My collection is currently 600 hours, and takes up 200 GB. It's all
FLAC except for 4 songs in AAC.
At 10MB/min (an approximation) for raw 16bit/44.1kSps audio, the FLAC
is 55.4% as big as uncompressed WAV data would be. That's about what
the FLAC website claims is typical...
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John
The cheapest and easiest method is with extra hard drives. You have two
basic options for hosting the drive:
- External USB2 enclosure for an 3.5 IDE drive. You can find these
for $20-50US.
- Removable trays, which you can get for around $15US (bay+tray), and
additional trays cost
Manuel Rathmann Wrote:
Well Max - this is what I am exactly trying to work out. The idea I had
is
to buy a Buffalo Linkstation. [...]
Oh sorry, I've hijacked your thread in that case. I hadn't understood
what a linkstation was - I assumed it was just another piece of network
kit. Maybe I
How many FLAC albums do you get on a DVD on average? I keep meaning to
compile some statistics on the average size of my compressed albums,
but a quick scan shows they tend to be between 200-400MB. Nice and
accurate! ;-)
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max.spicer
The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed
I have been trying to deal with the backup issues as well. My problems
is scale; I currently have about 24000 ripped flac tracks on hard disks
which is about half of my cds. This is currently taking up a little
over 1.0 TB on my linux box. Duping the drives would be painfully
expensive. A
robertwallace Wrote:
I'm probably a bit old-fashioned. I tend to think of hard disks as
production media not suitable to off-line long term storage. I'm sure
that's no longer the case...
Any way, when I ripped my CD collection for the 4th (and final time) --
to FLAC -- I backed up
Oh, around 10 to 20 - Nice and accurate ;=)
max.spicer wrote:
How many FLAC albums do you get on a DVD on average? I keep meaning to
compile some statistics on the average size of my compressed albums,
but a quick scan shows they tend to be between 200-400MB. Nice and
accurate! ;-)
max.spicer Wrote:
Manuel Rathmann wrote (in New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver):
[..] my harddrive just went up in smoke - most probaply because I
left it running for too long due to my Squeezebox.
This sort of thing scares me a lot. I reckon I'll have spent 36 hours
ripping all my
What flac options are you using? I think I'm using -6.
--
max.spicer
The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible
teeth
and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws
but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye
I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my
compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between
200-400MB
Wow. Mine average 500, I must have some kind of broken FLAC codec ;)
More seriously, I think it must have to do with the type of music. I
always see
DVDs are not exactly archival. Naturally, hard drives have the issue that
your OS may not support the HD in the future. I often feel like a dung
beetle copying all my stuff from computer to computer. Anyway, I just use
HDs.
Thanks,
Phillip
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I used this in EAC (compression options - External Compression -
Additional command line options):
-6 --replay-gain -V -T artist=%a -T title=%t -T album=%g -T
date=%y -T tracknumber=%n -T genre=%m -T comment=EAC
0.95prebeta5 / FLAC 1.1.0 %s
And as an example these are the sizes for Steely Dan
Shoot, most of my 5.25 disks that had sat in
a box for 10 years worked the last time I went through them
before their ultimate disposal.
I think that magnetic media--although it's sensitive to fields--is notably
better for long-term archiving. I believe CDs are estimated at about 10
years
From: radish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my
compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between
200-400MB
Wow. Mine average 500, I must have some kind of broken FLAC codec ;)
Mine are much shorter as well. Here's a short sample:
I have a lot of CDs that were originally released on vinyl. That limits
them, in most cases, to 25-40 minutes in length. Considering the
rule-of-thumb of a bit over 10 MB / minute of audio, uncompressed and
approx 50% compression with FLAC, I generally get 200 - 250 MB (in
FLAC) for a 30
Well for single albums, mine seem to vary between pretty small
and very large:
164M/media2/Flac/Enya/Watermark
to
689M/media2/Flac/Fish/Mixed Company
(This CD is so long that I can't rip the last track, and I've
tried 4 different DVD drives on Linux and Windows... It's also
a live
Well, yes, most of my albums are full, i.e. 72 mins, which will make
them larger than 40-45 mins pop albums. But, I'm still not seeing the
ratios. For example, I took a random selection of 4 tracks from an
album, and compared them at different settings:
4 tracks, total play time 16:06
WAV:
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