Community weekly poll: How much storage space do you have for music files?
- 9/21/06 2:21 PM
Music files
by James W. Mahan - 9/22/06 7:29 AM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
No space.
I suppose if I NEED music while I work, I will just listen to my CD player. I did not buy a computer to store music files, I'll let some one else do that.
Other uses for computers
by PJWomble - 9/22/06 8:00 AM In reply to: Music files by James W. MahanWell, a CD player is a 'computer' in a way. Somebody has written the digital to analogue software inside it and burned it onto a ROM chip, haven't they?
Does your CD player play MP3 format CDs? 2-300 tracks to a CD really saves carrying all those disks around with you all day I think.
I own a pocket calculator, but as my computer does arithmetic very quickly I sometimes use it to create Excel spreadsheets. I also own a pen and paper, but Word is jolly effective at producing documents too! I didn't buy the computer to do those things, but as they're serendipitous side-effects of owning a PC, I make the most of them!
120 gigbytes
by rtoyser - 9/22/06 8:49 AM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
I have 1 terrabyte of raw disk space spanned between 4 hard drives running raid 5. I have over 120 gb of MP3 in lame.
I hope you're young
by teamdave - 9/22/06 9:37 AM In reply to: 120 gigbytes by rtoyserIf you're over 30 you probably won't live long enough to listen to it all.
File type is a critical factor in choosing storage
by malbeau - 9/22/06 10:30 AM In reply to: I hope you're young by teamdaveI archive mostly AIFF files (RedBook CD standard). These "uncompressed" files take up gobs of storage space, but hard drives are cheap, and iPods carry more than enough audio to last me through a trip. I like the fact that the files always sound great and, thanks to the lack of DRM tags, I can share them between my computers, home audio system via Apple Airport Express, and also burn high-quality mix CD's too.
I don't understand why people waste so much time and energy messing with expensive, restricted compressed files, when importing your CD's and archiving your favorite tracks is so easy and soooo much better quality.
And yes, i do listen to all of it. Youth is a state of mind.
up to 50 GB, NTFS, more available on external hard drive
by jcsmith - 9/22/06 9:08 AM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
Subject title says it all.
Zero GB.
by farhansyed - 9/22/06 9:35 AM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
I don't care for the sound "quality" of MP3's and other downloaded music, so I don't have any space on my hard disk for that. Now if music download services and "free" music download sites started letting you download the 30-50 MB uncompressed WAV file, or ISO image of the actual CD, then I might start downloading. But why waste space on my computer for sound quality that might not even be as good as what I can tape off the radio?
Free Lossless Audio Codec
by PJWomble - 9/22/06 10:23 AM In reply to: Zero GB. by farhansyedFLAC lets you have 'audiophile' level sound, and this lossless audio codec (guess what) is free! It sounds *good*. For instance, I have a gospel album in this format, and I swear you can hear the vicar's cassock rustling in between tunes! It's basically a format which uses 'ZIP' like compression, but doesn't make any compromises in audio quality.
I'm sure you're not the sort of person who downloads free music, but if you were and you went to isohunt.com and searched for "FLAC", you'd find thousands of items there for your perusal!
The codec is described in detail at: http://flac.sourceforge.net/ and there are download links from there.
Enjoy!
no HD space needed
by NJM - 9/22/06 10:46 AM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
(except for temp storage)
I use a DVD R/W (or three or four or.....)
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ul be grinnin....
by CathodeRayTube - 9/22/06 11:26 AM In reply to: no HD space needed by NJMwhen your dvds deteriorate and you lose all your music...dvd-RW out of all of them is one of the flakeiest medias in existance...the dye fades...the aliminum corrodes...and they get scratched and cracked.
i have never trusted optical media and never will.
if you want to keep anything for your entire lifespan, put it on a HDD, preferabley 2 or more in RAID 1. or magnetic tape.
500MB or less
by SujaGeorge - 9/22/06 12:55 PM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
I just don't have much music on my system. I listen to music over the digital cable through my TV. I have music I've ripped for my wife's Ipod and for my son's Ipod, but that's about all. If I ever get one, I'll probably end up with more music files. Most of the files I have are m4a files, a few midi files and some wav files. I may also have other types but I'm not sure.
300 GB External Drive
by bestsealer - 9/22/06 1:47 PM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
I am using an external 300 GB drive for my MP3 files.. I have about 110 GB in Audiobooks, and about 60GB in music.
The external drive uses a firewire interface, and the drive can be daisy-chained to other external drives with a firewire cable. Great for expansion. In fact, I am using this configuration right now.. two 300 GB drives daisy chained together.. one for my MP3 files, and the other for all my digital photos.
These external drives are relatively inexpensive.. about $200 each. Not a bad deal for portable storage.
Total 480GB's
by KyooMac - 9/22/06 6:17 PM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
I have one computer with 4 120GB hard drives totally dedicated to serving music on my home network. I'm about to upgrade to 4 300GB hard dives. They'll be almost full within 3 mos.
That is what i'm talking about!!!
by edpannell - 9/22/06 6:39 PM In reply to: Total 480GB's by KyooMacare you using any software package to manage the collection???
software package
by KyooMac - 9/12/07 10:00 AM In reply to: That is what i'm talking about!!! by edpannellNope, just windows explorer. Since my post from last year, I have upgraded to four 500gb hard drives on a NAS system and have also networked my Tivo to stream video across the internet.
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