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I went and ripped every music CD we own recently.
19 genres.
502 artists.
310 albums.
3985 songs.
11.5 days of music.
11.63GB of space.
All ripped in iTunes at 96kbps VBR, medium quality. I like Variable Bit Rate encoding. I wish something other than iTunes (that I already have, I'm not buying new software for something as frivolous as this) would do it. It's a damn good idea really; since this is a streaming format there's no reason why I couldn't have gone all the way down to MP3's lowest bit rate with VBR and cut another 10% of used space off the total.
Songs like Voodoo, Trigger For Happiness, Miss Blue, You Won't Be Mine and others of that ilk...all of which have a bunch of dead space at the end instead of just ending still take up too much space, but at least I wouldn't be wasting 10+MB of space each just for encoded silence (I average approximately 750kbyte/minute at 101kbit for actual music, with extreme variances depending on complexity). I can't even edit these and cut the silence, since the only MP3 editing software I have is Nero, which re-encodes the whole damn thing at the lowest bit rate in the stream. Stupid. I've thought about just doing this in vi, but I'd like to keep the random bits usually at the very end of that half hour of silence, and hand editing them won't allow me to do that. That and watching vi crash when it tries to fork a sed process and load the whole file into memory just isn't my idea of fun. It's not that I don't have enough memory, but vi gets weird when you run a regex across multiple tens of megabytes, which is what I'd have to do once I found the end of the actual music stream and tried to cut out the pattern that represents encoded silence.
Anyway, there's some stuff in here I'd forgotten we have, and some I'm not sure I wish I'd found, but hey, it's an eclectic mix and will make for interesting listening.
19 genres.
502 artists.
310 albums.
3985 songs.
11.5 days of music.
11.63GB of space.
All ripped in iTunes at 96kbps VBR, medium quality. I like Variable Bit Rate encoding. I wish something other than iTunes (that I already have, I'm not buying new software for something as frivolous as this) would do it. It's a damn good idea really; since this is a streaming format there's no reason why I couldn't have gone all the way down to MP3's lowest bit rate with VBR and cut another 10% of used space off the total.
Songs like Voodoo, Trigger For Happiness, Miss Blue, You Won't Be Mine and others of that ilk...all of which have a bunch of dead space at the end instead of just ending still take up too much space, but at least I wouldn't be wasting 10+MB of space each just for encoded silence (I average approximately 750kbyte/minute at 101kbit for actual music, with extreme variances depending on complexity). I can't even edit these and cut the silence, since the only MP3 editing software I have is Nero, which re-encodes the whole damn thing at the lowest bit rate in the stream. Stupid. I've thought about just doing this in vi, but I'd like to keep the random bits usually at the very end of that half hour of silence, and hand editing them won't allow me to do that. That and watching vi crash when it tries to fork a sed process and load the whole file into memory just isn't my idea of fun. It's not that I don't have enough memory, but vi gets weird when you run a regex across multiple tens of megabytes, which is what I'd have to do once I found the end of the actual music stream and tried to cut out the pattern that represents encoded silence.
Anyway, there's some stuff in here I'd forgotten we have, and some I'm not sure I wish I'd found, but hey, it's an eclectic mix and will make for interesting listening.
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I'm ripping in iTunes these days at 192kb/s minimum VBR. 160 still yielded the occasional squishy cymbal.
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If I listen to the stuff on a real sound system, I just plop the CD in.
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(My main issue with MP3 players is that they alternate between "stupidly small" (<10GB) and "stupidly large" (>40GB).)
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Very cool that you did it!
And I don't know if you need this, but I just found out about this utility (http://www.tuneupmedia.com/) for iTunes "that cleans up your library's metadata and grabs the missing album cover art. It takes an "audio fingerprint" of each track and then gets the appropriate data from Gracenote's Global Media Database." Also, "TuneUp costs $12 a year or $20 for a lifetime of use. A free version is available that cleans 500 songs so you can get a sense before you pay if it will work as well for you as it did for me."
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