Nath wrote:
"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Nath" wrote

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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)

Could you manage it for the price of the Cambridge (500UKP)? Or the
laptop combo (factor in a 15" TFT)?


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




This is becoming increasingly tricky to call. Storage is becoming
cheaper, and I'd guess that codecs will become more efficient. For
future proof archiving surely the best way is just store wavs? 200Gb for
60UKP - what's that, about 15p per CD? When/if some bright spark comes
up with the 1000:1 lossless codec there you have it. To move with the
times you just keep encoding the wavs and replace your old compressed
files with the new compression technique (for your iRiver, WHY); save
time, optimal quality.

Just my thought for the day. Back to bed :-)

Rob