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WalkerBRiley t1_j8mra6u wrote

Kinda an odd unit of measure to describe how much content it was. 50gb is nothing today. It could be a few short videos or it could be several days worth of audio. Just the formatting of the files will change their size.

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weildescent t1_j8nieqn wrote

That was my first thought. These ain't gonna be 5-10 MB a piece... these are gonna be huge files for use while mastering, right?

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TurnsOutImAScientist t1_j8onc6a wrote

Assume it's .wav, 10 MB per minute. Assume separate tracks for each instrument, we'll say 100. So that's 1GB per minute. At most a couple of albums worth of material.

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senorbolsa t1_j8otwa4 wrote

a few albums of unreleased tracks by one of the most famous (and some would say greatest) pop artists is a pretty big deal though.

even if it was just 50gb of MJ doodling in his notebook that would be a big deal for fans I presume. (I like MJ but I'd stop short of fanaticism)

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nulledit t1_j8ngdg4 wrote

It's like when a news story talks about pages of emails or texts. Some emails are shorter than this comment and might take up a whole page depending on how it is formatted. It's an inconsistent measure.

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AveDominusNox t1_j8nyt9b wrote

I’m gonna go on with my day believing it’s all text. Just trillions of words of notes and lyrics and musings. Like the lyrics to all the genesis sonic games. Or instruction manuals for theme park rides. Maybe detailed notes on what monkeys eat.

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deeman18 t1_j8oiij2 wrote

They're just being descriptive. Not like we know the contents or number of files or anything

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