huzzah back at ya! Well, what's next? 50,000! Go, go jon. We'll be hearing the whole of it, I hope?

I have it all stored on a USB drive. If anyone has the storage space, it's theirs for the cost of a few beers. (all but maybe 100 tracks are tagged).

What's the total play time of all the songs combined? I have about 7 days worth of music.

According to iTunes, I've got 46.2 days worth.

Shit. On. Me. How many gigs we talkin here?

Roughly 70GB.

Roughly 70GB.
it's theirs for the cost of a few beers.

erm, define "a few".

oh, 4 or 5, something imported.

I should let any takers know, my taste is very broad, but very idosyncratic: lots of 60's garage, 60's pop, one hit wonders, blues, soul, Cajun, European rock, NWOBHM, old school punk, old school hip-hop, funk, salsa, boogaloo, 70's hard rock etc. Very little indie, electronica, world music, goth, or industrial.

(if anyone knows a quick way to create an HTML playlist in iTunes, I'd post it, but I don't know how.)

I wish I lived closer, jon. I could get mr. rossi's Christmas present for the cost of a few beers!

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Hey! I would buy you 4-5 beers just for your (continental) rock collection! I believe we are on. Jon.

well, it's all in there helter-skelter, carmina. catch as catch can.

I got it wrong again? When I say continental, I exclude the Isles.

Naw, I mean that it's all jumbled together in three big folders, no organization.

Besides, there's plenty of stuff in there that you don't know you want yet.

How do you find stuff? Do you go on fishing expeditions, or do you just have perfect memory?

Sorry, that should have said "how do you find stuff in your collection?"

there's plenty of stuff in there that you don't know you want yet.

Hee! That much I know. Your music collection will satisfy me amply! But 4-5 beers, no more. I am not going to support unhealthy habits. :)

bmarkey: it's all in one big playlist in Itunes. I order it different ways. On the Ipod, I just shuffle.

jonmc, you are a fanatic of the arts.










*mochicrunk salutes you*

I met and opened for Mojo Nixon years ago. He was a great guy. I've never seen anyone drink so much beer in my life.

chuckdarwin: I've never seen anyone drink so much beer in my life.

I guess you never met Bob Stinson (or any of the Replacements around 1985). I'm drawing a blank on their name, but I saw a Celtic band a few years ago that drank more than any other band I've ever seen. I was not only impressed that could drink so much and still play well, but also that none of them had to leave the stage to go to the bathroom. On the converse side, I've never seen a Dandy Warhols show where they didn't have to take a break in the set so the keyboardist could "go potty".

jonmc: I have a hunch that we have lots of the same stuff since we seem to visit many of the same music sites and have similar eclectic tastes. My music drive has 20,000+ files and tops out at just over 100 gigs, but that also includes my vinyl rips and all the CDs I've loaded for my MP3 player. It'd be be fun to compare and contrast where we overlap. Power pop, 77-83 British punk and new wave, mid-80's "college rock", and garage dominate my audio files, followed by the classic rock staples, quirky British pop, old-school country, and funk/soul. Everything else I just dabble in, but I love to hear it all - at least once. 70's hard rock might be where we differ the most. My tastes are pretty much represented in my mix discs.

And before anyone says "you can't listen to that much music!", which people often do when they look at all of the CD and record shelves in any obsessive music collector's place, you'd be amazed. With all of this stuff there are still days where I can't find anything to listen to and I have to go get some more albums. It's a sickness. A wonderful sickness. Unless you have to move, then it's an incredible pain in the ass. Which is part of the charm of having a digital library.

n.p.-the Idle Race (Jeff Lynne's pre Move/ELO band)

70's hard rock might be where we differ the most.

Believe it or not, there's a whole ton of wild & wooly stuff in there, too, and with the lack of interest by most record geeks, it's ripe for the picking. Same with metal.

But, I'd love to compare collections, too. Like I said, I don't know how to generate a HTL or text playlist from iTunes, otherwise I'd post it.

Oddly, my latest discovery is a proto-punk outfit called The Gizmos who have been described as a Midwestern Dictators, which naturally got my interest. They're a gas.

Mac:
iTunes XHTML Playlist
iTunes to HTML
iTunes Catalog

Windows:
Displaying Your iTunes Library