How Much Music Do You Have on Your PC?

Cafe Society
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Chavardz, don’t worry, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the music industry can’t force ISP’s to turn over information about illegal downloaders. Man, the RIAA keeps losing, don’t they??

I’ve got approx. 2240 mp3s = 14.4GB, about 1/3 of which are legit. I’m a stickler for high bitrates (192+) so the average file size (6.43mb) is quite high. Most of the not-so-legit stuff is rare demos and OOP albums.

And that doesn’t count the 928mb of mp3s used exclusively for my Sims game. :slight_smile:

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I have about 30 gigs, ripped from about 100 CDs. It’s so high because I rip the wav with EAC and then encode using the alt-preset-extreme setting for very high variable bit encoding.

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I have about 10 gigs, and that’s only about 10% of my CD collection. I have many many many long hours of ripping left to go.

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You’re misinterpreting, KGS.

The ruling yesterday (as defined on All Things Considered) simply requires the RIAA to get a judge to sign off on a subpeona.

Previously they could demand one from a Clerk of the Court.

So all yesterday’s ruling did was require them to get a friendly judge (and they’ll have them) to sign off on it.

Then it’s back in the dock for the sharers.

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3331 songs, 10.3 days. All legit copies ripped from CDs I physically possess. And I haven’t even started on the 150 or so classical CDs.

Took close to three weeks to rip 400 or so CDs, but now I can:

A: get the CDs out of the living room and…
B: contemplate selling them in order to…
C: buy a “media adapter” that will play MP3s on the main stereo
D: get an iPod

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Can I get symphonies, operas, Broadway musicals, etc downloads like people get free pop downloads? If so, how do I do it?

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-You get whatever file-trading program you choose, and then you search for them by artist name or title, just like anything else.
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  • I got about 110 CD’s I paid for and maybe another 150 or so downloaded songs. Total space is about 8.5 gigs, but I ripped my own CD’s at 160 KB/sec. The downloaded stuff is at whatever it came in on.
    …
    As much as it is illegal,
    I have found it to be true what file-sharing advocates say, however (at least in my own case): the only music that is casually traded is music people wouldn’t have paid for anyway. If I like an artist enough to go searching for very much of their music I usually end up buying their CD’s anyway because I want a higher-quality copy. The problem I have with buying legit CD’s is that many of the songs I would like to have are late 70’s/80’s/early 90’s stuff that’s no longer in print–so there’s no way I can get a legit CD of it now–the record companies don’t print it anymore.
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Thank you DougC.

Looks like it’s not worth the trouble.