Basilisk Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Time for some speculative mathematical noodling... suppose there have been 10 to 15 psytrance CDs released every week for the past five years (and maybe half that for the five years previous to that)... that is close to 5,000 CDs right there, each of which would average about 8 or 9 tracks, which means there might be close to 44,000 released songs... let's be generous and say about half are re-releases or some stuff - it seems to imply there are still about 25,000 psytrance tunes out there. At about 7 minutes a piece, that is... about 3000 hours, or 120 days of straight music. Hmm, is that low or high? Anyway, this is completely unfounded - quick estimates and sloppy calculations. What would your estimate be? If you were throwing a party and never playing the same track twice or ever stopping, how long could you go for? I think it's fair to include anything we'd generally consider in the psytrance world... prog, chill, full-on, Goa, whatever... so what do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Maybe an hour, hour and ten minutes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reger Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Maybe an hour, hour and ten minutes? 527777[/snapback] well, i dont know, it could be some 3-7 days ? with good trance starting from first days of goa trance/psy trance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalker Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Anyway, this is completely unfounded - quick estimates and sloppy calculations. What would your estimate be? If you were throwing a party and never playing the same track twice or ever stopping, how long could you go for? I think it's fair to include anything we'd generally consider in the psytrance world... prog, chill, full-on, Goa, whatever... so what do you think? 527770[/snapback] 43 days I have done it already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reger Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 ok, i made some calculations based on what i have on my hd [goa/psy only] - 2 weeks of insane party BUT, i believe that it could be even up to month, theres lots of good trance out there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 I estimate whole month considering many of quality releases in all trance genres : old school trance ( 90-95 ), acid trance, goa trance, psychedelic, progressive, minimal, some full on, dark psy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cangrejo Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 I have 488 hours (That's 20 days) of psy on my hard disk (including some live sets etc. so I guess it's a little less unique tracks). And that's almost only from 2005 and 2006 and not even close to all releases from those years. Counting all the previous years too there'll be considerably more. I'd say there's at least one or a few months worth of psy out there. Edit: I wonder how many of these tracks that I've not once listened to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukiro Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 I have around 8000 unique tracks on my home harddrive, and thats just counting the stuff I've ripped off of my own records. So I think the 25000 figure is pretty good, and possibly even low considering the release frenzy in recent years (I have VERY few 21st century releases). edit: I forgot that this covers more than goa/psy, but still... 25k+ sounds plausible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTP Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 I'd say it's more than 25000 tracks... ... Indeed, it IS MORE! lookie: - Labels: 670 - Releases: 6668 - Tracks: 49279 - Artists: 6706 - Samples: 1377 - Links: 803 considering that some tracks are double released and such ... I'd still say it's about 40000... And Psydb does not have all psy releases in this world (still, a huge part of them, but not 100%), mind that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 I have around 8000 unique tracks on my home harddrive, and thats just counting the stuff I've ripped off of my own records. So I think the 25000 figure is pretty good, and possibly even low considering the release frenzy in recent years (I have VERY few 21st century releases). edit: I forgot that this covers more than goa/psy, but still... 25k+ sounds plausible. 528594[/snapback] How big is your bloody hard drive? I recently ripped around 50 albums to my hard drive for transfering onto minidisc and practically ran out of space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reger Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 How big is your bloody hard drive? I recently ripped around 50 albums to my hard drive for transfering onto minidisc and practically ran out of space. 528806[/snapback] 8Tb ? ok, i assume hes talking about mp3 or wma or ape or...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insejn Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 I'd say it's more than 25000 tracks... ... Indeed, it IS MORE! lookie: - Labels: 670 - Releases: 6668 - Tracks: 49279 - Artists: 6706 - Samples: 1377 - Links: 803 considering that some tracks are double released and such ... I'd still say it's about 40000... And Psydb does not have all psy releases in this world (still, a huge part of them, but not 100%), mind that! 528803[/snapback] I have roughly 19000 of those tracks, hooray! Counting 9 tracks per album. Which is a little generous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukiro Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 How big is your bloody hard drive? I recently ripped around 50 albums to my hard drive for transfering onto minidisc and practically ran out of space. 528806[/snapback] I rip to 192kbps MP3. If I want uncompressed audio, I have the original CD/vinyl. It's a 120 GB drive and it's got 7 gigs free. The MP3 archive is 8700+ files, and then there is some WAV stuff on there as well (13GB). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traveller Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Time for some speculative mathematical noodling... suppose there have been 10 to 15 psytrance CDs released every week for the past five years (and maybe half that for the five years previous to that) 10 to 15 psytrance CDs released every week? More like 1 or 2 a year.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTP Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 I have roughly 19000 of those tracks, hooray! Counting 9 tracks per album. Which is a little generous 528832[/snapback] wow I think I might have about 1/76 of your amount (250 tracks) - if you count in CDs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 You're all mad. I own all the psy trance ever to have been produced and when played sequentially, end to end, it comes to around an hour and ten minutes. Hell, I'll even list it all for you - Hallucinogen - Twisted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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