564 albums with 8711 songs by 2263 artists. Runs on a not-at-all dedicated 1.8GHz PIV with 512MB running W2K SP4. Machine is my work at home desktop, so Corel Draw, M$ Orifice suite, AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop, 200GB disk storage on 2 spindles (original as shipped 80GB and 120GB added later).
Runs 2 Squeezeboxen, a 1 and a 3. Going to change the 1 to a 3 in a few months. All MP3. About 3/4 of my library was ripped before I'd even heard of Slim Devices. This is probably 1/3 of my CDs, but most of my dance music (the library was originally scanned for my DJing purposes). Dance venues generally have accoustics that sound like a toilet, so MP3s were fine and carrying the CDs (what I did before) was breaking my back. I also have vinyl stretching back to just after the flood, and I shudder to think what I'm going to do about those. Most I haven't even cleaned in 10 years but I'm still reluctant to part with them before ripping them, and I never seem to find the time to do that. All MP3s are 320kbps CBR. I think some file utility once told me that all my MP3s are encoded using LAME. If so, it was under the covers. I use this ancient application that came with my Audiotron to rip all my CDs. It still works, it's the next best thing to automatic, it almost always does a good job, and I haven't had the time to research other less automatic options. Then I often fix up the tags, add artwork, etc, with Tag & Rename. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23701 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
