[Vision2020] Any vinyl audiophiles out there?
Tom Hansen
thansen at moscow.com
Thu Feb 14 05:45:06 PST 2008
Or Carl could have his collection appraised and sell them to collectors.
The album covers alone should provide him a fair amount of scratch.
Scan the album covers for posterity's sake.
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
> I wish I could help you. Just for the curious, how much room does
> 17,467 albums take up of physical space? I was going to suggest ripping
> them to your computer, but by my calculations (assuming that an album is
> roughly equal to a CD in size) it would take over 10 terabytes of disk
> space for the raw .wav files. Or about 1 terabyte for mp3 files. Not
> completely out of the question (my computer right now has about a
> terabyte of space), but that's a lot of time ripping albums to disk. On
> the plus side, you could fit them all on two hard disks, for a total
> physical space usage of about the size of two grilled cheese sandwiches.
>
> It would also take somebody just under 4 1/2 years to listen to them
> all, assuming 45 minutes an album and 8 hour days and no time off for
> weekends or holidays.
>
> Paul
>
> Carl Westberg wrote:
> > I'm trying to decide what to do with approximately 17,467 (rough
> > estimate) vinyl classical albums. If you may be interested, or if you
> > know someone that may be interested, let me know off-list. Carl
> > Westberg Jr.
> >
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