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["Josef Komenda" <joe AT komejo.com>]

It looks like < 30 gig of data, so you could get it all on a hard drive. Or
8 DVD-R's.

Time to get that TiVo and slap a 2nd drive / mp3 player mod on it!

Joe K

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Minton" <dminton AT mindspring.com>
To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Dumb question


> 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
> >
> >
> >
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