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8bitbubsy · 04 July 2021, 21:27

It's impossible to track exactly how much music has been made on Amiga, and how long the songs last, but we could take a naive guessing approach just to get some numbers:
Let's say there's 350k songs written on the Amiga, and that the average duration per song is 2 minutes (there's going to be loads of short songs, and scrap songs). That would be 700k minutes (+/- since we picked an average duration). That's ~11666 hours, which is ~486 days of listening time...

The actual number of songs and their length is of course something we will never find out. This is very inaccurate guessing work, but it should at least put things into perspective.

EDIT: The number of songs is probably way above 350k, at least with no clear definitions of what is considered a countable song.

04 July 2021, 21:27	#4
8bitbubsy Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Norway Posts: 1,711	It's impossible to track exactly how much music has been made on Amiga, and how long the songs last, but we could take a naive guessing approach just to get some numbers: Let's say there's 350k songs written on the Amiga, and that the average duration per song is 2 minutes (there's going to be loads of short songs, and scrap songs). That would be 700k minutes (+/- since we picked an average duration). That's ~11666 hours, which is ~486 days of listening time... The actual number of songs and their length is of course something we will never find out. This is very inaccurate guessing work, but it should at least put things into perspective. EDIT: The number of songs is probably way above 350k, at least with no clear definitions of what is considered a countable song. Last edited by 8bitbubsy; 04 July 2021 at 21:41.