On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:36:07PM -0000, Dominic Stratten wrote:
> With technologies today and hard drives costing around 60ukp for a 120gb
> drive you'd be best hiding an old computer in the attic and encoding your
> cd's as MP3 files.

Two points here:

1) The attic is a bad place in general for electronics equipment. Extreme
temps are not good.

2) A point that a colleague of mine made: with the ever falling price and
expanding capacities of hard disks, it's probably a smart move not to encode
media, but leave it in its original digital format. So don't use MP3 or other
codecs to compress (lossily I might add). If it's 450 CDs and it averages 650
MB each, it would only take 292G of space to store. 2 200G drives can do that
with space to spare.

>
> Use an rs232 link or radio link to communicate with the PC and bobs your
> uncle - no nasty mechanisms to go wrong, mp3 tag systems for identification
> of the track and a lot of space saved.

See point 2 above about space savings vs. the quality of the end product.

Just a thought or two.

BAJ

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