"Nath" wrote in message
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"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??


I certainly don't, but I dread to think how many versions of 'Strangers In
The Night' I've got here and there....



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)


OK. Fair comment, in that case...



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


Most jobs in my life seem to start with clearing out the garage, in this
case I've had to build me 'pot in a box' to get some *controlled* rips from
vinyl (otherwise any comparison is meaningless to me - digital's ****ed to
start off with!!). I'll record a 'standard' to both formats and try again
(shortly....) but bear in mind my 'auditioner' has already picked MP3s over
OGGs (over easy)....

Lame? I've already heard that it isn't all it's cracked up to be?

I keep an open mind.... :-)