From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 01:38:32 -0500 To: conor.williams@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <839950cb8f31b583d75f42a8bf94c96d@mikro> In-Reply-To: References: <3819b0c338415f0f22edc1fb2d5d0ee0@felloff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] music storage Topicbox-Message-UUID: 93cd3772-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > why didn't Erik rip to Mp3, i what I mean... an album is typically 50MB as > opposed to 650MB i can answer that. i wanted full quality, and 150G is less than 15% of the space i've got. i've got a pair of by the time i run out, i'll have more space. my srx presents a lun that the fs uses entirely for media. it's backed by a pair of enterprise 1T drives in raid 1. the low iops of these drives is not a problem since the bitrate of audio is low by modern standards, and the stream is largely sequential. > just downloading a torrent with the mp3's seems simpler > than swapping cd's. :) non legal is a non option for me. but even if it were, one can use the "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of 9 track tapes" principle. it only took 6-8 hrs of bad cycles, as sam calls them, to get the bulk of these disks loaded. with my network connection it would have been ~10 days of torture. > he is refering to play(1) command in 9front which does > recognize the following audio formats: backscatter from another list? who is "he" and who refered to play before? anyway, that brings up another advantage of pcm: cat *.pcm > /dev/audio - erik