how big is your mp3 collection and to what extent is it legal?

[dionx]

i have about 2800+ MP3s. most of them are from ripping my own cds just coz i dont like changing cds when i could just double click a song and i hate downloading coz of inconsistency with naming, bitrate, quality, etc etc. i rip my cds at no less than 256bitrate.

 

[minendo]

whats an mp3?

 

[Sestar]

like 96% is legal, the rest are impossible to find on cd or just not worth the album.

 

[Ns1]

not very legal, but it's not my fault

mostly livesets and other rare stuff that will never make it's way to cd's

 

[Martin]

hmm, about 800 mp3s, 14 of them legal.


yes, I am cheap ass. If you have a problem with that...you know what to do.

 

[kamiam]

about 1100...all legal, when I finish the rest of my CD collection it will probably more like 3000 @ 224 bit rate

 

[notfred]

at the moment, 237 songs. 100% legal.

 

[erub]

damn! I have around 1000 songs...none of em are legal

 

[Ronstang]

I currently have ~6000. About half I have ripped from my CDs the other half I have downloaded but since I own those albums on vinyl I consider my collection mostly legal.

 

[RSI]

I have 5 or 6 of my CDs ripped to my comp, that's about it for now.

-RSI

 

[Sketcher]

What are you qualifying as Legal/not legal? And what source are those of you who have hundreds of MP3's using to check each of your songs?

Are you considering MP3's from music you've bought as being legal? And downloaded as not legal?

 

[Mrfrog840]

Separated-150,000 Albums-average 15 songs on a cd
Just Mp3's-100,000 +
I think 2 or 3 cds out of the 150,000 are legal. When i bought them i ripped them and then they are in storage now.
AND no these are not all on my hard drive. All my mp3's are but only 250 albums are on my hard drive

 

[dionx]

<< What are you qualifying as Legal/not legal? And what source are those of you who have hundreds of MP3's using to check each of your songs?

Are you considering MP3's from music you've bought as being legal? And downloaded as not legal?
>>



legal - either you own the cd or cassestte or vinyl or 8track, etc etc OR you downloaded from a legal mp3 website like mp3.com. there are some other legal ways to obtain mp3s but basically its not through file sharing programs.

illegal - songs you can buy on cd or somewhere but have chosen to download someone else's rip of the song. there are other illegal ways too but im too lazy to list them all.

to check the number of mp3s u have, u can just drag your mp3 folder into winamp and it will tell u how many songs u have. you may need to generate an html playlist.

 

[Pabster]

LOL

Asking "to what extent" an MP3 collection is "legal" is akin to asking "to what extent" an ISO FTP is "legal".

 

[monk3y]

I've got around 1200 songs. I'd say of those, around 200 are legal

 

[The Stigenator]

about 95% are legal. Most are ripped CD's. The ones that arent ripped either I have the tapes or I dont have it. The ones that arent on cd's or tapes are singles or rare stuff. I have about 2000+ tracks.

 

[Burnt]

No comment

 

[BlackSoul]

26 gig - My complete CD collection ripped and encoded
36 gig - What some would call my "without any morals and illegal" mp3s

 

[Kadarin]

I have about 25GB worth of mp3s, many of which are ripped cds of mine or my g/f's, many are "legally" downloaded from mp3.com. A large number have also been downloaded over a period of time from Scour, Napster, and gnutella.

I don't think it's been legally established that a user downloading a file from someone via a p2p network is illegal. The RIAA would have you believe that it is, but I don't believe this has been established in court.

-j

Another interesting question would be "How large is your pr0n collection?"

 

[PrincessGuard]

3,198 total
1,754 ripped from my CDs
~200 other "legal" MP3s

 

[limsandy]

about 3000 of them.......

[shameless] none of them is legal [/shameless]

 

[gopunk]

hmm.. few hundred. probably 2/3rds legal.

 

[aphex]

Another interesting question would be "How large is your pr0n collection?"

Haha... At one point i had over 7 gigs of pr0n.... Didnt know it was so big until i went in there and deleted it...

 

[VirusDub]

I've got around 2400 songs. A lot are legal, either ripped from CDs I own or copies of vinyls that I have.

 

[MeanMeosh]

<< LOL

Asking "to what extent" an MP3 collection is "legal" is akin to asking "to what extent" an ISO FTP is "legal". >>



wtf... i ripped almost all of my collection from my own CDs, ones that i own.... a bunch are from tape and vinyl, because those actually are hurt from playing them again and again.