# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/21 "2006-11-27T10:33:53Z")
I have none. Does that make me unusual? ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/22 "2006-11-27T11:56:11Z")
3,825 and 14 days’ playing time. 15 of those are my own. (Hey, you never know when you’ll meet someone with connections in the music or gaming biz…) ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/23 "2006-11-27T12:43:27Z")
I have 3573 tracks in iTunes. 75 were purchased from the iTunes store. Of the remainder, well I ripped every CD I’ve got. There are also some of dubious source. I have an additional 4000+ tracks in an archive directory on my computer, but they’re badly labeled and so there are a lot of duplicates. Half my CD collection got ripped pre-iTunes, and half in iTunes, and I haven’t trashed the whole archive directory because every now and again I’ll realise I’ve overlooked a disk, and it’s easier to move it from there than to track down the disk to rip it again. Yeah, it’s pretty disorganised. ---
**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, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/24 "2006-11-27T14:28:01Z")
[QUOTE=ScareyFaerie] I have none. Does that make me unusual? [/QUOTE] FREAK!!! ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/25 "2006-11-27T14:30:50Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] FREAK!!! [/QUOTE] _preen_ ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/26 "2006-11-27T14:46:04Z")
2464 on mine with some podcasts too. ---
**Author:** ![scott62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@scott62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott62)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/27 "2006-11-27T15:55:18Z")
5140 but several are duplicated as part of compilations ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/28 "2006-11-27T16:09:47Z")
Wow… I only have around 1000. And no podcasts. For those who have several thousand: Do you know all of the songs? Could you recognise a random song? ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/29 "2006-11-27T16:35:11Z")
[QUOTE=feppytweed] Wow… I only have around 1000. And no podcasts. For those who have several thousand: Do you know all of the songs? Could you recognise a random song? [/QUOTE] Yup. I’ve played the iPod’s built in name-that-tune game thingie and I can pretty much get it every time in under 3 seconds – I usually get it on the first couple of notes but it takes time to use the scroll wheel to move the cursor and select. ---
**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, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/30 "2006-11-27T19:45:17Z")
[QUOTE=feppytweed] For those who have several thousand: Do you know all of the songs? Could you recognise a random song? [/QUOTE] No, there’s lots I haven’t listened to yet, and likely will never listen to. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/31 "2006-11-27T19:47:44Z")
9584 (whoa). ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/32 "2006-11-27T20:17:33Z")
2494, on an employer-owned laptop. Everyone of them is on the I-Pod though, so should I get the “hey bring your laptop in for us to update/check out” call from IT, it’s all safe. ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/33 "2006-11-28T16:25:08Z")
Don’t know the track count off hand (the machine is at home), but I know it’s around 55 GB of material (most music, some podcasts & audiobooks). Plus about 20BGs of Christmas music that I load around this time of the year, then delete again in January. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/34 "2006-11-28T17:36:09Z")
23,972 currently but I’m not through ripping yet. I sort by song title and I have 83 different versions of Silent Night. (Note to self: Stop buying Christmas CDs!) ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/35 "2006-11-28T17:53:54Z")
8276, of which I’m guessing 100 are duplicates, from “Best Of” compilations and the like. **feppytweed** , I’d recognize maybe 2/3rds of it, and the rest I haven’t gotten around to listening to because I got a ton of music when I came to college and haven’t had enough time to listen to it all. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/36 "2006-11-28T18:23:49Z")
1. Cherry-picked (nothing under a 3-star rating gets ripped). But that number will be rising soon as I got a bunch of new CD’s… ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/37 "2006-11-29T03:51:37Z")
Okay, wise guys… 😛 If I like listening to Snow Patrol, Jem, K.T. Tunstall, Dido, Poe, The Fray, and Dashboard Confessional, who’d I like? (Mods, this is probably going to get booted to Cafe Society now, I’m sorry…) ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/38 "2006-11-29T08:17:30Z")
Maybe the Postal Service? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/39 "2006-11-29T16:55:00Z")
I don’t have it in front of me, but I estimate about 10,000 songs / 30 GB. A combination of burned CDs, legit downloads from Napster (lets download…every Zepellin song ever), shady downloads from back in the day, and sharing of coworkers collections. It’s really the combination of 1) big 300 GB hard drive, 2) buying an MP3 player a few years back 3) no car (im in NYC) and 4) extensive travel which caused my music collection to blow up. > [@feppytweed](#): > > Wow… I only have around 1000. And no podcasts. > > For those who have several thousand: Do you know all of the songs? Could you recognise a random song? No. There are probably entire artists in my collection I wouldn’t even recognize. I have a very elaborate system of organization though. First I run every mp3 through Windows Media Player to get the meta data (artist, track, etc). Then I use a program called Tag & Rename to rename the MP3s according to a standard format to avoid duplicates. Then I sort them into folders by Artist and Album. Next, I have several dozen detailed Genres so I can organize similar sounding artists/albums loosly based on their [Allmusic.com](http://Allmusic.com) genre (ie Jam Bands = Dave Mathews, Phish, Rusted Root, Alternative Metal = Korn, Lincoln Park, etc). Finally, I store various info in the comments and grouping fields for creating automatic playlists. > [@](#): > > If I like listening to Snow Patrol, Jem, K.T. Tunstall, Dido, Poe, The Fray, and Dashboard Confessional, who’d I like? Dido - Alternative Rock [Chick Rock] - Sarah Mclaughlin, Tori Amos, Sarah Brightman Poe - Alternative Rock [Chick Rock] (may create a new genra [Angry Chick Rock] - Garbage, Alanis Morrisette The Fray - Adult Alternative - The Wallflowers, Counting Crows, John Mayer, Gin Blossoms Dashboard Confessional - Indie Rock or Emo Punk - The Killers, Panic! At the Disco, Fall Out Boy ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891/40 "2006-11-29T19:27:27Z")
> [@](#): > > If I like listening to Snow Patrol, Jem, K.T. Tunstall, Dido, Poe, The Fray, and Dashboard Confessional, who’d I like? Maybe [Controller.Controller](http://www.controllercontroller.com/)? The lead singer just left though so I don’t know who will be replacing her. Their Ep isn’t bad, but their first full CD “X Amounts” is really good if you like Poe & Dido I think. Ah.. Poe! Whatever happened to her.. I mean _them_! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-have-945-tunes-on-my-computer/381891.md?page=3)