Music Challenge/Experiment

[theVOID]

But who says the average number of songs I listen to are 4:00 minutes in length?

It's a statistical mean, taking into account millions of songs, the average is almost exactly 4:00. That includes songs of all lengths, so 4:00 is a pretty good starting point.

In fact I have no idea how long new songs may be, there are a lot of songs that I listen to that are under a minute long. (Yes, if a nice interlude is great I consider it a song) and then there are songs that are longer than 15 minutes each, take for example the single version of X-Japan's - Art of Life, it's a 29:26~ song, almost 30 minutes and that's just one song.

They average out, there are databases of millions of songs, it's the closest you're going to get without doing the math on your own collection.

And then take into account the quality of the track that I listen to. Lots of people enjoy their 320kbps Mp3 files or their AAC files or their wma files or their FLAC files, I prefer flac because it gives the closest sound that I am going to get uncompressed in a reasonable filesize.

Me too, less compression especially on the bottom end. Are the majority of your tracks in FLAC though? you'd only reasonably change the average size proportionately to how many FLACs you have, they range generally from 30-60MB.

Also, when stems (Muti-tracks) of songs are available (innerpartysystem and nine inch nails are a few examples of bands that give out free multi-track songs) I like to put them all together and listen to them inside of audacity so that they're not compressed. A standard multitrack song is what? 200 mb or more uncompressed? Some stems are at least 50 mb for every track have more than 8 tracks in total and

That has to be taken into account sure, but it'd still likely have a small impact on the averages, unless your collection was chock full of them.

And don't forget about music DVD's, videos of live concerts are still music, films that are musically based are music too, (Pink Floyd - The Wall, Angels and Airwaves - Love, etc) so, it really depends on how much you listen to and how big the filesize of the music is and also wbat type of music it is. Music Video/Concert Visualization, Movie, Lyric Video, Live Concert, DVD, Blue-ray (Blu-Rays have the capacity to hold 50gigs alone do they not?)

I didn't count DVD's, that would likely have a big impact on the averages.

And then, after all that sure there will probably be a TON of room left but if I could go on and lis ten to music without never deleting it I would. Because I mostly like all kinds of music and it depends on the mood I am in and if a random song comes on then yeah I'll probably listen to it the entire way through without skipping even if I do not like it much. Plus there's the benefit of never running out of room. So yeah, at least 1TB for music.

I think 70GB will do me for now I haven't even listened to 80% of my library.