Will humans run out of music?

So, if you’re thinking that there are a finite number of songs, but a very large number which could take aeons to get exhausted, it is probably safe to say that we will never run out of new music. There are around 130 million songs in the internet database, with a total time of about 1200 years.

Is there an infinite amount of melodies?

No matter how you represent a melody, as long as the representation uses limited and quantised metrics – like a music score over a certain number of bars does – the number of possible melodies is finite.

Can we run out of melody?

The short answer is yes, there’s a limited number of sounds we can hear and thus a finite number of possible ways of combining them. Don’t panic, though. Before you start stockpiling melodies and burying riffs in your garden, you should know that there’s still a lot of them left. New tunes are out there.

How many songs are in existence?

So we don’t know every song ever written. But a company called Gracenote keeps a list of all the songs out there: it had 79 million songs on it as of 2011. To get a sense of that number, 79 million minutes is about 150 years…so if most of the songs are from the year 1866 onward, that’s 1 new song every minute.

How many melodies can there be?

For the first section I’ve discounted rhythm so as to focus only on the permutations of notes. All melodies should be contained within an octave — C to C’ inclusive. Any of the 13 chromatic notes of the octave can be used….Four to infinity.

Length of melody	No of possible melodies
2	25
3	469
4	7,825
5	122,461

Can ocean water become drinkable?

Humans cannot drink saline water. But, saline water can be made into freshwater, which is the purpose of this portable, inflatable solar still (it even wraps up into a tiny package). The process is called desalination, and it is being used more and more around the world to provide people with needed freshwater.