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Posted by Wolfgang Schwanke on 01/08/07 13:14
"musicman" <stradlinizzy@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1167912658.905537.132270@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com:
> Gary wrote:
>> What a waste of disk space to record only the audio on a 4 gig disk.
>>
>> Just think how many cd uncompressed tracks you could get on that. or
>> how much MP3 in superb quality. Hours and hours and hours
>
>
> I can fit 8 hours of music on a CD+R at the lowest resolution
>
> I just put 6 LP's on a CD+R even at the highest/fastest resolution
I assume that was a typo for DVD+R.
> what the hell are you talking about ?
A DVD+/-R will hold about 30 - 50 albums in MP3 format (depending on
album lengths and quality settings). A CD-R will hold about 6 - 10
albums, depending.
If the DVD recorder will only fit 6 or 8 albums on a DVD, it's
obviously wasting lots of space, very probably due to the fact that it
wants to record video and is reserving space for that, even at the
highest compression setting. Even though in theory a blank video image
should compress to nearly nothing when using variable bit rate, it's
not a given that consumer machines will really do that. Apparently
yours doesn't, at least not in the setting you're using. Another
downside is that you're creating a "non-standard" format, namely a
video DVD which just happens to contain no image but just audio. That's
not the same as a DVD audio (no existing consumer device can create
that format at the moment).
It should be preferrable to create something that will play on a large
number of machines so you don't lose your music when that machine goes
bust. Given that DVD audio is impossible to create anyway, MP3 disks
are the way to go. You just have to make up your mind between DVD or
CD. I think you mentioned upthread that you own a Panasonic DVD
recorder. According to the manuals, the EH56 and EH65 will play MP3
from DVD-R (NOT DVD+R) or CD provided the disks adhere to the
standardised directory structure described in the manual. The older
EH52 will play MP3 only from CDs, and so do almost all recent DVD
players, CD players, and a gazillion of portable devices.
So the decision is: MP3 on DVD-R and save lots of space, but limited to
only a few playback machines, or MP3 on CD and save less space, but
remain compatible with almost any device you own or will own.
> why store 200 CD's in a player, when this stores it inside the HDD
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> and they also make them with twice as much HDD space as this one has
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> that means the one with more HDD space, will store 240 hours of music
OK if you don't wish to flip disks at all, HD is another option, but a
DVD recorder is really not designed for the task. You're wasting
enormous amounts of disk space there. You can easily fit 1,500 hrs
audio on a 80GB disk, 3,000 hrs on 160GB, 5,000 hrs on 250GB. Get a USB
HD and record to that, playback through the soundcard of your computer
connected to your hifi amp.
Regards
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