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Re: Music while building
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:54:02 GMT
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In article <3AB96BF2.78E1725C@mindspring.com>,
Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> bring CDs in to work. I guess the solution would be to get a nice big
> stack of hard drives and spend a vacation loading it up with MP3s from
> all my CDs, and use that at home. Of course if I did that, I could
This is effectively what I've done, though my CD collection is an order of
magnitude smaller. I basically set up an encoder to encode as I played them,
and eventually pretty much everything was on the hard disk. As I get new CDs,
I play them and encode them once on my PC.
800 CDs at about 60 minutes a CD at about 10:1 compression requires about
52 gig of space. This could be done on a single hard disk...
Now if I ever get off my sorry tail, I'll finish up my .mp3 player for
the truck...
-JDF
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J.D. Forinash ,-.
foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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| (...) The problem for me would be that I'd definitely need three (and depending on just how many of my albums are double CDs, I might have to trim to fit in 3, I suspect I'm only about 800 CDs though, I've got about 700 albums). Another hassle (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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