I don’t see how in today’s world that makes any difference. I pay for Google Play Music every month, so I have access to every single song in there. Anyone who pays for a streaming service like that really doesn’t need to collect music anymore.

That being said, my music drive has some 17,900 songs, not counting my Rock Band music which is another 7,000 songs. Probably a few thousand in there are duplicates. But who knows? I don’t listen to any of it.

I just fire up Google Play Music and call it a day.

Get ready to be impressed, guys.

172 songs collected over 5 years. No subscriptions. No physical purchases. And I rarely ever listen to it. I don’t know how others manage with more.

7934 Files

Total size : 213 GB (229 338 164 544 bytes)

Duration : 3wk 1d 19:46:40.004

Codec : FLAC (95.0%); MP3 (4.3%); AAC (0.6%); PCM (0.1%)

Sample rate : 44100 Hz (94.6%); 96000 Hz (3.0%); 48000 Hz (0.8%); 88200 Hz (0.7%); 32000 Hz (0.5%); 192000 Hz (0.2%); 22050 Hz (0.1%)

Foobar forever

Get ready to be impressed, guys.

 

172 songs collected over 5 years. No subscriptions. No physical purchases. And I rarely ever listen to it. I don’t know how others manage with more.

Get ready to be even more impressed, I only have 80 songs ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_cheeky.001.gif” /> And I listen to them all the time!

The digital jukeboxes — the phone, the iPod, the laptop and a file server for the computers at home — have about 4,500 songs on them in OGG Vorbis format, totaling about 23GB. I’m selective about my ripping, though. If I ripped my entire CD collection, the number of songs would easily be five times that, probably a whole lot more. If I then tried the Herculean task of recording everything from my vinyl collection that I don’t have on CD, the number just might double again.

To pull songs from CD I use a script called abcde (A Better CD Encoder) that acts as a front-end for cdparanoia (disc ripping) and oggenc (OGG Vorbis encoding). In some cases I’ll use reZound, an audio editor, to further polish the songs before encoding them — adding fades to the beginning and end of live tracks so the audience cheering doesn’t suddenly start and stop, for example. For the few songs I’ve pulled from vinyl and cassette, I use audacity and reZound. Both can record, edit and encode, but I’ve ended up keeping and using both because reasons.

I have 44 662 tracks (99.9% mp3) from 1 353 artists in 2 687 albums (or just single with no album name) From 1 706 (Sarabande by Handel from Barry Lyndon) to 2015 (the last is the album Eternal by Stratovarius). First album from 1958 (first Serge Gainsbourg album)

A total of 271 Go present on my Synology NAS (2 hard drive mirroring), my 2.5′ hard drive wich is alway with me and a other copy on a friend’s NAS

Some statistics :

2003 is the year with the more tracks (2731) and the more artists (148)

Capcom is the “artist” with the more tracks (1011) Prince (679), and David Bowie (638) are 2nd and 3rd

Prince is the artist with the more album (48), The Rolling stones (39) and David Bowie (38) are 2nd and 3rd

I don’t want to be dependent of streaming because, I can’t use streaming :

– at my work

– in my car

– in subway

– everywhere with no internet connexion

And some of my tracks are not on streaming platform (because artist don’t want, ask too much money or because the track is to marginal (like some of early cartoon songs from my childhood))