[iTunes] Upper limit to contents of iTunes?

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Jul 6, 2008, at 8:43 PM, John Linthicum wrote:

>>> I know someone who has about 240,000 tracks in his library...
>>
>> Wow! I thought I had a ridiculous amount of tracks with 24,000. (It  
>> took me almost a year to get everything ripped.) That's ten times  
>> the amount of tracks that I have! I'll bet it took that person ages  
>> to rip all of that stuff...
>
> Quite an assumption that they ripped it all. Perhaps it was all  
> purchased legally through the various legal outlets for digital  
> music. I've been ripping my entire CD collection for years, and I'm  
> only a fraction of the way through it. I used to be a DJ, so I've  
> got quite a library. I've got 62k songs and iTunes doesn't even  
> flinch at it.

Actually, the person in question not only ripped most of his music,  
but digitized hundreds of LPs as well.

I've got 42K songs, with only a couple thousand purchased (and that  
many because of big sets like the complete Dylan and U2).

Yes, ripping takes a long, long time...


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