How Much Room Would PA Take Up?
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Topic: How Much Room Would PA Take Up?
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Subject: How Much Room Would PA Take Up?
Date 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.  I was looking at my own collection and it's beginning to frighten me.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 17:38
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The local water park. *not stacked and lined vertically* ------------- 
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Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 17:39
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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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Posted By: Klogg
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 18:55
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Luckly, I don't like every artist of the prog universe
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Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 21:21
Well, if we do some simple mathematics...  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... ------------- |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 04:23
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It would fill the Albert Hall
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Backwards masked nonsense runs into groove looping.............
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 06:13
| I think it would fill the library of an average town (50,000 inhabitants, let's say). |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 06:36
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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. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 06:39
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 09:13
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! |
Dean wrote:Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 09:43
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 10:16
Bustin' PA Myths since 13th May 2007
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 10:25
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 13:31
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!)? |
Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 13:45
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:01
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Sense no make.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:16
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.) ------------- What? |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:27
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What if you chucked out all the CD cases and stored the discs in CD wallets? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:40
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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. ------------- What? |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:41
| I think RAH is about twice as big as L'Olympia. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:42
Well my friend has chuicked out all his jewel cases. It depends on the wallets you use i think...he's got big 'uns that take about 6 Cds a "page"......I tyhink ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:46
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 15:41
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What about taking into account all of the albums that are only available on vinyl? Those take up a decent bit more space than CDs.
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 15:57
An idea that I suggested. But LPs packages are thinner than CDs packages. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 16:01
Actually I think it may fill up only a room. It'd be totally filled, like you cant go in and would have to take off the door. If anyone would like to get me that many CD's I'll test it! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 16:06
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5 Feet in all directions.
Unless we get into other dimensions...I usually try to stick to three or four for ease. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 19:41
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Convert 'em all to digital and you could store the whole lot on one of these....
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