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apenature t1_j8m78ek wrote

I have mixed feelings about releasing anything like this.

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Seattle2Boston t1_j8m7dod wrote

It’s probably gonna sprout up all over the place now.

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ThaVerySadTruth t1_j8m7icx wrote

Am I the only one who finds traveling the world with such content extremely reckless, if not negligent?

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asdaaaaaaaa t1_j8m7s69 wrote

Honestly, I'd rather they respect the artists wishes if they never intended to release it. If it was the case of just not having the chance but intended to, go for it. I get fans and people wanting to hear everything that person produced, but I also think a major part of an artists image and art itself is what you choose to share/publish. Not an artist, but knowing some people who enjoy it, they take sharing more personal pieces very seriously and I know they wouldn't be very happy if it were "leaked" or shared publicly.

That being said, 50GB is a LOT of music, assuming the media takes up similar space to high quality audio tracks. Especially when you consider how much content/music we already have from MJ.

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righteousprovidence t1_j8m8ngi wrote

Some of 2pac's finest works came long after he is dead. I hope the same is the case with MJ

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TimeTravelMishap t1_j8m9lxz wrote

Same shit happened with Dre. Me and Franklin took care of it tho.

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Madbiscuitz t1_j8mceta wrote

Replying to asdaaaaaaaa (#1,815,967)

I'd imagine a fair amount of it is either rough takes and raw multitracks. One song could have dozens of tracks that are unmixed. Would be cool though if those tracks were released out in the wild so anyone could mix and master their own tracks.

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FlatulenceIsAVirtue t1_j8mg530 wrote

Wikileaks is reporting that Billie Jean was in fact his lover, and that he was the one.

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Javerage t1_j8mjev5 wrote

Hopefully now we'll finally be able to find out if Annie is indeed okay. She's been very tight lipped about telling us if she's okay.

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drawkbox t1_j8mqv75 wrote

Why? Why? Tell them that its Human Nature...

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WalkerBRiley t1_j8mra6u wrote

Kinda an odd unit of measure to describe how much content it was. 50gb is nothing today. It could be a few short videos or it could be several days worth of audio. Just the formatting of the files will change their size.

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superbugger t1_j8msome wrote

Is 50GB a lot or a little? That truly means nothing to me.

It could be like 50,000 songs or 1 hour of video.

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fullload93 t1_j8mt2qo wrote

Why TF is someone walking around with this massive amount of data and it wasn’t backed up somewhere secure? Like come on… that’s just carelessness at this point.

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grosslytransparent t1_j8mui9w wrote

Probably will be praised by preservationist on twitter and be uploaded on archive.org

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rutefoot t1_j8mzplx wrote

Finding an old hard drive that belonged to MJ is a risky click if there ever was one

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DireWraith3000 t1_j8n1hdh wrote

Police said Dirty Diana and her accomplice Billie Jean Beat It with the stolen music. Blood on the Dance Floor was a clue that led to a co conspirator named Ben but being a rat he wasn’t talking much. Authorities stated it was Human Nature for these types of crimes to occur.

Police also said that Off The Wall comments about their investigation have left them in a State of Shock as everything is not always Black or White and the public should look at The Man in the Mirror before criticizing the investigation.

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EmersonLucero t1_j8n1kp0 wrote

35GB of it is retakes of "Sha-moan" sound bites.

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Active-Sky-M31 t1_j8n1rl3 wrote

50GB, that’s a very large amount of data. Did they steal his .MP3 and .MPEG collection?

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Thewonderboy94 t1_j8n2ld9 wrote

Replying to superbugger (#1,817,083)

Well, if it's unreleased stuff, it's most likely not in a lossy compressed format like MP3, so the sound would at minimum be in a lossless compressed format like FLAC, but it would more likely be in WAVE, so you would have maybe roughly around ~70 hours of CD quality audio or basically 70 albums worth of CDs if the CDs were more or less filled to the brim (which usually isn't the case, most albums don't utilize the full capacity of the CD, most of the time albums seem to be in the 40-50min range).

But if we consider all that unreleased stuff to also contain just some isolated beats and vocals or other stuff, or unmixed tracks, their specs could be beyond CD quality to ensure better headroom for mixing and mastering, which would also reduce the estimate of how much music is in that 50GB package. Because we don't really know what exactly is contained in that 50GB, it's kinda hard to say how much of that is actually listenable music and tracks. Like, if you have an isolated vocal demo track and then an isolated drum demo track meant for a single song, those would separately use more space as their own tracks than when they would eventually be mixed together into a single finished track. Maybe there are several variations for the drums for a single track, or maybe there are a couple of different mixed versions of an unreleased but finished track. That can vastly sway the amount of listenable music you have in that 50GB.

It's probably still a lot of music, though. Probably not just "70 albums worth" a lot.

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deuceawesome t1_j8nb58u wrote

Something tells me this won't be as popular as the Pamela Anderson sex tape was

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nulledit t1_j8ngdg4 wrote

Replying to WalkerBRiley (#1,816,991)

It's like when a news story talks about pages of emails or texts. Some emails are shorter than this comment and might take up a whole page depending on how it is formatted. It's an inconsistent measure.

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Diabetesh t1_j8nhbgw wrote

I like to think that it will just all show up on tpb or some other equivalent to then never disappear from the web.

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IsThisKismet t1_j8nhdg6 wrote

I recently watched Leaving Neverland and the takeaway that I got (beyond the legalities of crimes that he was acquitted for) is that he broke their hearts. Not necessarily for doing the things they say he did? But because he replaced them. And that’s far more easily assured to have happened and still unforgivable.

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[deleted] t1_j8njt2v wrote

It was for his OnlyFreaks account.

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Sajun t1_j8nkagx wrote

oh thank god. Maybe these kind thieves will release it.

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PaleontologistClear4 t1_j8nq4rs wrote

50 GB of unreleased songs? That's a lot of music, curious what it sounds like.

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patman_007 t1_j8nqsw3 wrote

Obviously the most responsible thing to do here is feed all the content to an AI generator and then have it perform live.

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AveDominusNox t1_j8nyt9b wrote

Replying to WalkerBRiley (#1,816,991)

I’m gonna go on with my day believing it’s all text. Just trillions of words of notes and lyrics and musings. Like the lyrics to all the genesis sonic games. Or instruction manuals for theme park rides. Maybe detailed notes on what monkeys eat.

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sluttttt t1_j8ogeqo wrote

Replying to asdaaaaaaaa (#1,815,967)

It still sucks that they released Prince's unreleased tracks after he passed. Dude was a perfectionist and there's no way for us to know if he felt that they were ready for the public. Maybe Anderson Paak went a little hardcore with his tattoo requesting no posthumous releases, but I get where he's coming from.

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senorbolsa t1_j8otwa4 wrote

Replying to TurnsOutImAScientist (#1,822,387)

a few albums of unreleased tracks by one of the most famous (and some would say greatest) pop artists is a pretty big deal though.

even if it was just 50gb of MJ doodling in his notebook that would be a big deal for fans I presume. (I like MJ but I'd stop short of fanaticism)

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edgeplayer t1_j8pxvdq wrote

Surely if it existed the world would have known years ago. It is rather late to be saying this material exists but was stolen. It could be an elaborate deep fake fraud. If it came off it would be the most lucrative forgery ever. MJ's estate was in tatters, so where was this little gem hidden away ?

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starmartyr t1_j8ql21o wrote

Replying to ChemicalReception (#1,823,509)

No but he is out there doing crimes. It's a bit weird considering that he's a real person. My GTA character has murdered more people than most drug cartels. It feels weird that he would want to be my friend.

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MechaMagikarp t1_j8quwwi wrote

Daily reminder: No amount of childhood trauma, success or fame excuses being a pedophile. This piece of crap was fucking boys and paying their parents off. He literally dangled his child out of a multi-story building window. Stop bringing this shit head back up and stop acting like his music did nearly as much good as he did bad to the world.

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