30,000

ICBM

I have just passed a milestone in my iTunes library… 30,000 songs. 30,001 to be exact! Not that I'm aiming for quantity over quality, just that's what the total comes to now. 127.08GB (almost all are at 128kbps) and 85.8 days of continuous music.

3310 albums - this includes singles, since iTunes recognises those as albums too - in these genres (I stick to only Gracenote top-level genres as a concession to even doing this at all)… if anyone's interested. I was! And slightly surprised by some of the totals.

Alternative & Punk - 769

Blues - 54

Classical - 428

Country - 88

Easy Listening - 24

Electronica/Dance - 285

Folk - 69

Gospel & Religious - 9

Hip Hop/Rap - 26

Jazz - 81

Latin - 41

Metal - 17

Pop - 532

R&B - 87

Reggae - 20

Rock - 697

Soundtrack - 92

Unclassifiable - 6

World - 37

I have no idea what that says about me really!

Megii

Out of curiosity, what is in the "unclassifiable"?

TTony

I'll go do a count later.  But not all of my music is in my iTunes library.

ICBM

Megii said:

Out of curiosity, what is in the "unclassifiable"?

Ha, I knew someone was going to ask that!

Andrew Bird - Opposite Day (Reprise) from Back To Mine Vol 24

Martin Archer - Ghost Lily Cascade and Pure Water Construction

L. Pierre - The Island Come True

Bobby 'Boris' Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers - Monster Mash

Philip Mead & Rob Godman - Piano And Electronics

Phil_aka_Pip

If you had any Jacques Loussier, would he be filed under Baroque, or Jazz? I always have this difficulty in classifying genres of music. That Davy Spillane album with the mix of Irish, Calypso, Country, Rock'n'Roll and other stuff -what would you file that under? 

ICBM

Phil_aka_Pip said:

If you had any Jacques Loussier, would he be filed under Baroque, or Jazz? I always have this difficulty in classifying genres of music.

Same here sometimes. For me that would be Classical or Jazz, since I resisted going to the next level of sub-genres.

I'm not familiar with him but you could probably ask the same question about Gershwin. Sometimes I do it piece by piece, sometimes by the whole artist's output, whichever seems to make the most sense.

I dislike the whole "genre-isation" of music, and up until iTunes 11 I always deleted all the genre tags. But with 11, you cannot delete the genre window itself and so I had to decide which of my two OCDs was worse .

Phil_aka_Pip said:

That Davy Spillane album with the mix of Irish, Calypso, Country, Rock'n'Roll and other stuff -what would you file that under? 

Don't know… whichever it was "most" of. Or Alternative & Punk .

A&P seems to get used a lot as an "anti-genre" genre, which I quite like. I once bought a Beethoven CD which came up in iTunes as A&P, which I suspect might have amused Ludwig.

Gagaryn

My library is at 40,751. I can't remember the sat time I listened to 40,000 of the songs though!

vasselmeyer

My collection is tiny in comparison at 13,334 although that's just my generic music folder which excludes the 100+ classical CDs that I have.

The best thig with a collection of that size is to add them ALL to a random playlist and see if you can work out who the track is by.

Gagaryn

I'm desperate for Apple to increase the Match limit as it's almost impossible to force it to Match the 25,000 songs I want it to match. I've tried all the potential workarounds and it takes ages and never works properly.

ICBM

vasselmeyer said:

The best thig with a collection of that size is to add them ALL to a random playlist and see if you can work out who the track is by.

That's how I listen to it, often - just set 'shuffle' on the whole library. I quite often get things I don't recognise straight away, and sometimes things I don't like! So then tend to listen to them on purpose, and if I still don't like it, it can go. That's relatively rare though - more usually it's something I acquired a while ago but never listened to properly, and which is good.

viz

I often have all of Rachmaninov's 870 pieces on shuffle and found it pretty difficult to identify them all at first, even though I thought I knew his music inside out. It's amazing when you get thrown a piece at random without knowing what comes before, how hard it is to pinpoint.

Gagaryn

ICBM said:

vasselmeyer said:

The best thig with a collection of that size is to add them ALL to a random playlist and see if you can work out who the track is by.

That's how I listen to it, often - just set 'shuffle' on the whole library. I quite often get things I don't recognise straight away, and sometimes things I don't like! So then tend to listen to them on purpose, and if I still don't like it, it can go. That's relatively rare though - more usually it's something I acquired a while ago but never listened to properly, and which is good.

Yeah, this normally happens to me when I'm driving and it bugs the hell out of me. I've heard some songs where I still don't know who iy was!

koneguitarist

Not enough Country !

ICBM

koneguitarist said:

Not enough Country !

I suspect what I do have might not meet with your approval either, perhaps apart from some Johnny Cash and a Chet Atkins album... there's not a lot (any?) of that Telecaster-torturing type .

koneguitarist

Not a fan of mr pop atkins, what country stuff do you have? And you would be surprised at the country music I play in my Radio show !

ICBM

OK… I'll try to list it! Bear in mind that a couple of these 'albums' are singles, because that's how iTunes sorts them.

Adrienne Young - Room To Grow

Anne Kirkpatrick - Cradle Of Love

Basia Bulat - Oh My Darling

Brooke Fraser - Albertine

The Byrds - Nashville West

Calexico - Alone Again Or, The Black Light, Carried To Dust, Feast Of Wire, Garden Ruin, Hot Rail, In The Reins, Live At The China Theatre

The Carter Family - Best Of

Charley Pride - 16 Top Tracks

Chet Atkins - Neck & Neck (with Mark Knopfler), Pickin' On Country

Dolly Parton - Very Best Of

Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt & Dolly Parton - Trio II

The Flying Burrito Brothers - Flying Burrito Brothers, Sleepless Nights

Gillian Welch - Revival

Grand Drive - See The Morning In

Hank Williams - Hank Williams

Holly Figueroa - Gifts And Burdens

Homecoming String Band - EP

Iron & Wine - Live Bonnaroo, Our Endless Numbered Days, The Shepherd's Dog

kd Lang - Absolute Torch & Twang, Shadowland

Johnny Cash - American Recordings I - VI (set), I Walk The Line, The Legend Of Johnny Cash, The Real Johnny Cash (early albums set)

Laura Cantrell - Hello Recordings, Humming By The Flowered Vine, Kitty Wells Dresses, Not The Tremblin' Kind, Peel Sessions, Trains & Boats & Planes, When The Roses Bloom Again

Kate Maki - The Sun Will Find Us

Lissie - Catching A Tiger

Little Pink - Gladly Would We Anchor

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, Essence, Little Honey, Sweet Old World, West

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones In The Road

Mindy Smith - One Moment More

Nancy Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons, Intersection, Other Voices Other Rooms, Poet In My Window

Notting Hillbillies - Missing Presumed Having A Good Time

The Stairwell Sisters - Get Off Your Money, Stairwell Sisters

Star Wheel Press - Life Cycle Of A Falling Bird

The Waifs - Live At Kate Wolf, Shelter Me, Sink Or Swim, Sun Dirt Water, Up All Night

Absolutely Bluegrass (Various Artists)

Bluegrass Festival (Various Artists)

Mountain Breakdown (Various Artists)

Rough Guide To Bluegrass (Various Artists)

Merle Travis - Cannonball Stomp; Chet Atkins - Chinatown My Chinatown; Doc Watson - Deep River Blues (all from 100 Greatest Guitarists)

plus a few random Laura Cantrell tracks I haven't listed individually.

Disclaimer: I don't really like the Chet & Mark album and I would probably have got rid of it except that my wife likes it!

Megii

koneguitarist said:

Not enough Country !

Not enough jazz either  Cheers for the reply re the "unclassifiables" though ICBM! And what kind of things have you got in the jazz?

ICBM

Megii said:

Not enough jazz either  Cheers for the reply re the "unclassifiables" though ICBM! And what kind of things have you got in the jazz?

lol - I'll end up typing out the whole damn library at this rate

OK. Jazz:

Artie Shaw - Classic Tracks

Benny Goodman - Carnegie Hall, Jazz Masters

Billie Holliday - Best Of, The Lady Sings, Very Best Of

Billy Cobham - Stratus

Buddy Rich - The Beat Goes On, 1946-48

Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher

Camille Yarborough - Take Yo' Praise

Chris Barber - Best Of Chris Barber's Jazz Band, The Entertainer, With Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Count Basie - Jazz Masters, Kansas City Classic, Swinging The Blues

Dave Brubeck - Time Out

Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy

Django Reinhardt - Djangology, Souvenirs

Duke Ellington - Best Of Early Ellington, Legends Of The 20th Century, Such Sweet Thunder

Edith Piaf - La Vie En Rose

Ella Fitzgerald - Essential Collection, Gold, Golden Greats

Errol Garner - Savoy Recordings

Etta James - At Last, Leave Your Hat On, W-O-M-A-N

Fats Domino - Fats Domino

Fats Waller - Aint Misbehavin', Fun With Fats

George Gershwin - An American In Paris, The Man I Love, Rhapsody In Blue

Glenn Miller - The Glenn Miller Story (compilation, not movie soundtrack)

Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island, Jammin' With Herbie

Jimmie Lunceford - 1934-1942

Lalo Schifrin - Danude Incident

Lester Young - Lester Dreams

Louis Armstrong - Disney Songs The Satchmo Way, High Society, Jazz Genius, We Have All The Time In The World, What A Wonderful World

Louis Jordan - Essential Collection

Madeleine Peyroux - Bare Bones, Careless Love, Dreamland, Half The Perfect World

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue, The Real Miles Davis

MJQ - The Artistry of The Modern Jazz Quartet, Introducing The MJQ, Plastic Dreams, Porgy & Bess

Nina Simone - Best Of

Oscar Peterson - Saturday Night At The Blue Note

Peggy Lee - Fever, I'm A Woman

Ramsey Lewis - Midnight At The Oasis

Rina Ketty - Rien Que Mon Coeur

Stephane Grappelli - Golden Hour, Souvenirs

Thelonious Monk - Monk's Moods

Wes Montgomery - Tequila

Born To Swing (Various Artists)

Les Paul & Mary Ford - How High The Moon; Johnny Smith - Jaguar; Pat Metheny - Missouri Uncompromised; Charlie Christian - Rose Room; Wes Montgomery - SOS (all from 100 Greatest Guitarists)

plus a few other random tracks

koneguitarist

Plenty of b bending tele work there, with Bernie Leadon plus Gurf Morlix, great player ! 

Love Laura Cantrell.

ICBM

koneguitarist said:

Plenty of b bending tele work there, with Bernie Leadon plus Gurf Morlix, great player ! 

Love Laura Cantrell.

Yes - but no 'guitar music' really. Quite often I don't even know who plays on the songs I like, and if I do it's generally just a curiosity thing - it doesn't make me want to find more unless I have some idea I like the songwriters. I know some guitar fans do, but it really has no interest to me - ie I wouldn't go and listen to something just because Bernie Leadon played on it (for example).

I don't mind good guitar playing at all, as long as it's part of the song. What I don't like is guitar playing (or any other instrument) as the primary purpose for something which lacks any other real point. I have very little of that across my entire music library - but because I am perverse, not quite none! Among other things I do actually have a Steve Vai album, which I quite like - because I like his sense of humour (musically) which comes through on a lot of the pieces, even though there are definitely some which are just too widdly-widdly for me.

koneguitarist

Only ever bought one album for the guitar playing and that was Albert Lee's first solo instrumental album, and I ended up giving it away. To me the song is King. In fact one of my favourite cover tracks is Need your love so bad, no guitar just David Coverdale and Jon Lord. Awesome.