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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Ipod? Upod? Everybody Pod Pod.. |
| Date | Mon, 12 Jul 2004 03:28:11 -0400 |
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At 12:08 AM 7/12/2004 -0400, Josh Chasin wrote:
>Your friend makes a compelling case.
Does he? I ran some numbers, and I'm not sure it washes. Experience and
intuition has led me to figure that the average pop song is a little over
three and a half minutes long. I've got a 3:34 WAV file open here on my
desktop ("Play My Song" by Redd Kross, something of a personal theme song),
which I note is 36,917 kilobytes as an uncompressed WAV of medium-high
quality. There are 1,048,576 kilobytes in a gigabyte, which means that 28.4
copies of this WAV file could fit in a single gigabyte. There's a total of
about 10,000 LPs and CDs in this house including the stuff that's in deep
storage downstairs. Assuming 12 songs per album, that requires a minimum
of 4224.815 gigabytes of hard disk space (in other words, 52.81 times
bigger than the fairly spacious 80GB internal hard drive in this Gateway)
for the WAV files ALONE! Factor in room for File Allocation Tables, the
programs necessary to play, edit and otherwise futz with the files, and, oh
yes, the MP3 of each of these 120,000 songs...you know, I think it's
cheaper just to buy some custom shelves for the CDs and LPs.
S
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