Just about exactly 4 gigs, and I’m approaching the limit of how much I’d ever actually listen to. I can’t even imagine what I’d do with terrabytes of music.
I have a TB of music, but it is also in lossless. An average MP3 would be around 15% of a lossless file. So I would say 15% of a TB in mp3s.
I’m not home to check, but it’s not very big. A very tiny collection of eclectic oddness that I rarely bother to listen to. I’m not much of a music fan.
Mine comes in at just under 5.
About 700 CDs and 175 records.
Just over 20 gigs, about 4300 songs.
Less than a gig on my iPod
350+ CDs
300+ 90 minute cassettes
…and sadly, a tiny number of albums left over from my once-huge collection of LPs 
Maybe playing time would be more meaningful.
iTunes says I have a total of 41.54 GB of audio files, total playing time 22.5 days.
classical - 17.42 GB, 7.7 days
pop, novelty and other - 10.62 GB, 4.9 days
comedy/spoken - 13.5 GB, 9.9 days
About 1200 plus CDs, about 100 LPs.
I can’t vote as there is no choice for me.
Zero gigs
I just went through and ripped the bulk of my CD collection to iTunes. Left out a few CD’s that I never really liked and am not sure why I still even have, and took only a couple of selected tunes off a few others. I have a handful of songs that I only own digitally here as well (probably will start making the cut to download only). Adds up to 6199 songs, 20.1 days, and 55.28 GB as of right now.
Thanks for the responses. It looks like from the poll that more than half of the people have more than 20 Gigs of music. I would have thought that this number would be much lower.
20 Gigs seems to me to be about the range that you no longer can store all of your music on your phone and a store your library in the cloud service would be useful way to get music onto your phone when you are away from your primary computer.
Your poll gets a little funny towards the end - the last two choices are kind of the same.
I was a little selective when I uploaded all my cds, and I wish now that I hadn’t been; I realize now that I would have preferred to upload all the songs, then just delete the ones that I truly didn’t like, but I can’t really remember which cds I didn’t fully upload.
Yeah, I did the same, mostly because I didn’t know how much space they would take up, and I didn’t want to run out of memory. By the time I gave it some more thought and figured I had plenty of space, I had gone through almost all the CDs.
counting my wife’s and mine together:
Those discs which are ripped and loaded on a device exceed 80GB. There’s a lot of music that’s not loaded to a device, or not yet ripped (maybe a couple hundred discs), or is only ripped in MP3 format (probably another 10 gigs or so).
This is what happens when your wife is a vocalist.
She has in excess of 10k songs on her iPod alone (I bought her the biggest capacity one available at the time).
Most of the music is in 192k bitrate, but some (the MP3s) are in 256k.
Apple’s new service strikes me as just another way to stick a finger into your life. I see no point to it.
There is no doubt that the quality control people were out to lunch when the poll was developed.
somewhere in the 200+ GB range. I’ve never added it up.
More than an entire wall.
203G, and that’s not counting dupes and stuff I never want to hear again. And I haven’t even begun downloading the LPs.
Can’t check exactly as I’m not at home at the moment, but it’s about 250 GB (30,000 songs) which include the 1,300 ripped CDs I still own in physical form, plus 150 LPs.
About 45 GB / 8700 songs / 25 days of music
Doesn’t it start to become pointless after awhile to store all that music? Probably about a quarter of this music I’ve listened to less than 2 times. What’s the point of keeping 100,000 songs? It’s like you are adding more music faster than you could ever possibly listen to it.