i've deleted several gigs of it tonight, i'll get back to you when i am finished mutilating it.

Mine's about 7 inches.

Oh, sorry, wrong thread.

Last time I did mefiswap it sucked. I got maybe two discs (out of five) in return, and *looks around to make sure nobody from his swapset is listening* there were maybe 3 good songs total on them.

Personally, I'd rather get music from a friend whose tastes I know and enjoy. YMMV

Mmmm, the chili peppers, to me at least, are well known enough, especially post 1999, that I wouldn't put them on a MeFi Swap. Unless, of course, you've built an amazing track listing and that one song of theirs is the perfect fit, the one thing that really makes it. I see you're in the EU. Okay, so that means that you might have stuff in your collection that non-EU people haven't heard. My last swap set had people in from the USA, Canada, Japan and The Netherlands. You could always do album tracks and steer away from singles. Or, you could do "the best indie compilation in the world ever" - there's a reason why record companies keep releasing those types of compilations, month in, month out.

I have to say that my return rate has generally been okay - I've 3 or 4 swaps now and I only ever had one set where I lucked out on the rate of return.

26.48GB

You know you can get a bit too caught up in these musical mind games. I say put on something that you genuinely like rather than trying to appeal to some fictional hipster in your head.

Taking the Chilli's as an example, I haven't heard them in ages. In fact I haven't heard them in so long that listening to one of their tracks again might be a novelty.

On the other hand supposedly hip bands (like Metric or The Klaxons to pull some examples out of my arse) are probably going to be very common in the swap.

Oh, and you'll be amazed at the kind of stuff people haven't heard.

So yeah, my advice with mixes is to stick to what you like not what you think other people will like (because you'll probably be wrong).

dodgygeezer speaks the truth.

my digital one? 17000 and change.

64.6GB

On the other hand supposedly hip bands (like Metric or The Klaxons to pull some examples out of my arse) are probably going to be very common in the swap.

So true. If you look at the amount of scrobbled tracks for really trendy groups, you'll be (well, I was at any rate...) amazed at how high the number is in comparison with other, more high profile but less trendy groups.

And, yes, you'll be amazed at what people haven't heard.

Collection size: currently ~11,300 tracks on iTunes, which is part of my ~2,500 album collection in ye olde CD format.

~12,000 songs on my itunes.

I have over 2.5x10⁶ songs; I keep them stored at various sites around the internet.

+1 on the 'you'd be amazed...' theme. I just now discovered TV On The Radio, ferinstance.

I don't exactly understand why, but when I lived with my x, we just didn't listen to that much music. Partly because our tastes were so different, partly because it wasn't a priority.

Shortly after we split up, I 'rediscovered' how much I really enjoyed finding and listening to new, undiscovered bands. It'd been a highlight of my teens and early 20s.

All of which means... I have a pretty thorough knowledge of 80's and very early 90's cult pop/eurotrash/disco/dance/indie/industrial, a vast gap of practically zero knowledge of mid-90's anything (beyond the giganto-hitz and pop culture referential, that is)... and then the stuff I listen to from anywhere around post-2003 or so resembles what you'd find on any contemporary college indie station.

I have a little over 50 gig of digital tunes floating around between iTunes and my external HD. iTunes claims it has just about 18 gig loaded. A considerable amount of the stuff that's on my HD has to be converted from .wma format before I can do much with it (vestiges of a former Windoze based existence I'm afraid) but I'm too lazy to do anything about it now.

What I'd really like to get my hands on (someday!) is a combo USB turntable / cassette deck. I have so much of my dad's amazing 60's & early 70's stuff on vinyl, and so much of my own very cool late 80's / early 90's stuff on cassette, and all of it is currently inaccessible to me.

When I make mixs I try and shove on some good local stuff as well, that way there is a high % chance that at least some of it will be new.
I have ~200 Gb at 192K and consider myself a piker compared to some.

I have over 2.5x106 songs; I keep them stored at various sites around the internet.

Crap, Wolfdog, what is the original quote again? My mind says it must be Simpsons, but I can't remember the original.

moonshine, I'd be hard pressed to calculate the size of my collection, plus I doubt you'd really be interested; I am surely not.

dodgygeezer is right: enjoy the making and giving, relish what you receive in return, and ignore the naysayers with a vengeance.

My last swap set had people in from the USA, Canada, Japan and The Netherlands

TheDonF: that wasn't last round, was it? Or was it somewhere else than MefiSwap? Just asking because I remember a statistic saying that I was the only Dutchie last time 'round. Not that I want to be the only gay in the village the only Dutchman in the swap, of course. Just curious.

"I have the world's largest collection of seashells..."

Thanks, Wolfdog!

Okay, I'm still on the fence, but thanks everyone!
And no, I wouldn't put the CPs on anyway, but I'm always seeing people say "... like how the CPs suck after 1999" and thinking to myself awww, I like them still.

Do it, moonshine.

I have ~8,000 tracks as mp3s, of which I own about 50% in CD form. I wouldn't worry too much about including something you perceive as well-kown because the chances that someone who usually listens to something different may never have heard it are higher than you think. As long as you don't include something like Californication and take a track that didn't reach radio-playing status you would be fine, in my "nobody likes my mixes anyway" opinion.