On 23 Apr, 12:41, "Keith G" wrote:
"Dr Hfuhruhurr" wrote in message

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On 23 Apr, 00:12, "Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:





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Keith G wrote:

There seems to be a glut of Acoustic Solutions CD 'Jukeboxes' on Ebay
at the minute - it's a CD Player with an internal HD that you can rip
CDs to. Don't think it can be used to record anything else, though.
They seem to go for well under 100 quid new.
Most of those have only a 40 Gig HDD - there is an 80 Gig version
available:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...sspagename=STR...

Yup - I bought an 80 gig one for 80 quid recently. It's pretty good for
that price. Not sure it would be at the RRP, though. Since it uses a
computer CD drive it's a bit noisier than an audio CD. But if you want a
fairly basic stand alone jukebox system it's ok. But it won't play MP3
CDs. Nor does it say anywhere just how many CDs it will store.

Mmmm 80gb * 1024 = 81,920Mb
If you take an 'average' CD of 600 Mb then that's just over 136 CDs
for WAV (which I'm presuming it is) files.

There are three levels of compression (128/192/320 KB) available, I gather -
so there would be the opportunity to store a lot more albums than that...??

Sounds like an MP3 Sylee compression in that 128Kb will fir 10 times
as much onto the disk. Ergo 1360 CDs at what is probably an abominable
compression ratio. Sounds like the best bet would be to go for the
320Kb to reduce the chance of artefacts. so more like 600-700 CDs.

For £80 i'd be tempted to rip the lid of and try and cram something
HUGE in there.

Yes, if it would recognise a 500 Gig disk and *could handle* that many files
it would be an awsome resource for not a lot of money, but the matching
Acoustic Solutions CD player (which is perfectly OK sonically) can get
confused with large numbers of MP3s on a CDRW, I believe. I recall that the
one I have here will start to miss off a few seconds of each of the tracks,
if it is subjected to a lot of button-pressing and skipping about on the
remote...??

Always a problem with HDD based consumer devices is what format etc is
the disk.
Might have to have a play.......

Doc