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I got lots- 1800 tracks, 110 hours of play time, and 6 gigs of hard drive space (:eek:) used up.

And about 70 different bands.

So, assumign each album has about 10 songs, and costs about $15 new, that's about $2700 worth of CDs.

Damn...

I got lots- 1800 tracks, 110 hours of play time, and 6 gigs of hard drive space (:eek:) used up.

And about 70 different bands.
About 6449 songs about 429 hours

(BTW I found an extention that will export windows media player library list)

Here is my band list for about 90 percent of my current music
(be gentle it is a LARGE html file and my bandwidth is a bit limited)

http://geek.upwardthrust.us/music.html

Well I don't have too much. 879 songs (45 hours worth of music). But seeing as my dad also keeps his song collection on this computer....upwards of 10 000 songs total.:eek:

Well I don't have too much. 879 songs (45 hours worth of music). But seeing as my dad also keeps his song collection on this computer....upwards of 10 000 songs total.:eek:
I am in that neighborhood with the unripped stuff

Waiting for my 3 new http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822152025

Should be here tomarrow (I am excited)

enough :)

I used to have a lot more than I have now - I recently had a massive clearout. Currently, h:\music\ stands at:

244.2GB, 92,897 files (some are probably playlists/album art), about a year's playing time.

It used to be closer to 400GB, but I figured at £20,000/song in fines... :D

Hey shoutout to posi or any other linux fans out there ... what full featured media player do you guys use

(I mean I use xine and VLC and such but they are more for playing individual files)

I am looking for a media player that can do large playlists (kind of like windows media player with its library)

I am looking for something advanced in that area along with the abilities to play wma and mp3 (that or an application that can auto convert wma's into mp3's automaticaly when they are aranged in a LOT of sub folders)

It used to be closer to 400GB, but I figured at £20,000/song in fines... :D

stupid RIAA or whoever has you brits under a monopoly

I used to have a lot more than I have now - I recently had a massive clearout. Currently, h:\music\ stands at:

244.2GB, 92,897 files (some are probably playlists/album art), about a year's playing time.

It used to be closer to 400GB, but I figured at £20,000/song in fines... :D
Well you got me beat ... I am in the neighborhood of 12 k when I get my new drives

stupid RIAA or whoever has you brits under a monopoly

If music pirates ever ran the RIAA it would be known as the ArrgghhIAA.;)

*Shrugs*. I've been threatened by the RIAA and the MPAA. I'm British. I laughed hard at them waving American laws at me. If I do get caught, I'll just argue that their definition of stealing is flawed. I've never bought a CD, and have absolutely no intention of ever doing so. I haven't stolen anything physical from them - they are effectively arguing that I'm stealing their revenue. I'm not, they wouldn't have got any of my money regardless. :)

Failing that, I'll lob the hard drives into the oven.

about 26 gigs. and about 1300 artists.

I'm nearin' twenty gigs!

Ok *nix geek I am trying AmaroK
Looks like what I want

Anyone use it before

I got lots- 1800 tracks, 110 hours of play time, and 6 gigs of hard drive space (:eek:) used up.

And about 70 different bands.

Meh.

I got more than 40 GB :D songs in my laptop. The iPod shows 5100 songs/25 days.

That's cuz I have to cover 5 languages - Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi and English.:p

Not much, really. When The file gets to be big enough to burn onto a disc, I get it the heck off the hard drive.

But if you were to ask how much is on those discs....... it would have to be somewhere in this vicinity of 6,000 songs.

I stopped collecting music a while back. Waste of money to buy now. I still got a lot of old vinyl, cassettes and some cd's.

I got lots- 1800 tracks, 110 hours of play time, and 6 gigs of hard drive space (:eek:) used up.

And about 70 different bands.no music on my computer. not a single track. nope, zip, zero, nada.


now on my portable 40 gig flash drive however... :D

I used to have a lot more than I have now - I recently had a massive clearout. Currently, h:\music\ stands at:

244.2GB, 92,897 files (some are probably playlists/album art), about a year's playing time.

It used to be closer to 400GB, but I figured at £20,000/song in fines... :D

:eek: And I thought 20gig was a lot!

I stopped collecting music a while back. Waste of money to buy now. I still got a lot of old vinyl, cassettes and some cd's.
OMFG! someone else who knows Vinyl. :eek:

Last LP I picked up my friends looked at it and asked... "What is that? a Laser Disk?" never felt sooo old in my life. :(

OMFG! someone else who knows Vinyl. :eek:

Last LP I picked up my friends looked at it and asked... "What is that? a Laser Disk?" never felt sooo old in my life. :(
Hey I am a youngin (relitivly 23) and I got about a 600 disk Vinyl collection

Hey I am a youngin (relitivly 23) and I got about a 600 disk Vinyl collection
that's a nice number to start with. did you add your parents collection?

some of the old classics sounds awsome on vinyl.

that's a nice number to start with. did you add your parents collection?

some of the old classics sounds awsome on vinyl.
Ill take a picture sometime

I started with my dads (which he gave to me)

I have all origional releases of Zeplin and stepenwolf, JoJo GUNN, Chicago, Boston and Beatles (including a first 1000 release of the collecters Magical mystery tour)

Last time I had my collection apprazed I have about 30 thousand dollars worth (all mint and all origionals)

that's a nice number to start with. did you add your parents collection?

some of the old classics sounds awsome on vinyl.
You got me looking at them

Some other examples

Mott the hoople

I also have Led Zeppelin II release SD 8236

Also Doors strange days release number 7414

I think I am going to take pictures of my vinyl collection tomarrow and post them though, the more I look through it the more I find lol (like Deep Purple in Rock release 1877)

I think I am going to take pictures of my vinyl collection tomarrow and post them though, the more I look through it the more I find lol (like Deep Purple in Rock release 1877)
awsome man... great collections.

About 45GB of music, 11,000 songs.

I'm might have a dozen songs or so, but I wouldn't know where anymore.
I generally turn on the TV if I want music..

About 1000, 4gb or so. Heaps more than that on CD though.

Over 4000, which amounts to about 11 days and 5-6 hours.

Essentially none (maybe the occasional item, but that's like MIDI files and the like, nothing ripped).

However, I listen to (or record for listening to later[1]) a huge amount of radio programmes (mainly comedy). Usually nothing less than five hours a day. At approximately 35Mb/hour[2] that would take up almost all [one of] of my 160Gb disks if I were to be saving it all over the couple of years I've had my DAB card.

Very little music, though I've recorded a couple of programmes about the Eurovision sog contest,r ecently, with a high music (if you can call it that! ;)) content and will be doing so for the event itself to probably listen to after I watch the TV show.

[1] Either direct from the computer with wireless headphones or via an MP3 player (http://www.dansdata.com/dah220.htm) I can easily use in either the car stereo or on foot throughout the day.
[2] Based on the size of the BBC7's digital radio MP2-format files, which are mono, rather than the stereo I can pick up on BBC Radio 4, and there's usually an hour's worth of the latter I like to listen to, so that'd be at least six effective hours of data...

Well after reading this, I just looked at what I have on my computer, about 22 gb worth of music, ~6500 songs.

right now. . . .about 36 gigs. 464 artists, 8195 tracks. I've listened to about 95% of it, can give the sound of the band off hand on about 65% and am intimently familiar with about 50% of it.

about 7k of those are from a dorm sharing network.

10.000 numbers, good for a month of non-stop music :D

6.53Gb, 1754 songs, 37.6 days. Compared to some on here its nothing. But I also have access to everyone elses iTunes over the Uni Halls LAN. :cool: See? It's good for something!

One MP3, because I haven't transfered it over to the 1200-odd songs on my MP3 player yet. ;)

While I can't separate the Podcast files (and the few videos I have on here) from my music files entirely, it comes to approximately 4.19 GB of music (Yay, simple math skills!), but I'm not even gonna bother trying to figure out the playing time. ;)

6.53Gb, 1754 songs, 37.6 days. Compared to some on here its nothing. But I also have access to everyone elses iTunes over the Uni Halls LAN. :cool: See? It's good for something!
Uh, do you mean hours?

Uh, do you mean hours?
:confused: Huh? No, days.

:confused: Huh? No, days.

So the average song length is something like 30 minutes?

About 1Gb - I lost 3Gb on an old hard drive as I couldn't back it up due to not having a DVD burner. Now, I've got 2 DVD burners ...

So the average song length is something like 30 minutes?
I just tried that too. Eh? The fuck is up with iTunes then? Says 37 days down at the bottom.
*is confused*

right now. . . .about 36 gigs. 464 artists, 8195 tracks. I've listened to about 95% of it, can give the sound of the band off hand on about 65% and am intimently familiar with about 50% of it.

about 7k of those are from a dorm sharing network.
Yeah you fuckers are the one that decide to nail a switch when we are doing a rework lol

Normaly we dont care but when one of our 3505's are down and we have to stack them that sort of transfer kills other peoples connection lol

no music on my computer. not a single track. nope, zip, zero, nada.


now on my portable 40 gig flash drive however... :D
40 gig FLASH drive?

I have never even heard of one that big ... what cost you like 40 thousand dollars?

Or do actualy have an external hard drive

awsome man... great collections.
Yeah ... the funny thing is my dad got them all on the cheep, at the time the first releases were being sent over to Japan, and he happen to be that way very often (and stayed there over a year at one point)

Was in nam

All in all, I have about 10gb on all of my computers combined. This one has about 3gb.

I don't download too much music, really. I'm starting a record collection (I only have five records at the moment, because that's all I can afford); I'm currently listening to a vinyl rip I made of Moving Pictures.

It sounds good, but if I had a hi-fi vacuum tube preamp, it'd sound perfect.

Yeah ... the funny thing is my dad got them all on the cheep, at the time the first releases were being sent over to Japan, and he happen to be that way very often (and stayed there over a year at one point)

Was in nam

Oh dude... Japanese pressings are great. They use heavy vinyl and adhere to stringent quality control while pressing and packing.

All in all, I have about 10gb on all of my computers combined. This one has about 3gb.

I don't download too much music, really. I'm starting a record collection (I only have five records at the moment, because that's all I can afford); I'm currently listening to a vinyl rip I made of Moving Pictures.

It sounds good, but if I had a hi-fi vacuum tube preamp, it'd sound perfect.
Yeah like in the prievous pages said I am up to about 600 origionals (a big chunk passed down to me by my dad)

But I just managed to break my table, so time to spend some dough on a new one (I am pissed I loved that old heavy beast)

Oh dude... Japanese pressings are great. They use heavy vinyl and adhere to stringent quality control while pressing and packing.
They did hold up wonderfull, and it helps that my dad (while he did keep them vertical) kept them under pressure, no warping at all.

Ill take some pictures tonight and post them in their own thread (look on previous pages for a FEW examples of the collection)

Yeah like in the prievous pages said I am up to about 600 origionals (a big chunk passed down to me by my dad)

I think I'm currently at about 900 vinyl LPs, with a stack of about thirty that I have yet to make suitably relaxed time to listen to for the first time.

On this comp I have about 6.5 GB; 1526 songs. how long I do not know, also have some one my other comp and a few *cough* on my mp3.

I think I'm currently at about 900 vinyl LPs, with a stack of about thirty that I have yet to make suitably relaxed time to listen to for the first time.
Cool :) I just broke my ol 15 pound table so I got to hunt for a good new one

They did hold up wonderfull, and it helps that my dad (while he did keep them vertical) kept them under pressure, no warping at all.

Ill take some pictures tonight and post them in their own thread (look on previous pages for a FEW examples of the collection)

Cool stuff. All of my albums are originals... Though I accidentally dented Hemispheres. I'll be getting a new one, though. Along with that, I'll also buy even more records. I'll go ahead and list some possibilities:

Led Zeppelin IV
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Permanent Waves
Zen Arcade
Paranoid
Rocket To Russia
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
The Clash
Damaged
New Day Rising

I figure ten albums on my next wave should cover it. :p

Cool stuff. All of my albums are originals... Though I accidentally dented Hemispheres. I'll be getting a new one, though. Along with that, I'll also buy even more records. I'll go ahead and list some possibilities:

Led Zeppelin IV
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Permanent Waves
Zen Arcade
Paranoid
Rocket To Russia
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
The Clash
Damaged
New Day Rising

I figure ten albums on my next wave should cover it. :p

Ohh I have Zeppelin IV Release is in the low 2000 ( I am at work and dont remember off hand)

I've got about 10GB worth (I would do the nb. of tracks and days etc, but i'm on a uni comp).

That said, i've got a few hundred CD's that still need ripping yet...

Damaged

Go for Everything Went Black instead, not only do you avoid the shitty sound of Damaged, but you also get to see how good the band could have been if they never made the mistake of asking Rollins to join.

Ohh I have Zeppelin IV Release is in the low 2000 ( I am at work and dont remember off hand)

Nice. I don't particularly care too much about having an early pressing; as long as it's an original pressing from the particular record's original run, I'm happy.

And no, I don't like remasters. That is, unless, said remasters were actually made by the band, not some publishing company. Husker Du recently remastered Warehouse: Songs And Stories, and the drums are supposed to be deeper and cleaner.

I would've bought it with my first wave of discs, but it was $30, so I went and bought a mint-condition original.

Go for Everything Went Black instead, not only do you avoid the shitty sound of Damaged, but you also get to see how good the band could have been if they never made the mistake of asking Rollins to join.

Hm, I'll probably do that.

And you're right --- the only song I liked with Rollins was TV Party. :p

Nice. I don't particularly care too much about having an early pressing; as long as it's an original pressing from the particular record's original run, I'm happy.

And no, I don't like remasters. That is, unless, said remasters were actually made by the band, not some publishing company. Husker Du recently remastered Warehouse: Songs And Stories, and the drums are supposed to be deeper and cleaner.

I would've bought it with my first wave of discs, but it was $30, so I went and bought a mint-condition original.
Yeah ... sound wise I agree with you

It is just kind of neet to have early release stuff, more as a collecters item then anything

And if I ever decide to sell them it IS a selling point

Do you know how much Magical mystery tour release 950 something gets when it is in the origional collecters edition jacket gets :)

Nice. I don't particularly care too much about having an early pressing; as long as it's an original pressing from the particular record's original run, I'm happy.

And no, I don't like remasters. That is, unless, said remasters were actually made by the band, not some publishing company. Husker Du recently remastered Warehouse: Songs And Stories, and the drums are supposed to be deeper and cleaner.

I would've bought it with my first wave of discs, but it was $30, so I went and bought a mint-condition original.


Jimmy Page did the Led Zep Remasters, IIRC, thats the only reason I actually bought them :)

*Shrugs*. I've been threatened by the RIAA and the MPAA. I'm British. I laughed hard at them waving American laws at me. If I do get caught, I'll just argue that their definition of stealing is flawed. I've never bought a CD, and have absolutely no intention of ever doing so. I haven't stolen anything physical from them - they are effectively arguing that I'm stealing their revenue. I'm not, they wouldn't have got any of my money regardless. :)

Failing that, I'll lob the hard drives into the oven.


No need to physically destroy the drives, just slap a big magnet on the outside of it.

I've got about 550 songs, bit over 26 hours of play time from probably 100-200 groups/artists. My musical taste is very broad.

As for the issue of stealing I never bought CDs before, they aren't losing jack shit from me, but I have bought music since I started downloading. Either pay download or in rare occasion CDs.

No need to physically destroy the drives, just slap a big magnet on the outside of it.

I've got about 550 songs, bit over 26 hours of play time from probably 100-200 groups/artists. My musical taste is very broad.

As for the issue of stealing I never bought CDs before, they aren't losing jack shit from me, but I have bought music since I started downloading. Either pay download or in rare occasion CDs.
Naw an app like this
http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave-discontinued/

Will take care of recovering data off of it. Do a 25 pass and you are safe

Hm, I'll probably do that.

And you're right --- the only song I liked with Rollins was TV Party. :p

The other option, if you want to hear Rollins era stuff which hasn't either had its balls cut off in the studio or suffered too much from Ginn's laid-back prog/stoner tendencies, is to hunt out a copy of the 1983 Demos boot, also known as the 1982 Demos - confusingly enough.

I don't have an exact count, but the total probably comes to 320 or so pieces and songs.

Naw an app like this
http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave-discontinued/

Will take care of recovering data off of it. Do a 25 pass and you are safe

They still say...

But if that's who you're worried about reading your data, it's probably best if you pound the drive into dust using a sledge hammer, and then fuse the pieces together with a blowtorch.

They still say...
Well the application fufills NSA standards for a secure unrecoverable datawipe (we are required to whipe staff computers to said standards before they are allowed to leave the school)

Well the application fufills NSA standards for a secure unrecoverable datawipe (we are required to whipe staff computers to said standards before they are allowed to leave the school)

Fair enough.

The way they put it, it'll nail it all down, they just didn't want to leave themselves open I suppose.

1753 Files
6.4GB
104 hours, 16 minutes, and 30 seconds.

I have no idea how many bands/musicians... But it is a lot.

Someone mentioned languages? Most of my collection is in English, German, and Turkish, trailed by French, Arabic, and Croatian, but also including Portugese, Italian, Russian, Lithuanian, Hawaiian, Icelandic, Swedish, Latvian, Spanish, Cirque Gibberish, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Dutch, Polish, Welsh, Albanian , Slovenian, and Moldovan.

So far I only speak English, German, some French, and a few phrases in Turkish, though.

Fair enough.

The way they put it, it'll nail it all down, they just didn't want to leave themselves open I suppose.
Yeah

I looked through the script they use for the program ... it is ingeniously small (like 200-400 lines)

Ohh I have Zeppelin IV Release is in the low 2000 ( I am at work and dont remember off hand)

I have an original pressing of LZIV, but I have no idea what number it is. (guessing fairly high due to it being purchased in Australia)

I just tried that too. Eh? The fuck is up with iTunes then? Says 37 days down at the bottom.
*is confused*

Well, I wouldn't say it's impossible; I have a penchant for album-long "songs" myself, but it's probably unlikely to find even 500 albums like that :p

I have an original pressing of LZIV, but I have no idea what number it is. (guessing fairly high due to it being purchased in Australia)
Ahhh, I have the advantage, most of the Japaneese versions had release numbers printed on them

I just recently put most of it to disk, but I had over 2100+ songs on my computer. From most genres except country.......I dont care for country.

Ohh I have Zeppelin IV Release is in the low 2000 ( I am at work and dont remember off hand)

Where on the LP does your number appear? - I was not aware that there was a numbered vinyl release.

Where on the LP does your number appear? - I was not aware that there was a numbered vinyl release.
Cover ... Ill take pictures when I get home and show you guys but there is a stamped or printed serial release on a good number of mine (not all)

Cover ... Ill take pictures when I get home and show you guys but there is a stamped or printed serial release on a good number of mine (not all)

Not doubting your word, but the only reference that I can find is to a limited run of IV is on a 1988 re-release from HMV. The fact that you say 'a good number' of your LPs have such a stamped number on them would sort of suggest to me that they might have been added by a prior owner, rather than at time of pressing - they didn't happen to come from a radio station or other similar archive?

1500, around half are off itunes. Rock for the most part, and some country.


Would anyone be interested in sharing their collections avec moi? We could start a request system, on a thread perhaps on another slightly less public site. Its just that a lot of you seem to have so many tracks, we're all bound to have stuff eachother wants. It should be an easy, low risk way of getting the stuff we want. Maybe there could be another way of doing a person to person music exchange thing........ if you have any ideas let me know. I think aldready people do it in......newsgroups? but you have to pay join those. I really don't have the money to spend on itunes anymore is my main motivation for pitching this idea.

You can telegram me on nationstates, I can give you my email address via telegrams if you are interested.....

1500, around half are off itunes. Rock for the most part, and some country.


Would anyone be interested in sharing their collections avec moi? We could start a request system, on a thread perhaps on another slightly less public site. Its just that a lot of you seem to have so many tracks, we're all bound to have stuff eachother wants. It should be an easy, low risk way of getting the stuff we want. Maybe there could be another way of doing a person to person music exchange thing........ if you have any ideas let me know. I think aldready people do it in......newsgroups? but you have to pay join those. I really don't have the money to spend on itunes anymore is my main motivation for pitching this idea.

You can telegram me on nationstates, I can give you my email address via telegrams if you are interested.....

http://www.slsknet.org/

Use that.

soulseek is a filesharing application that does not allow you to upload copyrighted materials though...............

Not doubting your word, but the only reference that I can find is to a limited run of IV is on a 1988 re-release from HMV. The fact that you say 'a good number' of your LPs have such a stamped number on them would sort of suggest to me that they might have been added by a prior owner, rather than at time of pressing - they didn't happen to come from a radio station or other similar archive?
Nope originals bought at time of release

All my old albums were bought between 1968 and 1979 (or there bouts) by my father.

The zeppelins were printed not stamped by the way (id number)

Like I said Ill take some pics for you

More than enough!

soulseek is a filesharing application that does not allow you to upload copyrighted materials though...............

Uh, yeah it does. Do you have any idea of how many Ramones albums I've gotten off of Soul Seek?

Rhapsody is the best. Apple blows chunks. For $15 a month, I get unlimited downloads to my iRiver. 3.6 days worth, currently, and only music I actually listen to on a regular basis. You people who shell out $400 for an iPod and then use crappy iTunes. "My iPod can hold 10,000 songs and it only cost me a little over $10,000 to fill it up! I love my iPod!"

Rhapsody is the best. Apple blows chunks. For $15 a month, I get unlimited downloads to my iRiver. 3.6 days worth, currently, and only music I actually listen to on a regular basis. You people who shell out $400 for an iPod and then use crappy iTunes. "My iPod can hold 10,000 songs and it only cost me a little over $10,000 to fill it up! I love my iPod!"

Paying for music that's not even half the quality of the original CD's (and not even 1/50th the quality of vinyl) is ridiculous.

Uh, yeah it does. Do you have any idea of how many Ramones albums I've gotten off of Soul Seek?

mmmhm, you can find all sorts of rare crap on there.

mmmhm, you can find all sorts of rare crap on there.

Yep. I found a user who had vinyl rips of Professionals singles.

Paying for music that's not even half the quality of the original CD's (and not even 1/50th the quality of vinyl) is ridiculous.

UUUUUMMMM, it is only in low-quality format if you have a dialup connection. Frank Sinatra is nice on vinyl, but your definition of quality obviously does not include clarity, bass, or anything besides nostalgia

who cares :gundge:

over 15000

UUUUUMMMM, it is only in low-quality format if you have a dialup connection. Frank Sinatra is nice on vinyl, but your definition of quality obviously does not include clarity, bass, or anything besides nostalgia
Your connection speed determines the quality of music you get?

UUUUUMMMM, it is only in low-quality format if you have a dialup connection. Frank Sinatra is nice on vinyl, but your definition of quality obviously does not include clarity, bass, or anything besides nostalgia

Oh, really... Then why is it that I can hear the compression on even 320kbps MP3's? The compression makes a tinny, watery sound in the back of all of it (especially prevalent on 128kbps files), plus the percussion is totally screwed on faster Rock tracks (Husker Du's a good example).

Oh, but wait. You know exactly who I am and what I'm thinking, so what I just posted must be what someone else is thinking!

who cares :gundge:
Thank you for your profound contribution to the conversation. Thank you SO much. The boogar throwing smiley (or whatever he's doing) really helped everone involved more fully grasp the reality of the conversation they were engaged in. What must go on in that big fat brain of yours?

Well,probably not as much as other people,I think,but...

1755 songs,approximately lasting 5.2 days and 7.02 GB.

531 artists,though it should be more.I made them more general just to organize them better.

2712 songs. 142 hours. 6 minutes. 24 seconds. :D

Oh, really... Then why is it that I can hear the compression on even 320kbps MP3's? The compression makes a tinny, watery sound in the back of all of it (especially prevalent on 128kbps files), plus the percussion is totally screwed on faster Rock tracks (Husker Du's a good example).

Oh, but wait. You know exactly who I am and what I'm thinking, so what I just posted must be what someone else is thinking!

The same reason you hear all of those other voices in your head that aren't there? You act like I was making a personal attack on you. I don't know where you get your mp3's but they are every bit as good (or better) than CDs, and vinyl sounds like a crackly AM radio. That's not always bad, but high quality recording isn't exactly what comes to mind first when I listen to my vinyl records...

Your connection speed determines the quality of music you get?
If you listen to streaming audio on a 56k connection, they reduce the quality so you don't have to wait ten minutes for it to buffer. But I imagine the downloads, if you have the time to get them, would probably be of the higher quality, now that you mention it. That was just the only scenerio that I could imagine where mp3's sound like crap. Although, There was a lot of crap out there when Napster was still free.

2712 songs. 142 hours. 6 minutes. 24 seconds. :D
What city do you live in? I lived in Chelmsford and Southend-on-Sea.

The same reason you hear all of those other voices in your head that aren't there? You act like I was making a personal attack on you. I don't know where you get your mp3's but they are every bit as good (or better) than CDs, and vinyl sounds like a crackly AM radio. That's not always bad, but high quality recording isn't exactly what comes to mind first when I listen to my vinyl records...

You weren't making a personal attack, but you were being a total dumbass, so I retaliated in kind. Deal with it.

And you must own some really shitty records. The five I own are very crisp with next to no static, crackling, or pops. Vinyl is flat-out better than any current digital format. It's not limited by cut sampling (20hz - 20khz is terrible) or a digital sampling envelope (44.1khz? ugh).

And MP3's are not of higher quality than CD's. They are compressed audio, and much sound is lost (mostly in percussion and reverb).

You weren't making a personal attack, but you were being a total dumbass, so I retaliated in kind. Deal with it.

And you must own some really shitty records. The five I own are very crisp with next to no static, crackling, or pops. Vinyl is flat-out better than any current digital format. It's not limited by cut sampling (20hz - 20khz is terrible) or a digital sampling envelope (44.1khz? ugh).

And MP3's are not of higher quality than CD's. They are compressed audio, and much sound is lost (mostly in percussion and reverb).
You retaliated by being a total dumbass? You said it... I have read and reread my post and can't figure our how most of your response applies. But I'm slow, so I beg your pardon anyway. All of my 85 or so records are from the 70's and I must say that it is an absolute pleasure to listen to the Tijuana Brass, but they are all marred by faint static. Maybe from over-playing. I am just not seeing a huge market for vinyl, especiallly among people who can afford whatever they want. I just don't believe convenience is that big of a factor in a home stereo.

If you listen to streaming audio on a 56k connection, they reduce the quality so you don't have to wait ten minutes for it to buffer. But I imagine the downloads, if you have the time to get them, would probably be of the higher quality, now that you mention it. That was just the only scenerio that I could imagine where mp3's sound like crap. Although, There was a lot of crap out there when Napster was still free.
You dont have to imagine ... come visit me sometime, on a good system you can hear the difference between standard compressed mp3's and lossless any day.

There is a reason I have about 10 k songs ripped right now but it takes like 200 GB of space ...

I have about... six or seven pieces of classical music. Not songs. Stupid iTunes. ¬_¬

You retaliated by being a total dumbass? You said it... I have read and reread my post and can't figure our how most of your response applies. But I'm slow, so I beg your pardon anyway. All of my 85 or so records are from the 70's and I must say that it is an absolute pleasure to listen to the Tijuana Brass, but they are all marred by faint static. Maybe from over-playing. I am just not seeing a huge market for vinyl, especiallly among people who can afford whatever they want. I just don't believe convenience is that big of a factor in a home stereo.

Hm... Faint static? That might be from dust in the grooves. Get a shop vac with a soft, stiff brush attachment, and vacuum the records groove-wise (if you do the brush towards the center, it might make nasty scratches). Doing that got rid of every bit of fuzz/static from my original 1976 issue of Rush's 2112. I don't think it'd been cleaned once in its lifetime.

Oh, and wiping off your record player's stylus with a soft cloth will get any spots and fuzz off of it. A lot of people don't clean their styli, which is second biggest cause of static.

Well, I wouldn't say it's impossible; I have a penchant for album-long "songs" myself, but it's probably unlikely to find even 500 albums like that :p
I figured it out. A track by Fatboy Slim was listed as having a length of >700 hours. :eek: Prolem solved.

2,238 tracks, 6 days 0 hours 14 minutes and 50 seconds, 11.02 GB...

WOO! For the first time, I have more music on my computer than I do free space. (Free Space 9.21GB)

2,238 tracks, 6 days 0 hours 14 minutes and 50 seconds, 11.02 GB...

WOO! For the first time, I have more music on my computer than I do free space. (Free Space 9.21GB)
Yeah my new hard drives come in the mail tomarrow lol

17.38 Gb
247 hours 38 minutes 47 seconds ("10.3 days" apparently, according to goggle)

roughly 4,300 tracks

Gah! I need to get more random songs! 932MB. T_T

Erm...
8055 individual items, 508 hours, 53 minutes, 28 seconds (21 days 4 hours, etc), 31.17GB. Didn't realise it was that much. That's how much I've got in WMP. I know I have more that I haven't put in there yet, and I have several CDs lying around that I haven't copied on yet. Probably closer to 550 hours.

Well if there is anyone intrested I created a vinyl thread for thoes of that were discussing it. Got some of my pictures on there

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=483118

26 songs. 25 are by Matisyahu - the Hasidic reggae singer. The other one is "Tribute" by Tenacious D.

My five-star songs are "Youth", "Lord Raise Me Up", "King Without A Crown", "Fire of Heaven/Altar of Earth", "Indestructible", "Jerusalem", "Chop Em Down", and "Tribute".

8093 items, enough for 24 days and 9 hours, 41 minutes and 30 seconds of music, taking up approximately 46,44 Gigabytes. don't kill me, it's legal to download music here B)

'part from that most of this music would cost me a small fortune to get here, all this shit NOBODY knows. Or barely anybody.

glitziness now has an awful lot (more)... *shiftyeyes*

glitziness now has an awful lot (more)... *shiftyeyes*
Haha, I have over 40GB now... :D

3106 songs, about 12 GB, 205 hours.

90% of it is legal (well, ripped from CDs that I own, technically that's still illegal... :eek: ).

1296 songs, 82 hours, 13.1 GB*. I'm small time.

*About half of my music is record at ridiculous bitrates.

RIAA RAID! :eek:

*Starts deleting 20 GB of music*

They're coming up the stairs!

*Sets computer on fire*
*Jumps through window*

I have got just under 3000 songs. My music collection contains every single Beatles album, which I like to boast to my friends. Some other bands in which I have completed their whole discography are Metallica, Children Of Bodom, Slayer, Tool, The Smiths, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Rage Against The Machine & The Who.

4 terra and waiting on another 2 terra

1968 songs. 9.25gb

2 gigs