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General => General Discussions => Topic started by: ma_t14 on January 04, 2012, 10:37:45 PM
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MusicBee often gets complements about how well it manages huge music collections. That made me wonder, how big a "big" real life music collection is and how well is one managed with MusicBee?
What is it like in terms of performance (delays, responsiveness etc) to have a huge library. Post about your experiences, positive or negative and maybe compare to other music players as well if you can.
So let me start, my library is is pretty small, just barely under 5k of mostly 320k mp3s with a few albums in flac as well. I didn't notice much of a difference regarding performance across the music players I tried (probably because of the size of my library). MusicBee is generally very snappy in its operation for me but I expect that to not hold true for much larger libraries.
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22,018 tracks
185.64gb
I think the performance is pretty good. Sometimes it can seem a bit sluggish (start up and changing views etc) but I can't really compare to anything else, it's been quite a while since I used anything else and, to be honest, I would put up with a much worse performance from MB before I changed to something else.
I don't have any significant problems with it at all, it does exactly what I need it to. Sorry, not much of a critique here but I really am happy with it.
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I don't think 5k is small, especially if you have taken the time to organize it well.
I have almost 9k at about 70BG and I consider it to be decent sized, especially considering all of the time spent tagging everything correctly and adding album art and ratings. I just finished upgrading my music with iTunes Match so almost everything is 256kbps and the few classic albums that I decided to keep in flac (Beatles, Thriller, etc.).
I take pride in my library and I think I have a good mix. I try to listen to everything at least once through and I avoid having full albums just to have a complete library. I will only download one or two songs from an album if the rest is garbage. This way, I only have music that I will listen to.
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6,900 tracks at a touch over 42 gb.
The vast majority of it is MP3s at 256 or 320k. There are some flac albums (mostly Beatles and Grateful Dead) and I'm slowly going through my CD collection and selecting some which I think will be better served (listened?) as flac.
I see no slowdowns or performance hits with MusicBee. I really have nothing to compare it with as I, like most of you, used a good number of players before discovering MB. But I didn't put much time or effort into ripping my collection up until MB appeared. It was just too much work. So I had tracks ripped that I wanted to listen to on my computer and I didn't care much about tagging them with anything other than the title. When I was in other rooms of the house, I listened to the CD. Now, with the addition of two Squeezebox devices, I'm incredibly happy that I have been using MB since April of 2009 as my collection was (mostly) properly tagged and ready to play on the Squeezes.
And to that I have to give a tip of the ol' phred hat to Steven. And to a good number of forum members who have offered suggestions, either directly by answering my questions, or by my reading what they were suggesting to someone else. Thank you all!!
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32,663 tracks and 261.3GB in my main library.
495 tracks and 5 GB in my upcoming (AKA haven't listened to yet, or not properly tagged and organized yet) library.
The vast majority of my tracks are either VBR or 320kbps. I know that before I switched to MB iTunes was going slower at 20,000 tracks than MB does at 32,000+ tracks.
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5000 tracks @ 40Gb
I don't like how MB freezes completely whilst bulk processing files or tags. With mediamonkey I could continue doing stuff in it, even though it was tagging hundreds of files. I think I remember Steven saying that this would be addressed in the future, when MB comes out of beta and is 'finished'.
Also, I made a decision to keep all of my artwork to 300x300 @ 25kb. To me it seemed that MB stuttered a little and took longer to display when artwork was significantly larger (Eg 800x800 @ 75kb).
Apart from that, no problems at all.
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Hi so far Musicbee has been very very good to me its fast and simple thats what i was looking for in a player ,and if i have problems you guys have my back (you know who you are). My collection is up to 16,279 tunes which is all .flac and is 457,32 GB in size only 150GB left on drive. Rock on
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43,000 songs (about 450 gig -+), and as quick as it was when it was just 10 tracks.
I gave up with Winamp because the lib took too long to navigate after it got aver 30,000. It would sometimes take nearly 3 seconds to swap artist or select a different view, and it got annoying after a while.
MusicBee otoh, performs lightning fast. always.
The only downside is trying to get my friends to swap to MusicBee as well, as i drummed Winamp into them for years.
(would love a better VU meter though ;) )
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I think the performance is pretty good. Sometimes it can seem a bit sluggish (start up and changing views etc) but I can't really compare to anything else, it's been quite a while since I used anything else and, to be honest, I would put up with a much worse performance from MB before I changed to something else.
is it still sliggish changing view with the latest beta version? I made a change a couple of weeks ago which should have improved that if you had the artist profile panel displayed. If its still the same, how many seconds are you talking about?
I don't like how MB freezes completely whilst bulk processing files or tags. With mediamonkey I could continue doing stuff in it, even though it was tagging hundreds of files. I think I remember Steven saying that this would be addressed in the future, when MB comes out of beta and is 'finished'.
Also, I made a decision to keep all of my artwork to 300x300 @ 25kb. To me it seemed that MB stuttered a little and took longer to display when artwork was significantly larger (Eg 800x800 @ 75kb).
i will look at bulk tag editing at some point
for the artwork size that was addressed several beta releases ago and should no longer slow things down
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Mine's only 52GB. It used to be 100's of GBs but I've lost some HDDs and haven't replaced it. I just add what I want to nowadays. I rip CDs to flac using EAC and convert to V0. Most of what I download is V0 and all the music destined for MB is V0 pretty much. I don't listen to lossless but merely use it for archival purposes ie if I have flac then I can convert it to whatever I or someone else needs. MB handles my humble collection perfectly
*EDIT*
763 artists
597 albums
7,315 songs
52.37 GB (~ 813 hours
(according to SubSonic)
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14500 tracks, 72 GB. Only VBR MP3s. No problems with MB performance.
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I can see many interesting posts. Keep them coming guys/gals :)
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I think the performance is pretty good. Sometimes it can seem a bit sluggish (start up and changing views etc) but I can't really compare to anything else, it's been quite a while since I used anything else and, to be honest, I would put up with a much worse performance from MB before I changed to something else.
is it still sliggish changing view with the latest beta version? I made a change a couple of weeks ago which should have improved that if you had the artist profile panel displayed. If its still the same, how many seconds are you talking about?
Now you mention it (just tested it now), it does seem a lot better now with the latest beta. It was never slow as such, probably only a couple of seconds.
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59.000+ .m4a/.mp3 and MB is stille very quick. :)
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43,000
It takes less than 2 seconds to load up or refresh the main library browser ;D
Back when I used MediaMonkey and had less files it took upwards of 15 seconds
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6350 tracks, 117 GB, mostly flac and a few 320k MP3... :)
MusicBee does a good job on library managment
but more important to me, it´s very stable with my HRT asynchronous usb dac (wasapi output)
;)
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56k songs @ 350 GB. Mostly VBR MP3. No Problems here.
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Good afternoon all
Very much a newbie here and an "eejit" too ... but only till I find the right place for my Question.
Library 11,019 tracks, (all mp3)
53.3 GB ... 29 days 8.54hrs ... according to MB.
Winamp was my first love and I will always have good memories of it. However, it has been replaced by MusicBee.
I find the just about everything in MB at least one step ahead of the others I have tried. I have created two converts for you who now feel the same way as I do.
Yep, little niggles ... the "freeze" when completing mass edits etc ... but such a small price to pay when you consider the stability, the quality of basic sound, which I either play through Bose computer speakers or Sennheiser USB headset.
Clearly the support is here in these forums ... and all I need to do is ask my question in a way other will see and understand my ignorance and treat me kindly.
EXCELLENT program thank you
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59000 tracks, 380Gb.
I´ve done my first MP3 files in 1997. Since then, my collection has grown and grown. From 32kbit mono to 320kb is everything in it. ;)
I was a happy Winamp user for a long time until the mobile device sync came up.
Winamp was (and is still) not able to do a sync of multi disc albums with identical track names, without mixing them up. That was the point where I decided to use MB.
And a few months ago, when the tab thing came up, I was the happiest MB user in the world.
MusicBee does everything I can imagine for managing a huge digital audio collection.
Thanks Steven!
;D
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5055 music tracks, all FLAC. Another 330 podcast files in MP3. I have MusicBee set to auto-convert the FLAC files to AAC whenever I sync up to my iPod, and the podcast files go on there in the format they were downloaded in. Sadly, they don't stay in sequential order but having just tried MediaMonkey and having had it crash *every* single time I tried to sync to my iPod, I decided MusicBee was worth its weight in gold, sequential order or not! ;D
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51256 tracks, 322.3 GB. even using XP, Musicbee hums. <10 seconds to open up and be playable.
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Just short of 12,000 tracks, all nicely tagged and with cover art.
750 albums at 320kbps, 50 albums .flac
TC :)
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28900 tracks, 2324 albuns, 276,3 GB (mp3,ape,flac,wavpack). MB 1.4.4383 works fast and fine. ;D
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411 songs downloading 10 songs a day (flac or mp3 320 only) 4,8 GB now.
1d 11 hours
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400K+, 4TB, 41K CDs, all MP3<320, all cover
No problems, thanks for the program. Tried them all, I think, MusicBee the only one which can swallow the lot.
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I have 130,000 files, about 950GB. Most of it V0 mp3, some flac. I haven't loaded everything into MB yet. Just trying out the program right now. Currently using MediaMonkey which handles that very well, so hoping MB will do the same.
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I have 3 libraries: MP3, FLAC, and 24Bit Lossless.
MP3: 21,672 146.3 GB
FLAC: 3983 101 GB
24Bit: 178 17.6 GB
Still expanding!
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84601 tracks;
1501 bands;
8085 albums;
620,9 GB.
All mp3's. From Hard Rock and AOR to Brutal Death and Black Metal. Updating and expanding.
Was using iTunes, but such large collection was very slooooooow in that piece of Apple crap. Mediamonkey disappointed too (it ever failed to import my iTunes database with track ratings). And then I found MB... And what I have to say... THERE IS NO IMPOSSIBLE TASK FOR MUSICBEE. Speed, customization, responsiveness! I love it!
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82,000 tracks in just over 1TB. 6 seconds to load up initially, 1-2 seconds switching views like playlists etc.
Hard to know whether this is due to the size of my library or the speed of my computer 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 2TB Seagate SATA HD.
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82,000 tracks in just over 1TB. 6 seconds to load up initially, 1-2 seconds switching views like playlists etc.
Hard to know whether this is due to the size of my library or the speed of my computer 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 2TB Seagate SATA HD.
What about your experience with other software? :)
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425,000 files with over 6TB of space (if MB counts them correctly!) Actually been doin a re-scan at the moment because i have 4 TB drives but MB says 6TBs.
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~350.000 files, ~27.500 CDs, ~2.2 TB
MB still works like a charm.
best player around .. by far!
used mediamonkey before .. was ok until they came out with V4. now it dropped dead.
@Steven: fantastic job you are doing with MB! Thanks a million!!!!!!!
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426 files, 7,8 GB still going better. Average file size 18mb. Only Dubstep..... have AIFF, FLAC, MP3 (320)
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373 Albums
~57GB
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it still surprises me how big some people's music collection is!
for me, its 3203 files, 6.28GB
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it still surprises me how big some people's music collection is!
for me, its 3203 files, 6.28GB
haha me too :) interested in other folks quality? i had 128 kbps a year ago.. maybe 2000 files?
Deleted all of it and started building again. Only have very high quality mp3 aiff and flac files (some wav too)
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V0 for me usually. Occasionally if only an iTunes release is available then it'll be 256Kbps or there abouts. Sometimes only 320Kbps is about of a certain release in which case I just get that. But yeah basically whatever I can get if I can't get V0. If I rip my own CDs it'll always be V0 for my library converted from FLAC that is kept for archival reasons.
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My library does have 51.148 tracks with a total of 14583,3 GB and a duration of 158 days, 7 hours, 9 minutes.
Everyting is in the FLAC format. There are some 24 bit-96 kHz files albums.
MusicBee does have, despite the big library, a very good performance. It does cost about 5 seconds to start up MusicBee and to show the library.
Many artwork has a size of 800x800 or 1000x1000 pixels or even higher but MusicBee doesn't have problems with it.
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37,928 tracks
111d 0:19
232.84 GB
Top Release Year: 2007 - 3,054
Seriously...love the library statistics! Love MB! Performance is very good for my library. I like the features and visibility into the library, and the constant updates are cool.
I would agree with an earlier comment about bulk tagging being a little slow, but overall the product is great. There is a lot of stuff in here I haven't even looked at yet. Love the features for updating song lyrics
I was a long-time MusicMatch an.d then MediaMonkey user. I think MediaMonkey screwed some things up with version 4. They may get their act together, but I like the vibe on the MB site.
Oh, also... my library is on NAS and MB seems to have a time monitoring the folders for changes. I have to rescan the library, or restart to pick up changes. Not a huge deal, but it takes several minutes to scan the entire library. I've tried limiting the scan to only look at a single folder that I know has changes, but it doesn't seem to affect the time. Maybe something there?
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Music Library = 175GB
used to use itunes to organize and winamp to DJ from , and I really like MB so far for doing both in one! =)
Is there a future in having MB on a Mac?
Always been a PC, but the dark side of macair is lookin sexy... but MB not being on a Mac is a big deciding factor right now (if this topic is elsewhere please let me know, thank you!
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Is there a future in having MB on a Mac?
its been discussed quite a few times around linux and the answer is no plans to do that. Of course with Macs you can run windows software quite easily i believe if you install some virtualisation software
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Speaking of large files...
Mr Silas Arentsen (Silasje1), could you please consider using a smaller signature image?
Your cute puddy tat appears to come in at a shade under 10MB, which won't be doing the forum host's bandwidth any favours. :-\
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About 71000 tracks and counting. Mostly German rap.
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Speaking of large files...
Mr Silas Arentsen (Silasje1), could you please consider using a smaller signature image?
Your cute puddy tat appears to come in at a shade under 10MB, which won't be doing the forum host's bandwidth any favours. :-\
First thing:
Yep can make it smaller ;)
Second:
it is hosted at dropbox or photobucket, not here ;)
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Is there a future in having MB on a Mac?
its been discussed quite a few times around linux and the answer is no plans to do that. Of course with Macs you can run windows software quite easily i believe if you install some virtualisation software
If musicbee was made in Pyhton language it can be ported to all platforms (linux, linux based OS, mac etc. )
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13,000 files and 91GB. I spent most of last year AutoDJ'ing just the unrated tracks so that I could rate and correct the categories (I use a lot of custom ones). It was a momentous task when i completed that last month. i am now enjoying my best tracks, but do need to delete a whole host of rubbish tracks which are sat there un-listened to. MB is defo the best. i have tried others in the past but this does everything that i could ever want and it very very rarely crashes.
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88k of tracks, ca. 700GB, 265 days and 7h of constant listening
The collection is quite old (some of the mp3s I have for longer than 10 years), so the quality differs (usually older ones are of lower quality).
As for the genres - I have it all:)
MB Library works fast enough.
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I have a pretty modest library. 4,916 tracks, 15d 3h, 33.6 GB. Sadly, I lost all my "date added" tags when I switched over from iTunes several years ago; it would have been fun to chart the growth of my library over time.
MusicBee can be a tiny bit sluggish at managing everything, but I think that's really my fault for keeping 320 kbps MP3s that I could probably downsize without losing any enjoyment, not to mention the massive album art (2000px+, in some cases) that I've embedded in every file. I'm just very paranoid about data integrity, especially after Windows Media Player - which I don't even use - saw fit to destroy half my collection of "folder.jpg" covers.
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Currently 577 Albums @ 85.7GB
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Just joined - been using MB for a few months now, and it really is the best music software I've used - and I've tried a few! Current library 8467 tracks, 62.9GB, 31d 19:44. Mix of high quality mp3, wma and ogg. I also have 1500-odd MIDI backing tracks that I keep for practice. That's the only nuisance - I have to open them with XMPlay or Notation Player. The latter would be great if the notation were accurate, but it isn't ;)
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Musicbee is still fast , i am now up to 1461 albums, 19197 tracks, for a total of 536,36 GB all in FLAC and drive is almost full.
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37015 Files
560.3 GB
121d 9:36 Time
2846 Albums
98% are 320kbps CBR or FLAC
2% are those songs I cant seem to even find in high quality =.=
Need to catch 'em all...
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1222 tracks and 16,4 GB with a total of 4 days and 4 hours of nonstop listening :)
I seem to have a small library compared with others :P btw just MP3 320 or flac/wav/aiff
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64,235 files (all MP3),
445,1 GBytes,
5,161 albums by 2,296 artists.
MusicBee still runs fine. Which is even more impressive when you consider that all files and even MusicBee (Portable) itself are stored on a NAS.
It takes some time to load and quit, but the performance itself when running is fine!
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Currently I have in excess of half a million tracks, just over 525,000 which are spanned across two 3tb external hard drives and backed up to a server just in case. I still have 35,000 more tracks to edit and tag which equals another 300gb. That should bring the total to about 560,000. I still have more CD's to go through and rip as well. Now you may be asking why anyone would need or want enough music that would take more than 3 years to play continuously. This collection has taken me over 40 years to compile (I'm 62 now). I've also been a volunteer DJ at a community radio station for over 4 years. I just grab my laptop and two hard drives and away I go. I spend an hour each show profiling a specific artist doing a complete bio and featuring about a dozen or more tracks from each artist. And if a listener calls in with a request there's a damned good chance I'll have that track. And I listen to almost everything from A-Z (Acappella to Zydeco). The only genres I'm not keen about are opera and rap. But I love techno and trance!
I previously used Winamp but it started giving me problems trying to update the database when I reached about 450,000 tracks. I then discovered MusicBee and it is super fast! It does take almost 60 seconds to load at start and about 10 seconds to re-sort on a column but searches are instantaneous. Thanks to Steven for a fantastic program.
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10 albums.
But those albums, I'll take to my grave....
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10 albums.
But those albums, I'll take to my grave....
List? ;D
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lol, ok you got me. ;D
I actually have ... hm, a few clicks and presto-chango, a complete report:
(http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc510/Fungud/yeahUh_zps76920d20.png) (http://s1215.photobucket.com/user/Fungud/media/yeahUh_zps76920d20.png.html)
Looks like I have a loooooota tagging to do.
(http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc510/Fungud/4b366797-4a51-41ad-8d93-0bffd55a19ef_zps0c604fea.jpg) (http://s1215.photobucket.com/user/Fungud/media/4b366797-4a51-41ad-8d93-0bffd55a19ef_zps0c604fea.jpg.html)
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(http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc510/Fungud/yeahUh_zps76920d20.png) (http://s1215.photobucket.com/user/Fungud/media/yeahUh_zps76920d20.png.html)
Blasphemy :o
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practicaliity. :-*
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41.380 files
267.3 GB
9193 artists
6737 albums
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We still doing this? 8) :)
2.000 Albums
24.000 vbr tracks
No slowdowns in any laptop or computer
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32,026 files
808.8 GB
And I have 730 GB worth of stuff I still need to go through and tag before adding to my music server. :-\
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2.788.4 TB. 287, 447 tracks. 865 d. Meticulously tagged and album art. I choose to stay with ver. 2.1.4924.
It took YEARS to rip my entire CD collection, though I still buy 10-20 CDs a week.
MusicBee works great. I was just coming to donate, when I found this thread. For a long time I could not afford to do so, but always kept it in my mind that I must do so when I was able as MusicBee basically saved my life. Music IS my life and MusicBee is a daily companion that makes my life SO much better. I could not enjoy my collection nearly as much without this amazing piece of software.
As far as performance with a large collection, the only thing I've noticed is issues with is search. This is simply due to the search attempting to predict what you are typing to provide faster results. With a large database, this slows performance. For a long time, I simply typed into notepad and then cut&pasted my complete query into search to prevent the predictive search. One day, it occurred to me to type a string with no results (zxc)...a space, and then my query. Then I delete 'zxc'. Voila...no predictive results.
Anyway, Thanks again for creating software that is such an integral part of my life.
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175,652 tracks
1.8TB
16,401 artists
10,840 albums
MB is by far the fastest music manager on Windows that I've tried for my collection (Foobar2k, Mediamonkey (my former staple), iTunes). I'm glad I discovered it earlier this year.
* Foobar2k (with a skin from deviantart) was pretty non-performant
* Mediamonkey was my mainstay for years before it started to slow down a bit and had a nasty habit of erasing 8,000+ tracks on my phone upon syncing.
* iTunes slowed to a crawl years ago when my collection was ~300GB
* Special mentions to Amarok 1.4.10+mysql and cantata+mpd on linux. Both are by far the fastest music managers I ever tried. However, Amarok's interface was a little simple and it required running a mysql server alongside it. Cantata+mpd doesn't store every field in its db enabling it to maintain top speed at the cost of limited query lookups.
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(http://i66.tinypic.com/t6xv5s.jpg)
MusicBee is simply the best.
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25587 tracks
4556 artists
4696 albums
540GB
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59,000 songs, work fast !!
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86.617 files , 650.7 Gb 239.5 days.
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MusicBee often gets complements about how well it manages huge music collections. That made me wonder, how big a "big" real life music collection is and how well is one managed with MusicBee?
What is it like in terms of performance (delays, responsiveness etc) to have a huge library. Post about your experiences, positive or negative and maybe compare to other music players as well if you can.
So let me start, my library is is pretty small, just barely under 5k of mostly 320k mp3s with a few albums in flac as well. I didn't notice much of a difference regarding performance across the music players I tried (probably because of the size of my library). MusicBee is generally very snappy in its operation for me but I expect that to not hold true for much larger libraries.
Just broken the 14000 mark, mostly FLAC, although I still have some mp3 and wmv that I can;t find the originals for. Currently just over 300gigs of space. I still have a few thousand albums to record though and a few thousand singles as well, i'm probably not even 10% of the total it will be when finished. I store everything except the musicbee laylist on an external drive.
Despite having an old cheap laptop that desperately needs replacing, I get no lag except when only just having turned it on. The difference since switching to MusicBee from WMP is phenominal.
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35 000 songs!
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I am at 46,747 mp3s, which comes out to 241GB. I regularly go through and try to delete things id on't listen to but as you can see that hasn't really worked out. Haha.
I just switched from Winamp, and so far I am loving it.
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Main collection: 62 G (mp3, 320kbps)
Classical collection: 70 G (mp3, 320kbps)
Now and then I prune music I don't play to an Archive folder.
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After 5 years of MusicBee my library is now at 86020 Tracks.
No slowdowns.
Coming from Winamp, which was fine, but isnt developed anymore, MB is the perfect piece of software for my needs.
Especially the filter functionality is by far the best what i´ve seen.
Thanks Steven! Keep up the good work.
:)
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Sorted - 34 872 (1.2 Tb - mostly flac's) and more than 3 TB unsorted :)
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I've recently updated MusicBee after using an old version for a little over a year and I think I'm in love. It was great before but this current version does everything exactly the way I want it to. My library is 86 gb and 12000 tracks. It handled them seamlessly and makes everything so easy
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I thought my 33k mp3 list is a lot until I read this thread! ::)
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68000 audio files, 803GB. Most of them are recorded EP's or CD albums. A lot of own rips and edits. I've been a long time iTunes user but in aint that light and user friendly as MB!
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54.328 tracks
462 gb
475 artists
4633 albums
40 yrs of collecting, works like a charm. and according to other posts here i can go on for years without any problems.
great great program. like it was made for me.
Thanks alot.
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OK, I'll bite.
25,250 files FLAC 693 GB
25,250 files MP3 273 GB
My old standby mediamonkey is only used when I'm managing downloads and rips.
For playing and searching, MB is the ticket.
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109.614 tracks (most oldies, specific Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bootlegs, 60ties and 70ties)
1,36 TB
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33k tracks 320 gig
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65,545 tracks and I'm running out of space. :-X
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81,746 tracks
852 GB
Using MusicBee since at least 2013
And I'm pretty much at the point of having to remove a track for every one that I add.
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Long time Mediamonkey user (Lifetime License) switched to Musicbee for the first Time in 2009 but was not satisfied. At the beginning of this year (2017) tried Musicbee again and have been blown away by its performance and usability.
Titles: 154247
Time: 459d 12:59
Size: 1.25 TB
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11,500 tracks (895 albums)
73.17 GB
I'm in awe of some people's libraries, 50k tracks and more. How do you even find so much music that you like?
Meanwhile I probably don't even listen to 50% of my library regularly :D
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Just got a bigger NAS so I figured it'd be a great time to start a clean MB library
5686 albums. 1790.5 GB.
Pretty much looking at the entire day to migrate them across
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7390 albums
88.957 tracks (all mp3, mostly 256-320 kbps, some 192k)
5683 artists
613 GB
Time: 233 days 14:10
All music files are with correct tags, album cover art etc.
Musicbee memory usage 90-100MB.
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Since this is a thing:
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The reason why I have musicbee. Now at the moment it can really only deal with a few thousand edits at a time or it crashes and cannot save everything. I have a ton of duplicates and the like from decades of storing and backing up my music, and I wanted to go through it all and organize it, and nothing else has been able to handle the vast size. Oh and tons of misnamed files because most of those pay things that rename files are good for 80%, and then they end up wrecking anything that is live or bootlegged or not directly from an album, so there is a lot of that I get to go through and figure out. At one point it was over half a million, I think when I started it was around 550,000 files or so.
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Just a quick update to my library which is approaching 1,000,000 files now. MusicBee is still not having a problem with such a huge library. Currently being stored on 2 external 4tb 2.5" drives.
Tracks = 930,077/Length = 2092d 5:48/File Size - 6298.06 gb
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54,985 songs (all flac, most hi res 900-11,200 bit rate)
2,761.3 GB
165 days, 14 hours, 9 minutes
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149 GB
30d23h26m
12283 Songs in many different formats...
While 47GB Anime songs included ;D
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913,837 Tracks
50,305 Albums
2410 Days
62,295 Artists
6962.36GB
Thats a lifetime collection, from a working DJ
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@Smudger - I couldn't find a bowing emoji :-) Good thing they're not on vinyl anymore :-)
23,524 tracks
104.4 GB
56 days 6 hours
5,175 artists
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378 Albums *
1497 Tracks **
76.1GB
10ds, 9hrs, 41mins
* Once I decided to move on from iTunes and mp3's I spent a couple of months going through my CD collection and re-ripping everything to FLAC. What I have in my library now is a little less than half my total collection... the rest of it I just can't listen to any more! LOL!
** 1 track for me could be "Pretty Vacant" by the Sex Pistols, or the complete "Dark Side of the Moon" edited into a single track; I've been ripping my CD's since before the days of gapless playback and Track/Album leveling! :)
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I have 56.298 Titel, 8931 Albums, 557,2 GB
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After tagging and removing the duplicates with Songkong Pro and Musicbee , I have 57.704 tracks (188 Gb, 131 d 2:57)
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Man, I have a lot more to cover for. I guess it's time to make my own music bucket list.
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I have
Tracks 33,000+
Length 90d 3:41
Size 250.88GB
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(https://i.postimg.cc/wTymFL1V/bee_3.png)
I only do FLAC releases, can't stand not having the full albums either.
No problem loading, instant play, no delays nor random pauses like itunes did.
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- 44,114 Files
- 491.7 Gigs. (All my classical music - 11,744 Files, 238.5 Gig - is in lossless(ALAC))
All non classical is either uploaded from a CD or downloaded in AAC.
I hate mp3. The sound sucks.
V
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My main library is 3,808 files, 52.5 GB. There are a lot of songs and soundtracks, and roughly 24.5GB is flac (833 files).
I switched from iTunes to MusicBee at the start of 2017, but back then I had no flacs, and maybe half or a third the number of files. MusicBee was by far superior in speed (starting up, running, processing/tagging). It's always had the tiniest bit of unpredictability in whether it starts on command (might take a couple clicks of the icon before it chooses to display the start-up).
I have it sitting in the background 99% of the time in Compact Player view, having assigned CTRL+SHIFT+M to switching between compact and main view, because I do this frequently.
However, since I have recently been steadily adding to my library from what was once 10GB to >50Gb, I have noticed that when I switch from compact into main view, it has taken longer to properly display (windows stays white for a couple seconds while it prepares itself.
I am also not sure if this is the doing of my larger library or the major update that I installed (from mid-2017 to August 2018 I did not update).
Also, recently it has been crashing more frequently, usually if I'm editing a large number of tags or converting a large number of files.
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Tracks: 195649
Albums: 15014
Length: 599d 0:12
Size 3975 GB (NAS storage)
Works quick!
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408,669 tracks
3514.6 GiB
1229d 12h 29m
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Damn, I get surprised looks and even got called a "hoarder" when I mention my MB library size but it seems I'm just a rookie. I actively try to contain the size of my music collection though, because I am running out of space and I don't like the prospect of keeping my music in an External HDD and connect it to my laptop.
43,160 files
344.1GB - Don't mind V0 for most of my music
128.9 days
Great to know that MB scales for a library of almost 1,000,000 tracks!
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84,886 @603.1 GB. Metal is forever!!!!!!!!
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860 GB and counting....... Have been using MB for just over a week now. No problems so far!
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Man, I feel like a lightweight compared to the rest of you guys. Mine's only 54GB. haha
Sounds like you prefer quality over quantity. Very respectable.
Coogan
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Talking about lightweight?
i have like 1800 songs, but i love every single one of them! i really wonder how many songs they actually listen to (those guys with 10k+)
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Talking about lightweight?
i have like 1800 songs, but i love every single one of them! i really wonder how many songs they actually listen to (those guys with 10k+)
I have personally listened to every one of my 10k-ish library tracks at least once before adding them to the library, and then they go into rotation on playlists based on number of plays, so theoretically they should all come up again given enough time (still fine-tuning this system, but it's getting there). But i hear you, i wonder about it when people have literally years worth of music. :D
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My actual (non-classical) library is ~39,000 tracks, mostly full albums, all of which I've heard at some point during the 20 years I've been collecting them. My "listening library" is a static playlist of the songs I like and want to hear from my library - right now that's at about ~17,000 tracks. From there, like psychoadept, I have a few auto-playlists set up. Mine are based on date added and date last played.
Basically songs can be in the rotation for unlimited plays for the first 6 months after they're added. After 6 months, they're not played within 6 months of their most recent play unless they're tagged Evergreen=Yes. Evergreen songs can always come up in rotation even if I heard them yesterday. They're a handful of favorites.
So I have my static playlist "listening library" and the main "rotation" auto-playlist from that, and then from that rotation playlist comes several auto-playlists for specific situations. One to synch to my phone that is limited to the size of my SD card. One that strips out everything marked as "explicit" which is for listening in the house when my kid is around. One that is only tracks that haven't been heard since their initial 6 month "trial" for when I want some stuff I'm really not all that familiar with but I know I like. The "rotation" playlist and its offshoots are what I actually listen to on a daily basis.
I finally bit the bullet and set up last.fm play data synching so that plays on my phone will remove those songs from rotation when I'm listening at home. That was something I resisted for a long time, but I'm glad I finally took the plunge. I lost a lot of the play count I had been building up since I started tracking that in 2009 (I only started with last.fm in 2017 when I started with MB), but I decided raw play count was more interesting than it was useful for my purposes, while having an accurate all-inclusive last played date would be more useful for my needs.
My goal is to have surprises mixed in with the well-loved and familiar like a personal radio station that only plays songs I already know I like. MB has made that possible.
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My music files that accumulated through the years.
66,468 files
418.18 GB
185 days
Music Bee is managing them well. ;)
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750 gigs of various quality.
I never really used something like music bee before. I used iTunes to jam stuff onto my iPod (that I hated) I just knew the stuff I liked and would copy stuff onto my MP3 player to listen to.
After using music bee my neurotic organizational side came out. I painstakingly retagged my entire collection through MB with the proper artists and artwork.
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35,746 files
132.8 GB
61 days 14 hours 54 minutes
Average file size: 3989059 bytes (3.804 MB)
Average song length: 2 minutes 48.94086051586191461981760196945 seconds.
Longest song: PC III - In the Garden (3:01:33)
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3654 Albums - 1279 GB
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I'm up to 35,160 now, 808GB, 89days 19hours and 39 minutes according to MB.
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Revamped my collection
370 GB
19,000+ songs in flac
Loads in 1 second... and I'm using the "Album Covers" main library view.
Still discovering all the ways to operate MusicBee, so currently not everything is in the library.
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131,347 songs with no dups, mostly FLAC and high bit MP3.
(2.23 TB)
Stored on 12TB QNAP NAS for easy streaming at home or anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
Managed with MusicBee.
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105,846 files as of today, or 782Gb.
This is the result of 15 years' work.
x
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my library is almost 80gb 8)
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92,864 files and I've still got a ton of CDs to rip! I've got to tell you, this is the best music player ever! So many different ways to sort and organize! Loving it!
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Currently sitting at 120,427 file and just under 3tb as 90% of the files are in flac... no signs of musicbee slowing down :)
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6443 albums, 2470.8 GB, 338 days 14:59 and all as FLAC, 98% classical
Works well in MusicBee although I'm currently getting white noise when trying to burn a CD.
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I have around 7 000 tracks which is about 43 gb. Love to listen to it when I am on vacation in real estate in Como, Italy here (https://tranio.com/italy/lombardy/lake_como/), I just enjoy driving around this area in the car and listening to my collection.
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Using MusicBee for about 6 years now, and it is the best library program I have. Starts fast and works well with my NAS.
My library has at the moment 117000 tracks (about 9000 albums) in flac. About 2397 GB. And I still have about the same number of albums to go.....
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Library Statistics says
Tracks 121,798 tracks
Albums 11,082 albums
File Size 1766.09 GB (win7 reports 1.85 TB)
All well tagged (via Discogs) and with large album graphics (in separate files). Roughly 50% flac.
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I'm up to 35,160 now, 808GB, 89days 19hours and 39 minutes according to MB.
39,288, 826GB 98 days 9 hours and 53 minutes now...
...and I've just bought a new load of vinyl that needs ripping.
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In the library statistics window the number of albums displayed is 17.083, number of songs is 225.156. But in the main window the number of albums is 15.736 and the number of songs is 225.156.
Where does this difference come from?
For the rest MB is great for organizing the music collection.
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16,036 tracks
216 GB
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UPDATE
31,979 of the highest CBR mp3s I can get my hands on.
Why only MP3?
Fight me.
That's why.
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(https://i.imgur.com/hxspf7s.jpg)
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4,673 tracks, 502 albums, 14d 2 hours, 79GB.
A decent collection but nothing crazy. It's only music I like since I only have the one HDD. I could do with downgrading some FLAC files to MP3 320 though.
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one HDD? hope you have backup bro!
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I can't imagine how you clean those 100ish songs.
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44.970 now.
882.39 GB
113d 14h 30m
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(https://i.imgur.com/Td3GVN0.jpg)
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Downloaded last week (late April)
Played with it for a week, Reinstalled today.
No issues, infact I'm very impressed so far. It's easy to use and quite intuative.
I'm still loading up MusicBee.
So far:- Depeche Mode _ Premium Singles - 6 Albums Singles Box Set (DMBX1) - 8.4GB 476 files in six folders
Music (General) _ 103,013 Files, 10,445 Folders -1TB - Primarily Flac
Selected Albums for my wife - 15,451 Files, 1,706 Folders - 300GB all Flac
Selected Albums for my streaming - 19,596 Files, 2,046 Folders - 130GB - MP3 -mostly in itunes as its the only way we stream to
Bose 500 and our iphones atm.:(
Inbox - Classic Music _ 7,644 Files, 404 Folders -54GB - All Flac.
Stats so far
(https://puu.sh/FGGWo/16f732fb5a.png)
https://www.last.fm/user/userpaul/library
Donated today
Paul
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Anyone reach 100k?
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Anyone reach 100k?
Scroll up and see :)
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So far as I'm still going through everything I have: 16,696 songs, 71.6GB , 47.2 days
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This is what I have now :-)
(https://i.imgur.com/qEPhIMR.jpg)
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93.000 approximately Most ALAC & FLAC & a little 320kbps MP3, 5.5 TB. :)
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7817 files FLAC/MP3/M4A at 156gig total
Looking foward to the day that I reach the big 10 000. 8)
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I have 3 backups, one can never have too many backups.
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Downloaded last week (late April)
Played with it for a week, Reinstalled today.
No issues, infact I'm very impressed so far. It's easy to use and quite intuative.
I'm still loading up MusicBee.
So far:- Depeche Mode _ Premium Singles - 6 Albums Singles Box Set (DMBX1) - 8.4GB 476 files in six folders
Music (General) _ 103,013 Files, 10,445 Folders -1TB - Primarily Flac
Selected Albums for my wife - 15,451 Files, 1,706 Folders - 300GB all Flac
Selected Albums for my streaming - 19,596 Files, 2,046 Folders - 130GB - MP3 -mostly in itunes as its the only way we stream to
Bose 500 and our iphones atm.:(
Inbox - Classic Music _ 7,644 Files, 404 Folders -54GB - All Flac.
Stats so far
(https://puu.sh/FGGWo/16f732fb5a.png)
https://www.last.fm/user/userpaul/library
Donated today
Paul
Wow 100k, I rarely see someone reached 100k!
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Can adm do something like:
User - Songs - Size
example:
crnirg - 112,425 - 1,258 GB
and to be at the beginning of the topic?
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Seems like the thread has been running fine as-is for almost 9 years now.
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Thank you for asking ;)
Current collection, regularly expanded and occasionally culled:
802 albums, including 27 by Various Artists
690 artists + the "various artists"
110 GBs (118,565,819,398 bytes) -both counts per Windows Explorer
Stored on the 2TB hard disk in my NUC, rather than its 256 SSD. It runs very satisfactorily and reliably, under Windows 7, using MusicBee 95% of the time. About 95% consists of ripped CDs, with 95% in WMA lossless, FLAC, or 320 MP3. I also use MB on a Win 10-updated Surface Pro 2 that has all the same music, frequently-updated, stored on an SD card. The SP2 music is played 95% through Bluetooth to my 2-channel stereo, also very satisfactorily and reliably. Spend many pleasant, relaxing hours listening to great artistry, enhanced maybe 50% of the time by the visuals and bios on MusicBee's Now Playing screen. Thank you MB developers. Enjoy the music!
NB: I also regularly BACK UP my NUC-stored music on an external 5TB drive, and redundantly on a 2TB one.
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Music is my life. Long time lurker, but used MusicBee the last couple of years. Before that I used Helium.
Anyway, here's my current stats:
728564 tracks
43563 albums
1626 days
5.1 GB
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92,864 files and I've still got a ton of CDs to rip! I've got to tell you, this is the best music player ever! So many different ways to sort and organize! Loving it!
Wow, I've added a lot of music since then. Currently sitting at 124,413 files and STILL not finished ripping CDs.
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Wow, I've added a lot of music since then. Currently sitting at 124,413 files and STILL not finished ripping CDs.
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??? wwwoooowww.... that's a lot of files to rip thou.
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Well how's this for MB can't handle this and that.
A while back I had a couple of hundred thou songs on a Dell XPS8920. Was slow and clunky, but after I-Tunes Music Bee was paradise. Was running about 16GB RAM.
I now have a Dell XPS 8940 with 128GB RAM and a Music Bee library of 1,017,303 tracks - 14963.2 GB - 2834.1 Days.
Music Bee now runs like a rocket, (or plane, fast car whatever). In fact it is faster than ever before. I can now scroll quite fast and all the thumbs are there all the time.
In fact anything loads as fast as!!!
So maybe Steven is just a bit ahead of his time and it is us catching up with him - not the other way around.
Thanks Steven a wonderful player, wouldn't swap it for quid's.
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Musicbee has been very good to me its fast and simple thats what i was looking for in a player ,and if i have problems you guys have my back (you know who you are). My collection is up to 16,279 tunes which is all .flac and is 457,32 GB in size only 150GB left on drive. Rock on
I have been using it for almost a year now and its still going strong, I love the fact that it syncs with Spotify so I can listen to music from both services at the same time on my phone or home stereo. The interface is easy to use even with large libraries and there are many different ways to organize songs and albums across multiple devices. It's also great for sharing music between friends & family members, as well as managing playlists for parties or other gatherings. I think it will work for you.
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I'm at 259,000 tracks at the moment. When clicking sort by title/artist or album, MusicBee is quite fast at putting the tracks in order.
That's pretty impressive handeling that many tracks so fast.
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Almost 15 years ago, I had a collection of 100-150 DVDs full of music. I still don't know what I planned to do with it. :)
Thank God for the internet and cloud.
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FWIW: while I'm regularly adding, these days when I get to ~10K, I start culling. I'm at 9424 today. I've refocused more on refining and listening, than collecting/adding,, and as part of that, I have been tracking down and re-ripping a lot of music into FLAC this year. Best listening to those months and years of files!
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Joined today - been using Music Bee for a number of years - find it to be loads better than the fruit product which was far too laggy and memory intensive on my machine. Play my music wirelessly from a NAS where I've ripped all my CDs to 320kbps mp3 files. Collection currently stands at 48,237 files @ 438.1gb
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I've been collecting music for a long time.
Everything in FLAC, I only rip my own CD's.
4267 CD's (disks)
3498 Albums
1022 Artists
52081 Tracks
1330 Gb
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Here is someone claiming 2.94 million tracks. :o
https://www.reddit.com/r/musicbee/comments/114l7q3/large_library_here_is_what_works_for_me/
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In the meantime added a lot of albums.
18285 albums of 6860 Album Artists
264456 tracks on 6 Tb of diskspace
Mostly FLAC files
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I just recently started to use MB, after what seems a lifetime in the iTunes world (the whole family has been iPhone users). But I can clearly see now that a better solution was out there.
I am currently at 25425 tracks, on 2067 albums, with 768 album artists. Disk space is just under 583GB. Most ripped from my CD library in ALAC (again, needed due to iOS influence), with some lingering mp3's from more than a decade ago.
The bigger challenge has been converting my vinyl collection to digital. So far I am at 167 albums. The transfers are in real time, plus the work to separate the tracks and clean them up before tagging. On a good weekend I can get through 5 or 6 albums. For now I am using 24bit/96kHz sample depth and rates for these, since disk space isn't as much a concern as it was back in the early days!
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Just short of 217,000 files/songs. Works like a dream.
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not so much but i am adding
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Around 5500 curated tracks (55GB), no albums, EP's or compilations. This is done over 16 years which comes to around one track per day (after deleting).
I keep it as small as possible by regularly deleting tracks which are not great, when in doubt I try to remember that the music should convince me not the other way around. It's not only about having great tracks but keeping focus on them by weeding out the mediocre ones. It's easy to get attached to music files however ask yourself if you are actually making a collection which reflects of your taste or just hoarding files. My tracks are categorized into subgenre folders, then tagged for energy level and mood.
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hi,
My MusicBee stats list:
11,521 tracks
906 albums
947.03GB
This does not include my multi-channel hi-res albums as they are not in my MusicBee Library as they take up unnecessary space on my laptop (2x 2TiB M.2 SSDs).
I have been using MusicBee for years but of late I have noticed issues with some of the source files getting corrupted. Most of the size of my music is taken up by hi-res digital files up to DSD256 & PCM 24bit 384kHz resolution (CD's are 16bit 44.1kHz) including multi-channel digital tracks so some of the longer stereo (6 - 7mins) songs are over 1.5GiB each in size. Some multi-channel songs are over twice that size or more each & my DSD512 songs are large.
What I have noticed when sync'n files to devices such as DAP (digital audio player), phones, USB sticks etc. that from the source music library some files either zero out or corrupted (small file sizes of a few kb) & are no longer playable and will not sync to the device.
Fortunately, I have a full backups on 2x 2TiB SSD drives that have my files for playback via a Lumin T2 (when not using Roon to output to) Network Player or the Reavon UBR-X200 universal disc player for the multi-channel digital music. SO i can copy them back.
Has anyone else with large wav, flac or dsf file sizes or a large library have this issue? I believe it is a MusicBee issue but have not switched to any other hi-res player to determine if the issue goes away or not.
Not sure if it is a bug or something else. Some of the sites I purchase this music from (HDTracks) do not allow full access to all of my purchased files via downloads, so if I accidentally overwrite any files on the SSD with a corrupted source file I will have to buy the album again or have another SSD or storage purely for backup.
Cheers
Me.
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My library:
12366 Album
189679 Tracks
15220.8 GB
:) :) :)
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(https://imageshack.com/i/pmJnporhj)
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Has anyone else with large wav, flac or dsf file sizes or a large library have this issue? I believe it is a MusicBee issue but have not switched to any other hi-res player to determine if the issue goes away or not.
I do, and the current issue seems to be the sleep timeout between the HDD and the SSD's read. In my case at least, with MB on the SSD, and the library on the HDD, there's a few seconds gap when the playing song suddenly wakes up the disk. May not be at all germane to you, but...there you have it.
Also, I came here to say this: there is no better music library-player for Windows than MusicBee. I have 3 libraries, one for samples, one for audiobooks, and one for music, and the ability to switch between them is a gamechanger. The only changes I'd make to MB are to documentation and the ability to script or build plugins a la Applescript for iTunes. Even without those 2 things, MB is better than anything I've used in the past 10 years.
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The only changes I'd make to MB are to documentation ...
the only problem is who would write this documentation? there is mb wiki, some forum members have applied many efforts in filling it, but it's somewhat outdated.
well, anybody can add to/correct the wiki. but it's offtopic here.
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HII kinda have been downloading music by a year and a half by now, just reached 1,000 albums so just wanted to share✨
♪. ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llılı ♪.
Files
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(mostly all 320kbps mp3)
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Almost 70k FLAC files - about 2TB
I find everything very fast and snappy
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6000 files 70 GB, Starts in less than a second.
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I have 2824 Albums, 24,821 tracks, in my MusicBee library. It takes up 143 Gbytes on an SSD device, and runs without a glitch.
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Mine is 124gb with 20090 tracks. MusicBee works absolutely flawlessly.
No lags or anything. I've tried tonnes of other media programs, but, this is the best by far.
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I've only just started organizing my library, but I really have a lot of songs on discs, as well as on CDs. These are mainly maxi singles from the 80s, followed by the 90s.
I edit basic tags (artist, title, album, BPM...) in Tag&Rename (payable), because it perfectly finds everything on Discogs. In MB, I also add the genre, songwriters and the country from which the artist comes.
Most genres: disco, italo disco, eurodisco, synthpop, hi nrg.
Tracks (for now): 650
Albums (for now): 632
Size (for now): 9 GB - all mp3 320kbps
But the base will continue to grow enormously. I also fix the audio with adobe audition, so it goes more slowly. A lot of manual work, some automatic, but the program MB is really great for a music library. You just have to get to know him.
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184,115 tracks, mostly FLAC, 13,156 albums, 4TB. I love MB even better than my old Winamp. Fast as hell and very customizable, with a little help from folks here in the forum.
Tried to post a screenshot but the usual Imgur links would not work.
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I thought I had a lot of MP3s at 14 GB, but after reading the posts here I realize my collection is miniscule compared to some.
My collection (http://https//i.imgur.com/rhX3nph.png) This link to Share-X does not work. (Am not sure if I have to be a member to post)
What I was attempting to post was a snapshot of my MP3 collection which has 1660 + in it.
Boy do I have a long way to go to get the collection some of you have. 8)
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MusicBee often gets complements about how well it manages huge music collections. That made me wonder, how big a "big" real life music collection is and how well is one managed with MusicBee?
What is it like in terms of performance (delays, responsiveness etc) to have a huge library. Post about your experiences, positive or negative and maybe compare to other music players as well if you can.
So let me start, my library is is pretty small, just barely under 5k of mostly 320k mp3s with a few albums in flac as well. I didn't notice much of a difference regarding performance across the music players I tried (probably because of the size of my library). MusicBee is generally very snappy in its operation for me but I expect that to not hold true for much larger libraries.
Sounds like you've got a neat setup with your music collection! 5k songs is nothing to scoff at. It's cool that MusicBee handles it smoothly for you. I bet it's nice not having to worry about delays or glitches when you're jamming out. But yeah, I can see how things might change with a bigger library. It's all about finding the right balance between performance and size, isn't it?
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But yeah, I can see how things might change with a bigger library. It's all about finding the right balance between performance and size, isn't it?
There are reports in this thread of users with 600,000+ tracks without seeing any performance hit. But this is not the thread for a discussion. Tell us how large your library is and move on.
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I update every now and then, now up to 48,534 tracks using 942.8GB of memory (mostly FLACs).
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157.704 tracks
11.502 albums
2555,57 GB
Slowly replacing everything to flac.
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This is for my FLAC library
(https://i.imgur.com/ophpxbB.jpeg]https://i.imgur.com/ophpxbB.jpeg)
Recently stopped using my MP3 library which was quite a bit larger.
Replaced many now by FLAC and erased everything besides 320kb. (which was from a previous life ;D )
Both libraries run smooth in MusicBee 3.5 & 3.6
No slowdowns or freezes, same speed as 1k files.
FLAC library on 2x internal 4TB Sata SSD's and MP3 on external backup HDD
A Happy MusicBee user, i wish i found it a lifetime ago.... 8)
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248.344 tracks today and a new MB user!
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Total of 4 libraries
3,219,155 tracks
1. 652,814 tracks
2. 609,485 tracks
3. 1,233,776 tracks
4. 723,080 track
For your information, if it goes over 1.5 million tracks, it will be forced to shut down due to RAM.
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For your information, if it goes over 1.5 million tracks, it will be forced to shut down due to RAM.
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=22778.0
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I've been collecting music for a long time.
Everything in FLAC, I only rip my own CD's.
4267 CD's (disks)
3498 Albums
1022 Artists
52081 Tracks
1330 Gb
Two years later....
4710 CD's
3836 Albums
1093 Artists
57401 Tracks
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Some say they have over 2 million tracks. Let's assume an average length of 4 mn per track. In order to listen to them all at least once in their lifetime, they would need more than 75 years - playing them non stop ! That's impressive. I suppose it is all about the pleasure of collecting.
I have a much smaller collection, around 40 000 tracks (which is already a lot to listen to). And I won't let it grow bigger than that. Whenever I download some new tracks, I get rid of some other tracks I never listen to. It is a curated collection, in other words. I got rid of 5 000 tracks last year, more or less.
I treat them like my books : I never keep a book that I don't like.
I used to have a huge collection of LPs that I sold for a nice amount of cash, there are so many collectors out there. The fact is, I only care about the music, not the storage media. Being able to go digital was definitely a godsend. Much less cumbersome ...
For abundance and discovery, Spotify does the job. Also a godsend.
I use very few tags. For instance, jazz is simply "jazz" for all my jazz albums. I have no need for most subgenre tags. I know Charlie Parker is bepop, Albert Ayler is free jazz, and so on ... I therefore do not have to tag them as such. Knowing my music intimately spares me a lot of time. I use a large monitor to easily visualize all the covers, scrolling up and down in a matter of seconds. It is almost as fast as using the search function and it helps me memorize everything, like in the good old days of LP covers - without the hassle. Good for the brain.
Whenever I need a playlist, I build it on the fly. Musicbee is fantastic for such a purpose. I tend to get rid of them after a short while, in order not to feel stuck listening to the same stuff over and over again.
We are all different, indeed.
On the other hand I do have a pretty large collection of musical instruments, even though I only play a few. Nobody's perfect ;-)
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Lots of wisdom in that post.
- quality over quantity
- brain cells over computer bits
Quite a challenge these days ;-)
I'm not agreeing with your opinion on using only basic genre tags though.
There is a lot of music that can not be captured or described using a single genre name.
Ah well, that's not something for this topic.
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My goal is to have the least amount of music, however if it's good I have to have it. Mediocre tracks distracts from to the great ones so deleting them is the most important thing after finding great tracks. I've never regretted deleting a track. It's not hard to download thousands of albums or tens of thousands of tracks, the hard part is making sure when someone picks a random track it still reflects your taste. I'm anti-completionism and never keep entire albums or compilations, let alone collect everything made by one artist, unless you are building a database you achieve little by doing this. I can only imagine the inconvenience of having to skip tracks all the time because the priority was having things complete. Just use your ears, If the music isn't lifting you up, then what's the point of having it.
During 17 years of collecting (6205 days), I've ended up with 5500 tracks. On average +0.88 per day after deleting. When people end up with a handfull of tracks per day, I know enough ;D Like listening to the podcast of that dj who consistently releases a mix every week, lots of forgettable stuff is unavoidable. Such djs understand how to play the algorithm, but quality takes the backseat.
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A mix of mp3, wav, m4v and FLAC
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I have 31,775 tracks over 2311 Albums which amounts to 188 GB. According to the statistics it's going to take me 98 days and 18 hours to listen to it all. Ha Ha.
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Hi there, I've been using Music Bee for about 11 years now and I love it!
My library is currently at 292,479 Tracks, 20,237 Albums.
I've moved most of the collection from MP3 to Flac, there's still a few MP3 stragglers...
It's housed in a 10TB external HD with backup. I'm uh, just not inclined to store all this in the cloud.
Anyways, rarely does MB choke on the volume, and when it does, it just needs a simple refresh via close/open.
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I'm not agreeing with your opinion on using only basic genre tags though.
There is a lot of music that can not be captured or described using a single genre name.
my genre system is very simple also. something like (in russian): rock, jazz, soundtrack, etc. but it's because i almost don't use genres. well, i use them very rarely.
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my library atm: 9248 tracks, 40.7GB, 21 days
i also delete some tracks from the library if i permanently add new tracks.
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I used to have 3k + songs when I was in my mid 20s and switched from iTunes.
Now I've had to start from scratch with a new laptop because my old one is at my old home after starting uni. I only have 700+ songs and haven't much storage on my pc.
I was and am proud of my old library, including songs from my early childhood and on. Some songs that I can't find on the web, too.
Hopefully I can build up my new library ;D
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Only problem is with the portable program and setup issues with the program and no help to resolve. I thought I could have a dedicated external ssd for the music and program using the portable app. It works but 2 days and still issues with setting it up. It is not a straight forward to dupicate the pc program to the portable program.
Off-topic.
Create either a Question or a Bug report for your issues.
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I have several libraries with the music files stored on a Synology NAS. The majority of albums are in flac format with separate tracks but a few were ripped as a single flac file with cue sheet. All have the album front image embedded (usually a 500x500 pixel image). The largest library is for Classical music with approx 39K files (643GB) - this takes about 30 min to scan. Although I usually stream the music through a Wiim Ultra using MInimserver, I find Musicbee extremely useful in checking the tagging, creating playlists and rating tracks (I use the portable version of Musicbee on a PC with Windows 10). Using BubbleupNP and the Musicbee UPNp plugin I can also configure Musicbee to play through the Wiim.