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! :D

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

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 :P

my entire music collection is digital ;)

[Airbozo]

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

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...

[tennysol]

I've got on the order of about 1750 cds...of which about 1500 have been ripped (most ripped at 160, some at 128 ) They take up about 70 GB...given that rationelle...26000 cds would use about 1.2tb...40-60 megs per album. Although because songs vary greatly in time...that number could be smaller or larger depending on whether you're listening to Iron Butterfly (15 minute tunes) or The Ramones (couple minutes at most)...:rolleyes:

(16243 Tracks and counting)

I can't imagine the sheer amount of crap 26500 cds must include though...it would take just over 3 years to listen to it all though...if the cds averaged 60 minutes in length. :eek:

[Forever Nights]

haha i have just at 50g on my puter, and my friend will yall talk about tb's like thats insane, hell he does have 4tbs of just music, lol. hell he has 6tb's of moives and stuff from all the dvd's he owns not to note the ones he gets from use

[Indybird]

Half of them are bootlegged or copied (but no doubles). He also has a huge collection of LPs and Tapes.
I really want to show you a picture of it, but I don't go there often. Next time I go I'll dig up this post and show you some pictures.

By the way I have 2042 songs which takes up 10.2GB.

[EPYK]

this dude has his money in the wrong places... boom.. house fire.... all that gone

[chedabob]

^^

insurance might cover it. possibly.

i couldn't be doing with buying that many cds. most of the cds i have get chucked out after a couple of years.

[Airbozo]

^^

insurance might cover it. possibly.

i couldn't be doing with buying that many cds. most of the cds i have get chucked out after a couple of years.


I am sure that if he has that many cd's his insurance would cover it. Mine would.

I would wager that a lot of those cd's were given as gifts or promos. Is this guy in any sector of the music biz? When I worked for a radio station in Denver, there was always a box of free cd's for the employee's. Some good stuff, some no better than the aol disks you get in the mail.

BTW, I never throw out any lp's or cd's. You can always trade them in for something you really want. There is also a music trading web site that allows you to post what you want to get rid of and post what you want. You get a match and trade... (looking for it now)

[Indybird]

No, he doesn't work at a radio station (I actually think he works at a supermarket, he's about 53 years old and has been collecting albums (LPs/tapes/8-tracks) since he was my age. About three years ago he got a CD-Burner (not a computer one), and he's put all of those on CD. Also he's been buying CD's since they came out.

Also it wouldn't matter if his stuff was insured; he has so many rare albums, posters, signatures you wouldn't be able to replace them. :(

[Airbozo]

No, he doesn't work at a radio station (I actually think he works at a supermarket, he's about 53 years old and has been collecting albums (LPs/tapes/8-tracks) since he was my age. About three years ago he got a CD-Burner (not a computer one), and he's put all of those on CD. Also he's been buying CD's since they came out.

Also it wouldn't matter if his stuff was insured; he has so many rare albums, posters, signatures you wouldn't be able to replace them. :(


MMM 8-track tapes....aaarrrgghhhh.... My first stereo in my first car was an 8-track. First 8-track tape I bought: Foghat (now that dates me...) First LP I bought: Bad Company (was my first concert too). First CD I bought: Pink Floyd Meddle. First DVD I bought: Pink Floyd The Wall.


When I went to buy home insurance one of the questions from my agent pertained to rare, irreplaceable items. When I mentioned my album collection, they asked for pictures of the ones that were worth money. They also wanted a picture of both sides of the unopened Beatles album (both the cover and the LP itself). I told them that I could under no circumstances open that album, so I had to go to a collector in SF to have them certify it was real (without opening it).

[Omega]

I've got on the order of about 1750 cds...of which about 1500 have been ripped (most ripped at 160, some at 128 ) They take up about 70 GB...given that rationelle...26000 cds would use about 1.2tb...40-60 megs per album. Although because songs vary greatly in time...that number could be smaller or larger depending on whether you're listening to Iron Butterfly (15 minute tunes) or The Ramones (couple minutes at most)...:rolleyes:

(16243 Tracks and counting)

I can't imagine the sheer amount of crap 26500 cds must include though...it would take just over 3 years to listen to it all though...if the cds averaged 60 minutes in length. :eek:


Heh, i have no Iron Butterfly, but my longest songs are (over 10 minutes, they include):

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/8391/morethan10minshi8.jpg

And if i had more Sun O))), that list would be bigger.

[tybrenis]

http://www.powerpackedpc.com/images/tbcs/songs.bmp

Not too bad, I guess. I have 2213 songs on here (used to have more), and it's 9.09 GB, only about 6.2 days.

[Airbozo]

Not too bad, I guess. I have 2213 songs on here (used to have more), and it's 9.09 GB, only about 6.2 days.

Floyd fan for sure. Listened to Atom Heart Mother?

[Slug Toy]

my last count was 401 songs and that took up 2.7 gigs. its taken the better part of a year to find all 401 songs... im fairly selective and often only one or two off each album.