RE: MP3 Backup

["Sullivan, Glenn" <gsullivan@xxxxxxx>]

Ben,

With the abundant availability of S/PDIF digital out soundcards (and I don'= t
mean the SBLive, but that would do in a pinch) the digital bits are going t= o
get to the digital input on my system the same as if they had been read off=
a CD and piped though a digital out of my CD player and into the system.&nb= sp; My
own linn kivor for a 12th of the price, and I can build my own interfaces i= f
I want. ;-)

But I agree in general... most people I have seen using their computers for=
a jukebox are using analog outputs.  It is damn near impossible to hav= e a
good quality DA converter built into such a small, RFI-ridden location.&nbs= p; In
those cases, the benefits of a lossless compression scheme are nill.

My $.02,

Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben McCormack [mailto:ben.mccormack@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:34 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] MP3 Backup


Glenn

My thoughts on this are as follows, mp3 will be used for the following

background music
piping around the house
Portable music (Apple ipod and mp3 CD players)

Our serious listening will happen through a good CD player and hifi
system and not from a PC that does not have the audio quality of the
hifi (hopefully soon to be a new linn system!)

When a lossless hifi quality method of storing cd's that does not cost
=A312000 (linn kivor) comes along then I will go for that.

Just my thoughts on the mp3 situation.

Cheers

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Sullivan, Glenn [mailto:gsullivan@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 December 2002 13:28
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] MP3 Backup


Just a thought:

Why, in this day and age when hard drive space is so relatively cheap,
wouldn't you want to use a lossless compression algorithm like FLAK or
SHIN instead of a loss one like MP3?

I guess I still don't like the idea of a computer program deciding what
I can and cannot hear... I want it all!

I'm in the process of doing the same thing, only using EACH, FLAK, and a couple of IDA tag programs I wrote in VB...

Cheers,

Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben McCormack [mailto:ben.mccormack@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:11 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: [ukha_d] MP3 Backup


Hi All

Now that I have got a DDAR I have started the long task to mp3ing 350
CD's and this is obvisouly going to run to about 20 Gig. Just wondering
what other users of largeish mps collection do for backup. I can use the DVD writer on my imac for the moment but that will soon become a pain.

What do people do?

Cheers

Ben


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