# I really have 945 tunes on my computer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891 "2006-11-27T01:11:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/1 "2006-11-27T01:11:50Z")
Between ITunes downloads and CDs and Pandora being a crack enabler, it appears that I now have 945 songs on my computer. Wow. Yeah, yeah, M and P, I know… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/2 "2006-11-27T01:13:56Z")
I have 2,266 on mine. Although Henry Rollins’s _Human Butt_ isn’t really a ‘song’. Others here at The Dope have more than I. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/3 "2006-11-27T01:17:43Z")
I have 6,833. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/4 "2006-11-27T01:20:33Z")
12,084. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/5 "2006-11-27T01:24:28Z")
I have 12. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/6 "2006-11-27T01:33:59Z")
9,173 for me. My roommate has something like 28,000–she just finished backing it up, which took 34 DVDs. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/7 "2006-11-27T01:34:55Z")
If you let iTunes search your hard drive for .wav files, you’ll probably get a few hundred just from the standard Windows setup. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/8 "2006-11-27T01:41:03Z")
1. I feel my manhood is threatened. More frighteningly, my iTunes “purchased” folder says 650. Could I actually have spent that much over the last 2-3 years? Gah! ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/9 "2006-11-27T01:47:40Z")
My mp3s number over at 6,233 right now. But the total playlist length is fairly exaggerated as about 200 of those tracks are DJ sets which are 1+ hours. – IG ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/10 "2006-11-27T01:48:35Z")
3057 If I had more money and a bigger hard drive, I’d have twice that at least. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/11 "2006-11-27T02:23:23Z")
5144 on my machine, 6289 on my husband’s. We’ve probably got lots of the same songs, I’d say about a third of my music is also on his machine. We lost a ton when the house was robbed. We ripped all of our CDs a couple of years ago. We’ve slowly been ripping them again or downloading off iTunes as we realize what’s missing. (Whatever was on his iPod was spared, as he had it with him at the time, so I ended up losing most of my music, I probably had 3 times that much.) We had the music on 3 different machines, but all of them were stolen. We also had it all backed up on DVDs, but all of our software, DVDs, etc. were also stolen. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/12 "2006-11-27T03:54:17Z")
7024 songs, 18.2 days playing time. plus a few podcasts. And no, I haven’t listened to all of them. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/13 "2006-11-27T05:07:45Z")
I have 1,237 and my roommate has 7,848. We’re working on getting more, though. My roommate works on a PC he pieced together from scrap parts (i.e. ungodly slow…but cheap!) and his library already crashed iTunes’ capabilities…had to switch to an SQL based media player instead (MusikCube)… (that was a headache and a half…) ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/14 "2006-11-27T07:17:53Z")
5,697 here, over 16 GB. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/15 "2006-11-27T07:55:14Z")
7701, getting close to 35 GB. I’d definitely have more if I wasn’t on laptop with limited hard-drive space. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/16 "2006-11-27T08:06:50Z")
Dang. I have only 4.74 GB of MP3’s on my computer, and 6.41 GB worth of porn. Although to be fair, video takes a lot more space than audio. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/17 "2006-11-27T08:26:08Z")
I have 47 gigs of music on the hard drives, but none of the music is mp3s. It’s either in .wav or a lossless compression format that will soon be converted to .wav and made into CDs, as I get the time. I don’t really use my computer as a music playback device. It’s used more for recording and editing, then getting music off the drives onto a permanent storage medium. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/18 "2006-11-27T08:38:53Z")
1. Wow. I would never have guessed it was that many. ---
**Author:** ![Greebo\_Ogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19adc/32.png) [@Greebo\_Ogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greebo_Ogg)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/19 "2006-11-27T10:11:32Z")
Gah, amateurs… 29.874 files But then, I’m a geek. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/20 "2006-11-27T10:29:34Z")
Quite a few of mine are sound files from Civilization III, inbetween tracks from Air and Mercury Rev are destroyers sinking and riflemen whooping 😃 Roughly 8 CDs last time I backed up the machine, I’ve donated it to my girlfriend so I’ll have to back them all up again, or use the file transfer being discussed in GQ. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891.md?page=2)