How Many Gig's, MB's Or Anything Else Is Your Dream Theater Collection?

[matt1722]

Hey everyone, so this question really only refers to people who store there music on iTunes or a computer. (which I'm guessing is most people now a days) But anyways I'm one who buys most of my music physically and has CD's, but I import all those CD's into iTunes to listen on my iPod, well my iPod Classic broke earlier this week and I'm now borrowing one of my family members until mine is fixed. The problem here is this iPod touch is only 8 gigs where as mine is 160. Now I get to the point one of the first things I did with this iPod was add my entire Dream Theater collection to it (can't live without my DT  ) and I noticed that the collection is 3.06 gigs, now I'm including everything here, studio albums, live albums, Official bootlegs, etc, etc. I won't hesitate to say that this is the most space any artist or band take up in my iTunes library and I'm still buying DT music, but I was just curious as to the size of some of the collections on here.

so my stats here right now are: 3.06 GB, 34 Albums and 266 songs.

Might be a weird or silly topic but hey, I thought it was kinda interesting.

[WheyWaffles]

16.8 GB, no iTunes though.  I only encode lossless so it's all FLAC.   It's also the most I have of any one band, Fates Warning coming in second at 11 GB.

[chrisbDTM]

8 GB

[KevShmev]

2.19 GB on iTunes.

That is not including the edited versions of several songs I did for workout purposes (like editing out the first 1:45 or so of Home, since that intro can be a killjoy if I am in the middle of a run and I don't want to have to slow down to fast forward).

[TheGreatPretender]

8.5 gigs, mostly MP3, varying between 192, 256 and 320k. Also my backup of ADTOE in FLAC format. But all the albums I have on CD, so I need to rerip a few of them in higher quality.

[ResultsMayVary]

Around 8GB worth of material.

[Nick]

9.79 gigs of official stuff ripped as MP3.

Over 600 gigs of bootlegs, and that's a conservative figure.

And of course lots of CDs, DVDs, and other stuff in my actual collection.

[wolven74]

118 items, 16.4 hours, 1.57 gigs. That's every studio release, minus the greatest hit.

[BlobVanDam]

20.7Gb of DT music (mp3 and flac), 12gb of which is official releases. All of the studio albums are ripped as flac.
18.7gb of DT videos (that includes bootleg videos, misc stuff off Youtube, and doesn't include any DVDs)

[tristl]

13,10 GB, only music, all cds  and transfered to itunes with apple lossless ,
Metallica i have 15,35 GB, but they have just more official material.

[TheGreatPretender]

I hate iTunes. I wouldn't let it touch my music library with a 10 foot pole.

[wasteland]

About 25~30GB of official releases. Circa 800GB counting all the bootlegs (audio and video). 

[Implode]

Of course I have to go right after wasteland...

I know not of size, but I have 341 DT songs on my iPhone.

[Another_Won]

On my computer I've got 50G in videos and almost 15G in music.  The great thing is that using a bit rate of 320 (which sounds pretty decent on a small mobile device) you can get all their official realeases down to under 5G. 

In fact I've got that plus all the videos for about 30G on my phone.  Never without DT

[bobs23]

Audio 2.5TB (not including 400+ CD's of boots)
Video 7TB includes source cameras and final edits (including side projects)

[Implode]

[Sycsa]

105 GB, which includes all DT and many DT related albums, DVDs, MP's archives, Jordan's Keyboard Madness, downloaded YouTube videos(e.g. The Spirit Carries on), etc. 

[BlobVanDam]

Audio 2.5TB (not including 400+ CD's of boots)
Video 7TB includes source cameras and final edits (including side projects)

.......but I bet your copy of PMU still cuts off at the end.

[Scorpion]

237 titles, 20 albums, 4.43 GB in total.

I think that it is the most that I have by a band (though not in length, only in terms of file size!).

[TheGreatPretender]

If we're talking about the amount of titles, I have 1138 files in my DT folder all together. These do include the singles, the instrumentals, stems, and some edits that I've made to make songs better, like cutting out the samples from SDV and HTF. But no live bootlegs or anything. I should get some of those maybe.

[krands85]

18.22gb of audio files. Most of the studio albums in FLAC, all the studio/live albums in MP3, plus bootlegs in a mix of FLAC/MP3. Then a load of video files too which are spread out all over the place, so I don't know how much of those there are

[ZeppelinDT]

Over 600 gigs of bootlegs, and that's a conservative figure.

How on earth do you have time to listen to all of that?

[bobs23]

Audio 2.5TB (not including 400+ CD's of boots)
Video 7TB includes source cameras and final edits (including side projects)

.......but I bet your copy of PMU still cuts off at the end.

I have an ultra warped version that segues to "You Light Up My Life"   

[Zydar]

My DT folder is 16.8 GB and contains all the studio albums ripped in FLAC + some solo projects and official bootlegs.

[Nick]

Over 600 gigs of bootlegs, and that's a conservative figure.

How on earth do you have time to listen to all of that?

Anymore, I don't. I recently gave all my old physical CDs and DVDs to YtseRush as he can listen through them all. I will still listen to a show from time to time, but most of the shows in my collection will never be heard/seen again.

[YtseJamittaja]

naaaah, only 3,49 GB, 33 albums and 358 songs what I have...

[TheGreatPretender]

My DT folder is 16.8 GB and contains all the studio albums ripped in FLAC + some solo projects and official bootlegs.

I count my solo projects separately. So I have a 535Mb James LaBrie folder as well, which includes Winter Rose, his 2 Mullmuzzler albums, 2 JLB albums and Roswell Six project that he worked on.

[E.S.]

About 8 gallons.

[Dark Castle]

Well it was a good amount, but Itues decided it should delete 86% of my library, Dream Theater among the slaughtered.

[TAC]

My iPod:
29.59 Gigs
2333 songs
13.2 days

Have about 110 bootlegs on my iPod.

[Cable]

10.77GB, all encoded @ 320kbps

[ZeppelinDT]

Over 600 gigs of bootlegs, and that's a conservative figure.

How on earth do you have time to listen to all of that?

Anymore, I don't. I recently gave all my old physical CDs and DVDs to YtseRush as he can listen through them all. I will still listen to a show from time to time, but most of the shows in my collection will never be heard/seen again.

Doesn't getting old and having responsibilities like... totally suck?

[Madman Shepherd]

638 Songs which include all official bootlegs, albums, and live albums.  encoded at 128 its about 4.55 GB.  I'm almost out of room on my 120gb ipod with almost all songs encoded at that...and I might add I own the physical copy of almost every CD in my collection. 

[Elite]

Around 13-14 GB. This includes every studio album, live album, all singles, every official bootleg and all fanclub CDs.

[Unlegit]

28.35 GB lossy.