Kooper909
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Post by Kooper909 on Apr 6, 2009 18:22:56 GMT -5
So, let's hear about your music collection! How many songs have you got? Also, do you pay much attention to the quality/fidelity of the files?
Me, I obsess over audio quality--- I save my songs at 256 or 320 kbps MP3 when I can. But on the other hand, my aging iPod holds only 15 gigs, so I keep a separate collection at 192 kbps just for the iPod. In addition to not being able to fit every high-quality song into my iPod collection .... I also can't find some of my iPod songs in high quality. Woe is me.
Anyway, my iPod collection stands at 4630 songs, 18.84 GB. This gets trimmed down to 3252 to fit onto my 15 GB iPod.
My high quality collection is 3055 songs, totaling 17.6 GB.
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Post by emvee on Apr 6, 2009 22:45:21 GMT -5
My current music library consumes 5 GB of my hard drive, at 1,485 songs. They vary from Castlevania to Muse, because Castlevania is awesome, and Knights of Cydonia is too.
As for quality, I don't really think much of it unless it become unlistenable. 128kbps is fine by me as long as there isn't a persistent humming or scratching throughout the song. Then again, I grew up on poor radio station quality, so hearing songs so clearly is weird to me.
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Post by teh yoshi on Apr 7, 2009 1:47:46 GMT -5
I'm a complete audiophile! I will not accept any recording that's below 192 kpbs quality, but I prefer perfect studio quality or at least a CD rip of 256 or 320 kpbs. I currently have 117 GB of mp3s, making it roughly over 15,000 songs! Good lawd...  I need an mp3 player badly. As for physical music collection, I have probably 40 or so old happy hardcore vinyl records, and one prized October Cherries' album titled Dreamseller that could go for hundreds on eBay. Probably spent a few thousand on my record collection total. |
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Post by Swiidol on Apr 7, 2009 14:34:40 GMT -5
I've got 55.7 GB Music on my hard drive.
42.4 GB of that is Muse. (I'm obsessed)
The rest is Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Nirvana and some other random music.
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Post by Moot on Apr 7, 2009 14:58:12 GMT -5
Currently my music stash stands at some 3000+ files weighing in at 14.5gb, not all of which goes on my iPod because I'm not really sure why I have it all in the first place.
Quality doesn't bother me too much, to me there's practically no difference between 128 and 320kbps other than a lot of wasted disk space. As long as it doesn't sound like ass, I don't mind.
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Post by Digi on Apr 7, 2009 17:28:43 GMT -5
My current collections is an even 1420 and about 6.3 GB. Can't say I particularly hard-core check the quality. As long as is isn't obviously crappy, then I'm fine with it.
Most of my tracks are video game or anime soundtracks. In fact, only 149 songs on my iPod are actually English. (13 of those songs are also from Pokemon, because.. at least they were catchy) The rest of my 990+ songs are either instrumentals, Japanese, or Korean. So I can't say that I listen to the radio often..
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Kooper909
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Post by Kooper909 on Apr 7, 2009 17:44:44 GMT -5
I've got 55.7 GB Music on my hard drive. 42.4 GB of that is Muse. (I'm obsessed) The rest is Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Nirvana and some other random music. Wow, 42.4 gigs from one artist? Do you have lots of live performances, or what? So I can't say that I listen to the radio often.. Me neither .... the radio started disappointing me years ago. |
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Post by Shoe on Apr 7, 2009 20:03:52 GMT -5
Ever heard of Pandora.com? Other than some remixes from OverClocked, that's where I usually find my music. Pandora is like a radio, but it plays music you like. Enter a song/artist and you get similar music (as well as what you asked for every now and again). You can create multiple stations that play certain types of music, like, you can have one that plays something like classic while another that plays heavy metal. It's served me pretty well as long as I've been using it.
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Kooper909
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Post by Kooper909 on Apr 7, 2009 20:48:26 GMT -5
Ever heard of Pandora.com? Other than some remixes from OverClocked, that's where I usually find my music. Pandora is like a radio, but it plays music you like. Enter a song/artist and you get similar music (as well as what you asked for every now and again). You can create multiple stations that play certain types of music, like, you can have one that plays something like classic while another that plays heavy metal. It's served me pretty well as long as I've been using it. Pandora is pretty cool, but I really only use it when I'm on someone else's computer. Most of the time I like to be in control of what's playing--- and you can't do that on Pandora, even if you subscribe. |
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Post by Shoe on Apr 7, 2009 21:51:48 GMT -5
Yeah, I agree with you about being in control, and it does get tiring when they play the same songs after you've narrowed it all down. But, for a poor dude like me, I'll take what I can get. Besides, Pandora allows me to find out about what I'm missing in music. Without it, I may never have found out about great artists like The Section Quartet, E.S. Posthumus, Dan Gibson, or Gary Stadler.
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Kooper909
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Post by Kooper909 on Apr 8, 2009 0:37:59 GMT -5
Yeah, I agree with you about being in control, and it does get tiring when they play the same songs after you've narrowed it all down. But, for a poor dude like me, I'll take what I can get. Besides, Pandora allows me to find out about what I'm missing in music. Without it, I may never have found out about great artists like The Section Quartet, E.S. Posthumus, Dan Gibson, or Gary Stadler. That's true. That's what I forgot to mention--- it's a great discovery tool. |
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Post by nebari on Apr 8, 2009 10:50:12 GMT -5
lets see i have a 8GB mp3 and so far tho i only have 122 songs on it but most are japaness music some rock.
well i liten to slipknot, metalica, megadeath, dragonforce, and some videogame musick and japaness music thats about it.
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Post by Moot on Apr 8, 2009 20:14:53 GMT -5
+1 I used to use Pandora, but at some point I switched that out for Last.fm. Even more recently I swapped that out for Spotify which I think I prefer because you can save playlists and actually search for tracks to play instead of just selecting a genre. Not sure if its out in the US though, which is pretty asstastic |
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Kooper909
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Post by Kooper909 on Apr 9, 2009 14:24:06 GMT -5
+1 I used to use Pandora, but at some point I switched that out for Last.fm. Even more recently I swapped that out for Spotify which I think I prefer because you can save playlists and actually search for tracks to play instead of just selecting a genre. Not sure if its out in the US though, which is pretty asstastic Licensing restrictions. Right now they have to jump through pretty much the same hoops as a traditional radio station. That costs a lot of money in the land of the RIAA. |
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