gutted;225476 Wrote: > Thanks everyone for all your help. The script looks very cool indeed, > but sadly I'm running with a Windows setup :( I don't yet have any > Linux machines, so can't even run the script from a remote location and > point it at a samba share...
cygwin includes bash and awk, so it should work fine on Windows if you install cygwin (and obviously make sure flac is in your PATH). Having cygwin around for occasional use is very nice in general, anyway. > You're right about the compression though - I've currently only got > around 40-50GB FLAC (the rest is still MP3) so the space saving will be > minimal at this stage. But as I continue to re-rip, I'm expecting to > get several hundred GBs of FLAC. I'm hoping to ensure best possible > compression just to make sure I'm getting best use of my disks :) > (Even if this means I only get back the equivalent of a few CD singles > in disk space) > Keeping them small saves disk I/O and network bandwidth when streaming out (can be nice over wireless), too, but the savings are so minimal that I wouldn't even bother with a collection that small--really, if you're in a setup where those 2 factors really matter you'll probably be saving a compressed copy as well, or transcoding for streaming (depending on which is the issue). (An aside with my old, non-squeezebox setup: I store things as FLAC, but my machine is set up to do readahead on the playlist (put the next N files into RAM) and then spin the disks down. They spin up again when I reach the end of the cached list. If I'm playing mp3/ogg files, the disks spin up for a minute or less every hour; if I'm playing flac, they're spinning up every couple of songs. So I basically stream flacs to players in other rooms but play compressed files to the machine in the server room (if I'm in that room, the spinning disks are a far bigger sound quality issue than high-bitrate OGG). I'm working on similar with the squeezebox now, but the difference between flac compression levels is pretty unimportant even in this kind of setup; if you need less I/O you really need a major gain a la lossy compression). -- SumnerH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SumnerH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38160 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
