I will of course keep the source files backed up locally on a hard drive in
their original codec.
However, the Icecast server I'm planning to run I plan to host on a VPS
found on http://lowendbox.com/. So basically ~5 USD a month and ~20 GB of
storage. So my preferred setup would be to have all music files on it
already pre-encoded in Opus, to conserve storage space.
On Feb 10, 2014 4:47 PM, "Daniel James" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi udo,
> >>> If your source file has high bitrate (such as MP3 320 or Vorbis q>8),
> >>> probably nothing bad will happen when transcoding it to another lossy
> >>> format.
> >>
> >> There's no need to take that risk, though - like you say, storage is
> cheap.
> >
> > not if you host participatory/open projects and keep your 10 thousands
> > of precious user contributes sounds on hardware raid5 arrays with remote
> > mirrors etc., for desaster recovery. that's a bigger risk than artifacts.
>
> Obviously we should all have backups, but if you only keep the lossy
> version you can never reconstruct the original.
>
> I still think storage is cheap, compared to the cost of producing that
> audio in the first place. For example:
>
> Budget for recording Nevermind by Nirvana at 1991 prices: US $60,000
>
> Disk space required to store Nevermind recording in 44.1KHz 16-bit FLAC
> format: approx 210MB for 42 minutes
>
> Price per megabyte of Nevermind recording in FLAC format: US $286
>
> Price per megabyte of disc space on a 3TB SATA drive at today's prices:
> US $0.00005
>
> > anyway, everything >= 256kbit mp3 source files sound ok. everything <=
> > 128k sounds bad.
>
> Then perhaps you should try a better codec than MP3 :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
>
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