iTunes Tops Out At 32,000 Songs

[wessman]

iTunes Tops Out At 32,000 Songs
from the mo-mp3s dept.
posted by pudge on Monday February 17, @00:05 (media)
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/036240

usr122122121 writes "A [1]Macintouch User has discovered that iTunes maxes out at 32,000 songs." I did test this myself (a one-liner perl script to give each file a unique artist/album/title), and it's apparently true. How much it matters is an exercise left to the reader.

Links:
1. http://www.macintouch.com/itunes10.html#feb15

[d-koolest]

Who cares? If you have 32,000 songs you need halp!

[SUprEMeBeiNg]

yah thats a pretty crazy high number

[ronniebravo]

Damn I thought I was bad!

[isus]

more calc.exe work for ya:

32000 mp3's, at 5mB per file...

that's 160,000mB or 156.25gB

you would need a pmac with 2 hard drives to get this many mp3's... or an xserve. lol... and i think with 32000 mp3's, you should have stopped using itunes and started using xmms or something. lol... lets think about 32000 mp3's for a moment. and do some more math. my avg play time for one mp3 is 4 minutes.

32000*4 = 128000 / 60 = 2133.33 / 24 = 88.88 days of music. unique music. lol...

and if you have that many mp3's, i will murder you and steal your comp :devil

[Sockfulloflove]

are people complaining about it? i hope not cause thats stilll a huge number of music files!

[matstao]

32,000 is definitely more than I have, but it doesn't sound ridiculous. I'll probably be there in a couple years. Some people have been collecting music for years and have massive collections. I have a friend with over 3,000 CDs. He'd probably be right around the 32,000 limit if he ever ripped them all.

I think people are complaining because it seems like it would be easy enough to write software that would avoid any sort of limiting problem.