Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:14:01 -0400
From: Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: FBI Warning
To those with the appropriate mind-set and sensibilities, a record
collection functions as a source of musical nourishment and also as a
component of a research tool, a personalized sonic encyclopedia.
Not all people have their brains wired identically. What seems
incomprehensible to those whose switchboards are wired otherwise is the most
natural thing for many on this listserv.
Steve Smolian
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From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
[mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Abrams
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:31 AM
To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] FBI Warning
Here is a concise answer. Assuming that you listen to music for three hours
a day and that your records are already digitised so you don't have to pull
them out and put them on the turntable one by one, it will take you fifty
years to listen once to everything you have. This assumes that you are
undiscriminating. If you also like to play favourites it will take you a
hundred years to cycle through the lot.
I conclude that you have too much music and also that you have too many
records. Of course this is only my humble opinion.
Of course you are a "discographer" and may feel that changes everything.
Steve Abrams
(There is a Steve Abrams who is a discographer, but it's not me.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] FBI Warning
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In any case, my point stands -- what's "too much" music in the age of
160-gig iPods?
Okeh...I shall redefine this in my own terms...!
I currently own about 53,000 78rpm phonorecord...of which at least 50,000
are
NOT duplicated within the archive! This means I have 100,000 distinct
sound
recordings (here I am assuming the later "multi-track" 78's will
effectively
cancel out the single-faced phonorecords...?!).
Now...let's assume I own 50,000 DIFFERENT phonorecords...or, in other
words, about 100,000 distinct sound recordings...! Let's also guess that
the
average playing duration of these will run about 2:45...or 2-3/4 (2.75)
minutes...!
Making the above assumptions, I own 2.75 * 100,000 minutes of recorded
sound in my"half-vast archives"...or 275,000 minutes of sound. This is
4583-1/3 HOURS of recorded music...! This could, in turn, be "burnt" onto
around 3, 103 80-minute CD-R's...!
Do I own "TOO MUCH MUSIC"...?!
IF so...or IF not...explain your answers in as much detail as
feasible...!!
Steven C. Barr
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