On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 21:27 -0800, JJZolx wrote: > pfarrell Wrote: > > Years ago, the RIAA claimed that our collection of 40,000 CDs > > was an illegal library. But we were bragging about the size > > and breadth of our library. > Who is "we"?
The internet music company that I worked at/started. It was called OneBigCD.com. It got bought by Amplified.com which also owned Valley Distribution, the US' largest CD distributor. Everything went bust from a combination of the RIAA and the dot.bomb burst. > Let's see, 40,000 CDs is probably right around 500,000 tracks. How > well does SlimServer handle 1/2 million songs? :-) It was well before the SlimServer was invented. 1999. It was much worse than that. We had eleven copies of each song, five speeds in MP3 and five in WMA. Plus one lossless (shorten) copy. We had racks and racks of servers feeding fiber optic switches. I wrote the custom webserver and streaming media code, along with database access, caching for the popular tunes. We had twenty or so ripping machines and two operators per shift feeding CDs into them. Compression ran on custom machines that ran 24x7. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
