snarlydwarf Wrote: > Hrrm, no it is more to do with the benefits of Random Access Storage > devices as opposed to Sequential Access. It has more to do with > keeping the number of moving parts (Things Which Break) down. It has > more to do with the affordability ($300'ish for a 400 CD changer, of > which I'd need multiple units, vs $80 for a HD which could store as > many CDs in lossless format as a couple changers). It has more to do > with not needing to devote serial ports to IR outputs to control the > changer. It has more to do with not needing to have a sound card that > supports digital inputs (one per changer even) so that I'm not losing > quality in superflous D/A conversions... It has more to do with > scalability (some people here have well over 50,000 tracks.. at an > average of 15 tracks per CD, how many changers is that? How many > digital inputs? how many serial-to-IR convertors?) > > The function of a changer is no longer useful. There are better > solutions to "how do I store several hundred albums in a small, > affordable and easily addressable manner?" > > This happens with technology. People come up with "better things" all > the time. People who are open to change, to actually looking at the > best solution for a problem learn to use the new solutions.
I was responding to the question "why would you wait..." All your comments/questions are moot once you've already made the investment - back in dayes of yore - when these devices were more popular. My comments come from the premise that one already owns all the equipment to support the CD collection. I would agree that if you are starting from scratch, you should not go out and by a CD changer. Your comparisons are only valid in that context. The only real question is whether or not one chooses to convert or not. It's really funny. People seem adamant about promoting this idea that the best route to take is to rip CDs and any suggestion that there is nothing wrong with having CD changers is seen as arcane. Given the premise that you alreay have the equipment, to argue that random access is better than sequential access is really only about time - that's the only real-world measurable metric. And as i said, the time advantage is minimal in my opinion. Certainly not enough to make it worthwhile for ME to rip the CDs. Even switching between CDs in a single player takes ony a few seconds. Certainly no longer than those days of yore when switching cds manually from their jewel cases was the order of the day. So, again, I suggest this whole idea of "switching" to computer storage is about having it all, right now. -- kewe65 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kewe65's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3295 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20083 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
