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Skriven 2009-10-03 21:59:54 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 13285 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: beats the belles of tennessee
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 MK> How do you manage to load 700 CD's at any given time?

> i've over 8000 tracks in mp3 format taking up just over 45Gig...

 MK> Yes but that isn't exactly what was proposed and hence my question.
 MK> How many physical CD's can you have mounted at any given time? 

depends on how drives are interfaced on your system and how they are accessed
;)

 MK> Also if each CD were put onto a drive as a file you'd still be
 MK> limited to how many can be loop mounted at any given time.  I
 MK> believe eight.  As for optical drives, I suppose the limit would be
 MK> how many drives you can interface with at any given moment and the
 MK> cost effectiveness of that plan.

what "cost"... you got the multiple-disk readers? and can interface with them?
use'em! i can see, in my not too awful distant past, a time when there was a
system with a dual SCSI card in it hosting some towers that had up to 8 drives
apiece... he had quite a ROM storage setup but i don't konw how he managed any
"limitations" that he may have run into... maybe a fancy "jukebox" like thing
that automounted and unmounted disks when they were needed and not...

> the worst part of managing them is making sure the internal
> tags are correct so that the artist, album and other related
> infos are properly available for one to create their
> playlist(s) from...

 MK> Right.  I'd also add to the above the creation on the actual mp3's
 MK> from over 700 CD's in the first place.

it only takes just under two years doing only one a day... just put it in your
drive and listen to it... player set to automatically rip it to your specs...
since you own the disk, you have the right to do so... just don't give or sell
it to anyone ;)

 MK> Personally I am content not worrying about all this given I am not 
 MK> in the music business and never did buy many CD's.  I think I have 
 MK> a half dozen although I don't seem positive I have that many.  
 MK> Given the lack of an optical drive at the moment I don't seem to 
 MK> worried about how many I do have.

in many ways, we are alike... if i don't have, i, too, find a way to get along
without ;)

> i hate doing a playlist of stuff from the 1980's and
> having some 1990's or 2000's group or song get into the list

 MK> Not sure why you say the above.  For my part over 90% of the vinyl
 MK> here is before 1980's with the bulk of that being mid to late 60's.
 MK> Quite a bit of the rest would be pre mid 70's.

ok, so change the years in my above... if you were doing a playlist of 60's
stuff, would you want a 70's group or song to be in that playlist??

> sure it is better... it is just like having the files on the
> local drive except they are over the wire on another machine

 MK> Wouldn't it be better if the drive were locally wired?

well, sure but why have one or more drives per machine in your herd when you
can use smaller drives and place all important "per account" stuff on a shared
drive such that only one drive need be backed up to a remote system ;)

 MK> Anyhow I would never do file sharing to a nonUnix system 
 MK> especially if the nonUnix system was where the shared drive was 
 MK> wired.  Mind you I don't care to do file sharing with a Unix 
 MK> system so ...

yes, i know but seems that maybe you've not really had the need for multiple
machines on the network accessing the internet for X hours a day, every day...
why down updates Y times when you can download once to the shared drive and all
machines that need it can get it from there? :)

 MK> ftp is still the best methinks.

it is ok for some things... too cumbersome for other, more realtime, type
activities, IMHO :)

> the idea behind PDFs is that they all print the same...

 MK> Same idea with postscript way back when.

yeah but i don't konw of anyone that's done a postscript to video
"converter"... do you? :P

> punched and placed into a notebook and we have hardcopy manuals
> to peruse at our pleasure ;)

 MK> Yep.  I remember those days.  Mind you most was text back then and
 MK> the paper was form fed to a line printer but the reason for doing
 MK> it was the same, albiet without the pretty graphics.  Seemed to all
 MK> work out fine though despite that particular shortcoming.

ahhh... the good'ole'days :)

> be careful when looking at multi-port NICs...

 MK> Very good advice.  Good thing I don't really need one as the only
 MK> ones that look appealing these days cost more than I care to pay
 MK> for something I don't really need.

in another venue, a few months back, "we" were talking about multiport cards
when this came up... there was a nice compatible card for our needs that was
only like $35-45 US, IIRC... four NICs on one PCI card, each with a different
MAC address... excellent for mini-ITX type boards with only two or three slots
if one is building a small firewall box to protect their networks... 4 ports
allows for internet on the outside and three internal networks... depending on
the firewall setup you choose, each network has certain access rights on the
others and all have acces to the internet... worked great for our/their needs
:)

> the real question is if your lines can handle the high speeds

 MK> Definetly not where I find myself at the moment.  However it might
 MK> still be handy to have one just in case the need ever crops up. 
 MK> Given the cost it doesn't seem an unreasonable want if it does
 MK> indeed work.

when the internet goes down, for some reason that is not related to my POTS
side, i relay on POTS to get the job done for FTN stuffs :)

)\/(ark

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