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    Posted: August 13 2010 at 17:35
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.  LOL

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


Edited by Slartibartfast - August 13 2010 at 17:36
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2010 at 17:38
The local water park. *not stacked and lined vertically*


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2010 at 17:39
Oh jeez, the homepage says that there are currently 28,795 on PA.

In CD form that would fill up my entire house and then some.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2010 at 18:55
Luckly, I don't like every artist of the prog universe
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2010 at 21:21
Well, if we do some simple mathematics... Geek if a Cd is about...
 
Nah... I'm sure it can be pack it up in a building of three levels of 10 X 10 meters... I guess...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 04:23
It would fill the Albert Hall
 
Now we know how many CDs it takes to fill the Albert Haaaaaaaaaall I'd love to tUuUuUuUuUuUuUurn YouUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUu oOoOoOoOoOoNnNnNnNnNnNnNnnnNnNnNnNnN
 
(Crescendo rises to pitch)
 
(One low piano note sounds out till fades)
 
 
Backwards masked nonsense runs into groove looping.............
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 06:13
I think it would fill the library of an average town (50,000 inhabitants, let's say).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 06:36
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.Geek
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 06:39
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 09:13
Originally posted by Dean 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.Geek


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!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 09:43
Originally posted by Dean 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.Geek
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 10:16
Bustin' PA Myths since 13th May 2007
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 10:25
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Originally posted by Dean 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.Geek


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.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 13:31
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Originally posted by Dean 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.Geek


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!)?



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 13:45
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

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But you have failed in one major one:
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:01
Sense no make.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:16
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Originally posted by Dean 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.Geek


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!)?



The Louvre is approximately 13 times bigger than the Albert Hall - which is not too surprising since one is a museum and the other a concert hall. I don't know how big the Musée d'Orsay is by comparison, but I elect that to be your concern, not mine, along with how big is The V&A Museum or L'Olympia et Le Moulin Rouge concert halls. Needless to say, all these public buildings are considerably larger than a typical dwelling and completely unnecessary for housing a Prog rock collection no matter what format you chose.
 
(btw, I quoted in metres and cubic metres just to confuse the imperialists.)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:27
What if you chucked out all the CD cases and stored the discs in CD wallets?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:40
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.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:41
I think RAH is about twice as big as L'Olympia. 
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