Its about 9.2 GB ! I've not counted the total number of songs.

Well arn't you special. Do you even listen to all of them?

9.2GB isn't much. (unless it's all at 48kbps)

nah, peanuts

i just looked and currently at
one external HD --> 300 GB free space 80GB
one internal HD --> 250 GB free space 20GB
one internal HD --> 160 GB free space 100GB

and some songs on the Primary HD

No i'm not addicted to music
i have that for the station and i need them to make shows for the other station where i dj on thursday 1600-1900 central European time.

9.2GB is only 27 albums in my collection. Which makes up about 40% of just the Pink Floyd folder.

:)

I'm saying that he brags too much.

Oh. I didn't interpret 9.2GB as bragging in my own world of hard-drive-hog encoding. :p

(Speaking of which, I'm seriously considering switching to a much more reasonable encoding strategy so that I can actually have my music on my PC's internal hard drive. Portability should mean portability.)

Then again, at 128kbps, 9.2GB = less than 2000 songs. That's a pretty normal amount for most average music fans. About 125-135 CDs-worth.

(Or was it more about the exclamation point he used?)

I wonder would would happen if I used the SAN to store my music collection. . . it's a couple of Sun 6320s. .. not huge as far as SANs go, but a lot compared to most PCs.

This is a Sun 6320:

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/178...dge6320sy3.jpg

It was more the links to Free stuff in his sig ;)

That's spam, not bragging.

Ah I missed that. Must have been blocked via my visual-auto-spam-ignore filter.

...And after thinking about it from reading this thread a few times, I've decided to transcode my collection from giant FLAC files to good ol' LAME MP3 --alt-preset standard files, so they can actually fit on my notebook PC's hard drive. Doing Pink Floyd first, six albums at a time, 24 hours a day. Then when it's all done sometime next week, I can do the rest of my collection. :p

Since you're putting them on your notebook, why not use something of higher quality and smaller file size, like q4 ogg vorbis?

Who needs that many versions of the same songs? :p

I seriously considered that, and I've used that very encoding format/setting before with great results.

But my key goals right now are (1) storage capacity - I'd like it if my current music collection would take less than 80 GB (in FLAC it eats some 350 GB), and (2) compatibility - I'm going to keep my lossless encodings for archival purposes, of course, but if I'm going to transcode to a lossy format, I want it to be something I can play on any player I'm going to use without having to do more than one transcode. Granted I'd transcode from FLAC again rather than lossy-to-lossy, but I'd really rather do any transcoding project only once.

And my new 335i has an iPod interface that will allow me to keep the iPod locked up in the console while controlling it entirely with the steering wheel controls. Only works that way with iPods (I can plug anything into the standard AUX input, but I can't use the steering wheel controls except with the head unit or an iPod.) iPods don't play Vorbis. So I'm going with the old standard that almost everything in the world can play, and gives very efficient encoding results --> LAME MP3 --alt-preset standard.

If I was so crunched for space that I had to get close to or under 128kbps, then I'd look harder at Vorbis or AAC(M4A). But 200-210kbps is really fine, --aps provides this with perceptual transparency with well over 99% of the music I'd be encoding, and with Vorbis or even the iPod-friendly AAC/M4A, I'd still run into compatibility issues with other players and platforms. For practically guaranteed compatibility on most music players today, it's MP3 or WMA-S.

And I'm just tired of chasing format support. If --alt-preset standard gives me perceptually transparent encoding quality, if almost anything in the world can decode it, and since more and more players (including the new 80GB iPod) provide gapless support (or seamless crossfade) for MP3 playback, my desire for a one-stop solution is leading straight back to LAME.

Two versions - one archival copy in FLAC, and one playback copy in MP3.

Or are you referring to all the Pink Floyd stuff? If so, It's because I have a disease. If David Gilmour ever coughed into a microphone two different ways in the same recording session, I better have copies of both. :p

A quick glance at Wikipedia tells me Floyd released 14 studio albums. 2.5*27 is about 67~68.

Discounting rarities and little known studio recordings, I'm guessing at least 30 of your Floyd albums are live albums/bootlegs.

Which leads me to the question, why do you need about 6 copies of the same song in your collection, especially when 5 of them are badly recorded off-time live versions? :igor:

More interested in performance than statistics.

UJ

:igor:

Now I'm curious, how many recordings do you have of Nick Mason passing wind?

Or Roger Waters passing ....

UJ

21 farts by Mason, and a wide variety of Waters' bodily functions captured on tape.

;)

And within my Floyd collection, quality is my only mark. Over 95% of the collection is comprised of very high-quality recordings. The quantity just sort of grew on its own, over time.

Beyond the current 71 albums in the collection, well over 20 others have been discarded for poor quality.

Oh, they're all from a wide variety of sources. Wax cylinder recordings, mono cuts, demo cuts, outtakes, various solo work, interview materials, and some unique live stuff - small venues and what not.

I only have two live recordings of questionable sound quality - and only because they are quite unique and aren't available in anything higher quality - an acceptable compromise. Two out of a collection of seventy-one albums. Not bad, eh? Well worth the effort.

:)

ive a got 20 tribyte harddrive 5 trybytes of music 5 of games 6 of movies so never a dull moment lol and im running vista ultimete operating system;)

Tribyte = 3 bytes? So a 60 byte hard drive, nice.

.... On second thought, its just too easy.

rofls :blah:

Tribtyes. :blah: Maybe he meant "terabytes"...?

Heh - coming back to this thread after six months, and I've just noticed your post. Funny, because I just did this very thing - I transcoded my entire collection into Vorbis Lancer -q4. I then deleted all lossless instances of all the music, sans what I call my "critical" stuff. "Critical" for me includes Pink Floyd, Rush, The Police, Led Zeppelin, and a few (<10) other albums that have some level of rarity in digital format.

All the Vorbis encodings take up ~36GB on my XPS notebook. I'm still going through and deleting duplicate tracks, mainly from my "various artists" albums. I don't need four instances of "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go". But I still won't touch the Floyd. 6 versions of "Hey You"? Hell yeah, baby! :D

.. I didn't know this was a dug up thread until I read my own post :weird:

almost at 2000 now

are to :p

6500 mp3 and looking with anyone for exchange....

Doesn't work like that here mate. Winamp.com is a media player website, not a media sharing website. We'd appreciate it if you kept it that way.

you do not worry
I am not offering here file exchange (is only with my friends in private)

I know what is winamp web site without you !

^One... Two...Three....:rolleyes:

.... Four times a lady?

^AHAHAHAHAHAHA..
No, I was waiting for Code Boy to ..uh...make a statement. He must be gettin' "jolly" or he's taken his meds!:D

No, you don't get it.
Any portion of Winamp's site is not a medium for sharing, private or otherwise.
If you'd like, we'd be happy to show you the door.

Do you see in my post any link for file sharing ?
stupid conversation.
show this door for your mother , not for me

:D

^ I smell a ban? ^

LIK HAY GUYZ, IM SO 1337 BECUZ IM USING M$ VISTA AND I HAVE TRYBYTS OF MUSIC LOLOLOLOLOLOL

20 TB HD? then he must have at least 20 drives in his Computer. The most capacy drives are 1 TB.

Why has no one recognized this guy as Mr_007?

If I knew what any of that meant, I'd be bothered, I'm sure... :rolleyes: Encouraging filesharing, links or not, is frowned upon here. The fact that you didn't provide links is the sole reason that you can still post here. What I offered was friendly advice, it's up to you what you do with it. One more or less newbie here, I'm not gonna lose sleep over...

I wish!! It's my birthday, and I'm still not getting "jolly" Still have another four hours though! :D

too verbose (and too few smilies)

Here's Lookin' Up Your Address:D
I hope that's what ya' drink!
:D:up:
and Happy Birthday!