ralphpnj;584106 Wrote: > I haven't noticed any change one way or the other in the sound of the > Touch's digital output over time. > > Thanks for the cloud computing suggestion. I looked into Amazon's S3 > service and instantly got a monster headache when trying to figure out > the cost. See if you can make some sense (cents:)) out of this: > http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
To simplify it a bit for you, let me just say that I'm using the Amazon S3 and I'm being billed at the rate of 15 cents per gigabyte per month. This amounts to $1.80 per year. For that cost, I can store at least 3 CDs (in FLAC format) and stream them from anywhere in the world. I prefer to keep my hand-picked favorite music out in the cloud (in addition to my hard copies -- i.e. the originally purchased CDs, plus the soft copies on my auxiliary storage at home/office). To my mind, the convenience and the extra peace of mind (never need to worry about safety backups and the headaches associated with restoring your data warehouse if the disc crashes/CDs get damaged), are worth the added expenditure. Also keep in mind that the prices are bound to go down -- there will never be a point in the future when it will cost you more to store your content in the cloud than it's costing you today. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82766 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
