RE: SliMP3 Ethernet MP3 Player

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Here's the thing...

At the moment, as at last night anyway, I have approx. 225Gb of MP3s,
the DDAR simply cannot cope with that, I doubt very much that the AT
can
either. Now, I appreciate what you are saying regarding how many would
you actually listen to, but that's not really the point, the point is
that the reason that they are there is ease of use and accessibility,
certainly not for sonic nirvana! If I want that I'll use the Micromega
CD player and forget MP3 totally thanks.

So I might well want to listen to all sorts, some are on one drive,
some
are on another and I honestly don't have the time to muck about
selecting only the few I think I might listen too in the next few days.
So raking through that amount of data is just not an option for me,
personally.

However, 30,000 tracks is not really that much, that's probably going
to
equate to roughly 3,000 albums or so as on one of my discs I have
83.7Gb
with 22,710 tracks in 1804 folders (albums) so it ain't that big. So
you
should reach it's limit somewhere around the 130-150Gb mark, I'm
already
way over that so the AT won't handle it either!

Don't get me wrong, I still think that the AT is a blinding bit of kit
and probably it is a bit better than the DDAR/RIO but it still has
limits that affect me. TBH, the more choice the better as with all
hi-fi
kit, then you buy what suits you.

I take your point though that, probably, it won't affect the majority
of
users but I need to find an alternative.

K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Butler [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 June 2002 20:43
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] SliMP3 Ethernet MP3 Player
> 
> Nope, not done this.  The problem, ISTR, is one of memory - it
only
has
> a limited amount thereof and having indexed about 30k files, it
runs
out
> - IIRC.
> 
> In practice, this may not be an issue - of your > 30,000
collection,
how
> many would you actually listen to?
> And/or different rooms may have access to different sets of files
-
eg,
> you would never listen to Eminem in the kiddies bedroom because of
the
> 'slightly' dodgy language.  Black Sabbath may not be required for
the
> bedroom etc......
> 
> If it's something TB can fix, in my experience, they will - a lot
of
> features requested in the support group seem to make it to the
next
> firmware release (provided more than 1 person requests it) or a
release
> shortly thereafter.....
> 
> I don't like having limits on anything personally, but this is one
I
> feel comfortable with (for now).
> 
> Maybe one of the resourceful ppl here who participates in the bulk
buy
> would like to try hacking the machine to solder in more memory and
thus
> overcome this limit?????? :]
> 
> 
> Tony.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phillip Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 07 June 2002 20:03
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] SliMP3 Ethernet MP3 Player
> >
> >
> > > Dunno if the 30,000 'limit' on the AT will be an issue for
me
> > > (not a Distributed Audio member :-)) but you never
know......
> >
> > Given that one of the "strengths" of the AT is the
support from the
> > company then has anyone tried emailing them to say that we're
looking
> at
> > buying - say - 20 but need to be able to handle *BLOODY* big
libraries
> > and see what they say?
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
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