Sujet Et voila elle est mienne

c'est différent du DJ de boîte ou club qui prépare des sets !

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So let's relate 20,000 tracks to understandable figures. The above picture is from my office. Each of the slots in this shelf holds approximately 100 pieces of vinyl. Assuming that these are all 12" singles, I'll allow 2 useable tracks - the vocal and instrumental, each around perhaps 4 minutes each - and I'm being very conservative there. So essentially, I have 1200 tracks in this one unit, lasting 80 hours if listened to end to end i.e. over 3 days of music pleasure.

Turning this into 20,000 tracks:

I would need 17 such shelving units.
This would stretch for 20 metres.
If stacked in a single pile, this would be 133 feet tall, the equivalent of 9 double decker buses.
If laid out in a line, it would stretch for just under 2 miles, or 8 times round a running track.
10,000 records is 1.4 metric tonnes, or the weight of 18 grown men.
You'd have to use 200 large record trolley bags to move them around, or perhaps a team of 18 grown men.
If you sat and listened to all 20,000 tracks with an average of 4 minutes, you'd have to set aside 1333.33 hours, 55.5 days or the better part of 2 months solid to listen to all this music.
Laid out flat, it would equate to just over 4 full sized tennis courts.
You could own the top 339 selling tracks of the charts for every year since charts began in 1952.

So… as you can see, 20,000 tracks is a stratospheric unwieldily amount of music whichever way you paint it. Why the hell would you ever need so much music? Are you simply covering your arse and staving off the crushing fear of failure to fulfil a request? Or is it simply that you must have so much more than the next man?

Seeing as I don't play out anymore, I would love to hear from anyone who feels that 20,000 tracks really is a genuine limitation, and for them to explain why they feel this way. I'm not attacking anyone, but I simply cannot see it myself, and feel that having so much music is actually an issue - too much choice. My gut reaction is that 90% of that figure is filler, with just 10% (and I'm being generous there) is music played with any regularity.

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