On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Derek at CD Baby wrote: > Just thought you'd like to know CD Baby has switched to FLAC for > archiving the 40,000 CDs we have in stock. > Luckily HD space is down below $1/gig so we got a 6-terabyte RAID-5 > box set up for about $7000.
Well, even if you do have a lot of Morton Feldman (currently my record for best compression ratio--about 0.25 or so), I don't think you're going to get 40,000 CDs onto only 6 terrabytes. My guess, actually, would be 22,469 CDs. Save that number for me if you start a pool. But I'd be interested to know what sort of hardware you're using, and extremely interested in knowing how you're ripping the CDs, because I'm doing a similar project (backing up my entire CD collection--though only about 800 of them in my case). I've been using cdrdao to this point, and compressing each disc to one flac file. However, cdrdao has its difficulties: particularly annoying is that on more than 5% of my CDs it refuses to read the TOC, instead aborting with an exception claiming that a seconds field is not between 0 and 59 or something like that. (I originally thought that this was due to dodgy home-made CDs until I discovered a bunch of major-label ones that have the same problem.) Beyond that, ripping storing CDs with data tracks is still an unsolved problem. I'm also currently lacking a way to store the PQ subcode data within the flac file (though someone suggested that this is better done with a flac file within an Ogg file) and also a way to extract individual tracks. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flac-dev
