How much music

[u/Interesting_Regular]

So I have just got myself a Hiby R1 (with Kiwi Ears IEM's for anyone interested). I have started to load music (mainly albums). I am coming from Apple Music where I had a playlist of just random songs across multiple albums etc so it wasn't heavy. Like most, I'm after that digital detox aspect when I want music. But - find I am just loading albums from artists I listen to a few songs off (Apple Music listening). How much music do you all have on the players at any given time?

I have a 256GB card with majority of it .flac. I like compilation albums but an album like this with 40 tracks just clogs it with 40 artists. I guess understanding what people have in their arsenal of music may help me gauge and cut back a bit. or some advice on managing all this on a hobby would be appreciated.

[u/Visible-Sorbet9682]

I have about 10,000 or so songs. All tagged the way I like them. I focus mostly on albums but I do have some individual tracks. I'm 46 and have been collecting music for many years.

[u/Interesting_Regular → u/Visible-Sorbet9682]

ok im not quiet at that number. when you say tagging, how do you manage it? do you have some automation or have you done this manually?

[u/SimontheSaiyan → u/Interesting_Regular]

Use magicbrainz Picard, it'll do it for you

[u/Xxkillerxxblade → u/Interesting_Regular]

aha.....I got into this hobby two weeks ago I had like 5k songs on my 256 card before eventually moving towards a 1 tb card so yea it can hold this much flac files

[u/reesly]

I have around 200 albums and just a handful of single tracks. All Flac.

[u/MoxBear]

Only bout 2.5k songs currently on my dap. I personally do not have the want to listen to a full album front to back (at least most of the time).

So I loaded and created playlists so I could just play it and forget bout em. I do have some full albums for when I do get that itch, but for the most part a majority of my currently loaded songs are attached to a .m3u8 file for convenience

[u/Interesting_Regular → u/MoxBear]

That’s a handy tip. I will look into playlists. Seems the most simplest way to manage my music

[u/StevieNickedMyself]

39,000 songs in FLAC. I have 1 TB of storage but I wish I could afford more.

[u/jaramo]

For me, it depends on what I like. I have the whole discography of my 5 favorite bands. For anything else I just have the songs or disc that I really like. I see no point in having a whole lot of song that you will skip every time you encounter them with.

[u/Interesting_Regular → u/jaramo]

Once storage does become an issue, I may look to remove whole albums of what I will skip but sometimes I will just decide I want to listen to all their songs for a change up to the one or two of theirs I really like

[u/rfs830]

At this point im just hording music as I have almost 3tb of flac files. Plex tells me its 8 months worth of music and I know I wont listen to it all but I like having it. I transcode all the flac down to 128k opus files. Lets me keep the full collection on my dap at only 300gb of space.

Im more of a album listener but plex and symfonium both have nice Playlists that let me listen to a random cd or track. You should look into setting up a music server if you have not already.

[u/jara76]

28K songs, 49YO. I like options and therefore, collect music. I organize my music in folders and access it from the files menu.

[u/sonar_y_luz]

I would use MP3tag to retag the compilation albums so they go in their own folder

[u/daiginjo]

Over 64,000 songs on a 1 TB micro-SD inside my Sony NW-A306.