Friday, March 02, 2007
So many CDs it's Bach-Breaking
You can get the complete works of Bach at Amazon.com for $108 (HT: Marginalrevolution). This takes up 155 CDs. The product description does not reveal the complete runtime, so I will make some estimates.
Let's assume that each CD is filled to the brim - 80 minutes apiece. In that case, it's about 207 hours, which is over 8.5 days of continuous Bach. Suppose you listen to music only in the car on the way to work, and that you have a 30 minute commute each way. If you buy this set and get it when you return from work on March 2nd, you will not finish until two days after Christmas, December 27th.
It is much more likely that the average length of these CDs is closer to 72 minutes. If that is the case, then the total playing time reduces to 186 hours, and you will be done by November 27th.
Sticking with that 72 minute assumption, suppose then that you encode this into a 192kbps MP3 file (a slightly higher sound quality than the standard 128kbps). In that case, it will take up 16194.55 megabytes. The largest iPod currently available, at $332.49 on Amazon, has a capacity of 80000 megabytes, so it can hold this collection nearly five times over. For $100 less, you can get a 30000 megabyte iPod, but that's only enough for the complete works of Bach twice.
Let's assume that each CD is filled to the brim - 80 minutes apiece. In that case, it's about 207 hours, which is over 8.5 days of continuous Bach. Suppose you listen to music only in the car on the way to work, and that you have a 30 minute commute each way. If you buy this set and get it when you return from work on March 2nd, you will not finish until two days after Christmas, December 27th.
It is much more likely that the average length of these CDs is closer to 72 minutes. If that is the case, then the total playing time reduces to 186 hours, and you will be done by November 27th.
Sticking with that 72 minute assumption, suppose then that you encode this into a 192kbps MP3 file (a slightly higher sound quality than the standard 128kbps). In that case, it will take up 16194.55 megabytes. The largest iPod currently available, at $332.49 on Amazon, has a capacity of 80000 megabytes, so it can hold this collection nearly five times over. For $100 less, you can get a 30000 megabyte iPod, but that's only enough for the complete works of Bach twice.
Labels: Economic Stuff, Fantasy
# posted by StolenMonkey86 @ 3:17 AM 
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The thing is: Is this music legally available for free, to download?
After this much time, I doubt the Bach family would have retained the copyright to his pieces.
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After this much time, I doubt the Bach family would have retained the copyright to his pieces.
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