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Thanks Nick........interesting confirmation

Even though we seem to be the only people with any interest in this topic I will add that a User would need a LOT of those "Various Artist" Albums in order to push their Overall Average Size north of ~420Mb.

Anyway, thanks for the information; it's interesting how people's listening and buying habits are changing over time.

Cheers

I'm interested and have studied the graphs closely; but apart from posting my Sooloos stats I've not had anything else to contribute at this time.

Regards,
Carl

PS #172368 - 2012-09-02 05:51 Your an early bird this Sunday.

+1

Plus one again, you have plenty of readers out there. Chris:)

Looking at the table of various artist stats, it does suggest that jazz, blues and classical are amongst the smallest sets of files. Of course they could have less tracks but the track and runtime data doesn't really back that up. Music content complexity is therefore most likely the reason.

So, it would seem that material type and age of album do have some bearing on likely HDD usage along with file type and resolution which are more obvious.

Do we get a prize for perhaps the most visual thread here

+1

But surely more complex content is going to produce larger files, not smaller ones?

Hmmmm OK; I see a can o'worms here. Perhaps complexity is the wrong word (especially as I have actually heard some of your work ). Maybe, extended passages of 'relatively' quieter music. I dunno even if I cannot articulate it my hunch 'feels' correct.

Happy to digest other theories of course.

I have turned off MP3 creation and waited a few days for the disk space to be reclaimed, I also purchased and added a few more CD's :

Artists : 618
Albums : 2,078
Tracks : 25,764

Total Storage : 1969 GB
Free Storage : 1254 GB

I hope this is useful.

Out of interest have you queried that all MP3's have now gone?

Artists: 520
Albums:1367
Tracks:16476

Storage used: 527GB

MP3 transcoding ON

Hi Nick,

Sooloos stores FLAC files on the hard drive and FLAC is a lossless audio compression algorithm. I'm no expert in these algorithms but it would seem eminently sensible to replace a quite passage with a digital value and a repeat interval instead of many samples of 'nothing'.

I would conclude that "quieter" music (say acoustic blues) would occupy a much smaller FLAC file for say a 5 minute track compared to say a classical symphony.

I think I agree with your hunch too.

I would hypothesize that a Jazz+Blues oriented collection would occupy less space to an Electronic/Rock.

/Marcus