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On 7 Nov 2007 00:05:13 GMT, codifus wrote:
It's a very closed, proprietary system. Yup. You buy a music CD from Sooloos. Sooloos sends you the CD as well as an encoded hardrive with the music on it. That hard drive is attached to your Sooloos system and the music is then almost instantaneously uploaded into the RAM of the system. It seems so. The mirroring you mention must be part of the secondary, offline storage. Nope. I have only one source unit; not the standard configuration. Talk about being locked in. I'll continue building my own server, thank you You are welcome. Kal |
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Serge Auckland wrote:
irritating short break (around 200mS) between tracks. Does Foobar also introduce a short break, or will that keep tracks continuous. Foobar does not introduce a break...but that be because I am playing FLAC files. ___ -S "As human beings, we understand the world through simile, analogy, metaphor, narrative and, sometimes, claymation." - B. Mason Thanks, but I don't understand the reference to FLAC files. Most of my music on my Musicmatch jukebox is in WAV format, some more recent additions are 320kbps MP3. On Musicmatch, all types of files have a short break between tracks, it's just a part of how it works. Musicmatch's Tech Support people were very helpful, but said it's a "feature" of the software, and there's no way round it other than to put the CD in twice, once as individual tracks when one wants to pick and choose, and again as one single track for playing all the way through. I really need to know if there's any other software out there that won't put in this short gap. Yes, most software DOESN'T introduce a gap between .wav files during playback. That was usually a problem with mp3 files only. Have you ever tried Windows Media PLayer or Winamp? ___ -S "As human beings, we understand the world through simile, analogy, metaphor, narrative and, sometimes, claymation." - B. Mason |
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"Codifus" wrote in message
Arny Krueger wrote: wrote in message ... "Seems it stores the music files in memory, not hard discs." There are just now starting to appear drop in flash memory "disks" for conventional hard drives. Very expensive but as always the price is dropping and can be projected to be the storage device of the near future. Ipod type plug in devices are a form of this even now. MP3 file players that are based on flash have been around for most of the decade. The only thing that has changed is the amount of flash memory that was available. My M-Audio Microtrack is a credible mp3 and wav file player that uses CF cards up to 16 GB. Oh, it also happens to record from professional mics even those that need phantom power, up to 24/88 or 16/96! As a MP3 player for consumers the Microtrack would probably be a dud, because its directory services are very basic. Must be a typo, Nope. but why in the world would someone choose 16/96 over 24/88? Good question. But, that's what the spec sheet says. I suspect we're supposed to read it as meaning that either the internal processing or the CF interface can only do 88 with 24 bits, but it will do 96 with 16 bits. I believe the current model, the Microtrack II does 24/96. http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_u...kII-focus.html |
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"Sonnova" wrote in message
Granted that at this moment the cost/megabyte favors HDD, but I don't see how you can possibly assume that this will always be the case. Agreed. There are good reasons to be pretty sure that solid state memory will go down in price per byte almost indefinately, while hard drives will bottom out because of their fairly inflexible need for signficant amounts of mechanical overhead. |
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ScottW wrote:
"Arny Krueger" wrote in message ... "Sonnova" wrote in message Granted that at this moment the cost/megabyte favors HDD, but I don't see how you can possibly assume that this will always be the case. Agreed. Samsung is now sampling a 64Gbyte flash drives. There are good reasons to be pretty sure that solid state memory will go down in price per byte almost indefinately, while hard drives will bottom out because of their fairly inflexible need for signficant amounts of mechanical overhead. A minimum unit price due to the mechanics does not mean cost/bit will not continue to decline. Its been on a very rapid pace as succeeding generations with 2 or more times the density rapidly fall to their predecessors price point. Meanwhile the capital investment for each successive generation of silicon fabs grows and the cost of process technology development has outpaced the means of any single company to pursue. It now requires consortiums. ScottW Exactly! I don't see RAM getting siginificantly smaller as hard drives have been without huge investments in advanced and expensive technology. Hard drives are not going away anytime soon. CD |
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"ScottW" wrote in message
"Arny Krueger" wrote in message ... "Sonnova" wrote in message Granted that at this moment the cost/megabyte favors HDD, but I don't see how you can possibly assume that this will always be the case. Agreed. Samsung is now sampling a 64Gbyte flash drives. At what price? There are good reasons to be pretty sure that solid state memory will go down in price per byte almost indefinately, while hard drives will bottom out because of their fairly inflexible need for signficant amounts of mechanical overhead. A minimum unit price due to the mechanics does not mean cost/bit will not continue to decline. Its been on a very rapid pace as succeeding generations with 2 or more times the density rapidly fall to their predecessors price point. Agreed. However, IME 90% or more of all consumers don't need bigger hard drives. Just about the only consumers who are actually filling hard drives are doing it with video. It is very hard for most people to fill a 500 GB hard drive with music or pictures, which are the other two common options. Filling a 20 GB drive with music and/or pictures is possible, but going the full half-terrabyte is something else. Meanwhile the capital investment for each successive generation of silicon fabs grows and the cost of process technology development has outpaced the means of any single company to pursue. It now requires consortiums. That ain't gonna stop solid state memory from getting denser or cheaper any time soon. |
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