"Rob" wrote in message
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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)?

If you've got a old PC, the yes...just add a couple of HD's and away you go.
Basically a server. Don't need a monitor, keyboard or mouse either...either
on 24/7 or perhaps flick it on remotely.



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?

Or Lossless FLAC, that way can re-rip to lossy. However I would probably
just re-rip my faviourate albums as with the "newer higher quality lossy" so
inserting the CD isn't a big deal. I've ripped/encoded 1000 albums and that
is very time consuming, however my encodes are OGG ~180kps I doubt a newer
lossy codec will improve some of the recordings, considering quality (ie
Nirvana, thrash etc

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.

Yeah, use FLAC as the source, re-encode. Iriver is a great sounding portable
DAP, OGG support, and now flashed Rockbox. So it should have FLAC, as well
as MOD, MID etc etc :-D