I download anything and everything. An artist I enjoy? Entire discography. I've only heard one song? Entire discography--there may be more I might enjoy! An artist in a genre I like but I've never heard? Entire discography.

I'm at over 125k songs, and I still feel like my collection is a sliver. I eventually want to reach 1m songs and truly become my own Spotify. Finding songs I've never heard before and that I end up loving in my own collection is a joy I can't describe.

[–] Painfinity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Hol' up: Let's say the average size for a song (in FLAC format) is 30MB. 125k × 30 = 3'750'000 MB, or 3TB+!

Thas a lot of storage. O.o

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A single drive of that size goes for less than $100 USD (sometimes much less!). It'd actually be more economical to get an 8TB device for less than 2x the price. I'd suspect most folks in this community have far more than 3TB available...

[–] cirdanlunae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

36 TB usable space on my NAS... Music doesn't even make a dent

[–] Painfinity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Good on ya, with that much storage I would do that too :P

I'm about to build my first NAS, and intend to start with 8TB - for family backups, photos, music, TV shows, and self-hosted apps. That's why the thought of dedicating 3TB, or ~1/3 of my entire storage, to music alone sounds nuts in the eyes of a beginner like me😂

But I guess it's true what they say: Storage grows with time! Although I don't wanna know how many songs you'll have when I catch up to your current number...

[–] cirdanlunae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago

You pretty much calculated spot on! ;)

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

FLAC is good, but not necessary for background listening. At 192k the average song is ~ 5Mb. 100k x 5 = 0.5 TB.

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