[vorbis] Re: Re: fitting lots of music into 10GB with Vorbis

[Graham Mitchell]

>> Actually, you'll be able to fit much more than 100 full albums on a 10GB
>> hard drive at quality 3.5.
> 
> You are forgetting my varied taste in music- which is somewhere in this
> thread. Plus my sisters varied taste in music. Plus my mothers 
> varied taste in music.
> 
> So file sizes will be different for various styles of music- which your
> maths didn't take into account

Actually, my math did take into account various styles of music.  Did you even
look at the link I provided?  Rachmaninoff to Bing Crosby to Beatles to Fatboy
Slim, Linkin Park and Rage Against the Machine.  I have a hard time believing
even you + your sister + your mother have any more varied tastes than that. 
And I took the average of the space requirements of 149 *different* albums, by
artists all over the genre map. If anything, your average should be lower per
album, since more of my collection is hard music, which takes more bits to
encode on average than lighter stuff.

The point is, you're going to fit more than 100 albums on a 10GB hard drive at
quality 3.5.  I guarantee it.


--
Graham Mitchell
computer science teacher who also has had lots of math in his life and
    can probably be trusted to find a simple average
Leander High School

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