[slim] Just getting started...
Dear all, My Squeezebox2 is scheduled to arrive on Friday. I purchased a 200gb drive w/8mb cache for $94.00 and have been ripping music through WMP at a 192kbs rate. My question is whether this rate is enough quality? My home audio gear is fairly decent, running an Onkyo DTS receiver, and decent speakers and my thinking going into this process is that I would not be able to hear much of a difference between 192 and a higher standard. This idea may be considered blasphemy to any audiophiles out there, but it seems to make sense to me in terms of conservative storage space ustage. Currently I have around 800+ CDs to get in there, I have ripped around 350 of them and there is a ton of room left on the drive so that I will be able to continue to add music to it all the time once my current discs are all loaded. Any thoughts that any of you have are appreciated. Also...once it is set up and I have the music streaming, what are some modifications that all of you have made, what do you consider the most important additions, and what would you do first with your new system? It will be a rough couple of days waiting for friday, thank you for any of your thoughts. Ben -- bjmacdow ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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Why not rip an album at 192 and the same album at a higher rate and judge the difference for yourself on the SB on Friday. Everyone's hearing is different and 192 may or may not be good enough for you. Steven Moore On 19 Apr 2005, at 2:57 pm, bjmacdow wrote: Dear all, My Squeezebox2 is scheduled to arrive on Friday. I purchased a 200gb drive w/8mb cache for $94.00 and have been ripping music through WMP at a 192kbs rate. My question is whether this rate is enough quality? My home audio gear is fairly decent, running an Onkyo DTS receiver, and decent speakers and my thinking going into this process is that I would not be able to hear much of a difference between 192 and a higher standard. This idea may be considered blasphemy to any audiophiles out there, but it seems to make sense to me in terms of conservative storage space ustage. Currently I have around 800+ CDs to get in there, I have ripped around 350 of them and there is a ton of room left on the drive so that I will be able to continue to add music to it all the time once my current discs are all loaded. Any thoughts that any of you have are appreciated. Also...once it is set up and I have the music streaming, what are some modifications that all of you have made, what do you consider the most important additions, and what would you do first with your new system? It will be a rough couple of days waiting for friday, thank you for any of your thoughts. Ben -- bjmacdow ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 06:57 -0700, bjmacdow wrote: WMP at a 192kbs rate. My question is whether this rate is enough quality? My home audio gear is fairly decent, running an Onkyo DTS receiver, and decent speakers and my thinking going into this process is that I would not be able to hear much of a difference between 192 and a higher standard. This is really a personal question. Can you hear enough difference to care? It is easy to do a quick test, rip a good sounding CD both ways, and listen to them both. If you can't tell a difference, be happy. I believe that I can hear a difference, and using FLAC, the files are only two or three times larger than high rate MP3. And disk drives are essentially free. So for me, FLAC is it. There is one non-subjective reason to consider flac. Since it is allows you to recreate bit exact audio, you can change your mind later and transcode the audio into any format without any loss other than that caused by the target audio. So if sometime down stream, you want all your files in WMA or OggVorbis, you can take the FLAC, convert back to the original wav files, and then convert to what you want and know you have done no harm. Once you use a lossy compression like MP3, it is lost forever and you'd have to manually re-rip all your CDs. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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bjmacdow wrote: Dear all, My Squeezebox2 is scheduled to arrive on Friday. I purchased a 200gb drive w/8mb cache for $94.00 and have been ripping music through So just look at $94 and consider what your time is worth. For another $94 you could rip all your CDs to FLAC and never have to do it again. WMP at a 192kbs rate. My question is whether this rate is enough quality? Lossy if false economy; particularly if you are already concerned enough about quality to ask. I just don't understand MP3/OGG for anything other than a portable player. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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Amen, brothers. I have all my CDs as FLAC. When I need a bunch of tunes for my portable, I drag them into foobar2000 (a player) and hit a button on a pulldown menu. A suprisingly short time later, I have all the tunes I wanted in a portable player format. Doing that without having to find and re-rip the CDs is wonderful. Robert Pat Farrell wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 06:57 -0700, bjmacdow wrote: WMP at a 192kbs rate. My question is whether this rate is enough quality? My home audio gear is fairly decent, running an Onkyo DTS receiver, and decent speakers and my thinking going into this process is that I would not be able to hear much of a difference between 192 and a higher standard. This is really a personal question. Can you hear enough difference to care? It is easy to do a quick test, rip a good sounding CD both ways, and listen to them both. If you can't tell a difference, be happy. I believe that I can hear a difference, and using FLAC, the files are only two or three times larger than high rate MP3. And disk drives are essentially free. So for me, FLAC is it. There is one non-subjective reason to consider flac. Since it is allows you to recreate bit exact audio, you can change your mind later and transcode the audio into any format without any loss other than that caused by the target audio. So if sometime down stream, you want all your files in WMA or OggVorbis, you can take the FLAC, convert back to the original wav files, and then convert to what you want and know you have done no harm. Once you use a lossy compression like MP3, it is lost forever and you'd have to manually re-rip all your CDs. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
