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yeah, well, your penis is nowhere near as big as mine, maura. so, nyah.

I can answer the second question better than the first -- I have literally hundreds of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs worth of files now, a combination of ripped discs since sold back and songs off the Net. The amount of mp3s actually on my computer at any one time is pretty low, maybe a couple hundred at most.

@aaron_green: this is true.

7014 Mp3's and 140 AACs. (16 of the mp3's are 'borrowed' ATM) 26 Days Music.

A kid on the iTunes network at my old school had a library with 100 days on it. And this was in the halcyon days before the "5 users" nonsense.

I do occasionally do some mass-deletes of crap I never listen too, and I keep the file size to a minimum if I have the original CD, rather than just something on the computer. MP3's / AAC files and various audio program files take up probably 75%+ of my drive space.

That said: 6896 items, 20 days, 11 hours and 30 minutes of time, 33.05 gigs. (nearly half of my internal drive)

All of which reminds me, I need a new computer.

Like Ned I only keep a couple hundred on my computer, ripping most of those label/PR person sent MP3s to CDs because stereo speakers are a lot nicer to listen to music out of than computer ones.

i just deleted all of mine. goodbye drunken, late night harvey danger, kid and play, and .38 special purchases.

6939 songs (mp3 and aac combined), the vast majority ripped from actual CDs
Just under 40 gigs
21 days
I never delete for space concerns - I bought a 500gb external so that I never have to make an awful choice like that.
But I prune the collection for crap I never listen to once every six months or so. I often make rash decisions during these deleting sessions that I regret a few weeks later.

7424, which I guess is like 40hrs, 5min, 20sec - I don't know, is that an iTunes feature? Anyway, a hella lot of 'em; more than I need or listen to. But some fun stuff nonetheless.

Ugh I hate admitting this since it is all legit (the physical cd's are hiding in my basement):
14368 songs (all 192 mp3) 1143:52:58 so what ~48 days? ~ 100 gigs

I just have a raid system that hides that I rip everything too. I have stuff on shuffle so I probably haven't heard 10% of my music easy. What a waste :)

Oh yeah. I bought an external drive for them and I'm a little OCD about keeping it organized and dreck-free. Except for my blog-download archive (many from here) where I let anarchy reign and live in shuffle mode.

Looks like I'm a lightweight here. 3500 songs with about 90% coming from CDs. I am pretty anal about which songs I have on there, so I won't keep a song I download that I don't particularly like for more than a couple weeks or so until I delete it.

@nh_dave: I stand humbled.

@jess h.: hahah, I have a few drunken Harvey Danger itunes purchases as well.

I'd say the majority of the tunes I have are actual albums; I listen straight-through like the old-schooler that I am. Since I have an M-audio converter and everything hooked up to my mixer, my computer stuff actually sounds halfway decent...I could never choke down music on computer speakers.

41,427. that's 2908 albums, compiled over the last four years or so. stored on an external 250gb hard drive (backed up monthly to another 250gb hard drive that's stored in the coat closet). i've listened to maybe half of them...

As Adam mentioned above I much prefer listening through my stereo, though my receiver has gotten a bit wonky lately and probably needs replacing. Soon, soon... (Meantime I am also patiently waiting on getting a massive hard-drive, but I have faith in collapsing memory prices.)

12,334 MP3s, 34.5 days, 47GB clogging up my internal hard drive and iPod. I'd have to get stuck in a Groundhogs Day loop to listen to everything again.

I have 11102 tracks, but it's really not that impressive, because it's just 854 copies of The Dutchess.

@Ned Raggett: Yes, what he said. I mean, it's literally a stack of cd-rs (over a foot high! Would topple were it not next to another stack of sampler cds from CMJ New Music Monthly and Magnet!) with 120-130 mp3s on each one. My computer right now (heh, here at work where I have DSL) only has 250 mp3s. When it gets over 300, I burn 125 or so onto a cdr and, well, then keep acquiring.

I'm hovering around 24,000 mp3s. I've listened to over half of it.

I'm running about 17 days at 196 rate on my comp..... but I own around 3000 cds and just haven't bothered to add them all.

I'm very silly with money.

I have so many, I haven't even loaded them into iTunes, for fear it would essplode. This might be a good project for this weekend, I mean -- the next six months of weekends. I have two massive external drives full of mp3s -- probably close to 500 gig worth? Oh god, I can't believe I just told you people this.

I recently made an executive decision and deleted 90% of my holdings in the entire Jandek back catalog. Having all those albums around is the very definiton of excessive collecting.

At one point, I did, however, fill my shuffle with the entire Mountain Goats discography (official releases, unoffical releases, the cassettes, a few choice live shows -- everything), which was kind of rad. It fit almost perfectly in 1 GB, but this was before Get Lonely was released.

I have about 20 GBs, which isn't that impressive. But they are all downloaded illegally, a lot going back to the Napster days and preNapster days... you know, the CuteFTP , I'll trade you my songs for your songs, days. So yeah, my mp3s are older than your mp3s.

I'm at 32480 -- including 16685 I haven't listened to, most of which I probably never will. I'm always trying to pare it down (mostly by listening to single songs, and if they're crap, deleting the album), but even that's time consuming. I'm running out of space, though, so I'll probably have to do a big-time purge soon.

Too much. Always too much.

This is kind of a prying question, isn't it? Why don't you just ask us what color our underwears are instead? At least that answer could hold a legitimate amount of dignity, or maybe even shame, or equal truth? I don't know anymore.

7019 songs @ 28.33 gigs.

56.6 daze

32 days, 65GB of MP3. all mine - bought or grabbed via a site like this one. and I've listened to all of them. scary

@therichgirlsareweeping: the jandek back catalog! eeeek!

@Adam Bernard: [slimpdevices.com]

I only keep 60 gig on my desktop; I frequently backup the overflow onto DVDs. I did, however, upgrade my archos jukebox to a 120 gb hd, but I like to keep at least 20 gigs free on that because it is really really handy for recording.

@LeighBlack:

I'm in this range too. So many weeks of downloading whole discographies while in college left me with lots of music I'd never hear. But I can if I want!

I gots 35,000 songs, 90% of which are AAC with the remainder being MP3. I have a pathological fear of deleting songs, because what if one day I look for a song and find that I no longer have it? It would be tragic. Also, I get a lot of music from my library, and since I can't possibly listen to every CD before I return it, I use as many review sites as possible (props to Metacritic for making this easier) to figure out which songs to rip to my computer.

34,865 fies, 174.4 GB

And I just started a mass-delete project, the first batch of which is at [www.cruzich.com]

Part two should happen later this week.