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May 20, 2005

Damnit lago ()

by fluffy at 5:09 PM
You know I don't like memes.

So this stops with me.

Total library size: 50.6GB in 15568 files. Most of it legal. Yes, really.

Recent CD purchases:

  • Miles Davis - Decoy
  • Miles Davis - The Complete Concert 1964 - My Funny Valentine + Four & more
  • Gary Numan - Machine + Soul
  • Sergey Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances / Piano Concerto No. 4
  • Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
  • The Crystal Method - Vegas
  • Tracy Bonham - The Burdens Of Being Upright
  • Yoko Ono - Season of Glass
  • Mathematicians - Level One
  • Lemon Jelly - '64-'95 (video version)
  • MC Frontalot - Handmade Demo v.1.2.3
  • Lots of stuff from Song Fight and Remixfight
Song playing right now: None. The sounds of cars and birds chirping is pretty interesting right now. I should be making a field recording.

Selecting just five songs out of all that would not do the other 15563 justice. Sorry.

(Anyway, I almost never queue up a specific song, and prefer for random chance to select which album to play me.)

Comments

#5524 05/20/2005 02:30 pm Me
Currently have 229gb used on my main music drive. (7452 songs.)

That's mostly CDs ripped to flac, though there are some odds-and-ends in there.

I've got some other music around that isn't sorted (much of it I may delete) and probably twenty odd CDs to rip.

Last purchases were from iTunes (Metal Church, Anthrax, Def Leppard and Ramstein) though the four CDs I order from Amazon weeks ago still haven't arrived.
#5525 05/20/2005 02:38 pm
That is totally cheating, size-wise.
#5526 05/20/2005 08:26 pm ?
How's it cheating? That's really what I have dedicated to music. Smile

If I were cheating, I'd have doubled that, as I have much of it mirrored to a USB drive that I take to work, and I'd have included the 17 gb of mp3s that are basically copies of the flac files, transcoded for my portable devices.
#5527 05/20/2005 08:29 pm
It's 1/4 as much cheating as it would be to store raw WAV or AIFF files.
#5528 05/20/2005 09:15 pm But
Flac files aren't bloated.
#5529 05/20/2005 09:20 pm
360Kbps is bloated.
#5530 05/20/2005 09:32 pm nah
Not bloated, just lossless.

But feel free to calculate the space you think it should take.
#5531 05/20/2005 09:38 pm
I think lossless is inherently bloated. You can't hear any of the frequencies below 20Hz or above 15KHz, so why store 0-22KHz with linear fidelity?
#5532 05/20/2005 09:41 pm Well...
In theory some people can hear higher frequencies... (Such people tend to be asthmatics, BTW. Strange but true.)

But if there was a lossless encoding that chopped those frequencies, I'd probably use it.
#5533 05/20/2005 09:44 pm
I can hear frequencies up to 16Khz, sometimes up to 17KHz, but only in isolation. Useful for telling whether a CRT television has mistakenly been left on. Not terribly useful for actual musical reproduction.

Chopping those frequencies makes it ipso facto not lossless. The settings I encode my mp3s at only removes the inaudible stuff, and averages around 192kbps or so (VBR, mind you, which theoretically has more accurate reproduction than 192 CBR).
#5534 05/20/2005 09:49 pm Disk space
With disk space costing what it costs, I just see no reason to throw away data. I'm not an audiophile kook who will claim that anything non-flac sounds like shit. I just figure that if I rip to flac, I am set for life.
#5535 05/20/2005 09:57 pm
True, and I'm just pragmatic about being able to fit a decent amount of music on my iPod (and having it in a format which is compatible with it to begin with).

Also, my entire media drive is 250GB, and if I were to use it all on storing 1/4 of my collection I'd have no space for making music (which takes a hell of a lot more space, since you basically need as much as one separate CD-quality track for every instrument, though recently I've been using a lot of loops which take a lot less space... but to put things in perspective, the master files for "sunny day" took about 600MB).
#5536 05/20/2005 10:08 pm
Well...I'm not making music, just listing to it. Part of my problem is that I want to transcode to MP3s, but for various other reasons, I need to be able to transcode to...ahem...oma files. I don't want to go lossy->lossy.
#5537 05/20/2005 10:10 pm
Why don't you like memes?
#5538 05/20/2005 10:27 pm
He's been infected with the antimeme meme.
#5542 05/21/2005 08:37 am
Meme propagation is the crutch of people who want to look witty and insightful when they don't actually have anything to say.
#5547 05/21/2005 04:07 pm
All your memes are belong to us!
#5548 lago (unregistered) 05/21/2005 04:40 pm
Meme propagation is the crutch of people who want to look witty and insightful when they don't actually have anything to say.

Also, it makes your website go plaid.
#5549 05/21/2005 04:55 pm
The plaidness is because I am liberated from meme propagation, and am only showing my true self. Or something like that.