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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Some people may have 40,000 ebooks, but even 20 years ago I knew people who had a lot more music.
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40.000 songs is a huge number of songs to own legally.
I have finished ripping all of my CD's a few weeks ago, and have not acquired any new ones since. My Foobar (the music manager I use) says that I have 10,649 songs, in 716 albums (where one album can have more than one CD's: one of my classical music "albums" is actually a box of 40 CD's; I also own quite Jazz/Blues/Soul albums/box sets that have 10 CD's each).
Foobar says it would take 4 weeks, 5 days, 16 hours, and 47 seconds to play each of my songs ONCE.
It means that owning 40.000 songs would equate owning 2,736 albums. (Which means that one owns at least that many CD's / LP's, as an album can have multiple discs.)
That's a lot of music...
Granted, I've just been reading "for myself" for 13 years (before, it was all required reading for school and college; having to read 25 books in Dutch and 25 in English atop the normal text books was quite enough) and I have been re-reading a lot, while I have been collecting CD's for over 20 years. (Acquiring them went extremely fast in the last 4-5 years though, when I started shopping abroad and discovered Amazon's second-hand marketplace.)