New Poll: How Many Songs Are In Your Music Collection?
“How many songs are in your music collection?” is the question we’re wondering this week. With digital downloads easily accessible and rather affordable these days, some people have music collections with thousands upon thousands of songs. For us, our collection ranges between 1,000 and 2,000 songs and it’s a collection we’ve been building for about 9 years. We normally like to listen to the online radio stations because of the variety of music they offer (without the need to assemble playlists) which is why there aren’t THAT many songs.
New Poll: How Many Songs Are In Your Music Collection?
- 0-500
- 501-1,000
- 1,001-2,000
- 2,001-3,000
- 3,001-4,000
- 4,001-5,000
- 5,001-10,000
- 10,001-15,000
- 15,001-20,000
- 20,001-25,000
- 25,001-30,000
- 30,001+
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Interesting to see the results of this poll. Next it should be “How much of it is legal?”
My answer would be 100%. Everything I download is either paid for or independent stuff that was made available for free by the artist.
next poll - number of bookmarks? I have way too many
only 200 plus songs…the number is growing
I got more than 40.000
For me everything is illegal. taken off dc++,limewire, soulseek and so on
filling an iPod alone would take thousands and thousands of dollars. I highly doubt that anyone who has over 2K songs is 100% legal.
But there’s nothing wrong with that!
I just broke the 1k mark a few days ago.
A lot of it is legal (from CDs, I’m not paying for non-physical stuff)…and a lot isn’t. I’d say it’s about 60-40 illegal to legal.
To those with over 30k songs- what the hell? How?!
I saw a poll like this a few months back on some site (I don’t remember which one) and a majority of their users had over 30,000 songs as well. That actually appears to be the dominate choice in our pull so far, and I have to say that it’s quite astonishing. I couldn’t imagine having over 30,000 songs!
I have over 300,000 songs (not counting CDs, cassette tapes, records, etc. and many are different copies of the same albums) but at any given time I only have around 5,000 connected to my computer (6,349 at this very moment - all from 2008). Of course I’m not the usual pirate.
I just crossed the 10,000 mark here. Part is ripped from my own cd collection, part is bought online (only buy DRM-free) and part is downloaded from various sources. Since downloading music is always legal here (NL), the whole collection is 100% legal.
I listen to the radio sometimes, but find it pretty bland and unoriginal. I prefer listening to Last.FM (and Pandora when I still could) to discover new artists. I buy a lot of music because of that, especially because you hardly hear it on the radio or anywhere else.
You forgot one thing: for every storage medium that you buy in The Netherlands a “pirating tax” has to be paid. I for one think that that stinks. First of all: since independent artists are not registered with the BUMA/STEMRA (the Dutch RIAA), they don’t get paid at all. Secondly, if you don’t like the crap that gets played on the radio, you’re forced to pay for it nonetheless! It’s ridiculous. I’m glad that I’m not living in The Netherlands and I never will. (Well, unless Geert Wilders merges Flanders and The Netherlands of course.
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Wow, you need some serious storage space for that many songs.
I go that route when I’m looking for some fresh new music as well. The online radio services are pretty nice because of that.
Wow, I’m pretty shocked at how many of you have over 30,000 songs in your music collection. I can’t imagine having that many songs to choose from!
30,000 songs. do these people do nothing beside listen to music?
lol. i would have to answer like 10%.
I’m somewhere around 40,000 and nearly 1 TB in terms of hard disk space. Virtually all of it is CD quality EAC FLAC rips.
Somewhere around 20% is completely free, drm-free, liberally licensed music from up and coming bands trying to get their music out there, or from bands like NIN who are antiestablishment and trying to create new business models for the music industry. I also have a lot of CD rips of my collection. No comment on where the rest comes from.
Put simply, yes. Unless I’m reading, or watching the rare movie/show that interests me, then I’m basically listening to music the rest of the time.