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From: don pearce on 6 May 2008 03:03

Eeyore wrote:
>
> geoff wrote:
>
>> It always amuses me when the next greatest memory technology is invented and
>> the technology 'journalists' say that now we will be able to store 10
>> billion songs on our 'ipods'.
>
> Unfortunately it would take significantly longer than one's lifetime to listen
> to them all even once.
>
> Graham
>
>

At three minutes a song that is 57,000 years. That's almost as long as
Wagner's "Der Ring des Niebelungen".

d
From: Paul Stamler on 6 May 2008 03:08
"Green Xenon [Radium]" <glucegen1(a)excite.com> wrote in message
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> *Songs that were originally-recorded in stereo need to be converted to
> mono via the above 14 steps because different sounds are recorded
> differently in the L and R channels. The audio that is originally panned
> to the center is significantly louder than the audio whose phase is
> different in the left & right channels. This is why I reduce the
> loudness of non-inverted stereo audio file by 77.5% [before converting
> it to mono].

Wha-a?

Peace,
Paul


From: Paul Stamler on 6 May 2008 03:09
"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> > It always amuses me when the next greatest memory technology is invented
and
> > the technology 'journalists' say that now we will be able to store 10
> > billion songs on our 'ipods'.
>
> Unfortunately it would take significantly longer than one's lifetime to
listen
> to them all even once.

Only if you insist on listening to them one at a time. I believe we had a
thread about that recently.

Peace,
Paul


From: Paul Stamler on 6 May 2008 03:12
"Mike Rivers" <mrivers(a)d-and-d.com> wrote in message
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> I just got an announcement of a class action lawsuit against Creative
> Labs. Someone claimed that because a real gigabyte is 2^30 rather than
> 10^9, users were cheated out of approximately 7% of the capacity of the
> disk and couldn't store as many songs on their Jukebox players as
> claimed. Then I found out that someone sued Seagate on exactly the same
> basis. I don't suppose anyone can name enough songs to fill up a 100 GB
> disk drive.

I have done so...but in .wav form, of course.

Peace,
Paul


From: Federico on 6 May 2008 03:21
>> Unfortunately it would take significantly longer than one's lifetime to
> listen
>> to them all even once.
>
> Only if you insist on listening to them one at a time. I believe we had a
> thread about that recently.

:-)
F.


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