19,716

It's absurd, and I really have tried to prune it - it was over the 20,000 mark. But even removing 300 makes hardly a dent.

I've got to be brutal, but there's so much music in the world, and so much I don't want to be without, even if I don't listen to it.

Or just under 80Gb of music. Stupid really. There's so much stuff I don't listen to. My iPad contains 30gb of music, and even that's too much.

...it's still 13,387 tracks or 33.3 days. I blame those damn Word CDs!

*looks up 'discriminating palate'...hmm...'showing careful judgement or fine taste'*

I think I'd better think it out again!

I have put everything I have on iTunes (both music and DVD) for the purposes of streaming from the computer rather than using physical media.

Current totals are...
Music : 32523 items / 2707 albums (includes some music video material)
Movies : 624 items
TV Shows ; 4587 items (combination of TV series from DVD and BBC iPlayer downloads).

According to the timings it would take me just more than 300 days to listen / view it all. Probably too much.

Good job I have shortage of drive storage (4 x 2TB set up as a RAID5)

Currently 49,929 Items - 150.1 days - 225 Gb.

But - someday I'll want to listen to all of "Tree With Roots" again or "The Complete American Sessions" or some of that I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue archive ...

At last check I had over 50000 tracks stored digitally, but I've still got over a 1000 CDs to convert to digital that I've never gotten around to sitting down with.

I only really use ITunes to maintain my Ipod (currently sitting around 22000 tracks). I've half a gig of space left on it, so I do tend to prune it every so often.

Which means I've got 1000s of tracks that never get listened to currently. I don't know why I'm keeping some of it.

Even though I may never listen to a lot of it.
I start going through it and think of really good reasons to keep an album I have not listened to for five years. Weird.

19206 songs, 1454 albums, 52.3 days, 464.64 GB (they're all ripped at lossless quality onto a external network drive).

Oh shit, and of course, there's also the VINYL to consider...

51,729 tracks.

So, that's everything I love... but when I stick it on shuffle, I realise that there's also a lot of stuff I'd cheerfully never listen to again.

Mine is just shy of 18,000 tracks. I think there's value in keeping most tracks, who know's when you might want to hear John Gordon Sinclair's Scotland World Cup song again?

With the Word and other freebies I drop everything into a "samples" playlist and then prune out the tracks that aren't to my taste leaving 6 or 7 then I'll follow up on sooner or later.

When I first started dropping albums into iTunes I only picked the tracks I liked but have gone back and filled in the gaps since.

59,209 tracks on 4,686 albums.

339.33GB that would take 175.5 days to listen to.

In my defence the figures for my Elvis Costello collection is only:

2,363 tracks on 196 albums

10.93 GB that would take just 6 days to listen to. Pretty average I suppose.

60.28 GB 34 days 13 Hours 12 minutes
Have I listened to them all no

those of you who think you've got silly amounts of music...post

a) the number of tracks in the bog standard 'music' list AND THEN
b) the number of tracks in a smart playlist which is the contents of 'music' and where 'playcount=0'.

Just for the larf, like...

45,558 tracks
230.13GB

And there are a fair few audio books, radio plays (and like someone above, lots of ISIHACs) - I guess at low resolutions.

263 days, 9 hours, 19 minutes and 14 seconds.

So, I'd better enable crossfade while listening - that should save a few minutes here and there. The rest is, er, easy...

not trying hard enough. I have a measly 286 albums, 3642 tracks, 17.30gigs, and 10.1 days. Puny effort, compared to the rest of you. Where do you find the time to rip it all, never mind listening to it!

115.21 GB

It took many years to rip most (not all yet) of my CDs. Mostly I buy downloads now so they go straight on there. I need to do an inventory and rip all the CDs I haven't gotten around to. Then I might just sell them all!

57,460 songs - 239gb

wilco -just over 1,000 tracks including live, I would think is the biggest collection

Until reading the above replies I thought my collection (2704 albums, 118GB, 64 days' running time) was on the large side. I'm clearly just not taking this business seriously.

Because I got a lovely shiny new 160gb ipod for Christmas, as the FPO got fed up of hearing me complaining about having to take things off my old one to put new albums on.

I'm up to 32,058 tracks at 123.15gb, with 2,376 of those tracks being Beatles ones (and probably a similar amount of Beatles solo ones, once I've finished putting all the Lost Lennon Tapes on there).

How much would I get for an 80gb ipod with 21,000 tracks on it?

More to the point, how come my 80gb ipod could only fit 73gb of songs on it and the 160gb one can only fit 148gb on?

No restrictive Apple library here...

22,380 tracks 1577 hours (just over 2 months worth)

303 hours are from Various Artist cds - Thanks mainly to Word and Uncut magazines.

Just under 40,000 tracks.

99492 items 265.5 days 585.70GB

I doubt whether I reach 1,000 tracks. Yet I still consider myself a music fan. What a fraud.

and 26647 in Classical - but since I only ever listen to whole classical works, they're ripped as a single track, or single act of an opera, say. So a 4 hour, 3 act opera is three tracks. 931GB. 220 days. Rock and Pop form 11% of my collection.

The days were when people used to compare the prices of their car, or the size of their manhoods were much more healthy ones if you ask me.

Me? 1304 and proud. Descriminating see.

Which approximates to over 113 days and 227 GB, all kept on an external hard drive.

It is a never ceasing wonder to me that I can store this amount of music, but I do find it slightly dispiriting that every piece of music is now reduced to just another line entry in the great iTunes directory of my life.

What I want to know is - have any of you out there discovered a way to keep a track (visual,print out, whatever) of everything which is in a library this size, for easy reference remotely? Something like an app or similar which I could take with me anywhere on my phone or laptop, which would provide remote access to my iTunes library at any point.

This would save me buying yet another copy of Contra by Vampire Weekend, which I discovered last night I have now purchased 3 times over for no obvious reason. Any suggestions?

...the difference in quality that must be in use, just looking at the ratio between the number of tracks and the disk space taken up.

Is this a personal choice or not realising what Itunes can do in terms of encoding ?

Try this test. The same HJH sample 4 times (A,B,C,D) at different bitrates (128, 192, 320, WAV). Which is which ?

http://www.divshare.com/download/13699176-e7e

...has 7000-odd tracks in their iTunes library? In High Fidelity, Rob and Barry reckon that you can't be "a serious person" without owning a minimum of five hundred albums. Given that they're music nerds created by a music nerd, that makes 7000 an awful lot for an average. I mean, admittedly, El Hombre Malo is probably dragging the mean up by quite a bit on his own, but still, I'd be very surprised if there were enough people with large music collections to get the average that high. Most people are pretty casual and unbothered about music, really. I know plenty of people whose iTunes libraries would be in double and triple digits only, and I'd have thought they were much more typical.

(Also suggests a massive amount of illegal downloading going on, too. But then we knew that.)

I'd love to see the distribution curve for the numbers this report's based on. I suspect the mean isn't the most germane figure here.

Around 11,000 songs - I could probably lose about 1000 with some pruning. I currently have them on my pc hard drive and backed up on an external one. My PC is about to die any minute - I just have a feeling. It struggles to even load iTunes these days...

I think this is about right for me: I sometimes get bored of what's there and sometimes find gems I'd forgotten about. Looking at other figures I suspect a purge now might be a good idea...

I wonder, does anyone else bother with rating their tracks?

Going through a process of shrinking down to 128 from 160. Yes I know in some people's eyes this makes me a bad person, but I don't care. The difference in quality is so minimal to my ears, I may as well get more for my money as it were.

80207 tracks

people here should get out more?

A puny 25,795 items or 165GB.

I try to replace the stuff I originally encoded at 128 whenever I can as I do notice the difference - it's just a bit [adopt Cheryl Cole voice] dull and lifeless. No biggie when out and about in traffic as it were but when using tracks to make Dj mixes or for playing through decent speakers, the difference is enough to irk me!

7945 songs, 18.8 days, 30.93 GB.

And I wouldn't do without a single one of them.

They are my little, tuneful babies.

and filled my ipod up with everything I could. As such at least half of the content was "filler" from free magazine CDs, or stuff that I'd taken a punt on, didn't like but thought I'd give it another try later. Somebody could have handed me the new Westlife album and I'd have put the bloody thing on.

A couple of months ago I took a leap of faith. I got an 8 gig mp3 player, and due to its size, only put things on it that I have heard and like.

I find now that by flicking through 50 or 60 albums I'm actually listening to a more varied selection than before.

35,188.

No biggie. If meeting you lovely people has taught me anything , it is that if I thought I was deranged about something or other, there is someone round the corner who can see my derangement and raise me into stark-staring bonkers. But as el hombre malo says, it ain't a willie-waving contest. (Just as well...cough...).

Mind you, an awful lot of those are radio programmes, due for a purge. Though they are not doing any harm.

On the other hand, 1.75% of a disk left...

Of course, none of us are The Average Person. It used to be said The Average Person bought two CDs a year, the poor things.

Pesky duplicates....

16,942 tracks, or 105.56 GBs. The Word blog is the only place where this is probably not regarded as excessive.

However, over 20 GBs of this is dance music of the progressive house variety which could really be edited to about 2 GBs, but I just don't have the time to edit it (or listen to it).

The artist with the most tracks is Joni Mitchell, clocking up 237, or 17 hours, 45 minutes and 25 seconds of listening pleasure.

68029 items, 401 GB

Any 'heavy' users got any tips as to increasing speed and stopping that bleeding beachball?

16762. Sounds a lot. So does 105.5gb.

But iTunes informs me, and I'm sure it knows what it's talking about, that it will take 52.4 days to listen to that lot. Which given that I listen to music every day doesn't sound that much. Then interesting that tells me is that I actually "hear" music everyday but do I really listen? Probably not.

I make playlists of stuff I've never played so for the past few months everything's new (to me).

I thought I was a sad person with 21,032 tracks* all correctly genre-ized and no duplicates. Thank you for restoring my faith in myself, I'm not as much of a nerd as I thought I was, although I not so sure about one or two posters on here.

* includes 459 I Haven't a Clue and 640 Just a Minute. Does anyone else listen to classic comedies when exercising in the Gym?

How many Smiths Compilations does one man need?

19554 (or 58.5 days worth of listening...)

as of today. So a bit below average, even on a 120 Gb Classic ...

... perhaps it's lots of long tracks.