How large is your music collection?

[Zenax]

I am a very wide listener, so I have quite a few genres in my collection. They include: Rock, Punk Rock, Pop, RnB, Rap, Classical, Alternative Rock, Country, Dance, Hip-Hop...

But the majority of my music covers the first few genres!

So your a rocker then .... just like me XD

 

[DarkDragonLord]

174gig's of mp3 (almost 50,000 tracks). I have run plenty of duplicate checkers, some that just check on tags and file name and some that do a complete file compair. One that suposedly checks levels, song length, and a whole load of other stuff (by the time I ran this the collection was almost clean).
The whole collection is all formatted appropriatly (Case of file name, File name made up by "artist, album, track, track name", most tags are in place.
It is an alphabetical directory stucture, (A,B,C,...Temp,Other)
Really is a mission keeping it in order. Started collecting at least 8 years back,
40gig music videos,
4gig midi tracks (4000+ tracks),
2-3gig funny video clips and great adverts,
4-5 gig Simpsons episodes,
and alot of other stuff...

could you send me those program checkers ?

i think i have about 100~200 mp3s that are equal (like melissa in porno grafitti album folder AND full metal alchemist folder)



btw
all my musics are

NameOfAnime/Game_XOp/End/OrAlbumName-NameOfSong-ExtraInfo.mp3


that means, mp3's ready to internet xD no %20 anymore lol ;P

 

[sms_dre]

3436 songs, 19.4 GB

Mainly metal

 

[dyfuse]

So your a rocker then .... just like me XD

Not a complete hardcore rocker though...(I delve into pop stuff as well)


I find that it's easy to rename heaps of music files using a program that's capable of batch tagging, batch file-renaming, etc. The one I use is TagScanner and it works soooo well. Definitely saves me heaps of time. So if you just rename your music files by right-clicking on the file in explorer > properties > summary, then you might want to give a program like TagScanner a go.

 

[Trixter]

I have a wide variety of music ranging from County to Heavy Metal and Christian to Death Trace. so I guess you could say I'm just a music lover it all depends on my mood .

As for tagging my music its an ABSOLUTE MUST! When I get a song and I HAVE to make sure its Name, Date, Genre, Artiest, Composer, Art Work and Album Name are all filled in or it'll drive me crazy!! true there are a few that manage to slip though but I fix them as I find them

 

[DefecTalisman]

When I started collecting music, the tags weren't a prority, but over the years of collecting. I had a whole load of files that had tags and lots that didn't and definatly plenty that had the wrong tags. So then realizing that I thought I had 2 options, either delete them all and just go off the directory structure and filename, or try and append all the wrong tags. I went with the later and wish I had gone with the easier option. I spent 5days straight at one point using programs and typing manually.

to date still a bit of a mess.
Edit:

could you send me those program checkers ?

Ok, now I gotta get out the hard drive. Will give you the names of the ones I used. They where all free.

Hold on.

1: MP3 tag , by Manic tools.
2: Filerenamer 2005, by Winsome Technologies
3: Ideal_Sorter , by Itanium Software Soloutions
4: no-clone enterprise

Its been a while since I used them and dont have them installed. One of these(i think works on filename, algorythyms and stuff).

Also if you have total commander it has functions to do mass renames.

The best way I found to organise was in a "A","B","C"... diercotry structure.
Edit:
Now the drive is plugged in I can adjust amounts to the real ones:

Music : 177 GB, 51 273 files, 4 725 folders
Music Videos : 5 GB, 274 files, 69 folders
Funny Videos : 1.07 GB, 353 files, 6 folders
Simpsons : 4.26 GB, 87 files, 6 folders
Car Videos : 306 MB , 50 files, 8 folders
Games/mods & cheats : 11.9 GB, 16 733 files, 1 037 folders
Pictures/Graphix Media : 903 MB, 6 236files, 176 folders (excludes porn)
Midi Files : 272 MB, 4 897 files, 35 folders

Exactly, I keep a file in the rrot of my music that has the count.
Ever since I saw a article about a virus that searchs and destroys MP3 music formats. Every now and then I just do a quick check.
Edit:
Nowadays when I backup my CD's. I use Audiograber 1.83(not sure if its the latest, works great though). It gets all tags from freedb. I rip with Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec (pro) at 192kBit/s, 44.100Hz, Stereo or higher.
Edit:
A note, never download music from the net, its risky, the quality is bad, the chance that you get a virus is high and its illegal... ;P

I only ever rip from the orig. CD.

 

[The_Magistrate]

I use iTunes to manage my collection. Really, tag management is one of the only things iTunes got right. Being able to batch tag files is key. The one thing it doesn't do is populate ID3 tags with info from the filename.

 

[mr kennedy]

i don't know exactly how mayn i have but estimatedly i have 20gig lol

 

[shauntp]

approx. 50 mp3's, 10 midi.

 

[omychron]

2915 songs, 20.7 GB
Lots of 1+ hour mixes in there though.

 

[chrisb12416]

About 44,000 songs. I used to DJ on an online radio station..

 

[shaunak]

Mine is infinitesimally small compared to that!!! ^^^

 

[blitzkrieg]

For me it's about 2200 songs which is 140 hours of play time. And it's still growing.

 

[Zenax]

I have over 1000 tracks now XD

 

[deadimp]

I've got around 20gb, maybe 10,000 songs, most of them from my brother and my friend.
I listen to about 100 of the songs tops, and rarely listen to my music.
Yeah, I've got problems.

 

[neko.kun]

I have only 2.01 G
622 Songs

 

[PatrickDickey]

I wouldn't even want to guess how many songs, but I have about 70G on one drive, and probably 20 G duplicated on my laptop, so I can listen to it at work.

Have a great day
Patrick.

 

[QueenHawkeye]

About 300-ish songs. I sorta messed up my playlist, so now I can't find someone my old songs, but they're somewhere! D:

 

[KowKing]

1510 songs, 4 days, 8.61GB.

 

[HabSite]

1,250 =]