how much music do you have stored on hard drives

[alocispepraluger102]

i'm ashamed to say i have 2 terra drives full, almost all in mp3 form.

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[Steve Gray]

My entire CD collection, just over 2TB (recently had to upgrade to 3TB drives because I wanted it all on 1 drive)

99% Apple Lossless.

Haven't been prepared to even contemplate digitising my LPs.

[mjzee]

I have 525 gb, all mp3, mostly ripped at either 192 or 256 kbps.

[tranemonk]

Itunes jazz library backed up... probably about 800GB 320bit MP3s.

[Bright Moments]

how do you organize it all - and where do you keep liner notes?

I am tempted to go this route but fear inaccessibility!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

how do you organize it all - and where do you keep liner notes?

I am tempted to go this route but fear inaccessibility!

I agree. I have about 200GB on HD. Managing and finding stuff requires incredible discipline. Look at Rod's statistics: 1,743 genres! OK, we know he has loads of strange music, but 1,743 must be the result of spelling mistakes - not necessarily his, but whoever puts these tags onto tracks. And there are loads of other errors; sometimes on the original CD; one of the CDs I got in August had all the track titles offset by one; I had to listen most carefully to the words of each to divine what the titles really were - in fucking Mandinke! Whenever I rip a CD to my HD, it takes ages to get all the information spelt correctly and consistently on the tags - and get the right artwork etc; much longer than doing the rip itself.

MG

[AllenLowe]

I have decided that I am going to back up what I need onto CDRs and then photocopy the notes as necessary. Risky, but then this is all risky, and I have Tayo Yuden CDRs that are still good after 10 years -

[alocispepraluger102]

this 'collecting' thread reminds me of our wives' clothing inventories.

buy and buy and buy, and for every special event, "i have nothing to wear." :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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[jazzbo]

Very little. 4.8 GB on an iTunes. Not much into music via computer at all. Don't do portable music any more.

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[mjzee]

how do you organize it all - and where do you keep liner notes?

I am tempted to go this route but fear inaccessibility!

Organizing is fairly simple, as long as you're consistent with a few rules: how to list the artist, and whether a collection should be listed as a compilation or be under an artist's name ("album artist"). CDDB usually takes care of the rest; it's not perfect, but it usually works (TMG's experience to the contrary). I usually list personnel under "Comments," unless there are too many musicians to fit there; then, I enter them under "Lyrics." Don't forget that the search function works really well; using the above instructions would allow you to easily find every, say, Hank Mobley date as either a leader or sideman. I keep liner notes with the original CDs.

[Shawn]

Not much right now, about 400gb mostly Apple Lossless. I have alot more on DVD-Rs but I don't currently have access to them, still in Austin in storage.

1581 albums

15648 songs

59.6 days

[BruceH]

Only 2.19 GB on i-tunes.

[medjuck]

Organizing is fairly simple, as long as you're consistent with a few rules: how to list the artist,

is Sun Ra under S orR?

and whether a collection should be listed as a compilation or be under an artist's name ("album artist"). CDDB usually takes care of the rest; it's not perfect, but it usually works (TMG's experience to the contrary). I usually list personnel under "Comments," unless there are too many musicians to fit there; then, I enter them under "Lyrics."

Never thought of that. Good idea.

Don't forget that the search function works really well; using the above instructions would allow you to easily find every, say, Hank Mobley date as either a leader or sideman.

So maybe it doesn't mater if Sun Ra is under S or R.

I keep liner notes with the original CDs.

[mjzee]

Organizing is fairly simple, as long as you're consistent with a few rules: how to list the artist,

is Sun Ra under S orR?

A lot of those decisions fall by the wayside in the digital database world. For artist, I enter "Sun Ra," because "Ra, Sun" just looks odd (never mind that that's how he was listed in the Philadelphia white pages!). It hardly matters where iTunes "puts" the mp3 files; just search for "Sun Ra" and everything will show up.

One tip: For artists that have many different variants of their band name (think of Duke Ellington in the '30's and '40's, or, now that I think about it, Sun Ra), enter whatever the name du jour was in the "Artist" field, but enter something simple and consistent in the "Album Artist" field (such as "Duke Ellington" or "Sun Ra"); if you do that, all their work will appear together, in album alphabetical order.

[AllenLowe]

I have had all my cds copied onto microchips and implanted in my lower intestine.

[A Lark Ascending]

None. I only buy cylinder discs. I'm that cool.

[alocispepraluger102]

I have had all my cds copied onto microchips and implanted in my lower intestine.

"lowe's bowels must be preserved at all costs, for lowe hath no equal." - alocispepraluger 102"

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[colinmce]

None. I lack the time, energy, and desire to do digital music.

[Shawn]

None. I lack the time, energy, and desire to do digital music.

If you own CDs you are already doing digital music.

[Hardbopjazz]

I am over 12 tb of music on hard drives. Most music is stored as either WAV or Flac.

[Chuck Nessa]

Besides a few things in iTunes, the only material I have on drives is/are my masters. This adds up when you save transfers of all the individual tracks from 2, 3, 4, 8, 16 and 24 track tapes. All the various permutations of mixes and edits are saved in 24 bit. Have not checked the bit count but... And I have one drive at home and another at Delmark where I do most of my work.

[GregK]

I have about 5000-6000 individual songs saved on Google's servers for use via Google music. I usually upload then delete it from my computer once complete because it only has a 80GB hard drive.

[John L]

Very little. 4.8 GB on an iTunes. Not much into music via computer at all. Don't do portable music any more.

So what did you do with all of your downloaded Grateful Dead shows? Do you have them only on CDRs?

My iTunes is now at 1 TB & 77 GB. If only they made iPods with a little more capacity than 154 GB!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Organization, for me, is all in iTunes. It's what makes it great (but it seriously needs an upgrade).

I store liner notes and disc pictures in with the cover art in many cases...and there's plenty of info online.

The genres are a bit overstated - I'm guessing closer to 1400 - but it's the only info area that I haven't

diligently kept up with. I use software to check for duplicates, title inconsistencies, orphaned and

missing tracks, but sifting thru genres takes another bit of software that I haven't used much lately,

so I guess this can be a reminder. These titles/CDs in Mandinke make me want to search CDDB to see

if they're there to be had. If so, iTunes might solve that problem too. It's the rare title that doesn't show up there -

even the most obscure thing. The only time a problem comes up is when the title is both obscure and/or

experimental and very new - like only a few days old - and it doesn't come up in the database.

I'm not sure what CDDB is but, when I imported the CD into iTunes, all the tracks came up as per the sleeve of the CD. It wasn't wrong from the point of view of what was on the CD sleeve; it was the sleeve note that was different to what was on the disc. Another of the five from my recent batch that I've imported so far had the correct titles on the sleeve, but what came up in iTunes was different. I know you have lots of African recordings and I'm sure you appreciate that accuracy is the least of the concerns of the record companies in the African recording industry (well, the African indies, anyway, which represents almost all of what I buy - as in jazz, I buy hardly anything on major labels).

I'm just about to import two CDs by UCAS Band de Sedhiou - 'Takussaanou Ndakarou' vols 1 & 2 and find that there's nothing at all coming up on iTunes; just track number and timing - but it said it was accessing Gracenote database. Obviously this isn't CDDB. How do I get iTunes to access CDDB (and maybe give me a better chance of getting correct information)?

What software do you use to check for duplicates, title inconsistencies, orphaned or missing tracks? Can it check for artist inconsistencies? Does it recognise an inconsistency between 'latin' and 'Latin' (because iPods think they're different genres)?

MG

PS I see from Wiki that Gracenote is the new name of CDDB, so I'm not going to get any better info out of it.

[David Ayers]

About 200GB, much of it backed-up CDs. I rarely download now I've converted to streaming. It's either CD or streaming these days, I've (mostly) cut out the mp3 middleman. Like MG I find organizing it incredibly tedious. I lost it all once and painstakingly reconstructed it from the backup - I wondered why I had bothered then and I don't think I would bother now.