kewe65 Wrote: > BSomewhere along the line - i guess once people started ripping their > collection - the function of a changer became intolerable? A > facscinating and quite humorous comment on the "need it all, right now" > mentality digital media and access has created.
Hrrm, no it is more to do with the benefits of Random Access Storage devices as opposed to Sequential Access. It has more to do with keeping the number of moving parts (Things Which Break) down. It has more to do with the affordability ($300'ish for a 400 CD changer, of which I'd need multiple units, vs $80 for a HD which could store as many CDs in lossless format as a couple changers). It has more to do with not needing to devote serial ports to IR outputs to control the changer. It has more to do with not needing to have a sound card that supports digital inputs (one per changer even) so that I'm not losing quality in superflous D/A conversions... It has more to do with scalability (some people here have well over 50,000 tracks.. at an average of 15 tracks per CD, how many changers is that? How many digital inputs? how many serial-to-IR convertors?) The function of a changer is no longer useful. There are better solutions to "how do I store several hundred albums in a small, affordable and easily addressable manner?" This happens with technology. People come up with "better things" all the time. People who are open to change, to actually looking at the best solution for a problem learn to use the new solutions. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20083 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
