[GuruTech]

How many songs do you have in your songs library? i have more than 2000 songs. 
Where are you storing these. i have got an external hard disk of 500 GB.

 

[khaos974]

You're so far from the max

, there's a guy on a french forum who transitioned from a CD library to a hard drive based one just one or two years ago. He couldn't do it before because of space problem.
He ended up using a 6 TB NAS to store more than 15000 CDs in flac.
Not to mention that he keeps a backup at home and another backup at a friend's place, fairly understandable since he took a more than a year to rip everything.
 
That's what I call a crazy audiophile.

 

[krmathis]

Just 281 songs / 8.1 GB

 

[kenammo]

Currently have 1187 albums in the FLAC format, stored on my 1.5 TB hard drive (have a back up external drive also).  Mostly rock, pop, blues and jazz.

 

[CaptainLorax]

my computer library is always temporary storage. in the past I've had to wipe computers clean and lost all my music but it wasn't really a big deal. last time I wiped a computer I had an 8gb flash drive so I took my all my good music off.
 
there's only one song I regret losing of thousands of songs I couldn't save. i wouldn't regret losing it if i could ever find it again but I don't know the song title or band name and lyric searches have always come up dry

 

[lapsce]

3000+
63GB on my regular hard drive
backup on my 1.5TB external

 

[KHansen]

10,785 songs/only 66.32 gigs.
 
Half of it is 256kbps from CD's and Vinyls the rest is mixtapes and torrents.  Bands include Styx, Journey, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Rachael Yamagata, Holly Brooks, Rafael Casal, Tech 9, Arctic Monkeys, Athlete, The Chemical Brothers, Silversun Pickups....

 

[kenammo]

Quote:

there's only one song I regret losing of thousands of songs I couldn't save. i wouldn't regret losing it if i could ever find it again but I don't know the song title or band name and lyric searches have always come up dry

Do you have some of the lyrics, or a guess to who the band might be?  Share with us - maybe we can help you out.

 

[Zarathustra19]

Back up to 22225 songs, taking forever to rip what I had and restore what I lost and don't have from individual mp3 cds.  Takes up about 298gb.  and I have a 500gb and 350gb external.  Lost a 1tb external to a short drop last year. 
 
Cheers,
Zach

 

[Razeus]

over 31,000 tracks in my iTunes library.  That comes out to about 220GB of music from 128-320kbps.  I keep the FLAC files to them on other hard drive for backup.  Since I can't tell the difference betweeen CD, FLAC or mp3/aac (at least at 192kbps and above), I just "work" out of my iTunes library.  My PC has the Essence STX going to my Grado 225i's.  I keep it simple.

 

[tasteful]

Currently ~987 tracks in 4.49 GB. Stored on laptop hard drive and Sansa.
 
Edit: also backed up to 160 GB external hard drive with the rest of my personal files.

 

[bridge8989]

15k flac files = 370gb = 6 weeks of music
 

 

[cravenz]

mixture of lossless and various bit rates. Have about 100 - 200 albums of FLAC/ALAC only though since I only just started converting, but I don't buy many CDs nowadays due to a lack of storage space.
 
11k songs, 33 days 3 hours total play time, 153GB
 
I probably have slightly more than this cos' I switch between foobar and iTunes and am lazy to put everything together lol.

 

[grokit]

9,917 ALAC songs on a 1TB external backed up by a Drobo...

...keep it on shuffle

 

[necropimp]

7098 tracks
115GB
 
a mix of lossless and lossy most of it 16bit 44.1KHz sourced from CD some of it higher (vinyl rips, DVD-A, hi-res downloads)
 
most of my lossless is monkey's audio with a couple things in FLAC or wavpack
lossy tracks ripped from my own cds are mostly musepack with some vorbis
lossy from other sources (free legal downloads, amazon mp3 (free credit from buying cds), "other") is mostly mp3... a couple AAC files from itunes (free music codes from some promotion pepsi (IIRC) did a few years back)
 
all stored on a 1TB external with analog rips backed up to DVD