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1. Deron Bauman on March 10th, 2011 at 10:18 pm

   I don’t really know. I’m growing less and less fond of iTunes lately and feel less inclined to access my music that way.

2. Casey on March 10th, 2011 at 10:20 pm

   51979, which apparently is 151 days. I hate iTunes too, but gave in when I got my iPhone.

3. Andrew Simone on March 10th, 2011 at 11:33 pm

   about 8,000, post the great data loss of 2009. I probably only listen to about 2,000 of them. I’ve always hated iTunes, but use it for the same reason Casey does.

4. Tycho on March 10th, 2011 at 11:45 pm

   Wow Casey, that’s a huge collection. I’ve got approximately 16,924 songs, totalling 1,120 hours.

   Also, iTunes is awful. Most iSoftware is, because when you install one, it usually invites its iFriends to your computer.

5. Derek White on March 11th, 2011 at 12:08 am

   7226. I used to have zillions more (when i worked for napster) but have since deleted most everything. I remember reading a theory once that makes sense, that you can only really listen or at least appreciate a certain number, i think it’s around 5,000 or 8,000. Or maybe it’s 55 x 55. Beyond that you get mired in wading through all the shit you don’t want to listen to. & iTunes doesn’t help at all in this regard, it truly sucks in more ways then you can say.

   Is it just me or clusterflock or all janked up on chrome today? A bunch of sites are screwy on chrome but look fine on firefox.

6. Casey on March 11th, 2011 at 12:41 am

   I see no janks in Chrome at the moment. I think you might be right, Derek, about the maximum appreciable number of songs. I am trying to be more judicious about getting rid of the stuff that I don’t really want to listen to, but after ten years of only ever shuffling music (I used to have a big CD changer), I’ve now switched to listening to full albums, in (roughly) the order of least-recently-listened to.

7. Frank Patrick on March 11th, 2011 at 10:28 am

   7206 about 5000 of which are in my regular rotation playlists

8. Dave Vogt on March 11th, 2011 at 10:41 am

   ~21k and falling, although I can’t tell you how many of those are duplicates. That’s step one in the purge.

9. Cindy Scroggins on March 11th, 2011 at 11:16 am

   See, I keep mine pared down to about 200 songs. I want only what I love. It’s the same with books and films; I see no reason to read or watch–much less keep–anything other than the extraordinary. I wonder if this will change when I retire, and time becomes a friend rather than a chokehold?

10. Amanda Mae Meyncke on March 11th, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    I have 213 records, one Victrola, and an armchair.

    Kate Bush is warbling about Wuthering Heights even now.

    I listen to music not beep boop noises tinned through an electromachine.

11. Amanda Mae Meyncke on March 11th, 2011 at 12:41 pm

    But really,

    I have tons and tons of vinyl I never listen to, a massive amount of MP3′s that just don’t get played cause I’m not home too often, I almost never listen to my iPod when I’m out and about because I liked hearing everything going on around me.

    I used to love music, I don’t know what happened. I never think to put music on when I’m working even.

12. Casey on March 11th, 2011 at 12:52 pm

    Wuthering Heights! You’re still on that kick? Me too. I’ve had “Babooshka” in my head all day, a-ya-yiii.

    But I’ve kind of wondered if maybe being plugged in on my commute is a bad thing, and maybe I should like hearing everything going on around me too, but it’s usually just cell phone conversations, which drive me insane. I don’t, however, listen to music when I’m hiking/biking, or anything nice and outdoorsy like that.

    Kind of unrelated, but everyone I know very well “loves music” except for pretty much just one person, who admits that he just doesn’t really care one way or another, and I find that kind of hard to imagine. I mean, be it Abba, Tchaikovsky, or Roxy Music, there’s got to be something that moves you, no?

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