Gracenote’s media database shows 97,206,484 songs

For our calculation lets assume 50% are duplicate version of tracks on compilation albums.

ie 48603242 songs multiplied by the average track length of 4 minutes =

194412968 minutes of music

divided by 60 minutes per hour =

3240216.133333333767951 hours of music

divided by 24 = 135009 days of music

or 369.887686 years to listen to all of human musical output known of by the gracenote database currently in one continuous session without sleep.

with sleep of eight hours a day ?

491.94 years

ie for a human just to to try and appreciates all of human musical output currently ie to listen to each song a few times and appreciate the merit of such music made, would involve probably around 30 current lifetimes thats with an imaginary suspension on listening to any of the new music being created.

lets go a little further how much storage would it take ?

lets say on average one day of quality Mp3(192kbps-320Kbps) listening takes up 1.828 Gb of storage on average
so one years worth listening takes up 667.29Gb’s
so 369 years x 667.29Gb’s = 246.231.05 Gb’s

or 246 terabytes of storage im not sure whether spatial storing of bits is going to catch up with the rate of human musical output to mean you could ever have the entire of human musical output on a series of drives in your house.

but with 4tb drives it would be around 62 4tb usb2 drives. of course copying the tracks onto the drive would take a long time.

so 246,231,000 Mb’s copying at say a maximum of 40Mb’s on to such drives via USB2, would take 71.2 days to copy the data between a set drives, very bearable in comparison to the listening time involced ?

lets imagine its a sata to sata copy at around 100Mbs then it would still take 28.49 days to copy the data.

ok lets imagine that the songs are on a series of raided ssd drives capable of copying at 600 Mb’s they could achieve the copying task in 4.744 days

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are u 12 year old kid? u want red and black? u moron. gtfo Noctua makes products with 6 year warranty with coolest logo out there and the colors with attitude. not that teen black blue shit.
kalidoresdan in reply to MastermindChawc1337 (Show the comment) 8 months ago

“colors with attitude” ? attitude ? thats exactly what I expect from a teenager, not an austrian quality fan manufacturer ? maybe we should see what other gear kolink make ? also make your fan product packaging completely out of paper , no plastic in the packaging, as its not necessary and is greatly less recycled in the waste stream.
beingatliberty in reply to kalidoresdan (Show the comment) 1 second ago
i also agree with ryan morgan get off your arse and bother to make your fan range fully PWM and make your fans able to do PWM sharing, like the arctic models I use, as if my machine is idling, why would I want my fans running at more rpm than needed at anyone moment ? actually buying up arctic get access to their pwm sharing tech, combine forces and make the best fans ever including your new noise cancellation tech.
beingatliberty in reply to kalidoresdan (Show the comment) 1 second ago
i think the kid is the one that says “the coolest logo” ? system builders have to have brown because noctua think they can afford not to listen to their customers ? having them brown does not improve theyre function, noctua use the brown as a product differentiator like some kind of silly brand fashion insistance. youre defence of such decisions makes you a partial fanboy or an employee.

Narrative environment exploration games are not novel, dear esther is not a first, I could name 10 exploration art based story environments that are the parents of dear esther. Environments artists in second life have been doing this for years before you. “Bryn Oh” and black swan rezzable in second life, being a great environment story artists who far precede dear esther ? And would you like to lay some credit at the door of the myst series ? I hope you have retained Briscoe ?

a lovely post Aug 20 2011, a charming record of your visit and much to agree with, Mr Beard may not have agreed on the title “the celts, but he would have been living in denial to deny those peoples existences of which 50 tribal names are known, RE: paragraph four, I could not agree more as a person who sadly remains in london to uphold the level of english spoken in public here, but our political betters have run with liberalism too far, you know when immigration has gone too far, is when tourists cant seem to hear or find the people they imagine to inhabit a culture, next time might I recommend chichester or lewes, hazlemere on the south coast, Once home of the Regnenses and the Cantiaci perhaps a trip to some of the south downs smaller towns the yew grove at kingley vale the trundle, and butser ancient farm an onsite reconstruction of a celtic era village.

SUNDAY, MARCH 04, 2012
I Say, It’s My Birthday!
definately the me and my generation, though tinged with sadness the blog post has not one response.

Kind of crept up on me this year…nothing special planned. A quiet day as usual, with filet mignon for dinner and chocolate pound cake w/vanilla ice cream and one candle. And of course a rummage on eBay for a smallish present to myself, nothing extravagant—perhaps a pretty teapot, as I’ve been getting into cuppa territory recently.
“bearable and moderate”

I don’t really have anything profound to say on turning 66. It certainly doesn’t feel ancient or anything; though a few joints have gotten a little creakier, all else is much the same. The plans for last year (TV series) fell through, sadly and disappointingly, but this year I’m going to try to knock out two books
“hmm knock out ? lets hope that doesnt involve any sacrifice to their signal or merit”

to make up for it. Apart from that, no real resolutions except the usual: go to the gym and work out more,
“the gym and the hope implied in it to live a bit longer is small scale repugnant, im sure Jim would have disapproved”

get out more with friends, GET some more local friends, tidy up my bomb site of an apartment…like that.
“honest ambitions, but I dint think “GET” local friends might imply they were by the pound, but still a good ambition as a 60’s gal your recognising your locality as something worth investigating from a people perspective, compared to the love of the foreign people and climbs that dominated the imagination of the 60’s youth”

But those are all good things to plan, and not so extravagant as to be impossible of achievement. On the whole, and with a few exceptions, I’m well pleased with how my life has turned out. And that’s nice to be able to say. At least I think it is…
“true it might be worth worrying that bragging about how you life turned out seems a little gauche”

next time we do this can we perhaps do it in a less costly and smaller timescale, 15 years seems ridiculous. pity were still going to be paying for his spawnage on the benefits system.

idiotic judgement

great work guys, pity you didn’t look beyond peters representations.

Only in a world of youthful fiction such as the one tolkien created, hence turned to film by peter jackson, could there be such anodyne character representation ‘that all which is ugly is evil, and all that be beautiful are in nature … good’ whereas any realistic fictional world could nare afford to be so simple.