Re: MP3 Whole House Audio

["paul gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

It's hardly rocket science, and it's not even hard work, but it _IS_
extremely tedious, - there's no getting away from the fact that you do have
to sit there end endlessly load / unload CD's.  I know an earlier thread
was
asking about using a multichanger drive to batch up CD's to be ripped, but
i
don't recall there ever being a satisfactory way of achieving this.
Personally, I have ripped & encoded about 200 CD's (I used
audiocatalyst),
in a single-disk CD drive in my main server PC. What I can definately say
for sure, is that using SCSI hardware is massively faster than EIDE
hardware...
Example: P-PRO 200Mhz & Adaptec AHA2940UW (PCI, Wide SCSI) with
Wide-SCSI
disks & Yamaha CRW4416 SCSI CDRW drive (16X max) = typically 12 to 14X
rip
speed (as reported by Audiocatalyst), whereas P-II 350Mhz with EIDE disk
&
EIDE 40X max CDROM drive typically achieves 6 - 8 x rip speed.... (although
of course the P-II 350 encodes a little faster, but the ripping phase takes
longer than encoding anyway...)

Hope this helps...

Regards

Paul Gordon



>From: Raymond <Reb.barnett@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: "'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: MP3 Whole House Audio
>Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:37:55 +0100
>
>What level of effort is involved in converting a CD collection to MP3?
I
>ask because I was looking last night at a link from the UKHA site to
>someone who as connected CD  autochangers to a PC to provide
>audio-on-demand. I can see problems both ways: autochangers costing
>money, MP3 costing time.
>
>I ask as someone with an extremely nice hifi-autochanger that is
showing
>signs of being on the way out. It makes a great excuse to begin looking
>at firstly: a more friendly way of choosing music than guessing what's
>loaded in the autochanger; secondly, a move towards whole house audio
or
>at least a degree of automation.
>
>Ray.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jtankard@xxxxxxx [mailto:jtankard@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 21 July 1999 11:34
> > To: REB.Barnett@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: MP3 Whole House Audio
> >
> >
> > If you revert to private email please include me in the list
> >
> > John
> > jtankard@xxxxxxx
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: richardpassman [mailto:richardpassman@xxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 21 July 1999 11:25
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: MP3 Whole House Audio
> > >
> > >
> > > I thought you might say that.......
> > >
> > > The whole process is a little complicated. When I was
looking at
> > > the different
> > > ways I could of implemented it (sorry I'm talking about the
> > > Homevision screens)
> > > I decided that I didn't want to have to change the HV
schedule to
> > > add additonal
> > > playlists and such like, at the moment I have to change
> > text files using
> > > notepad, but as part of the multizone software I will be
> > > dynamically creating
> > > the text files that are used.
> > >
> > > I will grab the files from home later, and write up an
> > > explanation if people so
> > > want, though it might be wise if we do this outside the list
as
> > > its totally HV
> > > based.
> > >
> > > Richard
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: "Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: 21 July 1999 10:59
> > > To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: MP3 Whole House Audio
> > >
> > >
> > > Sounds excellent Richard!!!
> > >
> > > Any chance of letting us see your HV macros? :-)
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > M.
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: richardpassman [mailto:richardpassman@xxxxxxx]
> > > > Sent: 21 July 1999 08:37
> > > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: MP3 Whole House Audio
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Gavin,
> > > >
> > > > I am in the process of setting up such a thing.
> > > >
> > > > At the moment I'm using ACE\Winamp to do the MP3
playing and
> > > I'm doing the
> > > > actual 'jukebox' control from my Homevision. With
Homevision its
> > > > possible to use
> > > > text files to display information on a TV screen and so
I can
> > > > display the ID3
> > > > data and other dynamic information. I have this hooked
up to my
> > > > Multizone preamp
> > > > and I can then access the jukebox from any room in the
> > house. This works
> > > > well.... but is only the begining....
> > > >
> > > > I am currently writing some software to allow me to use
multiple
> > > > sound cards
> > > > within my HA PC and allow different MP3's to be played
in
> > > > different zones. The
> > > > limit on zones will then be how many sound cards I can
fit in
> > > the PC. I've
> > > > successfully got three working simultaneously.
> > > >
> > > > Hope this helps, if you haven't met ACE yet then have
look
> > > > through the HA list
> > > > (theres a link on the UKHA pages).
> > > >
> > > > Richard Passman
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: gavin_lyons@xxxxxxx
> > > > Sent: 20 July 1999 18:55
> > > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > > Subject: [ukha_d] MP3 Whole House Audio
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone used their HA PC to also act as an MP3
jukebox
> > for whole
> > > > house audio.
> > > > Can anyone recommend any products?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Gavin Lyons
> > > >
> > > >
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