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["David R. Matusiak" <matusiak AT speakeasy.net>]

well, i doubt Gina can tell us much more about it (the secret project, that 
is).

once SETI discovered that the interstellar space aliens are still using 
cassette technology to "Rock out" scientists world-wide have been scrambling 
to 
address this issue.

if we can just get them decent copies of the Bee-Gees, Breeders, and Aphex 
Twin, 
then perhaps they will spare our weak, cromulent society.

not that you heard any of this from me...
d.m.
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On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, David Minton wrote:

> Is this a trick question? If we do some fantasyland math:
> 
> 470 CDs x 74 minutes = 34,780 minutes
> 
> If uncompressed, 773 sides or 387 cassettes.
> 
> If you got 10:1 compression from your MP3 encoding, that would need about 39
> cassettes.
> 
> This assumes that all CDs are completely full (unlikely), and that song
> breaks do not force leaving unused space on the ends of cassettes (also
> unlikely).
> 
> Now that we have finished our time in fantasy land, why do you ask? Is there
> such thing as a digital audio cassette recorder/player? How could you
> transfer the data to an audio cassette, and be able to play it back, either
> as music, or transfer it to another computer to decode the data as audio?
> 
> Just curious.
> 
> David
> 
> On 8/5/02 12:43 PM, "Gina Norman" <gina AT vnet.net> wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I started wondering how many cassettes it would take to store my
> > current CD collection, assuming the CD collection were ripped to MP3 and
> > saved to cassette via something like a Vic 20 (my very first computer).  I
> > know that storage capacity of a cassette would vary (based, I'm assuming
> > on the length of the cassette?), but if we were to use a 45 min/side
> > cassette (and whatever data "compression" mechanism was common for
> > cassette drives), how much data could fit on one cassette?
> > 
> > (If you wanted to go ahead and "do the math", I'm working with 470 CD's
> > approx.  Standard MP3 compression [128?].)
> > 
> > Any ideas, anyone?  (Other than the "known" that I think way too much)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Gina