The Capacity Of A 160GB iPod Visualized As A Stack Of Vinyl. Hint: It’s Huge

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Do you ever stop to think about how many albums your iPhone will hold? Probably not, as you most likely filled your iPhone or iPod up with music from the iTunes Store, or you stream from Spotify or Rdio. And even if you filled up your iTunes with music by ripping actual physical disks, you almost certainly didn’t do it from vinyl records.

I did fill my first 15GB iPod with music from ripped CDs, so I know just how big the stack was that I had to work thorough. But if you head over to ConcertHotels.com and click the little arrow, you’ll be treated to a stack of vinyl big enough to fill a 160GB iPod. That’s 40,000 songs in total.

As the site tells us, the stack of 3,180 albums weighs an absurd 1,400 pounds, which is 635 kilos in modern-day parlance. But the funnest part is looking at the stack scroll up like the Star Destroyer marches endlessly across the screen at the beginning of Star Wars.

Anyway, I have to go. All this is reminding me that there’s a stack of VHS tapes by the front door that I need to recycle (actually true).

Source: Concert Hotels

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