TiredLegs;203187 Wrote: > Hard disk space is dirt cheap these days. Just bought a 500GB drive for > $100. That's $0.20 per gigabyte. My 387 CDs ripped to WAV take up a > total of 197GB. > > The only downsides to WAV are the lack of tagging, and possible > bandwidth constraints if you're running wireless. Slimserver can > accurately parse my filenames (Artist-Album-Tracknumber-TrackTitle.wav) > to create its database, and I'm running my two SB3s hard wired. > > I'm stumped why people seem so concerned about compression.
Tagging is the issue for me - I use multiple tags per field, which would not be possible with wav. A lesser issue is the noise - I've just had to add a second HD to bring me up to 900GB, and I can handle two Spinpoints to cover that. However, if I had three HDs, it would be getting noisy. The ~50% file size reduction with FLAC is handy. Adam -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ 'Last.fm group: people who don't listen to any of last.fm's top artists' (http://www.last.fm/group/People+who+don%27t+listen+to+any+of+last.fm%27s+top+artists) SB+, EAR 859, Living Voice Auditorium II plus some other stuff SB3, Shek d2, Ming-Da MC84-C, Harbeth HL-P3ES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35350 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
