A survey published yesterday says that most people have no more than 1000 songs stored on their computers and that therefore portable players that store 5000 songs are unnecessarily large.
See, to me that sounds a bit too close to the famous quote (usually attributed to Bill Gates) that “640 Kb should be enought for anyone”, but I’m happy to to accept that I might not be exactly “average” in either the size of my music collection or the rate at which I’ve been ripping it.
$ find /data/audio/ -name “*.ogg” | wc -l
4785
$ find /data/audio/ -name “*.mp3” | wc -l
727
$ du -h /data/audio
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21G /data/audio
Add -s to your du invocation?
I knew there would be an obvious way to do it. Thanks.
You’re a geek, not “most people”. (So am I, obviously; I have about 9000 audio files.)
iTunes reports 5151 songs in 16.93 Gb, amounting to 17.7 days of playing time.And that’s *before* I start getting all the tapes and records on there. (Lots of good folk stuff is still only available on vinyl; luckily Gill has an excellent collection).