But since the lights went out I’ve never been the same

[venta]

Yesterday I had one of those moments where I realise I have a very specific opinion on something - but no real justification for it, and no clear idea where I got it from.

So, you, my dear self-selecting sample of guinea pigs, have the opportunity to prove me right. Or wrong. But I'm not going to tell you which is which. I'd hate to bias my otherwise-scientific survey.

I'm asking here about portable mp3 players (or mp3-a-likes). If you use your computer to play mp3s at you at home, or have some form of mp3 monster in the car, that's not what I meant.

[Poll #442057]

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ripping other people's CDs, even if done personally, still qualifies as illegal content, surely ?

(Please nobody do that joke).

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is. But it does mean that every track I've got is is first generation copy of one that has been legally paid for. As such, it's several orders of magnitude less "illegal" (has less financial impact) than downloading gigabytes from Napster, or anywhere else.

It also counters the possible claim that nobody with more than 200 CDs would rip their entire CD collection. (I'm having a hard time counting up the number of actual CDs I've got involved in my collection, as it requires counting leaf - and only leaf - directories.) But it's less than 1400 CDs to make 80 Gig. So a 700 CD collection would be legitimate enough to fill a 40 Gig ipod.

What are CD collection sizes?

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

it requires counting leaf - and only leaf - directories

find . -type d | perl -w thingy.pl

thingy.pl:

$leaves = 0;
$previous = <STDIN>;
chomp($previous);
foreach (<STDIN>) {
  chomp;
  $pos = index($_,$previous);
  if (($pos = 0) && substr($_,length($previous),1) eq "/") {
    # then this one is a subdirectory of the previous one,
    # so the previous one is not a leaf
  } else {
    # this one is not a subdirectory, so because find returns
    # children before siblings, the previous one has no
    # subdirectories
    ++leaves;
   }
   $previous = $_;
}
print 

Or something like that, I haven't tested it. You can make it more concise at the expense of clarity.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Should say "print $leaves, "\n";" at the end.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

897 it says, after typo fixing.

So there you go. Where "there" is, I dunno :)