We like music for the same reason we like games, stories and successfully accomplishing tasks.
It's the vibe that it evokes.
Patterns evoke a vibe too.
Vibe = poetry emotion energy.
It's a sensation like sight, sound, smell etc. Just a different kind.
That's fair.
Contemporaneously, in some of Larry Nivens' fiction, it was called a "data brick".
When you feel like you are getting too attached to the metaphor of the hour, abstract it up a level.
They held like 100M. They were gargantuan.
I think video is still referred to as "footage". That is, how many feet long the tape is.
I worry about money.