Richard, glad to know the info was useful. A few clarifications...
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:01 PM Richard Elen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Drew... > > This is exceptionally useful information, and thank you. > > OK, so the current setup won't work. Not only that, my entire > installation won't work - if the library needs to be stored in /var/snd/ > then it DOES require its own partition - indeed, its own drive. > Technically now always but in fact, usually a very good idea. > > In addition, if I want to run both a Windows system and Rivendell on the > same machine as dual-boot I will indeed need two libraries, one in > native format (mainly FLAC plus some mp3s) under NTFS and one generated > by Rivendell under xfs, probably on its own drive mounted at /var. > What does the windows system do with the audio that it cannot work with the Riv files? > > You note that Rivendell will convert all files to .WAV (even if they are > lossy compressed, interestingly) so I need to allow a seriously larger > space for the library. > > PCM16, PCM24, MPEG Layer 2 are options you set in rdadmin for the rdlibrary setting of a host. IIRC, even the MPEG Layer 2 files show up with a .wav extension. If you use that, you use the compressed format you will: 1. lose quality wrt your flac files. 2. incur re-encoding losses from your mp3s. > I'm very glad I learned this now when I'll only have wasted a day or so > building the system, and not some way further down the line, so I am > very grateful for the comments. > If you have room it the box, it is likely more than worth it to put in a drive for /var/snd... > > Many thanks! > --Richard E > > all the best, drew -- Enjoy great *Bahamian Music* at: Bahamian Or Nuttin - http://www.bahamianornuttin.com <http://www.bahamianornuttin.com/>
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