How many songs are in your itunes ?

[KEXPMF]

2000+ and I've barely scratched the surface. I also have 27 different playlists (for moods, genres, sub-genres, days of the week, car trips, etc).

Yesterday I saw someone with 25,000 songs in their itunes.

[Kaboom]

4856 songs, 14.1 days and 25.97GB of music.
I've still to rip a few albums.

[Stone]

I've never used iTunes, but I don't listen to music on my computer. Plus I don't download mp3s. The mp3s I put on my iPod I rip from my own CDs or LPs, and transfer them using MusicMatch (which isn't great, but it gets the job done). Is there any reason I should be using this program?

[Troy]

Being a Mac guy I've used iTunes for many years now.

Funny tho, but while I use it to compile comp CDs, I clean it out when the CD is done.

My wife has an iPod and I load it with stuff via iTunes as well, but again, I dump it out of the computer once it's in the pod. I personally have no use for an iPod at this stage in life. I have a 70s vintage Kenwood in my 10x10 office that's plenty loud (I run the 'puter through it as well), nice hi-fi in the car.

The only thing I keep in there is about 50 songs, and they are all my songs created in GarageBand.

I really think it's an age thing. Most people under 30 use it a lot, over 40, hardly at all.

[KEXPMF]

Being a Mac guy I've used iTunes for many years now.

Funny tho, but while I use it to compile comp CDs, I clean it out when the CD is done.

My wife has an iPod and I load it with stuff via iTunes as well, but again, I dump it out of the computer once it's in the pod. I personally have no use for an iPod at this stage in life. I have a 70s vintage Kenwood in my 10x10 office that's plenty loud (I run the 'puter through it as well), nice hi-fi in the car.

The only thing I keep in there is about 50 songs, and they are all my songs created in GarageBand.

I really think it's an age thing. Most people under 30 use it a lot, over 40, hardly at all.

I totally agree with you... for me, living in a place where I only use public transportation, going to parties, where I sit and make a mix for my iPod just for THAT party, before I go (that is endlessly fun... I'm a DJ after all!) , I'm addicted to making mix cds for my friends.... an iPod is certainly good for me. If I was more stabile and had a vintage Kenwood, I'd never leave the house, I'd resume collecting vinyl, knowing that I wasn't going to be moving, I'd be very happy!!... and an iPod probably woudn't be of use. Although I don't imagine there will ever be a time that I won't want iTunes or to make mix cds and buy songs here and there.

[Jim Clark]

Thank you guys for your suggestions. The mixed reactions shown here are pretty much what have delayed the purchase so long in the first place!

He has more than enough dough to buy whatever he wants but we're in a postion that we want to do something a little above and beyond for them right now. I am pretty locked into a HD based player at this point. At 13 it's a little bit of a status thing so I don't want to let him down too much since we draw the line on so many other things that a great many of his peers in Johnson County, KS just take for granted. Like 150.00 basketball shoes for example!

Plus, he has finally gotten over the whole rap thing and that alone is worth celebrating, isn't it? I don't think the Shuffle is gonna work. He has picked up a bit on my own peculiar notions of eschewing mutidisc players in favor of a single disc. When he wants to listen to something, it's that he wants to hear, not that intermixed with a bunch of other stuff that might not be right for the current mood. Sadly, despite his stated goal to the contrary, he's turning out more and more like Dad everyday. I don't point this out since he'll be horrified by that reality soon enough!

Thanks again!

jc

[newtrix1]

I've never used iTunes, but I don't listen to music on my computer. Plus I don't download mp3s. The mp3s I put on my iPod I rip from my own CDs or LPs, and transfer them using MusicMatch (which isn't great, but it gets the job done). Is there any reason I should be using this program?

Just yesterday a dude at work handed me a DVD-R with 1000+ songs on it! Said it was pretty much his entire music collection on one disc. Unreal! He uses i-tunes and told me that I can download the program for free. I haven't checked it out yet, but I can forsee some type of digital music format in my near future. My 11 year old son has been grovelling for an MP3 player since Christmas. I'll break down one of these days...

[Mr MidFi]

About 2200 on iTunes, 2100 on the pod. I really wish I had the time to fill up the other half of the hard drive in the pod.

I'm on shuffle mode right now. Portishead just ended, and Trail of Dead is now playing. I love my iPod in an almost creepy way.

[KEXPMF]

About 2200 on iTunes, 2100 on the pod. I really wish I had the time to fill up the other half of the hard drive in the pod.

I'm on shuffle mode right now. Portishead just ended, and Trail of Dead is now playing. I love my iPod in an almost creepy way.

AH SHUFFLE. It's like having a radio station that ONLY plays all of your favorite songs. Right??
I also love my iPod and iTunes, the iPod so much that my ears are maybe paying the price, it goes EVERYWHERE with me, so I keep the volume a bit lower now. I spoke with a lot of iPod AND Zen users before making the iPod decision. Both seemed very happy, although the iPod users, almost sounded like it was a religion. I don't know about feeling THAT strongly about it... but enough so that I speak up and recommend it highly....My decision came down to going to Best Buy and spending an hour just looking at both of them and talking everyone who came by the display including employees... and just going with my gut that I'd be happier with the iPod. I liked the wheel. It just seemed fun to operate compared to the Zen. I think I made the right decision.

There is a LOT that you can do with iTunes besides loading songs onto your iPod. The music store has celebrity playlists, so you can see, for example, what the Porcupine Tree singer or Geddy Lee has chosen. (OK, those 2 aren't on there but that's an example).
Also... as you start searching around, you can look at other people's playlists (mix cds).
Occasionaly they offer a song or two for free, usually it's not something good but I did get a Tegan & Sarah tune and a Kaiser Cheifs tune for free on there.

My favorite feature of iTunes is probably the playlist feature. Making mix cds is favorite hobby. I'd spend all day doing that if I could!

Jim - I definitely, definitely recommend the $99 iPod shuffle for your son. For many reasons. We'll talk more when I get to town!

[Kaboom]

Itunes KICKS ASS. the reason i do it is because it keeps my whole music collection (everything on CD or dowloaded off the inet, too busy to digitalize my vinyl) organized.
You can look up ANY song instantly by entering a part of the name, or the album, or even the year it was composed. It gets them sorted by albums, artist, genres... and of course you can make your own playlists. Supports direct CD burning....
the best things about it imho is how neatly organized it gets your collection, and the REALLY powerful real-time search function.
cheers!

[Troy]

Kaboom is right, the real useful aspect to iTunes is that it organizes all the music however you want. It's really easy to find anything, even with thousands of titles in there.

In 5 years I've never actually bought a song with it . . .

[ForeverAutumn]

The only thing that I use itunes for is to load stuff onto my iPod (which I just bought portable speakers for so that I can listen to it in hotel rooms ) I've haven't had much time to play with the program, so I don't really know what it can do. In fact, I didn't even know that there was a search function until Kaboom mentioned it.

So, what else should I know?

P.S. 827 songs on my iPod currently.

[KEXPMF]

I've never used iTunes, but I don't listen to music on my computer. Plus I don't download mp3s. The mp3s I put on my iPod I rip from my own CDs or LPs, and transfer them using MusicMatch (which isn't great, but it gets the job done). Is there any reason I should be using this program?

MusicMatch is just fine. I switched to iTunes because I found out that you can transport everything* pretty easily and I THOUGHT iTunes might be better, but the 2 are very similar so you are fine.

I like the iTunes music store more BUT I haven't looked at MusicMatch in a while and I would guess they keep up to speed with iTunes.

*the songs I had purchased from MusicMatch didn't transfer. Luckily this was only 6 songs and I had burned them onto a cd before I did the transfer.
I.E. If you bought a lot of songs on MusicMatch, keep this in mind if you are thinking of switching to iTunes.

One more warning... the iTunes music store can be addictive. When a song is in front of your face and all you have to do is click a button and it's yours for $1.... it's tempting. I have probably spent more money on iTunes in a month than I'd spend on cds in several months.

[-Jar-]

I downloaded about 12 songs from Itunes using those pepsi bottle caps

I don't have an I-Pod, so I don't really use the program all that much.

I downloaded it and it went and started converting all my mp3's.. no way man.

I like Windows Media Player much better. I was able to burn those songs from the I-tunes to a cd so I could use them on a comp. Yay.

Is the main thing of I-tunes to use it as an interface with the I-pod? I don't even want to get into buying songs, because I could see that becoming a problem for me. They don't sound that bad. Whatever format is that they're in.

-jar

[Mr MidFi]

Jar: To answer your question...

1. Yeah, serving as an iPod interface is one of the primary functions of iTunes. Getting you to buy stuff at their music store is also a primary raison d'etre. For burning discs and making comps, I still use Roxio.

2. Buying songs was all coolness for me when I first downloaded the software. But after the first 100 or so, it lost its appeal for me. Still...I'm glad as hell to have those 100 songs.

3. The stuff you buy from Apple is in their AAC format, and it sounds OK considering the degree of compression. But when I rip from discs, I choose the more universally recognized MP3 format. When ripped at 192kps, MP3 actually sounds pretty good. Not great, but far better than you'd expect from the file size.

NP: Ted Nugent, "Stranglehold" (which I bought for 99 cents and put on my pod)

[mwheelerk]

I never thought I would mess around with one of these things. I went ahead and bought a Mini in late December. By late April I had the iPod Photo 30gb.

3,856 songs so far! About half full not counting the album art I now store on the iPod and a few personal photos.