Posted by fred-bloggs on 02/15/06 12:27
"boumtje" <boumtje@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1139992932.345966.293350@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>
> Cos360 wrote:
>> "Sla#s" <phil@KNOTslatts.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:dsr2n9$1uu$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> >
>> > "JR" <nowayinhell@spam.com> wrote in message
>> > news:VsadnctXNrIDmWzeRVnyiw@giganews.com...
>> >>> > RIAA Bans The Reselling Of iPods With Preloaded Music
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>> You know why don't you?
>> >>> At the current rate of memory expansion it will not be long
>> >>> before every
>> >>> single bit of music ever recorded could be put onto a device the
>> >>> size of an iPod
>> >> I've collecting mp3's for a while now and believe me that kind of
>> >> strorage is far far
>> >> ...farr away... there is a lot !!! of music, a 100.000 mp3s is
>> >> nothing
>> >>
>> >
>> > OK - All the music that anyone would want :-)
>> > We'll leave out the Bartok and Stockhausen!
>> >
>> > I wonder if anyone has calculated how much music has been recorded
>> > since recording began?
>> > Nothings on Google
>> >
>> that's the most ridicolous statement I have read in a while...it's
>> like asking how many paperclips have ever been made.
>
> it's slightly more interesting than that, kwaj...but impossible to
> calculate
>
>
Not at all accurate but
freedb has approaching 2 million CDs in it's database.
At 128 kbps that's approx 70 MB/CD - 140 TeraBytes.
Add another 30%? to cover the vinyl that hasn't been re-released on CD?
--
fred
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