Re: OT ... audio

On Dec 8, 4:49�pm, Matt Ion <soundy...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jim wrote:
On Dec 8, 4:16 am, Matt Ion <soundy...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
iTunes has an option, under CD Import Settings, for Apple Lossless
Encoder, as well as MP3, AAC, AIFF, and WAV encoders. Comes included
with my bone-stock install of iTunes 8.x.-

Thanks Matt, I'll check it out.

Just out of curiosity, which format is the best? I would imagine if
one recorded their favorites on a Terabyte external drive, or two, in
the best lossless format, they could always down convert them to
lesser formats for other devices ..... Yes?

Quality-wise, ripping to WAV at 44.1kHz, 16-bit stereo (which is what
your CDs are recorded at - well, technically they're 14-bit, so you're
already ripping at a higher resolution) will give you NO loss of
quality, but will also use the most space.

Figure 44,100 samples per second, 16 bits (or two bytes) per sample,
time two audio channels, that's 176,400 bytes per second of audio...
give or take. �Factor in a bit of overhead, round it up to 180,000 and
convert that to kbytes, and you can call it 175kB/s. �Multiply by 60,
that's about 10.5MB/min... 630MB/hour... 1000 hours of music becomes
"only" 630GB.

And yeah, from there you can convert to MP3 or whatever other supported
format if you need to load some music on a smaller device (Smartphone,
iPod Nano, etc.)

I just saw an external terabyte hardrive on sale for 169.00. So with a
couple of those, it seems that one could have a pretty good size
collection even using lossess format. I've also seen these hardrive
racks that you can add 6 or eight hardrives, as you need them and for
a mirror drive set up too.

I've set up a couple now for additional storage for high-traffic DVRs.
$3000 or so for a rack-mount, 8-bay system with hardware RAID (including
RAID 6). �$200 each (a few months ago) for eight 1TB SATA drives to load
it up... configure for RAID 5, and I have 6.5TB of usable space with
parity and hot-swappable drives. �Very nice.

So lossless audio storage doesn't seem that hard a thing to do. �Or am
I missing something? How about management? I'm presuming that the
I-tunes application will do that, or that there are other music file
management tools that are available?

Lots, I was just using iTunes as an example because my friend was doing
this with his 80GB iPod. �And I personally like iTunes (I know a lot of
people don't), largely because of how it automatically manages the files
and folders. �But there are certainly others that will use WAV, and most
of them will also use FLAC if you want to go that way.

You say that as if you think I know what you're talking about. :-)

But ..... that's ok, I've got the basics. I'll look it up to see if I
can find out what the differences are. But, it's like too many things
now. There's just so freekin much information on the subject that
after reading for an hour, you've got so much info that you can't
remember what the hell you wanted to know to begin with ..... because
NOW you've found out about a hundred more NEW things that you didn't
even know existed ..... that now you want to know about ........
too!!!!!

.

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