SO, LIKE, HOW MUCH MUSIC DO YOU ACTUALLY KEEP ON YOUR COMPUTER, ANYWAY?

A few weeks ago, Vince wrote about iCloud, Apple’s new cloud stream platform that will allow email, contacts, calendars and, of course, music to be synched wirelessly and effortlessly across up to ten different devices. Shortly thereafter, we got the following e-mail from reader Carlos B.:

“The iCloud article comments made me wonder, how much music (legal, illegal, etc) do people own?
Like, how many songs do people (specific: metalheads) have on their computers/mp3/ipod?
I thought a reader poll would be interesting about this.
I have friends that have ONLY 99 songs on their iTunes (Slayer, Atreyu, A7x, SOAD and nothing more. Not even their complete discographies or whatever).
But I have some friends that have around 10K songs on their iTunes.”

Which is a good question!

Personally, I have 6,277 songs on my iTunes right now, which somehow strikes me as a low number — maybe because a good portion of that is digital advances sent to me by publicists and labels that I’ve listened to once or twice and haven’t deleted out of sheer laziness. Fact is, sometimes I’m kind of amazed to see what I DON’T have in my iTunes library; last week, for example, I was overcome with a desire to listen to Living Colour’s Time’s Up, and was shocked to realize that while, yes, I still actually have a CD copy, I had never digitized it. If I actually put all the shit I want on my iTunes, well… I’d need a huge ass external drive to store all that music, especially at a quality level I find agreeable (320kbps or GTFO).

What about you cats? How much music do you actually keep on your computer? I actually think this is a potentially really interesting discussion…

-AR