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[Bay Maximus]

Just downloaded a few tracks recently (some Tyler, Lorde, etc) and noticed that my music library is sitting at 8.27 Gigs. That's a surprisingly large amount to me considering that I handpick individual songs to download and I'm very selective about what goes into my library. I've slowly accumulated this library over the last 15 years.

Rough mix of song genres:

40% rap

15% pop

15%R&B

10% Dance music / Electric

5% Video game music

15% Misc.

How's your music library looking GAF? Do you download any music at all? Have you downloaded entire albums and only listened to one song (no judgement)? Are you like me and if you hear a song you like, no matter how obscure, you will scour the internet for hours trying to find it?

 

[collige]

12850 tracks, 111.67GB

 

[Dereck]

I usually download entire albums, even if I only like one song from an album because I like to scrobble on last.fm.

I also catalog stuff on rateyourmusic so listening to entire albums is something that's a habit now.

In 2016 I started deleting new albums that I didn't like, if anything my amount of songs is just a showcase of how lazy I am of getting rid of the music that I don't actually listen to anymore or haven't listened to more than once.

 

[Persona7]

Like 55gb from band camp and various other services.

 

[smuf]

About 100 GB. Most of that is from before streaming took off, so it's a nice time capsule of everything I loved when I was younger.

 

[Inferno313]

How many songs are on Apple Music? That many.

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

0.

Spotify is all I need.

 

[Ambient80]

How many songs are on Apple Music? That many.

.

Basically all of iTunes lol

 

[CanUKlehead]

0.

Spotify is all I need.

Yeah, Spotify or Youtube on the phone (thank you, grandfathering into unlimited plan) works enough for me.

I didn't think I would ever do that, as I like owning, but considering this, and how I got used to not really owning my music, if publishers can guarantee I can play their games anytime, past or present, on my PC, I'd sign up and never buy a game again.

 

[Uno Venova]

I would tell you but I don’t think Spotify tells you how large your library is.

 

[Luminaire]

Roughly 120gb, 20,000~ tracks.

Spotify doesn't have most of what I listen to. Thankfully, more and more of it's showing up on iTunes so I don't have to keep importing/downloading from other regions.

 

[Cosmic Bus]

368GB / 46,395 songs on my external, 13GB / 963 songs on my laptop that haven't been transferred over yet.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

I don't think I currently have anything downloaded for offline listening other than a few tracks on Spotify. I definitely have purchased some stuff on iTunes and Amazon Music in the past, but I just stream everything these days.

 

[Fuchsdh]

5400ish songs, 90GB. Mix of lossless rips from CDs and MP3s/M4As from iTunes and the like.

I like going through my music and deleting what I don't listen to. If I don't like one or two songs on an otherwise good album though, I'll keep it together.

Other problem is I've got like 3–5 versions of some songs (Beatles compilations, etc.) I kind of wish there were ways to just hardlink everything together but then there are subtle mastering differences and the like that make me loathe to delete them.

I hate digital clutter almost as much as physical stuff. Why would I be keeping thousands of songs I don't particularly like, taking up room?

 

[Cheebo]

It's 2017...streaming is all I need.

 

[Kiever Sher]

3242 albums
126 days
357gb.

It's too much to listen to. And yet sometimes I just scroll through wondering what I should put on.

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

12850 tracks, 111.67GB

Hot diggity dog damn!

I got 8,500 tracks. It will be less than that after I cut Jay-Z's 4:44 off and whatever I don't like from the new Royce and Public Enemy.

Genres? I think most of it is rap, then soul and R&B and then video game music. I want more Reggae, Rock, Classical, and Metal in my library.

 

[kamakazi5]

I think it's around 1000 songs but I don't listen to them. I use spotify and I've downloaded 25-30 songs from Google in case my wife is using the spotify account.

 

[super-famicom]

I have the Frozen soundtrack because it was free on Google Play at one point. I don't purchase digital albums, though I do get physical ones and then convert them to FLAC. And I also also use Spotify.

 

[Stuggernaut]

Small, only the tracks I can't get on Google Streaming or tracks that streaming ruins (like they only have remastered Def Leppard vs original albums).

 

[Fantomas]

342 GB, 1521 Albums

Most of it is rap and classic rock.

 

[siddx]

Internet is almost useless where I live at the moment so I can't rely on streaming. I'm not with my computer at the moment but it's something like 80GB. I've lost a ton of music over the years though since I never back up my shit.

 

[Doctoglethorpe]

Went straight from CDs to steaming.

So, my library is like, every song ever.

 

[SugarDave]

5,286 songs across 1,485 artists on my phone.

8,057 songs on my Spotify making up 586 hours, 41 minutes.

 

[Therion]

170 GB across 22000 tracks.

 

[parrotbeak]

I've always bought albums and if I really like an artist, I'll buy everything i can find. Been burning all my cds for 10-15 years, and now I buy way too much digital via bandcamp and amazon.

583 gb, 5429 hours (if I'm reading mediamonkey correctly)

And I was just adding Lucy Camp and some drone metal to my bandcamp cart this morning so it will be a little bit more in a few minutes.

 

[Myriadis]

I need to check on my own PC, but on my parents' PC where I also store some of the music I have about 9.300 Songs. I have roughly double of that on my own PC and still I have the majority of my about 1.200 vinyls and cds not digitalized.

 

[brianjones]

It's 2017...streaming is all I need.

pretty much

no more filling up my hard drive and slowing it down with bloat

 

[jabuseika]

It used to be in the TB's.

But now it's zero, Spotify and other streaming services are great.

 

[jstripes]

~18,000. I've offloaded a good portion into the cloud with iTunes Match and now Apple Music.

 

[compo]

Spotify, as others have said.

I actually gave all my old CDs to the goodwill one day, too. I move around like once every 2 years, and I got sick of lugging them around everywhere.

 

[capitalCORN]

My music HD is dead . But it would be about close to 1TB.

 

[Ros8105]

30898 songs, 230gb.
But yeah, now I just use Spotify.

 

[ponpo]

Non-existent. SoundCloud over Spotify though, and some Bandcamp.
Someone make a physical music thread.

Rip glory days of soulseek and direct connect.

 

[LostMyNarbles]

Less than 100 songs. Everything I listen to is streamed.

 

[QualityPixel]

iTunes: 4921 songs / 13.9 days / 80gb.

I don't use streaming services very often. I have pretty much all the music I want till I find something else to add to the library.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Well Spotify doesn't tell you, unfortunately.

On iTunes however, I have 1,583 songs, that take up 10.72 GB, and would take 3 days, 15 hours, and 18 seconds to listen to.

 

[Jawbreaker]

Around 800GB on an external drive. Tens of thousands of songs, but it's hard to get an exact figure.

 

[Phrynobatrachus]

used to have around 120gb before my ipod classic was stolen, been using spotify since

 

[ISOM]

Seems like a pretty fruitless question if you don't include people who stream which is a majority I think.

 

[GatorBait]

21.4 GB, but I have a ton of stuff to add (both from ripping old CDs and adding/downloading new albums).

As a big music head, I could never stick with just a streaming service (I pay for Google Music) and not have a digital collection. I have far too many songs that aren't on streaming services and I've seen some albums/songs removed from services, as well.

Not only that, but without having my own collection and constantly moving on to listening to the next new, different thing, I find that I totally forget about some great older bands/albums/songs. I only keep the songs I like from albums I download/rip, so shuffling my collection by genre is always a treat.

 

[bman94]

7,854 Songs over 67.6GB, over 22 days in length. I want more but shit buying music gets expensive sometimes. I don't use streaming services unless I'm trying to find new music or don't have access to my main library.

As for Stats:

Total Hip-Hop/Rap: 2,765
-Alternative Hip-Hop 628
-G Funk 11
-Golden Age Hip-Hop 86
-Hip Hop 1,118
-Hip Hop/Rap 1
-Instrumental Hip Hop 512
-OFWGKTA 158
-Old School Hip Hop 5
-Rap 188
-Trip Hop 27
-Unclassifiable 12
-Underground Hip-Hop 19

Other: 1,388
-Acapella 21
-Ambient 8
-Chiptune 94
-Dubstep 3
-Electronic 140
-Holiday 1
-Mix 30
-Other 1
-Soundtrack 310
-VaporWave 83
-Video Game Music 606
-Unknown Genre 85
-Grief 7

Rock: 216
-Alternative 39
-Classic Rock 138
-Rock 39

"Classical": 1,169
-Wind Band Music 353
-Baroque 27
-Brass 15
-British Brass Band 77
-Chorus 60
-Classical 218
-Contemporary 26
-Film Score 37
-Wind Band March 33
-Modern Marching Band 92
-Modern 13
-Other Classical 1
-Percussion 6
-Recital 89
-Romantic 60
-Vocal 62


R&B: 1,371
-Disco 11
-Funk 142
-Gospel 30
-Neo Soul 145
-New Jack Swing 20
-Old School R&B 488
-R&B 504
-R&B/Soul 19
-Reggae 11
-Soul 1

Jazz: 728
-Jazz 639
-Jazz Fusion 69
-Jazz Rock 15
-Smooth Jazz 4
-SupaFunkRock 21

Pop: 196
-J-Pop 64
-Pop 121
-Traditional Pop 11

So yeah, I really need to go through my library and relabel my genres. Like Jazz for instance most of the subgenre is just generic ass "Jazz". It should be "Swing Era", "Bebop", "Cool Jazz" etc. This is also showing me how lacking some of my genres are. I gotta also get rid of all the joke Genres like SupaFunkRock.

 

[megarockexe]

I have a library of about 140 songs that I've downloaded over the past 7 or so years. I don't know how many megabytes that is. And I've downloaded about 3 albums, but only because I wanted about 3 songs on it and it was a sale. I haven't ever actually listened to an album all the way through.

 

[big ander]

Got up to 29128 tracks, 210GB before switching over mainly to google play earlier this year. Still don't really love streaming because it unfocuses my listening but play's a lot better than spotify at least.

 

[wenis]

Two terabytes. Not all of it is in FLAC/ALAC. Only choice albums I really love get that treatment. Everything else is high end MP3.

 

[DBT85]

Scorpio
Spotify

 

[torre_avenue]

138 gigs of music, about 6 weeks worth of albums and stray songs.

That, plus Apple Music.

 

[JettDash]

I have like 35,000 uploaded to Google Play Music. It can hold up to 100,000.

 

[fluffydelusions]

0.

Spotify is all I need.

Same

 

[steveovig]

I can't really tell exactly how much music but at least 75-100 full albums, mostly rap downloaded through Amazon. I don't have a cell phone so I carry around a Walkman that holds over 1000 songs for the gym. I started buying a few years ago but if I had to do it again, I'd probably just find a way to stream. My gym has wi-fi and I've thought about just buying a cheap pre-paid phone with wi-fi and Android and downloading Amazon Music and subbing to their service. The problem is I own most of the music I'd be listening to already. I'd probably just end up using their Cloud Player for my own stuff, in that case.