Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread probedb
utgg wrote: Agree it is almost certainly a player memory size limitation - the database is probably held in ram. Plus the use of 16-bit track references. It's instructive to have a feel for how much memory you actually need. I would have thought 100 bytes average for per-track tag

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread utgg
probedb wrote: 100 bytes is nothing though and if the tags are unicode then you just halved that. 50 characters wouldn't cover the song title + artist for many of the bands I listen to. I did say well organised. And I still maintain 100 is reasonable as an average - for all those long titles

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread reinholdk
Archimago, you should know better that you will not succeed with your business if you try to undercut the competition. You have to sell with a higher price! reinholdk's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread poing
garym wrote: Unfortunately, these turn in to mud slinging contests (and be prepared to be told that if you say you need more than 65,000 tracks you're either lying or crazy). Or a file sharer who doesn't pay for his music ;)

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread poing
utgg wrote: I did say well organised. And I still maintain 100 is reasonable as an average - for all those long titles there will plenty of short ones as well. 100 bytes is ridiculously small. For search, you need to store artist, album artist, composer, track name, album name, genre, release

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread Mnyb
reinholdk wrote: Archimago, you should know better that you will not succeed with your business if you try to undercut the competition. You have to sell with a higher price! Yes that's the weird economy for luxury items for the rich . You sell more if you hike the price ! Porsche did that

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread Archimago
Mnyb wrote: Yes that's the weird economy for luxury items for the rich . You sell more if you hike the price ! Porsche did that mistakes in the 80's and early 90's was it not some model that was relatively affordable so that just maybe a working class hero could get one if he worked hard

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread Mnyb
poing wrote: Or a file sharer who doesn't pay for his music ;) ... thats the OCD people here with 45 tracks , you cant possible listen to that even if you did not have a day job and did it for 10 hours a day . and then only listen once :D 65k is quite possible given that your now in your

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread Wombat
Reminds me on some garbage i once wrote. http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pc-based/202369-hand-made-sata-cable-cat-5.html#post2824871 NO joke, i got PMs for that asking for more details because others hear the same! Transporter (modded) - RG142 - Avantgarde Acoustic based 500VA monoblocks -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread Mnyb
Archimago wrote: Okay. Fine. I have seen the light! $12,500.01 it is. Not a penny less! And to optimize the performance of this server machine, it'll have a 8GB vintage 10-year-old flash drive (because those were the quietest drives of course!). 2X DVD burner circa 2001 approved by

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread riffer
Wombat wrote: Reminds me on some garbage i once wrote. http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pc-based/202369-hand-made-sata-cable-cat-5.html#post2824871 NO joke, i got PMs for that asking for more details because others hear the same! Lol! That's funny.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread reinholdk
Archimago wrote: Clearly: The. Ultimate. Serving. Machine. And this is the name of your business: T.U.S.M. (I agree to receive $1,000 per sold unit from you.) reinholdk's Profile: