Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread Mnyb
Archimago wrote: > Okay. Fine. I have seen the light! > > $12,500.01 it is. > > Not a penny less! And to optimize the performance of this server > machine, it'll have a 8GB vintage 10-year-old flash drive (because those > were the quietest drives of course!). 2X DVD burner circa 2001 approved >

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread reinholdk
Archimago wrote: > Clearly: The. Ultimate. Serving. Machine. And this is the name of your business: T.U.S.M. (I agree to receive $1,000 per sold unit from you.) reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.p

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread riffer
Wombat wrote: > Reminds me on some garbage i once wrote. > http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pc-based/202369-hand-made-sata-cable-cat-5.html#post2824871 > NO joke, i got PMs for that asking for more details because others hear > the same! Lol! That's funny. --

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread Wombat
Reminds me on some garbage i once wrote. http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pc-based/202369-hand-made-sata-cable-cat-5.html#post2824871 NO joke, i got PMs for that asking for more details because others hear the same! Transporter (modded) -> RG142 -> Avantgarde Acoustic based 500VA monoblocks -> So

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread Archimago
Mnyb wrote: > Yes that's the weird economy for luxury items for the rich . > > You sell more if you hike the price ! Porsche did that mistakes in the > 80's and early 90's was it not some model that was relatively " > affordable" so that just maybe a working class hero could get one if he > work

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread Mnyb
poing wrote: > Or a file sharer who doesn't pay for his music ;) ... thats the OCD people here with >45 tracks , you cant possible listen to that even if you did not have a day job and did it for 10 hours a day . and then only listen once :D 65k is quite possible given that your now in you

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread poing
utgg wrote: > I did say well organised. And I still maintain 100 is reasonable as an > average - for all those long titles there will plenty of short ones as > well. 100 bytes is ridiculously small. For search, you need to store artist, album artist, composer, track name, album name, genre, relea

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread poing
garym wrote: > Unfortunately, these turn in to mud slinging contests (and be prepared > to be told that if you say you need more than 65,000 tracks you're > either lying or crazy). Or a file sharer who doesn't pay for his music ;)

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread Mnyb
reinholdk wrote: > Archimago, you should know better that you will not succeed with your > business if you try to undercut the competition. You have to sell with a > higher price! Yes that's the weird economy for luxury items for the rich . You sell more if you hike the price ! Porsche did that

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread reinholdk
Archimago, you should know better that you will not succeed with your business if you try to undercut the competition. You have to sell with a higher price! reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?user

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread utgg
probedb wrote: > 100 bytes is nothing though and if the tags are unicode then you just > halved that. 50 characters wouldn't cover the song title + artist for > many of the bands I listen to. I did say well organised. And I still maintain 100 is reasonable as an average - for all those long titl

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital Music Systems - track limits!?

2015-04-16 Thread probedb
utgg wrote: > Agree it is almost certainly a player memory size limitation - the > database is probably held in ram. Plus the use of 16-bit track > references. > > It's instructive to have a feel for how much memory you actually need. I > would have thought 100 bytes average for per-track tag in