{"id":2568,"date":"2004-06-07T05:13:46","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T19:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/07\/im-a-music-whore\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:47:21","slug":"im-a-music-whore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/07\/im-a-music-whore\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a music whore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>I used to have all of my music stored on my old computer as .mp3 files. When I got the new computer, rather than just copying everything over, I began the process of re-ripping my entire CD collection as AAC, as they sounded a little better and are slightly smaller than the old .mp3s. As I have a <em>lot<\/em> of music, this project takes quite a while, and I&#8217;ll approach it in fits and starts &#8212; ripping a ton of CDs over a few weeks, then getting tired of it and taking a break for a few weeks, then getting back into it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been back in the &#8220;rip like mad&#8221; stage for the past week or so.<\/p>\n<p>Progress so far:<\/p>\n<p>Out of the (roughly) 1200 CDs that I own&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve imported probably somewhere around 850 (my album count reads at 879, but that includes any tracks I&#8217;ve purchased from the iTunes Music Store).<\/p>\n<p>There are 2,927 separate artists listed (though this is increased a bit by things like &#8220;Artist X presents Artist Y&#8221;, or &#8220;Artist A featuring Artist B&#8221;, and so on, not to mention soundtrack cast albums where nearly every song has a different &#8216;artist&#8217; depending on which characters are performing).<\/p>\n<p>My collection takes up 44.13GB of space.<\/p>\n<p>It would take me 33 days, 13 hours, 21 minutes, and 57 seconds to listen to the entire collection from beginning to end.<\/p>\n<p>The entire collection consists of 10,282 individual tracks.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve still got a few hundred more albums to import. I&#8217;m quite curious as to what the final count ends up being.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if only I could afford either a wide enough pipe to start a &#8216;net radio station, or a low power FM transmitter to run a small local radio station (of course, I have no clue who&#8217;d actually tune in, but I still like the idea). I&#8217;d just put the entire collection on random, and let it go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;False Documents&#8221; by Anderson, Laurie from the album <em>United States Live<\/em> (1984, 1:59).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>879 albums, 2,927 artists, 44.13GB, 33.5 days, 10,282 tracks in my music collection&hellip;so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035,2043],"tags":[13,80],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal","tag-life","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}