Re:Dear lord, how many mp3s do you have?
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It is not inconceivable for some to have 90GB or more of MP3s, you realise. These days there is an increasing number of individuals purely collecting music for the sole purpose of having more and more music. It can be seen paralleled with the 'warez' scene; many are just purely collectors. People don't actually need all the things they download, some will never even use it. These items are download for the pure satisfaction of being able to 'have' it. I admit, I myself have many albums (MP3s and the like), which I will most likely never listen to. In fact, I have 160GB devoted to MP3s; a definate waste in terms of space. Although when one considers the convenience of having most of my music accessible at a single mouse click, not having to change CDs continually, one can surely see the benifits. The fact is that HDDs are getting bigger, and cheaper all the time. Most people will find it difficult to fill these drives with all their typical programs, and even with all their shots from their digital and whatnot cameras. Music, movies, all take up space - generally this has become a driving force in the need for and development of higher capacity drives. In the simplest terms and as a fitting example, sure I could back up all my MP3s onto blank DVDs, 4.7GB or so each, and that would save me on HDD space. But firstly, that would also mean having to swap DVDs (and being too lazy to do that, there goes that option). Secondly, I generally find it more convenient to have fast access times and more storage space. So, knowing the way things go, every time I buy or have in my possession a new album, I will encode it. This attitude, I am certain I share with many others, and cannot even in the simplest manner exemplify the extent MP3 collectors are doing the same thing.
Furthermore, when you also take into consideration that a typical music enthusaist is likely to buy more than one CD every week, and even possibly convert it, it becomes apparent that this number of albums at even 192K is entirely able to take up 90GB.
Personally, extremley high capacity disks are available at a low cost, I will continue to use HDDs as my main storage medium for music. 90GB for an enthusiast is not that much these days. (Otherwise they wouldn't be making 120GB+ HDDs).
Hmm.. well, as mentioned somewhere above, the collective [WE ARE BORG] will be created if society doesn't put in place some strict monitoring imidiately, before we get to that point. I promise you this, if someone doesn't put any guidlines in place, we will have a collective... I will make sure of that. Heh, I've still got a lot to learn, but with my availabilty of time, and correct decisions in my youth, I will (hopefully) create the first collective. Remember this: no guidlines, monitoring or restrictions will result in the assimilation of your species... ugh.. i've been watching too much StarTrek...
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It is not inconceivable for some to have 90GB or more of MP3s, you realise.
These days there is an increasing number of individuals purely collecting music for the sole purpose of having more and more music. It can be seen paralleled with the 'warez' scene; many are just purely collectors. People don't actually need all the things they download, some will never even use it. These items are download for the pure satisfaction of being able to 'have' it.
I admit, I myself have many albums (MP3s and the like), which I will most likely never listen to. In fact, I have 160GB devoted to MP3s; a definate waste in terms of space. Although when one considers the convenience of having most of my music accessible at a single mouse click, not having to change CDs continually, one can surely see the benifits.
The fact is that HDDs are getting bigger, and cheaper all the time. Most people will find it difficult to fill these drives with all their typical programs, and even with all their shots from their digital and whatnot cameras. Music, movies, all take up space - generally this has become a driving force in the need for and development of higher capacity drives.
In the simplest terms and as a fitting example, sure I could back up all my MP3s onto blank DVDs, 4.7GB or so each, and that would save me on HDD space. But firstly, that would also mean having to swap DVDs (and being too lazy to do that, there goes that option). Secondly, I generally find it more convenient to have fast access times and more storage space. So, knowing the way things go, every time I buy or have in my possession a new album, I will encode it.
This attitude, I am certain I share with many others, and cannot even in the simplest manner exemplify the extent MP3 collectors are doing the same thing.
Furthermore, when you also take into consideration that a typical music enthusaist is likely to buy more than one CD every week, and even possibly convert it, it becomes apparent that this number of albums at even 192K is entirely able to take up 90GB.
Personally, extremley high capacity disks are available at a low cost, I will continue to use HDDs as my main storage medium for music. 90GB for an enthusiast is not that much these days. (Otherwise they wouldn't be making 120GB+ HDDs).
Hmm.. well, as mentioned somewhere above, the collective [WE ARE BORG] will be created if society doesn't put in place some strict monitoring imidiately, before we get to that point. I promise you this, if someone doesn't put any guidlines in place, we will have a collective... I will make sure of that. Heh, I've still got a lot to learn, but with my availabilty of time, and correct decisions in my youth, I will (hopefully) create the first collective. Remember this: no guidlines, monitoring or restrictions will result in the assimilation of your species... ugh.. i've been watching too much StarTrek...