similar to: CD Baby using FLAC to archive 40,000 CDs

> > Just thought you'd like to know CD Baby has switched to FLAC for > > archiving the 40,000 CDs we have in stock. > > Luckily HD space is down below $1/gig so we got a 6-terabyte RAID-5 > > box set up for about $7000. > > Well, even if you do have a lot of Morton Feldman (currently my record > for best compression ratio--about 0.25 or so), I don't think

> Actually, I was more interested in how you set up the disk array. I think we just set up 3ware IDE raid cards with 200-gig drives, all on 1 PC for now (3/4 slots) and seems to work OK. No case would fit them so it's just sprawled out on a desk away from everything else with 4 power supplies powering the drives. When it's time to buy more disks then I'll have to set up a

I've got a bunch of flac files and need to report their length. With MP3s, you use `mp3info -x $filename` But is there a way to find out the length (minutes:seconds or just seconds) of a flac audio file, without converting it to WAV first? Thanks! -- Derek Sivers, CD Baby, Hostbaby http://www.cdbaby.com <-- best new independent music http://www.hostbaby.com <-- web hosting for

> And then you won't lose the stuff in the pregap on live CDs, and it also > makes the storage and naming easier to deal with. Can you explain this to me? You don't actually lose the audio data, right, just the structure of the CD (which can probably be captured with cue files anyway)? I've ripped CDs with pregap audio before, and I'm pretty sure it's not getting

Can someone who really knows the Ogg command-line encoder, help recommend the best setting for 33.6k modem stereo music streaming? (56k doesn't count cuz many people's 56k modems don't work at a full 56k, and I want them to be able to surf CD Baby at the same time as listening. 2 minutes / 120 seconds of audio should be about 400k.) I'm at my wit's end: tried everything I

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Derek at CD Baby wrote: > Just thought you'd like to know CD Baby has switched to FLAC for > archiving the 40,000 CDs we have in stock. > Luckily HD space is down below $1/gig so we got a 6-terabyte RAID-5 > box set up for about $7000. Well, even if you do have a lot of Morton Feldman (currently my record for best compression ratio--about 0.25 or so), I

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Derek at CD Baby wrote: > > But I'd be interested to know what sort of hardware you're using > Just el-cheapo FreeBSD beige boxes with Lite-On CD-Rom drives. > They've got the fastest audio ripping I've ever found (24x or so). Actually, I was more interested in how you set up the disk array. The biggest one I'd set up was a while back, when 60

At SxSW I ran into the Xiph gang and someone said something in passing that the new version of Ogg Vorbis would have much-improved low-bitrate quality. Wondering - true? Details? ETA? At CD Baby all lo-fi soundclips are still in the SFERA format*. At 20k bitrates, they sound GREAT which is why I stick with it, but I'd much rather switch them ALL over to OGG if there was a way to make

As for the storage, I recommend something like AFS, that's distributed and network-transparent. AFS/Kerberos has a tendency to take over the network for use as an authentication protocol, but it's both possible to use AFS/Krb in a hetereogenous environment and a good idea to switch to Krb5 :). OpenAFS is quite a good product, I am finding. A few general notes: Isn't cdparanoia more

This must be possible; not sure how to do it yet. :) After facing the thought of going through my cd collection for a 3rd time for re-encoding, it occurred to me that I should just flac the whole CD and add a cue sheet, and then back up to DVDs. That way -next- time I need to re-encode to any format, I can handle ~1/20th the discs, compared to my whole cd collection. :) Wondering if

On a related note, are there any tools which can read the Index information from a CD and preserve these in some file for later recreation? The actual TOC on a CD has very little information: just the Absolute Start Time of each Track. Is there any documentation of the "TOC" file format that is commonly used? I do not recall coming across anything. Obviously, I am also

Josh Coalson wrote: > --- Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> wrote: > >>1) how to generate a cue sheet to store in the flac file (on linux?) >> I've seen cddb2cue, is this a decent way? or cdrdao can generate >> a toc file, then convert that to a cue sheet.... > > > I think whatever provides cdrdao also provides toc2cue which > will convert.

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Tested this on a live album (Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison) and > there is no lost audio; tracks segue seamlessly as on the original > disc. Did you check that a) the cue points are the same, and b) you're getting back CD-Text as well? > ...it occurred to me that I should just flac the > whole CD and add a cue sheet, and then

I've just started to archive my CD collection (about 800 CDs), and my criteria are pretty much the same as the original message under this subject, except that I'm doing one file per CD. One file per song is just too much of a pain, and there's really no need, given FLAC's ability to have metadata in the file. The first thing I do is run cd-discid against the cd, and store that

The software page's only currently maintained Ogg Vorbis player for Mac-people is the iTunes plugin that seems to be for OS X only. Is there no player for Mac OS 8 or 9? <p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word

I just uploaded a new FLAC FAQ: http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html Let me know if I forgot any common questions. Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

> I don't know if it's any help or not, but I'm using the NetBSD package and > it works ok. So you might look at the makefile and patches for that to see > if it does anything different. > > > On a virgin FreeBSD 4.8 system, I've tried to use the FLAC audio compression port: > > /usr/ports/audio/flac > > Using no special options on a .wav file: >

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Josh Coalson wrote: > interesting idea, CD-TEXT is in the subcode and if cdrdao can > split it out that's better I think than hacking the CUESHEET > block to store CD-TEXT. I suppose the ideal would be to have a metadata block to store the subcode from a CD, and something that could interpret it as CD-TEXT, if that's what it is. Then it would be possible to

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Well given that I fed cdrdao the toc file that it originally extracted, > they should be, right? Do you mean check that the cue points fall at > the exact same spot in the performace, I guess? Yes. > As far as I can tell, they do, although not sure how to check that > exactly... Just listen, and watch the counter on the CD-player. It

I installed a Promise SuperTrak SX6000 ATA RAID controller on 4.8-RELEASE. The following message is logged when the device is under load (equivalent of make release): pst: timeout mfa=0x00327b90 cmd=WRITE Should I be concerned? Does the I/O fail and the driver simply not report the failure to the application? -- Scott