World's Largest iTunes Library?

Right now i have 6,763 (olny 100 artest i have 600 more to go) i havent paid a penny for any of it and its all tagged with album cover and everything. i get all my music from Urge and run it all threw this program called tunebite, tunebite takes the DRM off of all the songs.

i got 10 094 songs right now, and still growing, i gave my mate my library and now he got 20000+. nothing compared to most of you guys

11,609 songs. 64.36GB. All 192kbps or above.

To batmanning:
If you are going to be doing this in windows, why not use EAC? It is the reference-standard.

You should consider doing a write-up on your experiences (for the mac side of course).

Also - I would very much like to get your thoughts on Drobo as I just discovered it today. If you get this - please email me. (maybe tuaw can do a story on it???)

my gmail is - mhamson

13020 items, 112GB

I usually rip my CDs at 256 or 320, hence the size of the library. There's also mixes of my own music in there, which I keep in AIFF form. I think there's probably a couple of gigs of podcasts in there, but it's mostly regular music.

Movies = 276.5GB
TV Shows = 71.89GB
Music = 239.51GB

587.9GB Total iTunes Library here

I have approximately 13,000 songs (about 85gb worth) and iTunes is HORRIBLY slow loading, playing, viewing track information, and much more. I had to turn of the album art viewer. This happens on both my libraries on the PC and the Mac version. Obviously, Apple didn't put much attention into large libraries... I noticed performance was horrible when I hit 2500 songs even.

52GB. I won't tell you how much of it I haven't listened to.

There was an interesting comment in the original article which pointed people with large libraries to download The Filter. It's a great tip and has worked well for me.

120Gb, mostly music but a couple of TV series in there. Initially I began ripping my music collection (selcted albums from 1,000-odd CDs) at 192 kbps, but at some point during the process relented and most of my recent albums have just been 128 kbps. I still buy my music on CD from amazon used & new (I live in the UK where everything is overpriced) - I've bought only two tracks from the iTMS.

I am just shy of 90,000 songs and am in the process of re-ripping my cd's in Apple Lossless. My iTunes has not slowed down on my dual 2.0 G5. I do plan to move to a Mac Pro for the internal storage soon though :-P