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nanogirl21

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Sep 20, 2011
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I do convert all my music files to 80 bitrate in MP3 format. I personally can't tell the difference between a higher bitrate and the 80 playing in my car, on my mac, or on my phone (with or without headphones). My music is for my personal listening and not for "profressional" use, so a super high bitrate is pointless to me. The lower bitrate saves SO much space. At one point I did try to go lower that an 80 bitrate and that is when audio quality started to decrease. I am a millennial that hates steaming music and prefers to carry my entire library with me and my iPhone is perfect for that!
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Anonymous Freak

macrumors 603
Dec 12, 2002
5,559
1,245
Cascadia
Well, with iOS apps just removed from it, there went a lot of space - I was using iTunes as a "backup" for when apps disappear from the app store. At least it didn't actually delete the folder - and I moved it out of the "iTunes Media" folder just in case.

Now at 60 GB audio, 500 GB movies.
 

MacWanker

macrumors member
Jun 4, 2014
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This is my second 256Gb Jetdrive Lite which is solely used for music (my first is also, and is already full). I also have several Tb drives crammed full which I am slowly adding/editing/metadata sorting etc.
All legal, and in that amount maybe 2 purchases from iTunes.

This is this drive in iTunes (no idea why shows different amount of storage)
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Pales in comparison to the tens of thousands of vinyl records I have though...
 
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mmm1345

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Aug 8, 2017
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All right, who has the largest iTunes library?

I currently have 372GB...

Habitus :apple:

Are you counting ripped media or just iTunes purchases? If you are counting ripped media, then I have a 10 TB Media Library of 1,400 movies and TV Shows :) In terms of "purchases" I have 540 movies (mostly from BR Digital Codes) and 60 TV Shows.
 
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kevwang0712

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Oct 17, 2017
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370.25GB music, 133.31GB movies, 577.80GB tv shows, 7.86GB podcasts, 1089.22GB total. And I've only ripped about 1/3 of my music collection into iTunes!
 

TheGeneralLee86

macrumors member
Apr 7, 2014
99
6
West Topsham, VT
I have a 2GB in Music, 245 Movies which takes up 976.17GB HDD Space, 188 TV shows which takes up 1.07TB HDD Space! and I have almost every movies I have ever seen or seen bits and pieces of it though not all of them and I still have a ton more movies on my Wish list along with TV shows!

P.S.
I' am Hoping to get up to 300 movies by next spring and 250 TV shows!
I just increased mine to 222 TV shows 43.2 Days and 1.27TB, and 320 Movies 25 Days and 1.24TB
 

TheGeneralLee86

macrumors member
Apr 7, 2014
99
6
West Topsham, VT
Are you counting unique shows? when you get a show do you download every season/episode/ behind the scenes and specials?
Yes I do download every single episode and all the seasons for that series and also the volumes depending on what they because some shows are volumes not seasons. Yes I also do include the unique specials that I have bought too.
 

ApolloBoy

macrumors 6502a
Apr 16, 2015
778
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San Jose, CA
I do convert all my music files to 80 bitrate in MP3 format.
80 kbps? I'd throw off my headphones in disgust if I had to listen to music at such a low bitrate.

Anyway mine's pretty small compared to others in this thread, I currently have 8,510 songs occupying about 74 GB. The vast majority are AAC files encoded at 256 kbps but I have a sizable chunk of 320k MP3s and a few 192k MP3s that I still need to upgrade. I once had a ton of lossless music but I had to encode all of it since I couldn't fit my library on either my iPod classic or my phone.
 
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AppleDApp

macrumors 68020
Jun 21, 2011
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With various streaming options is there still a point to have such a large library? I usually delete tv shows once I have watched them and the season is over. I have a small selection of some of my favourite movies and a few that I want to watch shortly that are not on streaming sites but none of that equals more than 150gb. Then there's music at around 40gb.
 

TheGeneralLee86

macrumors member
Apr 7, 2014
99
6
West Topsham, VT
I don't like streaming it doesn't always work, and if you don't have an internet connection how you gonna watch videos and plus i'd rather actually own it and be able to play it knowing i will play whether i am connected or not and as much as i have downloaded i don't need no streaming because i have all the movies and tv shows i want and in the long run it is a lot cheaper too.
 

Dodgeman

macrumors 65816
Nov 30, 2016
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Are most of you guys actually purchasing your music, or have you downloaded it from somewhere else?
 

K4LK

macrumors 6502
Jun 18, 2009
424
88
Movies: 754 (1.75 Tbytes)
TV shows: 1,021 (881.28 Gbytes)
Songs: 20,099 (149.92 Gbytes)
Music videos: 353 (17.59 Gbytes)
Apps: 2,084 (128.9 Gbytes)

Total size 3.22 Tbytes
 

MBAir2010

macrumors 603
May 30, 2018
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5,918
there
Has anyone else made rare or non issued albums by converting mp4 to mp3 off YouTube and importing them to iTunes?
 

pmore

macrumors regular
Jul 4, 2018
135
300
I have 170 albums (2568 songs) added to my iTunes Library. All the songs are in Apple Lossless quality ripped from my CDs. 68.41GB in size.
 

tkermit

macrumors 68040
Feb 20, 2004
3,581
2,833
~30,000 songs at the moment, half of which are my own, all legally acquired and a good deal of them lossless. The collection's grown at a much faster pace since subscribing to Apple Music despite being somewhat picky when it comes to adding an album to my library. I don't like to commit to just any album. ;)
 
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