The Song Fight Bulletin Board

A couple of years ago, I listened to the entire Songfight archive. I did that by streaming the fights one by one.

Now that a couple of years have passed, I want to do a full archive listen again. But unlike last time, I want to do a download. (Streaming is a lot less convenient for me now, plus I think having an external hard drive with a total SF archive backup sounds like a wonderful thing). So, I have a few questions:

1- Just how big is the Songfight archive?
2- Just how taxing on the SF resources would this be? (bandwidth etc.)?

It's up to 10079 songs now, according to the Jukebox. Let's say hypothetically the average song file size is 3MB (that's roughly the size of a 3 minute song with average compression settings), that makes it 30GB and change. I can't really speak to what the cost would be to the fightmasters if someone downloaded all the songs. Looking at Dreamhost's info, though, all the plans I see seem to say "Unlimited bandwidth included" so hypothetically it may not cost them anything extra. (Dreamhost was the service used to host Song Fight! last I heard.) Other than the bandwidth used I don't imagine it would tax the SF! server in any significant way.

Well, I haven't seen an ill effects so I think that went smoothly.

Now before I start listening to the archives, I need to do a lot of clean up. Any suggestions on a good program to help clean up thousands of id3's.

I have a bunch of scripts that do that already, although they need a UNIXy system to work (Linux, MacOS X, Windows + Cygwin, etc.)

Incidentally that's how I keep my local archive up-to-date.

Email me if you want the scripts. They're kind of fiddly though.