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Let's buy all music ever!
Hat:
I am pretty sure more music is being created at this very moment than we could listen to before they start making more.
I would be curious to know how many people it would take to be able to make progress, and then how long it would take those people to work their way through music not being made right now.
BobJoeJim:
Oh undoubtedly it wouldn't be possible, certainly not for a single person. If you put all music ever on a play list though, how long would that play list be? And for that matter, as per your point, how fast is it growing?
Elizzybeth:
How do you define "music," though? All music ever recorded? Or just all music ever published? I know there are times I've recorded twenty minutes or so of a practice session just so that I can play it back and hear where I've gone wrong. Would that count? What about the times I've done that then destroyed the digital file? Would that practice session still be part of all music ever? This is a sticky wicket, here.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: BobJoeJim on 22 Feb 2008, 20:54 ---So if this collection contains 57 years worth of music, how much music isn't in the collection? In other words, how long would it take to actually listen to all music ever?
--- End quote ---
I think you misread that. That is 57 years of continuous playtime, not every piece of music ever recorded over the last 57 years.
BobJoeJim:
Um, I think it is you that misread my post. That second part where I say "In other words, how long would it take to listen to all music ever?" and my reference to play list lengths in my response to Hat should have made it pretty clear that I understand it is 57 years of playtime.
The title of this thread refers (hyperbolically) to "all music ever". My question was, how much continuous playtime would all music ever actually entail, considering that this collection is 57 years? Does this collection actually contain a meaningful percentage of all music ever, or would we be talking millenniums worth of music with this collection only scratching the surface? I have no idea how to even begin trying to answer that question myself, particularly when you account for the difficulty in defining what constitutes "recorded music" as Elizzybeth pointed out. I thought it might be an interesting topic for discussion though.
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