Assuming you wish to maintain perfect audio fidelity, 500-700 Mb for an uncompressed AIFF or WAV file depending on the length of an album. At an average of 600 Mb, your 300 Gb drive would hold a whopping 500 albums. That's without even messing with FLAC or other lossless compressions. With FLAC, the number increases to 800 albums or so. But storage so dirt cheap these days, and it being so easy to slave HDDs, or add additional HDDs, I don't know why anyone would mess with FLAC or other lossless compressions unless they're just plain into codecs.
I've been slowly ripping all my albums to AIFF files via Itunes - I've got 61 albums so far on my hard drive, and the folder size is only 32 Gb. -- Cleve Two-channel system; McIntosh MC2205 amplifier McIntosh MAC4100 receiver Klipsch CF-4 speakers Denon DR-M3 Cassette Deck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cleve's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2048 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18552 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
