Well, if it's unreleased stuff, it's most likely not in a lossy compressed format like MP3, so the sound would at minimum be in a lossless compressed format like FLAC, but it would more likely be in WAVE, so you would have maybe roughly around ~70 hours of CD quality audio or basically 70 albums worth of CDs if the CDs were more or less filled to the brim (which usually isn't the case, most albums don't utilize the full capacity of the CD, most of the time albums seem to be in the 40-50min range).
But if we consider all that unreleased stuff to also contain just some isolated beats and vocals or other stuff, or unmixed tracks, their specs could be beyond CD quality to ensure better headroom for mixing and mastering, which would also reduce the estimate of how much music is in that 50GB package. Because we don't really know what exactly is contained in that 50GB, it's kinda hard to say how much of that is actually listenable music and tracks. Like, if you have an isolated vocal demo track and then an isolated drum demo track meant for a single song, those would separately use more space as their own tracks than when they would eventually be mixed together into a single finished track. Maybe there are several variations for the drums for a single track, or maybe there are a couple of different mixed versions of an unreleased but finished track. That can vastly sway the amount of listenable music you have in that 50GB.
It's probably still a lot of music, though. Probably not just "70 albums worth" a lot.
Thewonderboy94 t1_j8n2ld9 wrote
Reply to comment by superbugger in 50 GB of Unreleased Michael Jackson Content Stolen in Brussels by Guybrush_Tripwood
Well, if it's unreleased stuff, it's most likely not in a lossy compressed format like MP3, so the sound would at minimum be in a lossless compressed format like FLAC, but it would more likely be in WAVE, so you would have maybe roughly around ~70 hours of CD quality audio or basically 70 albums worth of CDs if the CDs were more or less filled to the brim (which usually isn't the case, most albums don't utilize the full capacity of the CD, most of the time albums seem to be in the 40-50min range).
But if we consider all that unreleased stuff to also contain just some isolated beats and vocals or other stuff, or unmixed tracks, their specs could be beyond CD quality to ensure better headroom for mixing and mastering, which would also reduce the estimate of how much music is in that 50GB package. Because we don't really know what exactly is contained in that 50GB, it's kinda hard to say how much of that is actually listenable music and tracks. Like, if you have an isolated vocal demo track and then an isolated drum demo track meant for a single song, those would separately use more space as their own tracks than when they would eventually be mixed together into a single finished track. Maybe there are several variations for the drums for a single track, or maybe there are a couple of different mixed versions of an unreleased but finished track. That can vastly sway the amount of listenable music you have in that 50GB.
It's probably still a lot of music, though. Probably not just "70 albums worth" a lot.