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I very well might be. I took over Murfie when they shut down, and am in the process of re-building the company. People don't understand the scale, and why I mi

I very well might be. I took over Murfie when they shut down, and am in the process of re-building the company. People don't understand the scale, and why I might want to make sure I do it right the first time rather than get halfway through and have to start over because I missed something.

gruez 6y ago
I'm assuming you're the guy in this article? https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21121594/crossies-murfie-madison-wisconsin-arkansas-1-million-abandoned-cds https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21121594/crossies-murfie-m...
- pontifier 6y ago
  Yeah, that's me :)
owenmarshall 6y ago
Are you really looking at 800k CDs to rip, or are you planning on removing duplicates and finding a good specimen?
- pontifier 6y ago
  I will need to verify each disc. I may not have to rip all of them, but I will probably do some sort of rapid de-duplication check. It will probably be much more involved than the normal toc disc id though. I might compare bits from random areas of each disc to verify it is the correct pressing. I'm still not 100% sure how I'll do it, but I don't want to store more than I have to. I'd like to be able to take the pieces of a broken disc and verify somehow that it's a legit copy. Then I'd treat the pieces like every other copy of that disc and give the owner access.
unnouinceput 6y ago
Ah, I made a terrible mistake on my Math above. It's 400k minutes which is actually only 6666.66 hours (400k / 60). So in the end you'll have only 200 years / 60 = 3.33 years. I suppose you're going to pay people to do it, so lemme help you a little. 6667 hours at let's say $15/hour that's roughly one million dollars for this task. I hope you have large pockets ;).
- pontifier 6y ago
  Actually your math is way off. I don't think it will take more than about 10 seconds per disc to process them if I get things set up right and everything is well organized and streamlined. https://twitter.com/pontifier/status/1236002652468674562 https://twitter.com/pontifier/status/1236002652468674562 That's 6 per minute. 360 per hour. 800,000 should take about 2,222 hours. I've got a bunch of people that will work for about $10/hour, and that's only $22,220 worth of labor over 277 days for 1 person.

gruez 6y ago

I'm assuming you're the guy in this article? https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21121594/crossies-murfie-madison-wisconsin-arkansas-1-million-abandoned-cds https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21121594/crossies-murfie-m...

pontifier 6y ago
Yeah, that's me :)

owenmarshall 6y ago

Are you really looking at 800k CDs to rip, or are you planning on removing duplicates and finding a good specimen?

pontifier 6y ago
I will need to verify each disc. I may not have to rip all of them, but I will probably do some sort of rapid de-duplication check. It will probably be much more involved than the normal toc disc id though. I might compare bits from random areas of each disc to verify it is the correct pressing. I'm still not 100% sure how I'll do it, but I don't want to store more than I have to. I'd like to be able to take the pieces of a broken disc and verify somehow that it's a legit copy. Then I'd treat the pieces like every other copy of that disc and give the owner access.

unnouinceput 6y ago

Ah, I made a terrible mistake on my Math above. It's 400k minutes which is actually only 6666.66 hours (400k / 60). So in the end you'll have only 200 years / 60 = 3.33 years. I suppose you're going to pay people to do it, so lemme help you a little. 6667 hours at let's say $15/hour that's roughly one million dollars for this task. I hope you have large pockets ;).

pontifier 6y ago
Actually your math is way off. I don't think it will take more than about 10 seconds per disc to process them if I get things set up right and everything is well organized and streamlined. https://twitter.com/pontifier/status/1236002652468674562 https://twitter.com/pontifier/status/1236002652468674562 That's 6 per minute. 360 per hour. 800,000 should take about 2,222 hours. I've got a bunch of people that will work for about $10/hour, and that's only $22,220 worth of labor over 277 days for 1 person.