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Disk Space I dedicate to MP3s
Your vote (4) has been registered.
none   10% 1900 / 10%
1-256M   8% 1489 / 8%
>256M-512M   4% 770 / 4%
>512M-1G   8% 1576 / 8%
>1G-2G   13% 2430 / 13%
>2G-4G   15% 2714 / 15%
>4G-8G   14% 2617 / 14%
>9G   24% 4278 / 24%
17774 total votes.

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  • Don't complain about lack of options- You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
  • Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
  • This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important- you're insane.
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    Why I don't dedicate more (Score:1)
    by yamla on Thursday December 07, @11:39AM EST (#2)
    (User #136560 Info) http://hypocrite.org/
    I only dedicate a few gigabytes, perhaps 4. I'd be quite happy to dedicate more but it just takes so darn long to rip CDs, even with an Athlon 900 system.

    In fact, it is still faster to download songs I have on CD from Napster rather than ripping from the CD itself. I mean, it can be a hassle just finding the darn thing.

    I'd be quite interested to hear about people who have set up home stereos which get their music from a shared hard drive. I think that would be very cool.

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    9G easily (Score:1)
    by Scarblac ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @11:57AM EST (#3)
    (User #122480 Info)
    I recently converted all my audio CDs to mp3 since my CD player is basically dead and I want to choose songs with my own little Python scripts. The dedicated 20G drive is now about 85% full.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Brain space I devote to memorizing songs (Score:5, Funny)
    by KFury ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @11:59AM EST (#4)
    (User #19522 Info) http://fury.com/

    1. 0%
    2. 1-10%
    3. 11-30%
    4. 30-70%
    5. >70%
    6. I offload this task to my Nomad Jukebox

    Kevin Fox
    ELIZA vs AOL: AOLiza
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Punk (Score:1)
    by frederik on Thursday December 07, @12:04PM EST (#7)
    (User #86671 Info)
    I don't have that much space dedicated to MP3s ... I'm really ashamed ... all that good punk rock I have on CDs should get on my hdd. This poll opened my eyes :p
    Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    8.4 GB (Score:1)
    by Byteme ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @12:04PM EST (#8)
    (User #6617 Info) http://www.pronoblem.com/
    I have an entire machine dedicated as a jukebox. It connects to my Harmon Kardon receiver and Polk speakers.


    Pronoblem & Turnitup

    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    9GB + (Score:1)
    by fist on Thursday December 07, @12:08PM EST (#10)
    (User #178568 Info)
    I think somebody missed an option!! What kind of computer rookie would have LESS than 9 GB of MP3's!!
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    • Re:9GB + by AltGrendel (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @01:07PM EST
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    Banned from Napster (Score:1)
    by the Man in Black on Thursday December 07, @12:09PM EST (#11)
    (User #102634 Info)
    Looks like I won't be getting any MORE mp3z...I got up this morning and got a message saying I was banned from Napster by order of Sony UK (funny, since I don't live in the UK) for making available a copyrighted song (which, by the way, isn't even on my hard drive). Anyone have any similar experiences to this? The mp3 that I 'made available' is from a CD I own...are there any legal recourses (doubt it)?
    Bill Gates is nobody's friend. If Bill were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    4x40 (Score:1)
    by pottsie350 on Thursday December 07, @12:13PM EST (#18)
    (User #75294 Info)
    4x40GB raid and looking for more.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    • Re:4x40 by gkbarr (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @12:42PM EST
    dammit! forgot the backups! (Score:1)
    by Elminst (jdsmith.at.capital.net) on Thursday December 07, @12:13PM EST (#19)
    (User #53259 Info)
    I checked 2-4 G... but i forgot i have all of them archived on another hard drive, plus extras...
    Damn.. too bad can't change vote..
    If we include backups for this.. then some of you prolly have 30+ Gig..
    Note: Some quantum physics theories suggest that when this post is not directly observed,it may cease to exist or will exist only in an undetermined state
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    mp3? (Score:1)
    by nachoworld (nacho<a>nachoworld<d>com) on Thursday December 07, @12:15PM EST (#20)
    (User #232276 Info) http://www.nachoworld.com/
    All you young'uns and your newfangled technology. I still listen to my big band music on MIDI. In the old days we didn't have computers to "rip" compact discs. We had to use our fingers to copy each and every groove and divot on our vinyl. That was after I had to walk both ways uphill in the snow without shows to turn on the phonograph.

    --- Nacho
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    disk space.. (Score:3, Funny)
    by wishus on Thursday December 07, @12:17PM EST (#21)
    (User #174405 Info)
    disk space is zero.. I burn them to CDR.

    wish
    ---
    My other car is a cdr.
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    hard drives are cheap. (Score:1)
    by moller (moll*@*its.caltech.edu) on Thursday December 07, @12:19PM EST (#22)
    (User #82888 Info) http://www.its.caltech.edu/~moll
    just head over to pricewatch.com. Harddrives are very cheap.

    I mean, I log into Napster and it tells me there are over 4 TERABYTES of mp3's for me to search through. Granted, there is probably only 2 terabytes (if that) of unique information (since everyone has duplicate songs) but it is still an insane amount of data at your fingertips.


    mmm...physics
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    Bad Options (Score:2)
    by miracle69 ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @12:19PM EST (#23)
    (User #34841 Info)
    >9GB was the highest? Jeez.

    Personally, I have 2 60 GB HDs and 1 20 GB HD practically stuffed to the gills. These were purchased solely for mp3s. I rip, encode, and store my CDs so I have instant access to thousands of CDs - playable in any order - instantly. My poor 200 CD jukebox was replaced by a cheap linux box, SB Live, and 2 60GB HDs.

    BTW, if anyone who works on the XMMS project happens to read this, there is a bug I have reported several times with no response. The XMMS playlist only allows 4,000 some-odd songs. It would be nice to have a much much larger limit - for it makes random play so much more interesting.

    Dead Milkmen....Tchaikovski....Law of Nature...69 Boyz..... And so on.

    Microsoft and McDonalds are alike. They don't make the best, but they make the most.
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    • Re:Bad Options by Phexro (Score:2) Thursday December 07, @12:30PM EST
      • Backup by rangek (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @12:36PM EST
      • Re:Bad Options by Tower (Score:2) Thursday December 07, @12:51PM EST
      • Second HD by JiveDonut (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @12:52PM EST
        • Re:Second HD by Carnivore (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @01:40PM EST
      • mmm...Tape by grumbly (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @01:48PM EST
      • Re:Bad Options by aardvarkjoe (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @01:55PM EST
      • Re:Bad Options by miracle69 (Score:2) Thursday December 07, @02:31PM EST
        • Re:Bad Options by synx (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @04:39PM EST
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        • Re:Bad Options by gid (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @11:50PM EST
        • 1 reply beneath your current threshold.
      • Re:Bad Options by DrQu+xum (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @04:34PM EST
    • Re:Bad Options by huberj (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @12:36PM EST
    • Re:Bad Options by skt (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @03:04PM EST
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    • Re:Bad Options by debrain (Score:2) Thursday December 07, @03:13PM EST
    • Re:Bad Options by pjl5602 (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @03:54PM EST
    • A better way to "shuffle" songs. by PugMajere (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @04:26PM EST
    • RIAA: Public Enemy #1 by jeffsenter (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @07:10PM EST
    dedicated vs. actual.. (Score:1)
    by flatrabbit ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @12:21PM EST (#25)
    (User #144870 Info)
    originally i aquired another HD so that i could dedicated at least 3 GBs for mp3s but i have found that the number of m3ps that i have on my hard drive is direclty related to the amount of space available on the HD...i think the equation is something like c = a + b....where "c" is actual mp3s and "a" is HD space and "b" is 1GB...i always need more space...i am currently moving my entire CD collection over to mp3 form for easy access.

    My next project is a good direct link to all my Home stereos from a dedicated mp3 server.



    "Never wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it."
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Mp3ing... (Score:1)
    by cluening ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @12:24PM EST (#32)
    (User #6626 Info) http://www.thepests.com/
    I've only got about 1.5 gigs of them, but I let the world choose what I listen to, so at least I get a rather random sampling of them:

    My mp3 jukebox
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    mp3s? Try Divx... (Score:1)
    by JanneM (see.my.homepage) on Thursday December 07, @12:24PM EST (#33)
    (User #7445 Info) http://lucs.lu.se/People/Jan.Moren/
    I only use about 1G for mp3s, but have 20Gb worth of movies instead...

    Trust the computer. The computer is your friend.
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    A good archiving tool - grip. (Score:2)
    by bbk ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @12:25PM EST (#35)
    (User #33798 Info)
    There's a program called grip that's a gui interface for cdparanoia + mp3 encoders - It's got good SMP support built in (for encoding multiple songs at once), and can put CDDB titles on the MP3's so you don't have to do it by hand... Makes dumping a lot of CD's to mp3 very easy, and fast (especially with a SMP machine).

    BBK
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    what it's all about (Score:1)
    by grizzo (grizzo @grizzo.com) on Thursday December 07, @12:29PM EST (#36)
    (User #138368 Info) http://www.grizzo.com/

    i'm willing to bet that most of the chumps who have upwards of 10 gigs of mp3s on their drives are the type who never clean up directories or organize songs. i usually have a bout 6 gigs of mp3s on my drive at any given time, and i'm all about removing every capital letter from the filenames, organizing every song by style/album, and keeping everything nice and tidy by deleting the ones i don't like.

    i mean, really, how many of you who are bragging about your enormous mp3 supply really listen to all of those songs? streamline, baby, streamline!

    love,
    grizzo

    http://www.grizzo.com/
    where insanity never sleeps
    love,
    grizzo

    http://www.grizzo.com/
    nothing taken seriously
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    remember when... (Score:1)
    by mach-5 on Thursday December 07, @12:33PM EST (#40)
    (User #73873 Info)
    Remember when 20 Megs was a lot of space? Considering this was only about 10 years ago, its amazing how storage technologies have advanced.

    Mmmmmm! Donuts! -Homer S.
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    Not adding like I used to... (Score:1)
    by spudnic ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @12:40PM EST (#48)
    (User #32107 Info) http://www.isd-tx.net/
    I've got a 40Gig drive in a Linux box that is shared among my workstations for MP3z. It's got about 2Gig free right now.

    It seems that I've found most of the old music that I really like to listen to, and most of the cr@p coming out now isn't worth downloading. I usually get 5 or 6 new mp3s a week now.

    Sure, I could pull down hundreds of new mp3s each day and fill up on it, but why? I have what I want and when I hear of something new that is good, I grab it.

    It's a shame too because I got the first 38Gig by pulling them down on my employers line, dealing with moving them home, etc. Now I've got cable...


    load "linux",8,1
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    What about OGG? (Score:1)
    by HedsSpaz on Thursday December 07, @12:42PM EST (#49)
    (User #143961 Info)
    I have onyl around 300mb worth of MP3's anymore. All of the music I have ripped from my personal CD's I've compressed into OGG Vorbis format. I don't care if it's still in beta. I can do it again later if I really feel like it. Fraunhoeffer is acting just as bad as the MPAA and RIAA. They realized that they actually can make money off of the MP3 format and are attempting to charge people for whenever they use it.

    Down with MP3. Up with Ogg Vorbis!
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    • why ogg? by Wakko Warner (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @01:49PM EST
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    • Re:What about OGG? by Beowulf_Boy (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @05:48PM EST
    It mirrors my CDs (Score:1)
    by farrellj ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @12:51PM EST (#64)
    (User #563 Info) http://www.courts-of-chaos.com/mozilla/
    Most of the MP3s that I have is either stuff that I already had on CD, or stuff that I later bought. Napster has saved me lots of time from having to digitize this stuff myself.

    The other stuff is weird/rare/unpublished stuff like Kate Bush's demos, KLF demo, Live recordings, etc. Most of these artists I already own most of their catalog, so I don't feel that I am riping them off. For example, I own a number of Kate Bush's LPs (those big black thingies), as well as her Box set, and the CDs she has relesased since then, plus various CD5s of single releases.

    Another example...Hawkwind...my collection is up over 40+CDs/Vinyl...it would take me forever to digitize all this stuff! But stuff like Moorcock's collabouration with Hawkwind (a band called The Deep Fix...basically Moorcock fronting Hawkwind) is impossible to get, and only a few of the tracks are available on various "Friends & Relations" CDs. Same with the Bob Cavlert releases.

    Then there is the stuff that is unique, like Kermit and Big Bird getting stoned...

    ttyl
              Farrell
    --- Fnord!
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    I keep about 5 1/2 gigs (Score:1)
    by Phaze3 ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @12:52PM EST (#69)
    (User #197763 Info)
    Makes for interesting all nighters
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    I use OGG (Score:3, Informative)
    by johnnyb ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @12:55PM EST (#70)
    (User #4816 Info) http://members.wri.com/johnnyb/
    Nope, I use OGG VORBIS (http://www.vorbis.com/) instead. Its a truly free (as in freedom) format for free music.
    "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die" -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    MP3 Vs other formats (Score:1)
    by Technician on Thursday December 07, @01:01PM EST (#74)
    (User #215283 Info)
    I have few MP3's Most of my stuff is in other formats. Too bad the survey only listed MP3's and not MIDI. Liquid Audio or other formats. I like background music without distracting lyrics, so I listen to MIDI files a lot. Before you flame, No I don't listen to them on a cheezy built in synth chip and "computer" speakers.
    The truth shall set you free!
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    my homage to Scot Hacker and Stephen van Egmond (Score:1)
    by Rude Turnip ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @01:01PM EST (#76)
    (User #49495 Info) http://127.0.0.1/
    # include BeOS_Whoring.h

    Scot Hacker, author of "MP3: The Definitive Guide," (from O'Reilly) has written what I believe to be one of the most complete MP3 ripping and cataloguing solutions available. - RipEnc for BeOS:

    (Description courtesy of BeBits) RipEnc takes full advantage of the database-like capabilities of the Be File System. While encoding, RipEnc will set your MP3 files' ID3 tags, and simultaneously write corresponding data to to BFS attributes, so you can sort and query for MP3 files in ways that are difficult if not impossible in other operating systems.

    RipEnc works with a CDDB daemon to automatically assign names to all your MP3 files ripped from the CD. Here is how I rip a CD into my BeOS-based MP3 jukeboxes at home and work:

    1. Pop in the CD.
    2. Open a terminal and run RipEnc (it's a text-mode program...good for headless standalone systems)
    3. Tell RipEnc the Year and Genre of the album
    4. RipEnc then rips and encodes the CD using your choice of BladeEnc, LAME or Gogo.

    When it's done ripping, the files are organized into a folder heirarchy of artist-->album-->title, each song has its ID3 tags set based upon CDDB data and the year/genre info I entered and most importantly, each songs attributes are stored in BeOS's file system for database-like (and live) queries.

    What can you do with all that freshly-ripped MP3 goodness? Well, Stephen van Egmond wrote something called Be in Your Stereo, which gives you all or most of the functionality of certain standalone jukeboxes sold at ThinkGeek. Here is a description from BeBits:

    Be in your Stereo is a plugin to SoundPlay that scans your BFS volumes for digital music files. It builds a cross-referenced index of your collection based on Artist, Genre, Year, and Album BFS attributes, then serves up views of your track list and collection via HTTP. It is ideal for building a home audio server.

    In addition to your current play list and cross-referenced views of your entire music collection. It will accept commands to add chunks of your collection to the playlist, and manipulate playback in useful detail - volume, track, track position, etc.

    With the plugin, you can park a BeOS machine with a modest CPU, quiet fan, networking, audio and storage hardware next to your stereo, and manipulate it from anywhere on your home network. The plugin also has facilities for streaming and downloading files directly to the client, so it can even serve as a crude file server for wider networking setups.

    Both of these programs can be found at www.bebits.com.


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    none (Score:1)
    by dizco (my first name dash slashdot at megarad dot com) on Thursday December 07, @01:02PM EST (#77)
    (User #20340 Info)
    none for mp3s.. ~20g for ogg vorbis files tho.
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    Cap it at 9GB?? (Score:1)
    by pyxl ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @01:02PM EST (#78)
    (User #7689 Info)
    I'd have loved to see this poll go up to a "50+GB" category. I'm personally at about 40GB (I ripped 75% of my CD collection, and ran out of disk space :)

    Who else out there is at or greater than 40GB, and how did you aquire your collection? If you ripped most of it yourself, what did you use? I used grip with lame and cdparanoia on 2 separate linux boxes working concurrently (1 disk each) over the course of a couple months (this was a fairly casual thing for me).

    How about the rest of you music nutz?? I'd like to see how other folks are doing large-scale ripping and storage.

    I have vague plans on setting up a 200GB RAIDED system on my 100Mb/s network to get serious about reliably storing what I've got and will have....but does anyone else have any ideas? My collection is way too big for burning to CD or even DVD....and I can't really split it up gracefully 'cuz I've got 'em stored in a dir structure of /mountpoint/genre/artist/disk_name/filename, and that's not really amenable to being broken up gracefully, hence the networked RAID setup idea.

    Ok? Discuss amongst ourselves now.



    Given enough hydrogen and spacetime, just about anything is possible.
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    Wrong poll (Score:4, Funny)
    by deefer (deefer@[Spam:_Just_Say_No]dial.pipex.com) on Thursday December 07, @01:04PM EST (#81)
    (User #82630 Info) http://www.deefer.dial.pipex.com/
    Replace MP3 with pr0n and I think you're closer to the /. mentality...

    Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.
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    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    • Re:Wrong poll by crazy_swimmer (Score:1) Friday December 08, @05:05AM EST
    No option for 8G - 9G (Score:4, Funny)
    by RhetoricalQuestion (who at myURL dot com) on Thursday December 07, @01:15PM EST (#94)
    (User #213393 Info) http://www.rhetoricalquestion.com/

    Is it just me, or does it look like there's a missing link here?

    The second last option reads as "Between 4G and 8G"

    The last option reads as "Greater than 9G"

    We seem to have lost a Gigabyte in here. Or is this some obscure numerical convention that is designed to make me look like a geek-poser?

    I can spell. I just can't type.

    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Organization? (Score:1)
    by Fromeo on Thursday December 07, @01:16PM EST (#95)
    (User #256304 Info)
    How do you organize your mp3s?

    Personally, I keep them all in a directory, with no real organization there. I then have a giant playlist containing all my songs, that I play in random order, and can then select any song off that playlist fairly quickly.

    I know there's software out there that'll do all that for me, but I like the simplicity (and let's not forget the speed) of what I have.
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    Well...9G is sort of right.... (Score:1)
    by FKell on Thursday December 07, @01:20PM EST (#100)
    (User #253556 Info)
    I actually have over 50 80min CD-R's burned full of MP3's, but I don't have any on my hard drive (well I have about 3 songs). Add a burned CD option :) 1-10 CD-R's, 11-20 CD-R's, 30+ CD-R's :) then I would be happy with this poll
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    sick of CD-roms (Score:1)
    by Nova (rjd3@#nospam#bigfoot.com) on Thursday December 07, @01:20PM EST (#101)
    (User #272 Info) http://www.avalonent.org/
    I have about 60-70GB...about half ripped from mine and other's collections, half downloaded...personally I like keeping full albums...I've acquired this all in all a few years of collecting (mostly from a 56k modem!! :)...But I can tell you that it gets pretty annoying to dump all this stuff to CD-Rs, and be stuck juggling that many of them. I'm planning on buying one of those uber-big 80+GB HDs some time, but for reliability, you just can't beat cold-hard removable media stuck in a CD binder in a safe place. I'm just waiting for CD-like media that can store a helluva lot more than ~650MB...DVD-R drive media prices are still $30-60 a CD...what's up with that optical dye CD technology lately? They were supposted to demo at Comdex or some place I believe?
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    RAID for MP3 (Score:1)
    by WndrBr3d on Thursday December 07, @01:22PM EST (#104)
    (User #219963 Info)
    I mean, am I the only person who goes to the computer store to pickup another 40gb ATA-100 drive to drop on the ole' IDE RAID array ? To me thats not unhealthy. When I get scared, is when someone asks me, "Why you getting such a large drive ?" and I reply with "I need more mp3s."...
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Partition . . . (Score:1)
    by ishpeck ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @01:25PM EST (#107)
    (User #160581 Info) http://come.to/ishpeck/
    When I partition my hard disk, I have a /home/mp3 partition.
      I shall cut down all who oppose my reign!
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    What do you mean by "dedicated"? (Score:2)
    by alumshubby (bill...underscore...mcclain....atsign...techie.com) on Thursday December 07, @01:27PM EST (#108)
    (User #5517 Info)
    Since I've only downloaded a few things I haven't heard in years, listened once or twice, then deleted them...

    Do you guys mean you seriously collect this stuff? I guess I'm just not playing nicely in the Napster sandbox.


    "How many light bulbs does it take to change a person?" ==BMcC==>
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    100GB - Working at myplay has it's advantages... (Score:2)
    by szyzyg ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @01:30PM EST (#111)
    (User #7313 Info) http://star.arm.ac.uk/~spm/
    Finally all my CD collection is in my locker...

    Now I need to start working on my vinyl.
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    It depends... (Score:1)
    by jedrek ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @01:31PM EST (#112)
    (User #79264 Info) http://prawda.org/
    On my HD here at work I have:
    1 356 file(s) 5 707.77 MB

    But most of these are coppied off my home collection of 119 700MB CDs filled with MP3s. Do the math yourselves.

    jedrek

    -- polish ccs mirror
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    Whats the best file system for MP3s? (Score:1)
    by grumbly on Thursday December 07, @01:32PM EST (#113)
    (User #79185 Info)
    This has been buggin me for a while now. I have a 10 gig slice for my mp3s but i move them around so much that the partition is highly fragmented. While i have looked into e2defrag all the docs say "dont use it on something that you dont want to loose". I just got a new 40gig hd and i know that this big old thing is going to wind up with horriable fragmentation after a while. So the question becomes what file system, if any, provides good managment tools while maintaing data reliablility?
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    9GB is the biggest? (Score:2, Interesting)
    by wishy on Thursday December 07, @01:33PM EST (#114)
    (User #74640 Info)
    The options should be more like
    - None
    - Under 5 GB
    - 5-10
    - 10-20
    - 20-50
    - 50-100
    - 100-200
    - 200+

    I personally only have about 22 GB at the present time (in /home/mp3). I like keeping whole albums, so it makes me much more choosey on Napster.

    Of course, all of my programming time seems to be involving MP3s. I have a linux box with a TV card and remote keyboard in my living room just for the purpose of MP3s. I've written a my.mp3.com clone so I can listen to MP3s at work.

    Really, with all the involvement, I should have more. Hmmm... how much is a 200GB RAID setup?
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    50+ gigs (Score:1)
    by F.O.Dobbs (slack(AT)linuxfreak.com) on Thursday December 07, @01:36PM EST (#115)
    (User #17317 Info) http://www.portal-potty.com/
    As soon as I saw the Maxtor DiamondMax 60 gig HDs, I knew I finally had enough storage for my MP3s. 50+ gigs after ripping all my CDs with LAME at high quality. Now I've got to decide... keep the CDs as archives or sell them all before it's too late?

    F.O.Dobbs
    Portal-Potty.com founder and Mr. Brown drinker
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    shorten (Score:2, Informative)
    by characterZer0 ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @01:42PM EST (#119)
    (User #138196 Info) http://dagny.rh.rit.edu/
    for those who may be unenlightened, as I once was, there is thing great thing called Shorten. It is a lossless compression, using roughly half the space of a wav file. It can be easily and accurately compressed to and decompressed from wave format. In this day of cheap storage, it makes sense to use a compression that, while taking up less space, doesn't kill the sound quality a la MP3.

    For information on shorten, check out its developer at http://www.softsound.com/.
    For software resources and further information (and trading of taper bands) see http://www.etree.org/.


    stephen byrne

    you think you've got it figured out? not if you don't know God.
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    • Re:shorten by dvdeug (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @04:11PM EST
    • Re:shorten by BJH (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @09:49PM EST
      • Re:shorten by undie (Score:1) Friday December 08, @01:15AM EST
    • Re:shorten by RESPAWN (Score:1) Friday December 08, @01:50AM EST
    • enenlightened by characterZer0 (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @03:34PM EST
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    err... (Score:2)
    by Wakko Warner ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @01:43PM EST (#120)
    (User #324 Info) http://www.BigDigSucks.com/
    /dev/vinum/stripe 116358326 37077786 69971874 35% /mp3

    --
    * CmdrTaco is an idiot.
    * CmdrTaco can admit it.

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    • Re:err... by plastik55 (Score:2) Thursday December 07, @05:42PM EST
    Great (Score:3, Funny)
    by dattaway ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @01:51PM EST (#125)
    (User #3088 Info) http://www.attaway.org/
    I bet the RIAA is going to enjoy reading this poll.
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    • Re:Great by White Shadow (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @06:49PM EST
    • Hey, by Galvatron (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @09:35PM EST
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    The ultimate in laziness... (Score:1)
    by chaobell (holychao at cybernothing dot org) on Thursday December 07, @01:54PM EST (#129)
    (User #167146 Info) http://www.cybernothing.org/~holychao
    I have ripped about every decent song I own off the 400someodd CD's I have and tucked them all away in an MP3 folder so that I do not have to get up and put the CD in the stereo and hit the button.

    The stereo, might I add, is a whopping five paces away from my computer. Shoot me now.

    This is a Chao. A Chao says "Mu."
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    What about... (Score:1)
    by Entropius on Thursday December 07, @02:04PM EST (#132)
    (User #188861 Info)
    ... .ogg's? You can't find them on the web or napster, but I rip everything to Ogg Vorbis instead of .mp3... it sounds better.
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    CDs at work (Score:2)
    by Alioth ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @02:06PM EST (#133)
    (User #221270 Info) http://www.alioth.net/
    I listen to music mainly at work. I used to bring in a couple of CDs in with me every day.

    However, I've been ripping my CDs to 160Kbit MP3s and putting them on CD-Rs. I keep the CD-Rs at work - it means I have my entire music collection to pick from without having to remember to bring it from home.


    Maintain thine airspeed lest the ground come up and smite thee

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    mp3 ideas (Score:1)
    by schematic ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @02:25PM EST (#141)
    (User #2337 Info) http://schematic.org/
    I have about 4 gigs on my drive at home and the same 4 gigs duplicated in the mp3 player in my car. Granted thats only about 600 songs, I've run out of ideas for songs to download. I never listen to the radio anymore and when I do hear a song I like I forget what it was I wanted to download when I have the chance.

    I wish there was some place I could go to find some reallly quality playlists, maybe somewhere where I could find people with simliar tastes and download some songs they have listed in their playlist to see if i'd like it.

    eh well, maybe a weekend project for my webpage or something. Dont forget to check out my car mp3 player at http://schematic.org/mp3/

    My /. number is leeter than you.
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    • Re:mp3 ideas by boomi (Score:1) Thursday December 07, @05:35PM EST
    shameless plug (Score:1)
    by binaryfeed ([email protected]) on Thursday December 07, @02:39PM EST (#149)
    (User #225333 Info) http://novelidea.com/
    Check out dmcat -- it will help you catalog your MP3s!
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    NFS.... (Score:1)
    by spurious cowherd on Thursday December 07, @02:40PM EST (#150)
    (User #104353 Info)
    Alpha box with 45gigs in the office. It's sole purpose in life is to share mp3z.

    Overkill?

    I think not!
    Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
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