_cable]

I have approximately 3500 songs, all from CDs I've bought. Except for a few albums which are FLAC, the whole collection is ripped at LAME 3.97b2 -V2 --vbr-new settings. A modest collection compared to some, I suppose, but I like every album I have.

I prefer to count the "how much music" by actual songs I own rather than by total disc space used. It gets confusing since people use so many different-sized codecs. It's about the music for me, not the file size--although you people using, like, 1TB of disc space are mighty impressive I must of course admit that.

 

[DaKi][er]

3,365 files using 44.3GB over *.mp3, *.ogg, *.wav, *.flac, *.m4a

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

About 340GB FLAC, and 80GB various lossy, for a total of about 23,000 songs

 

[Otto]

I'm a lightweight.

I have about 100 CDs all bought in the last couple of years.
Ripped to WAV with EAC they take up about 50 GB. (1200 songs)

 

[jnev]

currently I'm at ~120gb of MP3 at 192-320kbps. I'm planning on eventually reripping everything into OGG or FLAC so it should take up more room then. I store my music on a Maxtor 300gb HDD. I'm almost out of room on it though; it's being shared with video and other misc data.

 

[spyrius]

I feel so inadequate ....
I have about 1500 songs, all in mp3 VBR. Barely 10GB.
I'm thinking about converting it all to lossless, but don't have the time or the storage space right now.

 

[Sparky191]

Be interesting to hear how people back up their stuff aswell. I use a couple external USB disks. So the library is duplicated on three disks. As is my other data.

 

[monkeygod]

its kinda interesting to hear all these numbers - i got into mp3s about 8 years ago so i could have access to all my cds when i travelled overseas. and that was BEFORE i got obsessive about music and joined head-fi

converted to EAC/Lame APX mp3s about 2 years ago and the majority of my songs are in that format. with downloads, my stash weighs in around 256 GB, which itunes says is about 44,500 tracks.

i think i'm going to wait a little while before i re-rip everything to lossless though - tech is not quite where i want it to be for everyday usage

 

[heymaceo]

1.8TB

Live Music Trading - completely band/artist/copyright holder approved.
I probably haven't listened to 90% of what I have. But its a sweet collection.

 

[JaGWiRE]

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Originally Posted by monkeygod its kinda interesting to hear all these numbers - i got into mp3s about 8 years ago so i could have access to all my cds when i travelled overseas. and that was BEFORE i got obsessive about music and joined head-fi converted to EAC/Lame APX mp3s about 2 years ago and the majority of my songs are in that format. with downloads, my stash weighs in around 256 GB, which itunes says is about 44,500 tracks. i think i'm going to wait a little while before i re-rip everything to lossless though - tech is not quite where i want it to be for everyday usage

Don't get the tech is not everywhere I want it to be, but you'll need 2 of those new 750 gigabyte drives merged together or in some sort of raid to get all the data on one partition

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[Chri5peed]

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Originally Posted by Sparky191 Be interesting to hear how people back up their stuff aswell. I use a couple external USB disks. So the library is duplicated on three disks. As is my other data.

I have my music folder copied onto a Firewire/USB external drive. Also everything is burned on DVDs. Everytime I build up 4GBs of new music it gets burnt.
Its all on the CDs too.

 

[skudmunky]

Couple gigs of lossless and 5 or 6 gigs of mp3s - hey, I just started.

 

[NiceCans]

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Originally Posted by Chri5peed I have my music folder copied onto a Firewire/USB external drive. Also everything is burned on DVDs. Everytime I build up 4GBs of new music it gets burnt.

Good move!
I definately believe in multiple backups, we invest too much time and money into these libraries to take chances.
You need only suffer one significant loss to learn this lesson.
As a result, all my drives are triplets, each drive having two back-ups, which I alternate.