Re: [RDD] Fwd: Re: FLAC support

2013-07-01 Thread Andy Sayler
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Bill Putney bi...@wwpc.com wrote: Andy, I'm curious, what's on those 300,000 tracks? We have a pretty eclectic music mix here. Everything from Roma and Tribal to Hip-hop and Classical. With 25,000 cuts there's still a good percentage of those cuts that have

Re: [RDD] Fwd: Re: FLAC support

2013-07-01 Thread Bill Putney
Andy, I wonder how you'd convert to FLAC and imbed the metadata from they library you have. You'd have to get the data out of the RD database and put it in the FLAC header? That's a big conversion job on it's own. I think RD will let you have chart-chunk metadata in sound files, it just

Re: [RDD] Fwd: Re: FLAC support

2013-07-01 Thread Andy Sayler
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Bill Putney bi...@wwpc.com wrote: I wonder how you'd convert to FLAC and imbed the metadata from they library you have. You'd have to get the data out of the RD database and put it in the FLAC header? That's a big conversion job on it's own. I think RD will

Re: [RDD] Fwd: Re: FLAC support

2013-07-01 Thread James Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As many have noted - the best way to go about this is usually at the filesystem block level, or driver level. Ceph represents a relatively new approach - there are plenty of 'odd' filesystems via FUSE, and rolling your own is not a particularly