{"id":2688,"date":"2004-07-19T04:30:45","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T18:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/19\/theres-no-such-thing-as-too-much-music\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:53:32","slug":"theres-no-such-thing-as-too-much-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/19\/theres-no-such-thing-as-too-much-music\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no such thing as too much music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My one major accomplishment of the weekend was finally completing a project that I&#8217;ve had going on for months now: importing every CD I own into iTunes. Quite a task, when after years of being a complete music junkie (compounded by a few years of DJing), I&#8217;ve built up a CD collection of 1,142 albums!<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m done, though, the final tally&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total songs in my iTunes library: <strong>14,622<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Total time: <strong>49.6 days<\/strong> (49 days, 15 hours, 8 minutes, 23 seconds)<\/li>\n<li>Total space: <strong>65.09 GB<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fact that all that music takes up only 65 GB was a pleasant surprise. When I was using my G3 as my primary computer, I picked up an 80GB drive specifically to hold all my music. At that point, though, encoding my music as 160kbps VBR MP3 files, I couldn&#8217;t fit all of my music on that drive! This time, though, I&#8217;ve been encoding at 128kbps AAC (not archival quality, but slightly better sound quality than the 160kbps .mp3s even at smaller file sizes), and managed to get <em>all<\/em> of my music on the &#8216;puter in 15 GB less space than before.<\/p>\n<p>Then, since iTunes has a special &#8220;Grouping&#8221; field that can be used for whatever sort of customized sorting options the user wants, I set up four groups for my music. I&#8217;ve always prided myself on the fact that the majority of my music is music that I actually own, and I&#8217;ve generally only resorted to downloading songs from peer to peer networks such as Napster or the like when I was trying to get really rare tracks that I couldn&#8217;t find any other way. I was curious as to just how the numbers worked out, though, so here&#8217;s my four groups, and their final results&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Copied from friends or downloaded from P2P networks (technically illegal): <strong>610 (4.172%)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Original rips (my own mixes, GarageBand creations, or imports from vinyl): <strong>51 (0.349%)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bought from the iTunes Music Store (legally owned, though without the physical CD): <strong>232 (1.587%)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ripped from CDs that I own: <strong>13,729 (93.893%)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, I really don&#8217;t think that that&#8217;s too bad of a ratio.<\/p>\n<p>And yes. I&#8217;m a complete and total music whore. :)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Come What May&#8221; by Kidman, Nicole\/McGregor, Ewan from the album <em>Moulin Rouge<\/em> (2001, 4:48).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My one major accomplishment of the weekend was finally completing a project that I&#8217;ve had going on for months now: importing every CD I own into iTunes. Quite a task, when after years of being a complete music junkie (compounded by a few years of DJing), I&#8217;ve built up a CD collection of 1,142 albums!<\/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":[80],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","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=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}