Community weekly poll: How much storage space do you have for music files?
- 9/21/06 2:21 PM
I was just chilling...
by PJWomble - 9/26/06 6:03 PM In reply to: What a cool site! by MillerLowlifeI just couldn't work out whether the title of that last one was a really bad pun or not.
If it was, then *my congratulations*...
Every day is Punday!
Don't worry about power...
by bestsealer - 9/27/06 7:50 AM In reply to: What a cool site! by MillerLowlifeDon't worry about the power for the fans.. it sucks up very little. And if memory serves me right, the cooler comes with a power connector that piggy backs onto the power connectory of the hard drive.
I believe you just unplug the power connector to the drive, and stick in the cooler power connector in between. It does not use a separate power source from your computer power supply.
Probably worth a try.
by MillerLowlife - 9/28/06 3:00 PM In reply to: Don't worry about power... by bestsealerI think that I will give the fans a try. I guess I really shouldn't have been worried powerwise, as I could always go with a Y-adapter if necessary. Speaking of power, a lightning bolt just hit nearby causing me to lose almost this entire post so this is my 2nd shot. I guess I better type this fast.
I also made a change yesterday as I removed my CD-ROM drive and moved my slave drive over next to my DVD drive. This allows me to use the former slave HDD as the new master on the secondary IDE channel (with the DVD drive now being the secondary slave). The main benefit from this is that each of the 3 HDDs now has a separate controller (the SATA drive has a PCI card controller).
This is way too much information so I'll just say that the hardware monitor seems to be much happier with this set-up. I have already started ripping my CDs into Apple Lossless format for my iPod. I also plan to rip my favorite songs encoding them into AAC format so that I can use the Predexis (I think that's what it's called) playlist randomizer in Winamp. My neighbors are just going to be thrilled!
SCSI and SATA
by boricua65 - 9/25/06 3:09 PM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
Just recently bought and installed a 320 GB WD SATA II drive. I also installed a 9 GB SCSI drive for the OS and applications
m4a takes a tiny bit more than wma, but quality is best.
by PC_Nerd-Henry_Chan - 10/1/06 8:46 AM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
m4a takes a tiny bit more than wma, but quality is best.
Use Itunes to change wma to m4a.
It works great!
m4a doesn't take up too much memory with itunes. It takes the same as wma with windows media player though.
Memory usage: WMA v M4A
by PJWomble - 10/2/06 8:19 AM In reply to: m4a takes a tiny bit more than wma, but quality is best. by PC_Nerd-Henry_ChanI didn't realise there was a memory usage issue with loading M4a files into different apps: is there a significant amount more RAM used when playing back these files, or is it just a bit of 'overhead'?
*sigh* Since I'm too poor to buy much music...
by RoboticUAV - 10/3/06 7:37 AM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
My 1GB Nano is pretty much full with BOL episodes... I have about 500MB worth of songs though.
I wish iTunes would have better free songs... *sigh*
Lots of choice
by bestsealer - 10/3/06 12:08 PM In reply to: *sigh* Since I'm too poor to buy much music... by RoboticUAVre: ''I wish iTunes would have better free songs... *sigh*''
iTunes is not the only game in town.
Lots of free tunes at Garageband.com. True, most are independent and new bands, but many are better than some so-called professional tracks on iTunes and other professional artists sites.
Also, check out Usenet (newsgroups). Get a good binary reader like Newsbin ( http://www.newsbin.com/ ), and check out some of the binary mp3 newsgroups. Lots of current and old tunes available there. Giganews ( http://www.giganews.com/ ) is a good source for Usenet, with binary retentions around 90 days.
And of course, you can always rip your own (or your friends') CDs and convert to mp3 or whatever format you want.
If you have an iPod, check out the program iFill ( http://www.griffintechnology.com/ ) This is a cool program that captures streaming audio (like from online radio stations) and downloads directly to your iPod. I have not tried it since I don't own an iPod (yet), but supposedly it even separates the tunes and tags them properly, instead of it all being recorded as one continuous track. Fire it up at night, and in the morning you have a whole new set of tunes to listen to the next day.
A similar program called AudioXtract ( http://www.audioxtract.com/ ) will do much the same for non-iPod players. However, it downloads the tracks to your PC, and then you need to move them over to your mp3 player. An extra step, but still..
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Naughty, naughty! :-)
by PJWomble - 10/4/06 2:08 AM In reply to: Lots of choice by bestsealer> you can always rip your own (or your friends') CDs
Your own CDs are okay to rip. But ripping your friends' CDs is no better than those awful people who download music via BitTorrent and that sort of thing.
If people carried on doing that, then the poor old record industry would be reduced to making mere millions instead of billions every year 
And, of course, the entire point of being a musician is nothing to do with having as many people listen to your music as possible. It's to make as much cash as you can through every possible channel of exploitation.
Oh, wait a minute, that's not a musician, that's a business tycoon, isn't it In that case, and speaking as an ex-musician (in several of the world's very worst post-punk bands), it's probably morally okay to rip your friends' CDs, download as much music as you like and generally enjoy acquiring and listening to the stuff!
I only have about 50GB of (obviously completely legitimate) music. But I'm working on it!
iTunes etc...
by PJWomble - 10/5/06 5:52 PM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
Thanks for all your suggestions guys. I'll certainly give it a look. It would be nice to have a cover-art-based graphical interface, rather than having to click on the song title, in these days of impending Vista etc!
I'd like to be quite sure that it won't try to create *copies* of my existing tracks, though, before I get it to create a library. Am I right in thinking that it just creates 'pointers'?
How to download music onto an Mp3 player
by GO COUGARS - 12/20/08 5:01 PM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
I am a new user for the Slick Mp3 player and I don't know how to use the Mp3 player In the box was a little black cd, and a plug for the computer and the other side was for the top of the Mp3 player,and last there were some head phones
80GB
by The ancient one - 4/12/09 4:05 PM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
I have a dedicated hard drive for music that is 80GB in size but currently only have used 35GB of that space
More room for music
by goldentraders - 6/11/09 12:30 AM In reply to: How much storage space do you have for music files? by Marc Bennett
I had 60G on my Ipod and 80G on my computer... and then I just realized, Why do I need tons of music files when I don't have time listening to them... LOLs
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