How much music on YOUR computer?

by **Rens** on Tue May 13, 2003 4:27 am

We all know downloading music is illegal and evil, so we do it. This thread isn't about being naughty or buying music or lectures on how mp3s are the root of all evil, I for one buy albums I like after I've downloaded them as a sample. If I don't like them enough, I don't buy them, that simple.

Back to my topic, I was just looking at my winamp playlist and noticed there's 279 hours of music albums on my computer (not counting about half that in bootlegs). How about you guys?

by **Scary Hedo** on Tue May 13, 2003 4:49 am

about 550 songs
90% is hiphop

by **Bill Russell** on Tue May 13, 2003 4:52 am

I have about 1100 mp3 albuns burned on 90 cds... And I have about 4.200 songs on my HD too...

by **Scary Hedo** on Tue May 13, 2003 4:59 am

Tales wrote:I have about 1100 mp3 albuns burned on 90 cds... And I have about 4.200 songs on my HD too...

DAMN!

i thought i had much...

by **Bill Russell** on Tue May 13, 2003 5:11 am

... And about 70% of them are rock & roll... But I have brazilian music too, and some of rap and jazz...

That's what cable modem can do for ya... I leave the files downloading here and do other things, in front of the computer or not...

Also, nearly 40% of those mp3 albuns, I didn't download them... My friends gave them files to me... That's what good friends do, (Y)

by . on Tue May 13, 2003 6:07 am

Well.....I burn it all the time on cd´s....I dunno how much I have but I have alot of MPEG files on my pc...like 20 Gigabyte

by **Rens** on Tue May 13, 2003 6:12 am

Ah my album count.. is about 330 albums. I forgot that.

by **Brave Sir Rubin** on Tue May 13, 2003 7:08 am

well...i have somewhere between 600-800...i'd say about 98% of them are some form of Rock/Reggae

by **Clinton** on Tue May 13, 2003 11:33 am

I only got about 200-300mp3's, but I havent had the internet for long and I have a monthly download limit of 400mb. Starting to get a nice collection together. I just download the songs I like off an album, rather than getting the whole thing, cause I usually end up buying it anyway.

by **MaD_hAND1e** on Tue May 13, 2003 3:02 pm

[quote="Dan Gadzuric"] I for one buy albums I like after I've downloaded them as a sample. If I don't like them enough, I don't buy them, that simple.
quote]
lol, thts why i dun buy any albums~~~ muhahaha~~! :twisted:

how do THEY know if i like the songs or not :roll:

i think i got about only about a gb of mp3~~

by **Matthew** on Tue May 13, 2003 5:24 pm

i have 337 mp3s. not on cds tho. Just on winamp. I buy my cds so i can support artists i like.

by **Nick** on Tue May 13, 2003 9:28 pm

I have 78 mp3s on my comp.

But i haven't even had internet for a year and my monthly download limit is 70MB.

But i don't care, i buy my Cds and burn them from friends...

by **Wall St. Peon** on Wed May 14, 2003 8:31 am

4762 tracks in playlist, average track length: 3:56
Playlist length: 312 hours 11 minutes 56 seconds
Right-click here to save this HTML file.

I have whole albums, couldn't tell you how many...my roommate has something like 13,000 mp3s :roll:

Part of the reason I don't have more is I ripped most of the mp3s from my own collection (about 300 albums); I don't really download all that many, but I did get a bunch from when I was on the ISU network. (Y)

by **Jonesy** on Wed May 14, 2003 10:10 am

Hey guys i got a quick question regarding copying songs from my cd's.

I wanted to make a mix cd of my fav songs (and also put them on my cpu) so i copied the 17 songs i wanted from the cd's to "my music" using windows media player. These files are in a strange format (not mp3 or .wav) which i can't remember off the top of my head and i can't copy them to a blank disc using my burner unless they are mp3 or wav files. Is there a special program i need to convert the files from their current format to mp3 or wav so i can burn them to a disc and use it in my car's cd player.

It's probably just a stupid error on my part but i am fairly computer illiterate so any help would be greatly appreciated. (Y)

by **Colin** on Wed May 14, 2003 11:07 am

I got about 25 albums (all hip-hop) and 122 songs on Kazaa, but not so long ago Kazaa crashed and I lost 250 songs, most of my d/ls from my new version of kazaa are ones I didn't have before, and they're all hip-hop, mostly nas, roots, 50, pac, X and nwa

by **Brave Sir Rubin** on Wed May 14, 2003 11:39 am

Jonsey...they are probebly in WMA format (windows media audio) you need to convert em to mp3

here's a link to varius converters...

http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=wma+to+mp3&tg=dl-2001&search=+Go%21+

by **Jonesy** on Wed May 14, 2003 11:52 am

Thankyou good sir, u r the man!

by **the_yellow_dart** on Wed May 14, 2003 12:40 pm

I've got 2700 tracks I think I queued them all up once and it would have played for like 4 n' a half days... its mostly ska n' alt stuff...

I dunno if you guys use IRC to swap MP3's but some peeps in there have jus' insane totals. Like this one guy I leech lots of stuff offa' (named uniServ) i have a text file of his (maybe her) songs for download n' its over 95,000 tracks :!:

I can't imagine how many HD's that eats up...

by **Wall St. Peon** on Wed May 14, 2003 1:01 pm

Jonesy,

You can burn WMA's if you use a program like Roxio or Nero. They take up the same space as MP3s, they just don't have as much stuff in the tags. A lot of mine are WMAs, but I don't care so much....if I wanted to share them, I convert them to MP3s.

My roommate has something like 300 gigs worth of hard drive space (three computers); he has just one that's completely full of MP3s, I think that has a 80 gig and a 40 gig in it. We're gonna have one computer just with mp3s hooked up to the stereo in the living room next year.

by **Jonesy** on Wed May 14, 2003 2:47 pm

Thanks for the info Enahs, the question i've got is will the wma files play on my cd player (it plays mp3 and wav files) if i use nero or Roxio?

Enahs Live wrote:We're gonna have one computer just with mp3s hooked up to the stereo in the living room next year.

Sounds like a sweet setup :shock:

by **Nick** on Wed May 14, 2003 5:40 pm

I did the same stupid thing as you, Jonesy.

I have those 78 pm3s that i downloaded...and i have like 100 .wmas from my own CDs... :?:

?:?...it was a waste of time convert my CDs to that crap. oh well.

Thanks for the link Pavel. (Y)

by **Heiks** on Wed May 14, 2003 9:51 pm

1030 songs = 80 hours....

by **Matt** on Wed May 14, 2003 9:55 pm

i have 800 songs on my computer............around 300 songs on CD's.
This weekedn i'm borrowing a burner from a friend and putting all my 2Pac stuff (roughly 200 songs) on CD

........well, i bought 3 of his albums so i guess i have to put on less than that

but yeah, i havent bought a CD since Still I Rise which came out back in 1999.........internet is way too easy
i watched the section on Newshour that was on donloading............it said that companies (such as Sony, EMI, Virgin and all the other big ones) are monitoring users with massive playlists such as that 98,000 one that was mentioned............those users get warned to stop and if they don't they'll get prosecuted or sumthin like that

oh.............well to downloading

by **Tony** on Wed May 14, 2003 10:36 pm

4211 tracks in playlist, average track length: 4:19
Estimated playlist length: 303 hours 25 minutes 30 seconds

I also got 30-something burned mp3 cds of music... most of it's rock...

by **Jonesy** on Thu May 15, 2003 10:14 am

I heard a company has released a cd (i can't remember who it is exactly, might be radiohead or someone like that) which automatically puts files on your hard drive so if you put the cd into the cd-drive it stops your ability to burn the cd.

I would think most cd's will have something like this soon (and the needed software to bypass it will available two days later no doubt

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