980 songs, 2.7 days, 4.14GB... Not much I know, however I'm close to the 4.6GB capacity on my rev.a 5GB iPod, looks like a right brick compared to the new ones, an upgrade seems in order... iPod photo would be nice, but it's pricey...
Anyway, back on topic, 146GB of music? 34,000 songs? How the hell did you get that many songs? I couldn't even think of a few thousand, nevermind tens of thousands...
I have strange tastes in music (4 non blondes, 50 Cent, Paul Hindemith...). At the moment very "into" Fairport Convention (going to Cropredy next August).
Is that the composer Paul Hindemeth? Our wind ensemble here played his Symphony for Band not long ago, I really liked it. Played another great piece by a German composer, Der Traum des Oenghus by Rolf Rudin.
Just thought it was neat to see Hindemeth come up on your screenshot.
Oh, and to stay on topic: 3474 songs, 9.9 days, 15.73 GB
Is that the composer Paul Hindemith? Our wind ensemble here played his Symphony for Band not long ago, I really liked it. Played another great piece by a German composer, Der Traum des Oenghus by Rolf Rudin.
Yes, it is the composer Paul Hindemith. I mainly listen to classical music. Probably 90% of my library is classical (2500 CDs).
Slightly on-topic: I wish iTunes would give you the choice to organize your music by composer (should be possible to set by album). I like my music organized by composer, but iTunes organizes by artist. So if I want iTunes to organize my collection (which I do) I have to put the composer as artist (and put the artists name in the Info-box).
Slightly irritating, but I will survive.
BTW: Thank you for asking about Hindemith. It made me listen to some of his music. It is wonderful (listening to the sonata for viola d'amore and piano just now)
How do you collect 2,500 classical CD's witbout duplicates? did you buy complete boxsets or Mozard, Bach, beethoven, etc? How much per CD?
That is nothing. I have a friend who has more than 20 000 CDs. The amount of music out there is vast. I could probably order 1000 CDs tomorrow and not get a single duplication of a work I already have.
I have no complete sets of composers, but I have 4 different recordings of Beethovens string quartets. And 3 complete symphony cycles. And 3 complete recordings of the piano sonatas. And so on and so on...
Music exists in three forms - the way the composer means it, the way the performers interpret it, and the way the listener hears it. Nobody knows how the composer wanted it played - the performer must try to look behind the score and different performers see different things in the music, and the way you hear it differs with your mood. So a work will sound different with different interpretations (and on different hearinigs). You really need to have more than one recording of the main works (I have 7 complete recordings of Wagners Ring).
I probably paid around 15$ pr CD (CDs are expensive here), so the cost of my collection is about 35000 - 40000 $. I have a Krell CD player, Conrad-Johnson tube amplifiers and Quad electrostatic loudspeakers, and the sound is fantastic. No compressed music (iTMS) for me
no iTMS for me neither, except the free stuff I am looking to expand my music collection at 75 CD's/year, but I want to work to make that double or triple that due to the C.P.D.'s trying to trojan horse their way in as CD's.
I think I discovered the perfect way to re-import music as encoding changes, have a master iTunes library with all the correct tags for all your music in AIFF format, including full Album art worked (scanned in for highest possible size and to be able to read the tiny print ) then when you want to convert to the newest Lossless etc run an Applescript or something that imports from your AIFF masters hence no work for you, and the speed should be very fast. Now an Apple script to keep your Lossless iTunes library in sync with your 192kbps AAC library for your iPod (playlists, playcount etc).
i re-ripped all my cd's in the apple lossless format. im about half cd's and half itms songs. my biggest song in size is "the last firstborn" by celldweller at 55.3 MB and 1005 kbps (hard drives are cheap nowadays)
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Dave.
Anyway, back on topic, 146GB of music? 34,000 songs? How the hell did you get that many songs? I couldn't even think of a few thousand, nevermind tens of thousands...
Most of them ripped from my own CDs in 192 kbps AAC.
4757 albums (not all of them complete), 1158 artists
Originally posted by mattyj
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I have strange tastes in music (4 non blondes, 50 Cent, Paul Hindemith...). At the moment very "into" Fairport Convention (going to Cropredy next August).
Just thought it was neat to see Hindemeth come up on your screenshot.
Oh, and to stay on topic: 3474 songs, 9.9 days, 15.73 GB
-Ender
Guess we'll have to wait some time for the 300 GB iPod.
Originally posted by Ender
Is that the composer Paul Hindemith? Our wind ensemble here played his Symphony for Band not long ago, I really liked it. Played another great piece by a German composer, Der Traum des Oenghus by Rolf Rudin.
Yes, it is the composer Paul Hindemith. I mainly listen to classical music. Probably 90% of my library is classical (2500 CDs).
Slightly on-topic: I wish iTunes would give you the choice to organize your music by composer (should be possible to set by album). I like my music organized by composer, but iTunes organizes by artist. So if I want iTunes to organize my collection (which I do) I have to put the composer as artist (and put the artists name in the Info-box).
Slightly irritating, but I will survive.
BTW: Thank you for asking about Hindemith. It made me listen to some of his music. It is wonderful (listening to the sonata for viola d'amore and piano just now)
Originally posted by Mac Write
How do you collect 2,500 classical CD's witbout duplicates? did you buy complete boxsets or Mozard, Bach, beethoven, etc? How much per CD?
That is nothing. I have a friend who has more than 20 000 CDs. The amount of music out there is vast. I could probably order 1000 CDs tomorrow and not get a single duplication of a work I already have.
I have no complete sets of composers, but I have 4 different recordings of Beethovens string quartets. And 3 complete symphony cycles. And 3 complete recordings of the piano sonatas. And so on and so on...
Music exists in three forms - the way the composer means it, the way the performers interpret it, and the way the listener hears it. Nobody knows how the composer wanted it played - the performer must try to look behind the score and different performers see different things in the music, and the way you hear it differs with your mood. So a work will sound different with different interpretations (and on different hearinigs). You really need to have more than one recording of the main works (I have 7 complete recordings of Wagners Ring).
I probably paid around 15$ pr CD (CDs are expensive here), so the cost of my collection is about 35000 - 40000 $. I have a Krell CD player, Conrad-Johnson tube amplifiers and Quad electrostatic loudspeakers, and the sound is fantastic. No compressed music (iTMS) for me
I think I discovered the perfect way to re-import music as encoding changes, have a master iTunes library with all the correct tags for all your music in AIFF format, including full Album art worked (scanned in for highest possible size and to be able to read the tiny print
i re-ripped all my cd's in the apple lossless format. im about half cd's and half itms songs. my biggest song in size is "the last firstborn" by celldweller at 55.3 MB and 1005 kbps (hard drives are cheap nowadays)
245.56 GB
I don't know how many days........I am not at my computer right now
bob
Originally posted by bspears
44,679 songs
245.56 GB
I don't know how many days........I am not at my computer right now
bob
I require evidence (screenshot)!
Originally posted by mattyj
I require evidence (screenshot)!
I will be glad to comply this evening when I am back at my desktop
Originally posted by BuonRotto
Please don't post a picture of you in hot pants! Thank, Bob.
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