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Title: How big is your collection?
Post by: Skeet on July 29, 2004, 04:41:16 pm: Just out of interest, how big are peoples libraries? I have about 15,000 tunes, which works great. Am I likely to encounter any degredation in performance with a much larger library?
Title: Re:How big is yours?
Post by: LonWar on July 29, 2004, 04:44:22 pm: 10,202 all music... I have other pictures and videos...

I seen a post a while back that had someone with over 100K....

Apparently JRiver used this to do there testing if I remember correctly/
Title: Re:How big is yours?
Post by: Omni on July 29, 2004, 04:50:09 pm: Yeah, judging by all the posts and feedback over the past year, JRiver has invested a lot of time into supporting huge databases. 8)

And FYI, from what I understand, MC 11 with its relational database makes managing huge databases a breeze. ;)
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: KingSparta on July 29, 2004, 05:04:01 pm: i have about 22,000 music files and 36,000 OTR files

All MP3

[moderator's note -- OTR=Old Time Radio]
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: modelmaker on July 29, 2004, 05:13:11 pm: I'm at about 17 000 music (nearly all mp3 VBR High), about 3000 pix and about 200 videos.

Some people have posted with as many as 100k with no appreciable loss of performance.
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: bebop on July 29, 2004, 05:13:40 pm: 12,375 music files, 120 video files, 7,636 photos.....so far. this doesn't include my seasonal music files or photos I am currently putting into digital albums. :D

Listening to: 'Eyes Of A Stranger' from 'Junos 1996 - Disk 2' by 'Payolas' on Media Center 10
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: kaiynne on July 29, 2004, 05:14:00 pm: 686 albums = 8229 Ape files = 197.4 GB
2780 MP3s = 13.3 GB
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: paulr on July 29, 2004, 05:14:58 pm: Not including my Don & Mike Radio Show :) collection, I have about 9000 music files. 99% of them are APE (the only MP3's in my collection are some comedy CDs I have).
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: DocLotus on July 29, 2004, 05:38:08 pm: 6,000 and growing ;D
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: pipsqueak on July 29, 2004, 05:59:25 pm: aah, this question comes up all the time (i even asked it myself once)...

i have 25,000 audio files and about 30,000 files in total - including video's and images. This all fills up about 250 gigs.

However there are people out there with closer to 150,000 files (King used to have well over 100k) and there are also several people out there with over 1Tb of data

Do a search and see what comes up...

Gamer - youre right, J River used (maybe still do) King's old library for testing functions.

pip
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: ChicoSelfs on July 30, 2004, 03:06:07 am: I only have 4929 files ( Mp3, Ogg, Wma, Mpc and Ape ) Total 21.3 GB
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: hsc on July 30, 2004, 03:22:04 am: I have about 40.000 audio files (ape and mp3) on my pc, which is an old Celeron 566Mhz with 128 MB. So I might have the highest audiofiles/Mhz ratio?
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: cattani on July 30, 2004, 05:44:58 am: Sometimes complete with files from a mp3 CD
Now my library look like this:

all media - 15877 files (24.0 GB - 8.6 days)

   audio - 2222 files of Europe, Romanian Music (8.9 GB - 6.4 days)
   picture - 13052 files of All genre (1.3 - 0:00)
   video - 593 files of Movies, Music Videos & Short Funny Clips (23.7 GB - 54:01:07)
documents - not yet, must to understand this function

I type manual this.
any method to generat this summary automat ?
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: Deivit on July 30, 2004, 11:30:53 am: Mine is currently 132,367 mp3s

Using MC10 with no major performance problems at all.

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Listening to: 'Oriundia' from 'Cesaria' by 'Cesaria Evora' on Media Center 10
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: AoXoMoXoA on July 30, 2004, 01:37:57 pm: Re:How big is your collection?
My collection of shoes is pretty large ;D

Oh, my collection of music? That is just a few more than I have shoes, or about 30,000 files, comprised of 2200 complete albums plus misc. loose tracks.
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: jleerigby on July 30, 2004, 07:33:24 pm: 28243 MP3s in library with about another 10K untagged, waiting to be added.
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: comus_88 on July 31, 2004, 09:28:43 am: About 34000 mp3 files all ripped at 224. Main library resides on a Powervault 705N (4x120gb) Raid 5. Identical secondary 705N offsite for redundancy. Audiotron piped through home stereo and a Rio Nitrus complete my thirst for tunes. Life can be good 8)
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: Marc on July 31, 2004, 12:32:08 pm: 17,910 .mp3 and .ape files (182.7 GB)
4,869 .jpg files (5.5 GB)

I'm starting to crowd the 200 GB partition I have all my media located on. Time to start shopping for more space!

M
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: Sauzee on July 31, 2004, 02:10:23 pm: 47,000 audio files in library. 35,000 of those on my PC and the rest on either data CD's or audio CD's.
Approx 300 video files - almost all on data CD.

Currently shopping for yet another hard disk!
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: Dragyn on July 31, 2004, 06:50:44 pm: (http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/import.jpg)

:o
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: Tyler Campbell on July 31, 2004, 07:39:00 pm: Quote from: Dragyn on July 31, 2004, 06:50:44 pm
(http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/import.jpg)

:o

In the words of Harry Caray, "Holy Cow!"
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: TAFKAFEX on July 31, 2004, 08:30:24 pm: With or without any documents or pdf's?
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: Dragyn on August 01, 2004, 07:58:48 am: few docs in there but the majority is audio, video, and images.
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: Shady Bimmer on August 01, 2004, 10:30:24 am: 1,000+ WAV
3,100+ FLAC
7,700+ SHN
22,000+ APE

For a total of almost 34,000 lossless tracks from over 1000 different "artists". Roughly half are from commercial CDs (All purchased by me) and the other half are live shows and studio out-take collections obtained through trading.
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: Buellie on August 01, 2004, 11:44:34 am: 4500 Albums
62,000 Songs
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: noisy_pickle on August 02, 2004, 12:35:58 am: 438 of mostly RealAudio files (almost all tag info entered by hand) and 3 Mpg videos. I guess I'm on the low end.
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: Cmagic on August 02, 2004, 03:19:58 am: Salut,

15518 songs (80% mpc's)
2719 photos
35 music videos
154 cooking recipes

Bonne journée / Have a nice day

C.

Listening to: 'A Minor' from 'Mick Taylor' by 'Mick Taylor' on Media Center 10
Title: Re:How big is your collection?
Post by: PushiTooL on August 03, 2004, 12:17:26 am: 31318 mp3s (183gb).

I had some trouble importing media awhile back. A few thousand of my files would lose their altered properties (i don't change tags) every time I imported media. I had to backup library > import media > export 'recently imported' playlist as MPL playlist > restore library > import media (the MPL playlist) every time. Strangely, and to my delight, this problem was gone when I imported media that took my total to over 30,000. It's been fine ever since. I had a look back to see when it was I started backing up my libraries, and it was when i had just a shade over 20,000 files. I've never heard of anyone else having such issues so I wouldn't worry. Backing up your library often is a good habit to get into though.