On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:40:09 +0000, Julian Fowler
wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:40:46 +0000 (UTC),
(Stewart Pinkerton) wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:03:05 -0000, "Stimpy"
wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

I can't imagine how sad you have to be, to listen to half a dozen
*different* albums *every* day......................

Variety is the spice of life...

Yeah, but do you need half a dozen brand new spices *every* day?

****, he's claiming to listen to five hours of *new* music *every*
day. When does he find time to listen to music he actually *likes*?

*different*, not necessarily *new*

No, the original point was about the mass storage requirement for a
year of listening, hence it's all *new*, not existing stuff already
stored. The original replier claimed that he listened to 2,000 *new*
albums every year. I think he's bull****ting, or in the music
business, or dangerously obsessive......................

I don't know whether I'm the "original replier" or not; however, I do
probably listen to 2000 discs-worth of previously unheard performances
every year, and I definitely don't fall into the first two categories,
or see why being obsessive is necessarily dangerous :-)

Well, of course *you* don't see it................... :-)
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:44:03 -0000, "Stimpy"
wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

No, the original point was about the mass storage requirement for a
year of listening, hence it's all *new*, not existing stuff already
stored. The original replier claimed that he listened to 2,000 *new*
albums every year. I think he's bull****ting, or in the music
business, or dangerously obsessive......................

That was me...

So, which is it? :-)

(b) on a semi-pro basis but (c) about music in general


On 17-Jan-04 the following was posted:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

You can get at least 200 CDs onto a 120GB hard disk if you insist
on computer storage, and I don't know *anyone* who listens to more
than 200 different discs in an average year.

What?? I have the stereo on for at least 8 hours a day, that has
to be around 8-10 albums a day minimum. Those days when I'm not at
home I'm on the road and have music on in the car. It's safe to
say rarely a day goes by when I don't listen to at least 8 albums
worth of music.

8 * (say) 300 days = 2400 albums/year as a minimum

You said DIFFERENT (not NEW) and I mentioned neither NEW nor
DIFFERENT, merely '2400 albums/year'

Since the context is mass storage, you clearly implied that you listen
to 2400 *different* albums every year. If you're listening to a
different selection of the same 2-300 albums (say) at various times,
then you're just weaselling, and a 120GB hard disk would be adequate

Correct, I implied DIFFERENT, not NEW as you suggested earlier. I fail to
see the issue. My jukebox is 2 * 250gb hard disks holding mp3's ripped at
320k. I use iTunes as a front end and have it running on 'random' pretty
much all the time I'm at home. Given that I'm pretty much retired, this
easily comes to a minimum of 8 hours a day. As explained above this easily
makes 2400 albums worth of music per year.

Some of them are NEW as I'm adding 20-30 new CDs a month to the jukebox and
some are DIFFERENT as the jukebox just churns out random tracks all day
long. Either way, it's approximately 24000 tracks a year. Give me a few
more months and this setup will have been running for a year - iTunes will
then tell me how many tracks it's played in that time :-)