Re: Jinzora is the best mp3 server

From: Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 12:48:55 AKDT

Damien Hull wrote:

>I'm at Cafe del Mundo and thought I'd give the mp3 server a try. It
>wouldn't work at 128 or even 96. I had to resample down to 64k. The
>music is streaming nicely. No mater where I'm at I should be able to
>listen to my music. Even if it means I have to listen at 32k. If that
>doesn't work I can always download a song or two.
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>I encode all my music in mp3 format. I've been told to switch to ogg
>because it creates small files that sound better then mp3's. My question
>is why? I've got over 100G's of free drive space. Do I really need to
>create small audio files? No!
>
>Even if I get an IPod I can store more then enough music. The IPod
>shuffle comes in a 512MB and 1GB version. The Mini is 4GB and 6GB. It
>then goes to 20GB, 30GB and 60GB.
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>If you encode at 128k the songs will be between 6MB to 10MB depending on
>how long they are. At 10 MB a song I can put about 51 songs on the IPod
>shuffle with 512MB of storage. At 10MB a song I can put about 6000 songs
>on the IPod photo with 60GB of storage. That's assuming it really is
>60GB. Lets say that most CD's hold 12 songs. That means I can put about
>500 CD's on the IPod photo. How many people have 500 CD's?
>
>Even if each song came out to 20MB I can still store 3000 songs or 250
>CD's on the IPod photo.
>
>There are some portable players that will handle ogg but with drive
>sizes increasing we may not need it any more. You could just rip your
>CD's to wave files and skip the encoding process. How much music do you
>really need to take with you any way?
>
>check out the IPod at www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html . They list how many
>songs each IPod will hold.
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Found out that some of my songs are less then 6MB. Some of them are
between 3MB and 6MB.
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