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How Much Music do you Own?

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"Own"? I don´t own music since the 90´s.

Anyways, if i didn´t lost or delete most of everything i download to listen, i´d pass the 1TB easily.
 
I am closing in on 400gb that I store on a 1tb external.

I have a wide taste and love collecting complete series of stuff, like I have every Now That's What I Call Music album.

My favourite band are post-punk greats, The Fall.
 
I have no idea in GB as I still listen to most stuff on CD or LP, of which I have roughly:

  • 500+ CDs
  • 200+ CD singles
  • 300+ LPs
  • 100+ 7" singles

All of which must pop the 100gb on the poll
 
I have 18,921 tracks on 1,075 albums. Thirteen of those "albums" are singles. However a number of multi-disc sets are counted as single albums. They take up 104,940,964 kilobytes of disk space but that's including cover art and subdirectories, and it would take 40 days, two hours and 39 seconds to listen to it all.

These numbers will be changing in a few days though.
 
Only 20-30GB of varied music in FLAC and MP3 for various uses but I'm a collector of live music shows, bootlegs if you will. For that I have 322GB of FLAC of one artist, Foo Fighters. 40GB of Them Crooked Vultures. I used to collect Nirvana as well and had over 250GB of that but I deleted most of it, only have a few GB now.

In terms of physical items again I have a 'varied' collection of CD/Vinyl/Cassettes of a few hundred but I also have around 250 Foo Fighters items as I'm a physical collector as well.
 
Own as in brought legally or Own as in on your computer? I think I have a bout 20 ish gigs of music ranging from 90's to 2012 etc
 
One could argue that if you acquired it illegally then you don't really own it. But then again, the music industry will be quick to point out that you don't really own the music in your collection anyway; you've merely acquired a license to listen to it complete with restriction on when and where you may play it.
 
Ok the whole buying music thing through iTunes or whatever is crazy. Such mixed messages. Apple came out with the ipod and were saying how amazing it is since it can hold 10,000 songs. Than they say they have iTunes store where you can easily purchase songs for $1 from the comfort of your own home. Who cares how many songs it can hold if it's gonna cost you $10,000! It's just way to expensive per song to make buying music worth it. You can get the whole cd for like 10 bucks at the store and have a real physical copy plus the digital copy, it also has all the fancy books inside, possibly a bonus item etc. Or you can buy it off iTunes for $1 a song and only get digital songs. Even if you buy the full cd there I think it's $10 but you miss out on all the cool stuff that comes with cds. Than You have all the rules of when you die it doesn't go to your kids, you can't play it at certain places, etc. It's just so many rules and way to expensive.
 
How many albums do you have if you own 100GB+? I know it varies per album but roughly how many albums do you have if you have over 100GB?
I thought I had a lot at 2893 songs or 254 albums (probably around 200 as the other figures includes singles) but it only takes up only 19GB. I don't know how anyone can have 100GB! Must've cost a lot for a start!
 
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Well, in my case I have 18982 songs across 1077 albums. That's 17.62 songs per album. although the median may give a better picture here, which is 16. It represents 40 days 4 hours 21 minutes and 58 seconds of playing time, or three minutes 2.9 seconds per song.

As for what it costs, I don't even want to think about it. I will say that the most I've spent on a single album was $62.99 and the least was zero (no that "zero" does not mean what you may be thinking; Amazon regularly has free MP3 albums).
 
BobK
One could argue that if you acquired it illegally then you don't really own it. But then again, the music industry will be quick to point out that you don't really own the music in your collection anyway; you've merely acquired a license to listen to it complete with restriction on when and where you may play it.
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Well, that's the case with art, photography, products, and software too. You may own your car, but you don't own the manufacturing rights to the parts and patents contained thereof. You can buy a piece of artwork or a photo, but you don't automatically own the rights to reproduce it on a T-shirt or disseminate digital copies (unless you've worked that into a separate contract). That's how copyright works, unless it's an expired copyright (hint, not generally in our lifetimes if produced in the past 35 years).

So the music industry, while greedy as it may be at times, isn't enforcing a sterner form of copyright than any other medium, and in my opinion, it's generally a looser form of copyright via ownership of a transportation medium which contains the licence to replay it privately. The iTunes digital download is what breaks this method down because many people (not all people, obviously) trampled on this license by copying it and giving it away to others.

At roughly 700 albums, paying between $1 to $20 an album, I suppose I've paid quite a few thousand on my music collection. Heck, some if it has been bought on multiple types of media (cassette to CD), so I've even paid twice for about 10-20 albums. I don't want to think too much about that, but I essentially own it and get to enjoy it forever. The iPod was full at 60GB, although I haven't culled more than a few songs since hitting the limit.
 
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There are times when buying the physical copy, which is probably a CD copy is the cheaper way to go and the most versatile. I prefer my copies in 320kb MP3 and if you own the physical copy you can rip to whatever format you want. Started out doing FLAC until i bought an ipod awhile back... all those CD's i had to re-rip..never again haha

I agree that a 1 dollar a song is ridiculous. But if you only buy a few songs at a time, or your one to select only the most popular tracks from an album you arent really gonna notice. And Apple is a business which has a goal of making money. If the CD's i have were priced by the amount of tracks they have, i would've payed double, or even triple in some cases (discographies).
 
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Of produced music and regular bands, about 20gb. Total, including my music, friends bands, bootlegs, and local bands - about 50gb.
 
VRracingfan
How many albums do you have if you own 100GB+? I know it varies per album but roughly how many albums do you have if you have over 100GB?
I thought I had a lot at 2893 songs or 254 albums (probably around 200 as the other figures includes singles) but it only takes up only 19GB. I don't know how anyone can have 100GB! Must've cost a lot for a start!
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FLAC or other lossless compression formats. They take up a lot more space than lossy compressed formats like MP3 & AAC.
 
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FLAC or other lossless compression formats. They take up a lot more space than lossy compressed formats like MP3 & AAC.
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Ya, format and bitrate determines how big your library will be. I choose to go the 320kbps MP3 since its still the most versatile format. There are other factors too which determine how lossy and big a song is too when you rip tracks from a disc.
 
I've got around 80gb or so but I use a lossless format. I don't know how anyone can stand the compressed formats. They sound awful when played on any decent system or headphones.
 
bevo
I've got around 80gb or so but I use a lossless format. I don't know how anyone can stand the compressed formats. They sound awful when played on any decent system or headphones.
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It really sounds the same to me. But I'm not the final authority on it.

I can detect a major difference between a song on a radio and from a CD, or a CD from a cassette (I sound old, don't I?), but between different forms of mastering, between bit rates above 128, or uncompressed formats...personally, I can't tell the difference.
 
shmogt
Ok the whole buying music thing through iTunes or whatever is crazy. Such mixed messages. Apple came out with the ipod and were saying how amazing it is since it can hold 10,000 songs. Than they say they have iTunes store where you can easily purchase songs for $1 from the comfort of your own home. Who cares how many songs it can hold if it's gonna cost you $10,000! It's just way to expensive per song to make buying music worth it. You can get the whole cd for like 10 bucks at the store and have a real physical copy plus the digital copy, it also has all the fancy books inside, possibly a bonus item etc. Or you can buy it off iTunes for $1 a song and only get digital songs. Even if you buy the full cd there I think it's $10 but you miss out on all the cool stuff that comes with cds. Than You have all the rules of when you die it doesn't go to your kids, you can't play it at certain places, etc. It's just so many rules and way to expensive.
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You don't always miss out on the extra bits and bobs that come with a CD. For example, when I bought The Dark Side Of The Moon (Remastered Edition) I still got the mini documentary. Also with the Highway To Hell Album I got a little digital copy of the book that comes in the album sleeve.
 
There seems to be a trend towards including a pdf of the booklet when buying an MP3 album, too. Which is a good thing IMO, because the booklets tend to use a microscopic font size whereas yoiu can display a pdf at any size you like.

For what it's worth, my collection is pretty much all 256kbps mp3's. I really can't tell the difference between 256 and 320 kbps.
 
I can easily tell between 320kbps and anything lower. It takes thousands of hours of listening to music. And to be honest, I can't enjoy music under 320kbps, it just doesn't cut it.

In other words, I hit 90gb!
 
8GB of music attained from iTunes, 66 CD's, 11 Vinyl's, and one Cassette (Feeder's Borders single)
 

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