Fwd: Re: [slinkelist] Digital Audio server

[PaulMmn]

>Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:59:39 -0500
>To: "Tom Hammond-Doel" <Tom.Hammond-Doel@Vixel.com>
>From: PaulMmn <PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com>
>Subject: Re: [slinkelist] Digital Audio server
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>To transform an audio CD into a WAV, and keep the same audio 
>quality, and stereo, you're going to need more than 600 Meg of 
>storage per hour of music (That's 48,000 samples (of at least 2 
>bytes per sample) per second x 3600 seconds x 2 channels = 691 Meg). 
>And the best place to store such samples?  On a CD....   or maybe a 
>DVD...
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>DVD is what?  4.7 gig?  About 8 CDs?  I'm over 400 CDs at the 
>moment; that's 240 Gigabytes; still 50 DVDs.  Until there's a more 
>compact storage medium that still gives CD quality (or better) 
>sound, I'm afraid we're stuck with changers of some sort.
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>--Paul E Musselman
>PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
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>>Slightly off subject.
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>>Is there a REASONABLY priced digital audio server out there?  All the
>>thing has to do is have an ethernet connection in and a decoded MP3
>>audio out.  After that, even CDJ could control the thing with the
>>correct interface placed on it.
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>>I've seen the Audiotron, DAS, and AudioRequest, but they're over spec'd
>>and subsequently overpriced.
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>>Just a SIMPLE NETWORK MP3 PLAYER!  That's not too much to ask is it?  Is
>>this another device I'm going to have to build myself (I'm a firmware
>>engineer)?  For that matter, Colby, this seems like a prime project for
>>you.  Want some help?  Throw a Net+Arm and MP3 decoder on a card, or use
>>a PC104.  Seems pretty simple.
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