Re: Tips for a Personal Music Archive

2008-03-07 Thread Nicholas Leippe
On Friday 07 March 2008, Jordan Gunderson wrote: > Hi Nick et al, > > Would you mind sharing your script? I'd like a way to detect (and mark) > files that have skips, etc. I need this (sadly) help me determine which > CDs I need to purchase again. Not at all, but I'll have to polish it up a bit.

Re: Tips for a Personal Music Archive

2008-03-07 Thread Derek Davis
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Jordan Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, does anyone have any tips for associating "metadata" with the > files? I'd be interested in being able to associate user ratings, > tagging, etc. to the files --like marking a track as damaged, 4-star, > Brazi

Re: Tips for a Personal Music Archive

2008-03-07 Thread Derek Davis
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Jordan Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Esteemed Plug members, > > After much procrastination and many damaged CDs, I'm ready to start > archiving data from my music CDs. > > I know I should save to FLAC files first, but that's about all I know, > so I'm l

Re: Evaluating Bandwidth

2008-03-07 Thread Mike Lovell
Shane Hathaway wrote: > > Very interesting! If I want to use your bandwidth on the AF network, > I guess all I need to do is set up a billing arrangement with you, > then set my gateway to use your AF network address. > > However, it sounds like you're suggesting there's some legal matter > that p

Re: Tips for a Personal Music Archive

2008-03-07 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Nicholas Leippe wrote: I have my own custom script for ripping & encoding. I rip each cd twice, once each from two different drives, and compare them. I have calculated the offsets of each drive and use the -O flag on cdparanoia. Since I have two drives, and two cpus, I wrote it to do all five ta

Re: Evaluating Bandwidth

2008-03-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
Sterling Jacobson wrote: If we are allowed, I could provide my own bandwidth on the system and get you MUCH more than what you are getting now. I have a TON of incoming bandwidth I could put on that network, but the current restrictions are that we all have to use fiber.net crappy bandwidth on t