Chris May wrote:
Can anyone give me any tips on dealing with 30k or so worth of songs?
I have a client who has a HUGE CD collection and wants to take the cream
of the crop and put them on a 250gig or 300gig HD for his listening
pleasure.
I only discovered the Squeezebox a few months ago. My boss
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Chris May wrote:
Can anyone give me any tips on dealing with 30k or so worth
of songs?
I have a client who
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Subject: Re: [slim] Need advice on housing 30K of songs
I have put over 8k sounds under
iTunes and saw sluggishness as the XML database that it had to keep up was
getting quite large. I imagine your 30k of songs will push it to the limit, but
I don't know for sure.
Advice
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I have put over 8k sounds under iTunes and saw sluggishness as the XML
database that it had to keep up was getting quite large. I imagine
your 30k of songs will push
I have no idea about iTunes etc. but I do have a recomondation - if at
all possible, rip to flac - even if it means burning to DVD for space
reasons (it probably will)
You can fit quite a few albums in flac on a DVD-R, if you go with the
newer dual layer stuff you can fit even more albums in flac
I have put over 8k sounds under iTunes and saw sluggishness as the XML database that it had to keep up was getting quite large. I imagine your 30k of songs will push it to the limit, but I don't know for sure.
Advice: Get a fast hard drive and lots of RAM for use as the O/S tries to cache the
