14 DAY TRIAL // Many people still use an iPod classic, despite its being a rather old music-playing contraption from the fine gents at Apple Inc. But 160GB of storage is nothing to sneeze at.
In fact, if the iPod (or any other portable player) hadn’t been invented, a music library containing 3,180 albums on vinyl would look something like this.
The folks at Concert Hotels thought it would be interesting to visualize just how much storage is offered in the pocket-sized player by stacking vinyl over vinyl to achieve the 40,000-song capacity advertised by Apple.
“A 160GB iPod Classic holds 40,000 songs and weighs a third of a pound. That's roughly the same as a large adult hamster. If you bought all those songs on vinyl, your music collection would look like this…,” says Concert Hotels.
Stacked together, the records would weigh 1,400 pounds, which is about as much as two male grizzly bears weigh.