A man who started using iTunes since 2003 and whose library reached 849 GB

Apple 's media player "iTunes" which appeared in the Mac version in 2001 and the Windows version in 2003. I think that there are so many people using it with the iPod, but someone who reached the library registration number of 170,000 songs, 849 GB in terms of capacity appeared. How do you use it to increase the number of songs so far?

Details are as follows.


New York SunWill Friendwald, who writes music-related articles at, is proud to own himself as the largest iTunes collection owner in the world. That should be that, Mr. Will's number of songs registered to iTunes is 172,150 songs, the capacity is 849 GB. It consists of 2935 artists and 11,561 albums. Data was taken at the time of rebuilding the main library which is done several times a year, it seems that the library database file was 282 MB and the library XML file was 259 MB. By the way it took 6 hours to rebuild every time. In addition, Mr. Will handles 2 to 300 GB of data which is not added to the main library yet, totaling as much as 1200 GB.

Since I started using iTunes since 2003, although I was planning to put only some artists in the library at first, I realized that it's easier to handle even CD BOX with many CDs in iTunes that can quickly search library registration songs , Nut · King · Call · 18 CD set and other sets were added more and more, as a result, it seems that purchasing external HDD and purchasing iMac for library reproduction was supposed to be purchased.

Thanks to this huge library, it seems that it is useful for work as someone can listen and compare the music when writing articles about music.

By the way Will 's huge collection, it seems to take 809 days to go around.

The original article with other interesting story is below.

Glenn Wolsey: Blog Archive: Interview: Will Friedwald, Owner Of The Worlds Largest iTunes Collection