"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Nath" wrote


Agree entirely, even with a 'normal' PC I'm using an external soundcard
and external 200 Gb HDDs nowadays.....

For around £1300 I can fit a PC with about 10 250GB HD's. :-D

Add another couple of hundred quid for a streamer box thingy in each
location. And that's it. Cheaper than a single Sound Server, and
considerably more storage and upgradability.



You've got too many bloody oggs then.....!!

My entire audio colletion encoded to OGG, with same MP3 is just under 40GB,
so EVERYTHING fits onto my iriver..in fact I have around 4.6GB free since I
delete duplicates or "alternative" versions...I mean do you really need 8
versions of the same song?? Also got compilations, best of's, Rock/Chart
show compilations some tracks duplicated. Also some sequential albums have
one track from another album (REM for instance)

I was just saying for the same price of the Sound Server I could outfit a
whopper PC server, and store everything as lossless, or even if lossy
highbitrate with thousands of albums (if you have that many)

Did you read the last message on the OGG v MP3 thread? (get latest Lame and
OGG encoder)