[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-09-10 Thread monty77
depeche;135046 Wrote: > As a complete novice to the Linix world, I am looking for suggestions as > to > what distro to use for a file server/slimserver/gateway type setup. > > It will be runnning on my current hardware: > VIA Nehemiah (1 Ghz) > 512 RAM > 2x 250 Gig HD > > I am also looking for

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-09-09 Thread Jeff52
728 albums with 9818 songs by 403 artists, about 95% FLAC. Pentium 4 2.8GHz 1 GB RAM Western Digital 320 GB Raid 1 Windows XP-Pro SlimServer v 6.3.1 Maxtor 300 GB USB disc Seagate 750 GB USB disc Squeezebox 3 Squeezebox 2 Squeezebox 1G (not presently in use) Homeplug to SB3 in dedicated audi

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-09-09 Thread dennisd
"Dennis: What version of slimserver? How much RAM? What OS?" 6.5b1, trying to keep up with daily, currently running Version: 6.5b1 - 9519 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252. 1GB on this machine. Windows XP Pro. (I run the SB synch'ed, which is the reason I get p**sed at wireless, which lets me down.) I

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-09-09 Thread Michaelwagner
Dennis: What version of slimserver? How much RAM? What OS? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=2370

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-09-09 Thread dennisd
8890 albums with 128958 songs by 12034 artists 5 SB3 2 SB2 2 are on 100Bt ethernet, 4 on Homeplug, 1 wireless (Homeplug doesn't work across my GFI.) Only wireless causes problems. 1.5TB RAID5 on 3.0GHz Intel -Life is Good! Dennisd -- dennisd --

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-09-09 Thread Pale Blue Ego
3781 Albums with 18805 songs by 2702 Artists AMD Athlon 2000+ with 512 RAM, 500GB on 2 HDDs ClarkConnect 3.2 Linux SlimServer Version: 6.2.2 3) Squeezebox3 1) Squeezebox1G 1) Slimp3 Another vote for ClarkConnect as a slimserver platform. Very easy to install. Low overhead means more resources

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-09-08 Thread mantis007
5205 albums with 58557 songs by 2766 artists al FLAC AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice core, 2GB ram 3+ TB's of drive space - not all used SlimServer Version: 6.3.1 - 8468 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 -- mantis007 mantis007's Pro

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-09-08 Thread blackbear
My music library contains 432 albums with 4317 songs by 225 artists. 99% FLAC ripped with EAC. Software: SlimServer 6.3.1 ClarkConnect 3.2 Linux Hardware: SFF Pentium-III 600MHz 256 MB RAM 320 GB disk (WD Caviar SE) Squeezebox 3 wired-only For those who have little or no Linux knowledge, but

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-08-01 Thread deadkenny
Your music library contains 511 albums with 6928 songs by 226 artists. Most are MP3 but I'm currently re-ripping my CD collection to Flac to play natively on the SB3 and to convert as necessary to MP3 for my iRiver H10. Many of the MP3s I've got are old rips and not very good so it needs re-doing

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-08-01 Thread ncpl
Your music library contains 530 albums with 7059 songs by 866 artists. P4 / Win XP Pro / 400GB Seagate backed up to USB Seagate drive I still have about 100-ish CD's to go. -- ncpl ncpl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevic

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-23 Thread CarlOtto
SlimServer Version: 6.5b1 - 7444 - Windows Server 2003 - EN - cp1252 Media server with AMD Athlon 3200+, 2GHz, 500 MB memory, 500 GB hard disk. No raid because of the noise level (in the sitting room) and also I found it better to have 1 separate NAS (at home) with weekly backups and 1 NAS parked

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-23 Thread iSix
Michaelwagner Wrote: > How's performance? Fine. There's a slight delay when scrolling through long lists of tracks, or when browsing whilst it's updating the database, but it doesn't effect the playback of music. Code: 9:45pm up 26 days, 9:21, 1 user, load average:

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-23 Thread RalphO
Your music library contains 510 albums with 6033 songs by 795 artists. Mostly FLAC. -- RalphO RalphO's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3619 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthre

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-22 Thread Michaelwagner
iSix Wrote: > 793 albums with 23183 songs by 2290 artists. > > Buffalo linkstation (400GB, 266Mhz powerpc processor, 64MB ram IIRC) How's performance? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-22 Thread iSix
Your music library contains 793 albums with 23183 songs by 2290 artists. Buffalo linkstation (400GB, 266Mhz powerpc processor, 64MB ram IIRC) with external 500GB seagate hdd, thrown behind my tv bench somewhere. Slimserver 6.3.1 Wireless squeezebox 3 -- iSix ---

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-22 Thread bp33
My music library contains 2102 albums with 27182 songs by 947 artists. I still have hundreds of CDs to rip. Most are 128kbps AAC - it best meets my needs - but I have a lot of 192 MP3 from before I changed. I'm slowly converting the MP3s to AAC (by re-ripping, not transcoding). Slimserver runni

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-22 Thread dangerous_dom
186 albums with 5163 songs by 116 artists (way more artists than that really, it just the way i tag various artist albums to aviod confusing myself and girlfriend). 1 Wireless Squeezebox. Prefer to use Foobar2000 than Softsqueeze. limServer Version: 6.5b1 - 8509 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 <- Waa

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-22 Thread Mark Lanctot
Squirrel Wrote: > Interestingly feeding the digital output from the Squeezebox into the > Black Box 50 sounded better than using the SPDIF output on the USB > sound card. Tried with co-ax and optical connections, and both times it > sounded better. Less jitter on the Squeezebox's SPDIF out perhap

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-22 Thread Squirrel
623 albums with 8705 songs by 1269 artists. Hardware: AMD AthlonXP 2800+, 512MB RAM, 120GB ATA-133 and 300GB SATA HDs, gigabit LAN, NetBSD 2.0.2. Dedicated media server, runs SlimServer, daapd (for iTunes), Samba (for Windows and Audiotron) and Apache with custom PHP scripts for video and music

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-20 Thread chris . mason
My library has 217 albums with 2645 songs by 108 artists. My configuration is : Windows XP SP2 MySQL 5.0 SlimServer 6.3.1 (lastest official build) Music IP 6.4 beta Intel Pentium 4 2.5ghz 2Gb RAM SqueezeBox 3 running wireless All music has been ripped to FLAC. This PC also runs other stuff li

RE: [slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-19 Thread Johnny Stork
AMD Athlon 2500, 2gb Ram, 3Ware 9500s-8, 4x500gb Seagate 7200 drives, RAID-5 (1.3TB), Gigabit ethernet, CentOS 4.3, currently re-ripping all CD's, around 1200 or so as FLAC. Dedicated media server. Johnny Stork ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-19 Thread SadGamerGeek
517 albums with 6452 songs by 1880 artists (All MP3) Hardware - Epia Via M1 mboard with integrated 1Ghz C3 CPU & 512MB RAM. Internal 3.5" 80Gb IDE 133 drive. OS - Linux Fedora FC5 (with downgraded Perl for performance!) -- SadGamerGeek

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-19 Thread wr420
5616 albums with 62121 songs by 7745 artists Linux Mandriva 2006, dell gx260 Pent 4 2.4, 512megs, 700gigs raid5 on a NAS(gig between nas and server) 95% mp3 5% ogg, flac, wav, mpc scan takes just under 2 hours with 6.3.1/mysql -- wr420 --

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-19 Thread shabbs
I'll jump in and play too. Library: 782 albums with 8,609 songs by 539 artists. File Server: Linksys NSLU2 with a WD 250GB USB drive SlimServer Version: 6.5b1 - 8255 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 SlimServer Hardware: Intel PD Dual Core - 940 3.2GHz with 2GB RAM (my primary desktop) All of my music

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-19 Thread relen
Whether you can tell or not depends on a lot of factors - a proper double-blind test on studio-quality equipment is required - but that's only part of the story. The thing about a lossless storage medium is that you have a bit-accurate copy of the original. So if, in the future, you have better g

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-19 Thread MrSinatra
> Originally Posted by Mark Lanctot > I'm curious - I see a lot of people saying that their entire music > library is MP3. > > Without unduly hijacking the thread, would anyone care to elaborate on > the reasons why? > > - you notice no audible difference? thats right. and neither do most othe

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-16 Thread docbee
My music library contains 3230 albums with 39877 songs by 1448 artists. Server is a quite outdated P3 800 MHz, 384 KB RAM, 1.3 TB Raid 5 (6x250GB sw raid), SuSe 8.2 -- docbee docbee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.co

Re: [slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-15 Thread Kevin O. Lepard
619 albums with 6386 songs by 800 artists. I have some tags that need to be tweaked, but nothing serious. I haven't upgraded to 6.3.0 yet. I really need to go through and fix a few things. I also need a better way to tag all my classical albums, but I'm not entirely sure what that is yet.

Re: [slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-15 Thread Jack Coates
928 albums with 14025 songs by 958 artists.However I'm still having some tag trouble, particularly with older albums that were ripped with id3v1 tags that mp3tag is obstinately not deleting, despite configuration telling it to do so... I think the track and artist numbers are right, but the album n

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-15 Thread Michaelwagner
564 albums with 8711 songs by 2263 artists. Runs on a not-at-all dedicated 1.8GHz PIV with 512MB running W2K SP4. Machine is my work at home desktop, so Corel Draw, M$ Orifice suite, AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop, 200GB disk storage on 2 spindles (original as shipped 80GB and 120GB added later). Ru

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-15 Thread MrSinatra
i'm still ripping in my stuff, but i'm closer to done than not. "Your music library contains 1350 albums with 16597 songs by 1630 artists" this is also changing as i better check my tags. hardware in my sig. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.3 - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2g

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-15 Thread jonheal
Your music library contains 652 albums with 5299 songs by 1042 artists. Home brew Athlon XP 2400+ 2GHz 512 MB RAM Windows XP Pro (Mostly) FLACs and (some) mp3s on a disk connected to an NSLU2 -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ -

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-07-15 Thread ajmitchell
Slimserver reports "Your music library contains 4649 albums with 9213 songs by 2519 artists" However, itunes reports 1096 albums, 9206 songs, and 2536 artists (total listening time is 28.7 days!) This appears to be causes by the 6.3.0 duplicate entry bug. All mp3s maximum VBR or 320kbps and 1/3

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-06-02 Thread Rene
egd Wrote: > Something tells me your lib stats are corrupted - as many unique artists > as albums? 92,808 songs - hope you have many years ahead of you and lots > of idle time ;-P indeed; here are the latest numbers: Your music library contains 7298 albums with 94702 songs by 10031 artists. reg

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-29 Thread DLORDE
My music library contains 323 albums with 4116 songs by 608 artists. Hosted on a Dell Dimension XPS running WinXP SP2, 3Ghz dual core Pentium processor, 2.5GB RAM, ~500GB HD storage. SlimServer 6.2.2, SqueezeBox. Lookin for a stand-alone wireless music server to get the full collection on, but p

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-28 Thread streaml1ne
Your music library contains 451 albums with 6302 songs by 623 artists. Pentium 3 800MHz, 512MB ram, FreeBSD 5.3 SlimServer 6.2.2 (revision is a week or two before the official release) MySQL 4.1.x 1 Squeezebox v3 All APE files are stored on a separate file server with half a terabyte RAID5 runni

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-28 Thread gutted
Most info in my sig - but the web panel reports the following: 1022 albums with 6397 songs by 609 artists. Other details: Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard, with an adaptor to allow installation of the 1.4GHz Celeron chip. 512MB Crucial RAM. Soundcard is actually disabled in this particular PC, as I

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-27 Thread smhx4
Your music library contains 3570 albums with 39646 songs by 2073 artists -- smhx4 smhx4's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5706 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23701

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-26 Thread Nicola Fankhauser
the nslu2 has 32mb ram and a 266mhz ARM processor. :) my library is about 10'000 tracks. regards nicola -- Nicola Fankhauser Nicola Fankhauser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1543 View this th

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-21 Thread Bustofa
Your music library contains 767 albums with 10695 songs by 1668 artists. All MP3 at 256KB VBR - at the moment Main Server: Buffalo Linkstation HD-HLAN160 Slimserver Version: 5.4.1 Alternate Server: AMD Sempron 3000+ 2GB RAM Windows XP Slimserver Version: 6.2.1 Music Magic [Your music library con

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-20 Thread bobajobrob
Around 4000 mp3s. Software: Fedora Core 2, 2.6.5 kernel, SlimServer 2.6.2 with Softsqueeze. Hardware: Abit BE6 mobo, PIII 700Mhz, 750 Mb RAM, Sound Blaster Live!, 40Gb SCSI disk, 250Gb IDE disk. -- bobajobrob bobajobrob'

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-19 Thread CarlOtto
>>>Your music library contains 1776 albums with 10049 songs by 1277 artists. Almost all in FLAC (I was lucky to come in rather late and I didn't have a large MP3 collection). Classical CD's (Album = "Symphony no.1..." etc so each CD is tagged as typically a couple of Albums). Around 900 complete

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-14 Thread relen
1082 albums with 12342 songs by 623 artists. Mainly FLAC except for some really early rips to mp3 (gradually being replaced) and downloaded TV music mp3s. 400GB music library drive with 100G free. SlimServer Version: 6.5b1 - 7336 (at the moment) - Linux FC3 Intel Celeron CPU 1300MHz -- relen

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-13 Thread bephillips
Now that I've finally sorted out a problem of not being able to access one of my directories due to some problem with a symbolic link, I am able to answer. My music library contains 1511 albums with 22560 songs by 1686 artists. Motly FLAC ripped from my CD collection or downloaded live shows, som

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-13 Thread zooropa320
Mark Lanctot Wrote: > I'm curious - I see a lot of people saying that their entire music > library is MP3. > > Without unduly hijacking the thread, would anyone care to elaborate on > the reasons why? > > - you notice no audible difference? > > - you don't have enough storage space? > > - com

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-13 Thread nelamvr6
My hardware: AMD Athon64 X2 4800+ ASUS A8N-SLI-Premium motherboard 2 GB PC3200 Corsair XMS C2 RAM (soon to be 4 GB) 2X eVga 7800GTX KO Video Cards in SLI Mode Disc 0=74GB WD SATA Raptor Disc 1=250GB WD SATA Disc 2=500GB Seagate ATA PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 510 SLI PSU Windows XP Pro. 64 Bit

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-13 Thread RiccardoR
"La tua raccolta musicale contiene 1528 albums con 21985 brani di 465 artisti." Most are 224Kb MP3's, there are some FLAC (for gapless playing of classical music and live cd). My system is: HP e-PC 40, Pentium III 1GHz, 256M Ram, 300Gb HD (this pc is dedicated only to Slimserver) "Versione Sli

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-12 Thread synergicity
For me, the reason is I did A/B testing (double blind) and I couldn't hear the difference betweent the CD and Lame alt-preset-standard MP3. And if you read much at all on hydrogenaudio.com, you'll see that not many can. There are problem tracks that highlight the difficulties of MP3 encoding but m

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-12 Thread cepheid
Yikes... I thought I had a big library, but most of yours make mine seem like a shoebox full of old cassettes! Yowzah! >From SlimServer: "Your music library contains 476 albums with 5403 songs by 643 artists." ("Various Artists" is turned off, and I haven't yet enabled parsing of the semi-colon

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-12 Thread joncourage
552 albums with 6892 songs by 883 artists Mix of mostly FLAC and some MP3 SlimServer Version: 6.5b1 - 6939 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 P4 2.8Ghz Sony Vaio Laptop with 256Mb RAM running XP Pro, dedicated to running Slim for the most part, hardwired to my WAP. SB3 running firmware 41 I believe,

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-12 Thread GrepZen
Your music library contains 2992 albums with 29227 songs by 2141 artists v6.2.2 on dual Opteron 2.2Ghz, 4GRam, 1.6T filespace, Win2k3 -- GrepZen Respectfully, Micke GrepZen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-11 Thread Jez
I will never remember to look this up when I'm at home so this is approximate figures. I have about 2500 albums (alhough a fair proportion are singles or EP's). About 2000 artists (lot's of compilations_ and I think around 2 tracks. Last time I looked iTunes said I had about 79 days of music

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-11 Thread egd
1678 albums with 24596 songs by 735 artists, though I know there is a lot of stiuff not yet in my SlimserverDB. Vast majority is FLAC, there is some mp3 from pre-lossless days which will at some point be reripped. Hardware: - Abit IC7-G 3.2Ghz PE, 1GB Ram, assorted HDDs - ABit AW8-MAX 2.8 Ghz Dua

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-11 Thread egd
Rene Wrote: > Current Library size: > 7168 albums with 92808 songs by 7168 artists Something tells me your lib stats are corrupted - as many unique artists as albums? 92,808 songs - hope you have many years ahead of you and lots of idle time ;-P -- egd

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-11 Thread Wirrunna
"Your music library contains 906 albums with 13081 songs by 2421 artists." WinXP AMD64 3000, 1 Gb RAM, Asus A8M-VM CSM mobo 3 x DiamondMax 10 250Gb in Windows software RAID 5 Antec P150 case -- Wirrunna Wirrunna's Profile

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-11 Thread zooropa320
Rene Wrote: > Current Library size: > 7168 albums with 92808 songs by 7168 artists > All FLAC, MusicIP Tagged > mirror of MP3 > 2 Systems each with 4TB Raid5 for FLAC Archive and Mirror > 1 System with 1.5TB Raid5 for MP3 mirror > > Rene That's an impressive setup. Even more impressive is it s

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-10 Thread rfish
Your music library contains 1159 albums with 7170 songs by 1393 artists. PII 300MMX 256MByte RAM, 350GByte diskspace Fedora Core 2 -- rfish rfish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3700 View this

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-10 Thread Nick Pettefar
175GB MP3s (192) Sun Ultra 10 with Solaris 10 and latest SS 6.2.2 300GB NAS Snap Server (Raid 1 mirror) 2 SB2s :- SB2 (kitchen) - Quad 77 with Quad 500 speakers SB2 (lounge) - Linn Linn Kollektor / LK85 Tannoy 607 speakers Sounds good to me! Bach and Rammstein are particularly good on this set

Re: [slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread kdf
1193 albums with 12032 songs by 553 artists. broken down by format (roughly): 13 WMA 3060 Flac 7437 mp3 49 ogg 1272 aac 17 ape 18 wav 16 shorten 70 musepack (yes, I know it doesn't exactly add up :) Athlon XP 2000+ Knoppmyth R5b7 1G RAM 200G HD, 71% used Slimserver 6.2.2, 6.3.0, 6.5 and sp

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread Kyle
361 albums with 4534 songs by 243 artists All flac with artwork Pentium 4 1800 MHz 250gb external HD Slimserver: 6.2.2 OS: Windows XP Pro -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View th

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread mftech
Library size: 674 albums with 7796 songs by 394 artists All encoded in FLAC Hardware: Via M1, with 300G external drive/USB Software: Slimserver: 6.2.2 OS: Windows 2000 SP4 Portable: Rio Karma (compatible with Flac) -- mftech Tête à FLAC ---

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread mschr
Library size: 582 albums with 7195 songs by 333 artists Hardware: Intel Pentium M 1,80GHz, 1GB memory Software: Slimserver: 6.2.2 - 7135 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 OS: Windows XP Home SP2 -- mschr mschr's Profile: ht

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread EricBergan
Your music library contains 510 albums with 8178 songs by 596 artists All lossless WMA Server: 1.5Ghz P4 1G memory 80/300/500 GByte drives WinXP SP2 6.2.2 -- EricBergan EricBergan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread Rene
Current Library size: 7168 albums with 92808 songs by 7168 artists All FLAC, MusicIP Tagged mirror of MP3 2 Systems each with 4TB Raid5 for FLAC Archive and Mirror 1 System with 1.5TB Raid5 for MP3 mirror Rene -- Rene Ren

Re: [slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread T
- you notice no audible difference? Yes, I can hear the difference between 320 kbps mp3 and linear when wearing my AKG 240DFs, and if I couldn't I'd be out of a job, but for normal listening in an average environment, 320k layer 3 is fine. - you don't have enough storage space? I'm at abo

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread eq72521
Main music server: - 23260 songs, 1468 albums, 985 artists (and growing) - Mix of FLAC, Ogg, and MP3 - Athlon XP 1400+ - 768M RAM - Three drives totaling 480G (retail, real available space: 392G) - *Loud* mofo that sits in my mechanical room downstairs - FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - SlimServer 6.2.2 - 1

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread cliveb
1072 albums, 11903 songs, 388 artists, all FLAC. Server hardware: Old AT motherboard AMD K6-2 500MHz CPU 256MB RAM Server software: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE Slimserver 6.0.2 using MySQL Player: One SB2 (wired), firmware version 11 (Do I win the award for the person running the oldest Slimserver and

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread mrfantasy
1029 albums 11476 songs 618 artists All FLAC, about 300GB of disk space (I only have about 35GB left on the partition on my 400GB hard drive--I can only buy about 50 more CDs until then.) -- mrfantasy --Mike mrfantasy's

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread MrC
kolding Wrote: > I don't have the exact stats, but, I think: > 1069 albums > 600+ artists > 15501 tracks > 44+ days of music > Currently all MP3 (waiting for large disk prices to drop to bring my > FLAC collection on line). No need to wait - its going to take you quite a while to re-rip to FLAC

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread kolding
Mark Lanctot Wrote: > I'm curious - I see a lot of people saying that their entire music > library is MP3. > > Without unduly hijacking the thread, would anyone care to elaborate on > the reasons why? > > - you notice no audible difference? > Kinda. I have to listen really hard to hear the di

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread bklaas
100% exactly the same response as MeSue on the "Why MP3" question. There is absolutely no way I'm backtracking and re-ripping my CD collection to FLAC, even though that's what all the squeezebox hep cats are doing these days. That would be a colossal waste of my time, esp. considering I don't have

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread kolding
I don't have the exact stats, but, I think: 1069 albums 600+ artists 15501 tracks 44+ days of music Currently all MP3 (waiting for large disk prices to drop to bring my FLAC collection on line). Server: P4 2.4 GHz, 512MB memory Fedora Core 4 Slimserver 6.2.2 w/ SQLLite DB -- kolding --

Re: [slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread Jack Coates
On 5/9/06, Mark Lanctot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm curious - I see a lot of people saying that their entire musiclibrary is MP3. Without unduly hijacking the thread, would anyone care to elaborate onthe reasons why?- you notice no audible difference?- compatibility with a portable player?I'm al

Re: [slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread Chip Hart
Mark Lanctot wrote: > Without unduly hijacking the thread, would anyone care to elaborate on > the reasons why? > - you notice no audible difference? > - you don't have enough storage space? > - compatibility with a portable player? > - ease of conversion? > Just curious. "Your music libra

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread MeSue
Mark Lanctot Wrote: > I'm curious - I see a lot of people saying that their entire music > library is MP3. > Without unduly hijacking the thread, would anyone care to elaborate on > the reasons why? > I started ripping my CDs in 1999-2000. As far as I know, most of these other formats had not c

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread Mark Lanctot
I'm curious - I see a lot of people saying that their entire music library is MP3. Without unduly hijacking the thread, would anyone care to elaborate on the reasons why? - you notice no audible difference? - you don't have enough storage space? - compatibility with a portable player? - ease

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread MeSue
1099 albums with 14256 songs by 716 artists All MP3 files SlimServer 6.2.2 / SB2 wireless Athlon X2 3800+ / 2 GB RAM / Win XP Pro (my main work machine) Music stored on an extrernal 300 GB Ximeta NetDisk -- MeSue Sue PS: I want a Squeezebox boombox. ---

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-09 Thread sfraser
Approx. 62000 songs. Hardwear consists of dedicated "household file server" AMD64 with 750M RAM. 1.5TB of HDD space with 900G RAID5 array. This unit is packaged in a thermaltake Armour case and is running XP. -- sfraser

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-08 Thread ModelCitizen
1003 albums with 11503 songs by 402 artists All flac encoded. On a dedidated Dell Latitude, PII 500 with 192mb RAM running Windows XP SP2. SlimServer Version: 6.2.2 - 7135 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 ;-) MC -- ModelCitizen

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-08 Thread nmizel
"Your music library contains 1233 albums with 15309 songs by 399 artists." Mostly flac on a VIA C3 533MHz running Fedora Core 3 and "SlimServer Version: 6.1.1 - 3774 - Linux - EN - utf8". Nicolas -- nmizel nmizel's Profi

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-08 Thread madpatrick
202 albums, 3873 songs, 68 artists and growing by the day Server Hardware :PIII-1000 mhz, 512 Mb, 160Gb in RAID1, Intel 815EEA (2x) Intel pro/100 LAN OS :Clarkconnect 3.2R2 office edition, CentOS 2.6.9-28.cc Software :Slimserver 6.2.2 - 7135 - Linux - NL - utf8 1x SB3 wireless WPA2 2

Re: [slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-08 Thread T
Your music library contains 1829 albums with 26998 songs by 1854 artists. (all ripped at mp3 - 320 kbps) 1400MHz Celeron, 256MB, XP-Pro SP2, only used as a music and general server Tom ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://li

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-08 Thread dborn
17381 tracks, 1202 albums, 861 artists (all mp3) slimserver 6.2.2 Linux Hardware: Linkstation HDHG300, PPC 266MHz, 128MB Squeezebox: SB2 wired. Network: 100Mbps Daniel -- dborn dborn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.c

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-08 Thread Maditude
Your music library contains 539 albums with 5320 songs by 303 artists. SlimServer Version: 6.2.1 - 5194 - freebsd - EN - iso-8859-1 Hardware: Athlon 1.5 GHz cpu, 512 MB RAM, lotsa disk. OS: FreeBSD 5.4-stable, running apache, mail/courier-imap, samba, slimserver, and lots of other goofy code I wr

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-08 Thread Harani
14,421 songs in 1397 Albums by 89 artists Slimserver 6.22 running under Windows XP on a "Shuttle" Sempron 2600 with 4 x 250Gb drives in a RAID 5 array (700Gb of usable space. 512Mb Memory 1 Squeezebox3 -- Harani Harani'

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-08 Thread michalon
La collection contient 239 albums avec 3586 morceaux par 203 artistes Athlon 900 mhz - 512 Mega ram - xp pro -- michalon michalon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5290 View this thread: http://fo

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-08 Thread MrStan
Your music library contains 1536 albums with 19515 songs by 716 artists. Slim Server version 6.2.2 Official Hardware Pentium 4 2.5GHz 1Gb Ram 2x300 GB Raid 0 plus USB2 backups OS. Win XP Professional SP 2 Cleint SB3 Homeplug. -- MrStan -

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-08 Thread jhurley
1489 albums with 19160 songs by 536 artists SlimServer Version: 6.5b1 - 5073 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 iTunesUpdate 1.4 2 x SB1 Wireless Intel Pentium 4 3.2MHz 1GB RAM 120+200GB Internal + 160GB External (480GB) Disk Space Netgear DG834G Router -- jhurley --

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-08 Thread slimpy
543 albums with 6334 songs by 287 artists AMD Duron 800MHz 384MB RAM SuSE 9.1 SlimServer Version: 6.5b1 - 7218 - Linux - EN - utf8 1 SliMP3 2 SB2 wireless -s. -- slimpy slimpy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/me

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-08 Thread el payo
"Your music library contains 2066 albums with 22535 songs by 2698 artists." Main server: PowerMac G4 Cube, 1.25GB, OSX 10.4.6, 125GB internal IDE/250GB external backup drive connected via Firewire 400 for nightly mirroring of the Music folder, Slimserver 6.5b1, iTunes Update & LastFM/AudioScrobbl

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware?

2006-05-07 Thread Steve Payonzeck
Main server: PowerMac G4 Cube, 1.25GB, OSX 10.4.6, 125GB internal IDE/250GB external backup drive connected via Firewire 400 for nightly mirroring of the Music folder, Slimserver 6.5b1, iTunes Update & LastFM/AudioScrobbler (thanks James) 1 Squeezebox 2, connected via optical to a Sony DA80ES, wit

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-07 Thread bdelp
Your music library contains 9414 albums with 131005 songs by 12136 artists. P4 3.2 Mhz 1GB Ram SlimServer Version: 6.2.2 - 7135 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 -- bdelp bdelp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.ph

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-07 Thread synergicity
2173 albums, 27935 tracks, 2186 artists. Server: 6.2.2 on an Infrant X6 ReadyNAS, modded with 512 mb RAM and a quiet fan. It has four 320 gb WD drives in a RAID5 array. After much fiddling and finetuning, it's working great over gigethernet. I use Moose for my PC front end, when the PC is on. The

Re: [slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-07 Thread Peter
On Sun, 7 May 2006 21:11:26 -0700, "notanatheist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Your music library contains 206 albums with 2422 songs by 673 artists. > > Too many "Various Artists" albums that screw things up. > > Athlon XP2200, 512, 160GB SoftRAID mirror, 30GB boot drive, Intel > Pro100, Sla

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-07 Thread notanatheist
Your music library contains 206 albums with 2422 songs by 673 artists. Too many "Various Artists" albums that screw things up. Athlon XP2200, 512, 160GB SoftRAID mirror, 30GB boot drive, Intel Pro100, Slackware current. Small music collection compared to many of y'all. -- notanatheist -

Re: [slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-07 Thread Jack Coates
831 albums with 12481 songs by 880 artists[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> grep Athlon /proc/cpuinfomodel name  : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> free -m total   used   free shared    buffers cached Mem:  1011    986 25  0 63

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-07 Thread snarlydwarf
Mark Lanctot Wrote: > Interesting - I've got an AMD K6-2 400 MHz. I always wondered how it > would perform running SlimServer. > > How much RAM do you have? I have 192 MB for that mobo. > > It was running Win98SE but given the unpatched security holes I'll be > switching to Linux on that mach

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-07 Thread aubuti
246 albums with 2982 songs by 453 artists. Main system: Hardware: Buffalo Gigabit LinkStation (HD-HG250) PowerPC 266MHz 128MB RAM Software: SlimServer Version: 6.5b1 - 6860 - Linux - EN - iso-8859-1 OS: mini-linux via OpenLink 0.51b - Secondary system: Dell 500MHz Pentium III 256MB RAM

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-07 Thread vacaboca
6646 albums with 90292 songs by 9096 artists Hardware P4 3.0 GHz 1.5GB RAM lots of misc. drives, incl. 300GB and 250GB externals and several 36GB and 74GB SCSI drives Software Slimserver 6.2.2 OS Windows XP SP2 I have a *lot* more tagging work to do to clean up my artists and genres (currently

[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware

2006-05-07 Thread Mark Lanctot
snarlydwarf Wrote: > model name : Pentium II (Deschutes) > cpu MHz : 400.918 > > (yeah, yeah, upgrade that... i have to figure out a clean way to move > one of my personal machines at work back home...) > Interesting - I've got an AMD K6-2 400 MHz. I always wondered how it would

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