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Topic: Music Libraries - Double MB Accumulation? |
Chip Fossa
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Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 29 Jan 2003 3:10 pm |
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When your media player [Windows Media Player, MusicMatch etc.] has many songs, and hence many MBs, in IT's library, is this a doubling effect of MB accumulation on your harddrive?
Like if you have in your 'song folder' 125MB
worth of music, and all those songs are listed in your media library, does this mean that you now have 250MB worth of songs?
Hope I'm making this clear.
Thanks all, in advance...
Chip |
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Mark Ardito
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Chicago, IL, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2003 3:58 pm
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Chip,
Nope, the libraries for media players basically just makes lists of available media files on your PC. It does not duplicate them.
Mark
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Sho~Bud Pro I, Fender D-8 (C6&E13) http://www.darkmagneto.com
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 29 Jan 2003 4:36 pm
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Very well, Mark.
Thanks for that info. My GB's have been
creeping up on me, not to any panicking
level, yet, but this library thing hit me today, and seemed like I should get the right info on this.
Chipper |
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Doug Seymour
From:
Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 29 Jan 2003 6:01 pm
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| Mark, what do think of putting tunes on a CD to save HD space & popping it in when you want to play the tunes? Maybe make the wav files into MP3s? Can do?? [This message was edited by Doug Seymour on 29 January 2003 at 06:02 PM.] |
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 29 Jan 2003 6:16 pm
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Hey Doug,
This is exactly what I've been doing all day.
Trying to free up my harddrive by burning these MP3 files to CD. Sooner or later you're
[all of us] gonna have to do this. Otherwise the harddrive will quickly become bogged down.
In this process, tho, I looked hard at the media library and started wondering if this was, indeed, increasing the MBs.
Good luck.
Chip[This message was edited by CHIP FOSSA on 29 January 2003 at 06:17 PM.] |
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Mark Ardito
From:
Chicago, IL, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2003 6:24 pm
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For me, I am really bad with CD's and I always put them somewhere else and can never find them. My machine at home has 2 HD's in it. The 30GB drive that came with the system and then I put in a 100GB Western Digital. I store all of my goodies on that 100GB and then my OS and all other apps and other misc. stuff on the main C drive. The cost of HD's is sooooo cheap, I would highly recommend it.
Adding a second HD would be a good "first" project for any of you steelers looking to become more tech friendly. It makes you learn some key concepts to the computer world. Plus there are TONS of documents out there to help you along!
Cheers!
Mark
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Sho~Bud Pro I, Fender D-8 (C6&E13) http://www.darkmagneto.com
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 29 Jan 2003 6:35 pm
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But Mark,
You have to make sure your pc can handle
a 100GB hardrive? Right.
My HP Pavilion has 733Mghz and came with 30GB.
The RAM is up around 300MB.
Could it handle that 100GB HD? |
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Gaylon Mathews
From:
Jasper, Georgia
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Posted 29 Jan 2003 8:29 pm
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My machine had a 40 gig HD and I added another 120 gig HD for a total of 160 gigs. I then took every CD that I own plus borrowed CD's from my family and saved all the songs as MP3s to my HD. My computer now serves as a jukebox with a library of almost 5000 songs. All my CD's are now in storage and if I need certain songs on CD, I just burn one right quick and all is well.
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Gaylon's Homepage
www.geocities.com/nashville/1064
Craig Collins & High Lonesome
www.craigcollins.org
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Mel Culbreath
From:
Waynesville, NC, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2003 6:41 am
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I am interested in doing what Gaylon did; putting my CDs on a separate hard disk. Trouble is, my stereo system is in the living room and the computer is in the office about 35 feet away and through and around three walls. If I wanted to run a wire from the computer to the stereo, what size wire should I use (it would need to be about 75' long).
Would a wireless system work in this case? Would the sound be any good using wireless?
Thanks,
Mel
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Mark Ardito
From:
Chicago, IL, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2003 7:17 am
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Mel,
I have read a couple of articles about these wireless systems. Basically there is the device that is the wireless receiver that plugs into an input on your stereo receiver and then there is the transmitter that is a USB device that hooks up to your pc. From a jukebox application, you set your play list and then the output goes wireless to your stereo. The only issue is the distance from the PC to the stero I think has to be 35ft. Or they do sell buffers to strengthen the signal if the distance is farther.
I will try and find some links to these products and post them here.
Mark
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Sho~Bud Pro I, Fender D-8 (C6&E13) http://www.darkmagneto.com
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Chippy Wood
From:
Elgin, Scotland
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Posted 31 Jan 2003 11:32 am
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Hi Folks,
After I have burned my MP3's to disk I use a small program called CDTree to scan each disk and allocate a number to it, you can also make groups of individual palers ,instrumentals etc.
The if you need to find a particular artist pop in the cd and it will find the info you need. It is a freebie from c/net.com
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Ron (Chippy) Wood
Carter S10/Pad
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 31 Jan 2003 7:14 pm
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SO CAN MY PC HANDLE AN ADD-ON 100GB
HARD-ON-DRIVE?????????????????????
Anyone.........just a quick answer.
TANKS.....Chip |
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Mark Ardito
From:
Chicago, IL, USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2003 8:24 pm
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I assume you only have 1 HD right now, then you bet you can handle another HD. Most modern units out today have disk controllers that can handle a master/slave HD config and a master/slave CD-ROM config
Chip, I have seen some GREAT deals on some 7200 rpm HD's. Just remember, the faster they spin, the faster you can get your mp3's without the "jitters".
Mark
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Sho~Bud Pro I, Fender D-8 (C6&E13) http://www.darkmagneto.com
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 1 Feb 2003 7:48 pm
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Thank you Mark. That's kind of what I was looking for.
Chip |
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Paul Osbty
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2003 8:21 pm
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Chip, be careful with your operating system. If you have Windows XP, 100GB is fine. With 95 it isn't. Verify that the drive format you will be using is FAT 32 (File allocation Table, Win 98 and beyond) or NTFS (NT and XP). FAT 16 (Win 95) only allows 2GB. Beyond that you have to sector your single drive into 2GB sections. Yuk! The Best Buy tech counters are pretty good if you need info.
Any PC can run 4 hard drives.[This message was edited by Paul Osbty on 02 February 2003 at 08:21 PM.] |
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 3 Feb 2003 5:36 am
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| Thanks for that helpful tip, Paul. |
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