Really Big CD Collection

[Indybird]

My Dad and his friend are HUGE music guys, I mean old music of course. My dad has a pretty big CD collection - app. 2500 albums (CDs). Now I've never been to his friends house before but just recently I went. He has a wall of CD's! I took about 20 minutes to get a rough estimate. I am estimating he has 26,500 CD's! By the way this is no exaggeration: next time I go there I'll take a picture...

That got me wondering; how many Gigabytes would that take up?

[CanaBalistic]

simple math my dear watson.

1 track on average is 3:30 minutes long and takes up roughly 6mb as an mp3
1 cd holds on average 16 songs.
So a guesstamate of 96mb per cd will be used.
Which puts us at 25440000MB
1000MB to the GB...
Which gives us 25440GB
1000GB to the TB
For a final answer of 25.44TB

Which isnt that hard to believe. I have 1894 tracks, aprox 118 cd's worth taking a total of 9.1GB. Although with higer compression and a lower BitRate that number could be reduced by as much as half.

[MitaPi]

O... M... G...

THATS ALOT OF TERABYTES! Isnt a terabyte 1024GB's? lol Just messin with yah!

So in other words... ten 320GB Seagate at 100 bucks each would cost you like what.. 10k!?

I think? Isnt it? I suck at math.. lol someone else figure it out.

[Omega]

uh, i have 878 tracks & 6.1gb, 3.2days of play time

i think your conversion's off, but it's definately in the TB range, that's insane.

I was about to bust in here and be like "oh yeah, my Maiden collection is 15 albums!" but this definatly beats that.

[CanaBalistic]

Its definately not an exact science...

Here's the real brain kicker. How many songs from thoes 26,500 cd's are actualy worth listening to devided by the cost of all thoes cd's.
How much per song is he paying? :p

[crenn]

I have 1964 tracks and that takes up 8.89GB (Some are 320kbps).

And yes, there is 1024GB in 1 TB.

[EPYK]

i was watching pimp my ride yesterdat and the put an apple notebook in a car and added 2TB, which they said its 4yrs of playtime without ever hearing a song repeat...

[Airbozo]

Its definately not an exact science...

Here's the real brain kicker. How many songs from thoes 26,500 cd's are actualy worth listening to devided by the cost of all thoes cd's.
How much per song is he paying? :p

But remember, you get all those cool liner notes and such...


My collection:

Music CD's: 835 (some duplicates)
Music DVD's: 64 (no duplicates)
Music VHS's 7
Music DAT's 8
Albums 354 (yes, real albums with full size liner notes, most of them are collectors items, like my unopened original production beatles album(I also have an opened one, played less than 5 times), or my played twice Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention Freak Out album, or my signed Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys album played twice...(I could go on, but those are my favorite ones)

EDIT: BTW I am showing my age here, since my 3 favorite collector albums are older than most of you...

[chedabob]

damn, i wouldnt like to be the person that has to backup those

my entire music collection is digital

[Airbozo]

damn, i wouldnt like to be the person that has to backup those

my entire music collection is digital

Why would you need to backup your cd's and such? So what happens if your digital collection is wiped out. Do you have to re-buy the tracks you want and guess the rest? Call me old school, but when I buy something, I want a tangible product to hold in my hands...