How Much Room Would PA Take Up?

If all the artists listed on this site had all their titles collected on CDs into one location, how much room do you think it would take up.  

I was looking at my own collection and it's beginning to frighten me.


Edited by Slartibartfast - August 13 2010 at 17:36

Oh jeez, the homepage says that there are currently 28,795 on PA.

Well, if we do some simple mathematics...  if a Cd is about...

I think it would fill the library of an average town (50,000 inhabitants, let's say).

Dean wrote: Oh boy you guys overestimate by an awful lot - 29,000 CDs in jewel-cases would occupy 5.6 cubic metres - if you build a CD rack that was 12 CDs high and 1 CD deep it would only be 3.3 metres long - you could build that against the wall of a typical sitting room.

You have destroyed all my hopes and dreams.... the myth is gone...

CPicard wrote: Dean wrote: Oh boy you guys overestimate by an awful lot - 29,000 CDs in jewel-cases would occupy 5.6 cubic metres - if you build a CD rack that was 12 CDs high and 1 CD deep it would only be 3.3 metres long - you could build that against the wall of a typical sitting room. But do you count the 2xCDs or the boxsets? Moreover, you're just talking about the CDs: what about the LPs which have never been reissued on CD?   And I will add that we must be happy to talk about Prog-Rock, a scene which has always been quite "reasonable" when coming to the topic of packaging: I heard about an industrial/electronic act (Vromb, if I remember well) which released one CD in a kind of metal lock!

Doesn't make a huge amount of difference given that the bulk is contained in standard single CD jewel-cases. Whatever the effect of is, it's not going to be 10 or 100 times bigger, but even if it were, we're still contained within a typical family dwelling and not looking at renting the Royal Albert Hall.

Dean wrote: Bustin' PA Myths since 13th May 2007

But you have failed in one major one:

CPicard wrote: Dean wrote: CPicard wrote: Dean wrote: Oh boy you guys overestimate by an awful lot - 29,000 CDs in jewel-cases would occupy 5.6 cubic metres - if you build a CD rack that was 12 CDs high and 1 CD deep it would only be 3.3 metres long - you could build that against the wall of a typical sitting room. But do you count the 2xCDs or the boxsets? Moreover, you're just talking about the CDs: what about the LPs which have never been reissued on CD?   And I will add that we must be happy to talk about Prog-Rock, a scene which has always been quite "reasonable" when coming to the topic of packaging: I heard about an industrial/electronic act (Vromb, if I remember well) which released one CD in a kind of metal lock! Doesn't make a huge amount of difference given that the bulk is contained in standard single CD jewel-cases. Whatever the effect of is, it's not going to be 10 or 100 times bigger, but even if it were, we're still contained within a typical family dwelling and not looking at renting the Royal Albert Hall. I guess. I don't know how large is the Royal Albert Hall. Is it larger or smaller than the Louvre or the Museum of Quai d'Orsay (at least, I don't ask to converse from inches to meters!)?

Have you ever tried making a pile out of CDs in those nasty little plastic wallets? Everything starts out all hunky dory, then it all starts to get a bit unstable and the whole lot comes crashing to the floor. It's bad enough trying to remove the nth CD from a stack of say 50 without playing an impromptu game of 50 CD pick-up, doing that with CDs in nasty little plastic wallets is a recipe for disaster before you even start. This is before you consider how you ever manage to find anything at all if you can't read the name on the spine because CDs in slipcases don't have spines. No, CDs in nasty little plastic wallets would require a whole new storage solution that would involve some method of intelligent retrieval system, something like the selector in a pre-1970s Wurlitzer juke-box, but with some form of mainframe processing power, probably water-cooled and over-clocked and roughly the size of a family hatch-back, but without the seats. For 29,000 CDs in nasty little plastic wallets that mechanism alone would occupy an area that is beyond the spacial visualisation capabilities of my meager brain to envisage.