Re: [ARSCLIST] FBI Warning

[Roderic G Stephens <savecal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

What comes to mind after all this discussion is that
one's collection is really (at least in my case) a
library of old friends that are there when I need
them, so when I hear a recording on one of my local
classical FM stations, I can say to myself, "Oh,
that's so and so" or maybe pull it down and reacquaint
myself with it, since it never goes out of style, or
at least, interest.   Pardon my run on sentence, but
it was my immediate response to this last posting.

Also, there is the thrill to know that these are real
treasures that I have at my fingertips, just for my
latest whim or interest, as well as being a living
catalog of timeless music.   A patron of earlier days
never had so rich a kingdom.

Rod Stephens

--- Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To those with the appropriate mind-set and
> sensibilities, a record
> collection functions as a source of musical
> nourishment and also as a
> component of a research tool, a personalized sonic
> encyclopedia.  
> 
> Not all people have their brains wired identically. 
> What seems
> incomprehensible to those whose switchboards are
> wired otherwise is the most
> natural thing for many on this listserv.  
> 
> Steve Smolian
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> [mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Abrams
> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:31 AM
> To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] FBI Warning
> 
> Here is a concise answer.  Assuming that you listen
> to music for three hours
> 
> a day and that your records are already digitised so
> you don't have to pull 
> them out and put them on the turntable one by one,
> it will take you fifty 
> years to listen once to everything you have.  This
> assumes that you are 
> undiscriminating.  If you also like to play
> favourites it will take you a 
> hundred years to cycle through  the lot.
> 
> I conclude that you have too much music and also
> that you have too many 
> records.  Of course this is only my humble opinion.
> 
> Of course you are a "discographer" and may feel that
> changes everything.
> 
> Steve Abrams
> 
> (There is a Steve Abrams who is a discographer, but
> it's not me.)
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 5:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] FBI Warning
> 
> 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> In any case, my point stands -- what's "too much"
> music in the age of 
> >> 160-gig iPods?
> >>
> > Okeh...I shall redefine this in my own terms...!
> >
> > I currently own about 53,000 78rpm
> phonorecord...of which at least 50,000 
> > are
> > NOT duplicated within the archive! This means I
> have 100,000 distinct 
> > sound
> > recordings (here I am assuming the later
> "multi-track" 78's will 
> > effectively
> > cancel out the single-faced phonorecords...?!).
> >
> > Now...let's assume I own 50,000 DIFFERENT
> phonorecords...or, in other
> > words, about 100,000 distinct sound recordings...!
> Let's also guess that 
> > the
> > average playing duration of these will run about
> 2:45...or 2-3/4 (2.75) 
> > minutes...!
> > Making the above assumptions, I own 2.75 * 100,000
> minutes of recorded
> > sound in my"half-vast archives"...or 275,000
> minutes of sound. This is
> > 4583-1/3 HOURS of recorded music...! This could,
> in turn, be "burnt" onto
> > around 3, 103 80-minute CD-R's...!
> >
> > Do I own "TOO MUCH MUSIC"...?!
> >
> > IF so...or IF not...explain your answers in as
> much detail as 
> > feasible...!!
> >
> > Steven C. Barr 
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