[slinkelist] Digital Audio server

[Schaaf John]

My 2 cents.

1)  Do you really want to convert your cd's to analog to record them on your
computer back into digital MP3 format?

2)  Do you want to wait / not be able to play any music while it is doing it
in real time? I know you could have it do it while you are sleeping but then
consider how much longer it would take.  My friend with a slinke has over
800 cd's and I know some of you have even more.

3)  You could still use your slinke to control the rest of your house, but
again, would people buy them at $249 just for that.

4)  You can buy Audiograbber and the Xing encoder and rip directly to MP3 at
about 4x at least on a p2 350 (what I use).

Myself and my friend have decided that once we fill our changers, any new
cd's go directly to MP3.  With the cost of hard drives coming down,  they
are cheaper than changers.  Yes, I would like my entire collection as MP3
because I am patiently awaiting sub $200 MP3 data cd players for the car and
walkman style but I am slowly doing this anyway so I can play my music at
work.  I just don't want to go analog and then back to digital.

As I said, my 2 cents.  Back to work now.

John.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Parker [mailto:parkdog@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 8:28 AM
To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
Subject: Re: [slinkelist] Digital Audio server


Maybe we should start to pool a fund to pay Colby to do this? If enough
people kicked in $100 we could get this thing off the ground.

I agree, the mechanical thing is no longer state of the art.  It was great
and still works OK, but the evalution of CDJ has got to be toward HD
storage.

Maybe we should put our money where our mouth is. Colby has spent a great
deal of time ($$$) developing CDJ. He makes his money on the Slink-e to
support it. What happens when the Slink-e is no longer needed to control the
changers?

Parker

> From: Brian Atkins <brian@posthuman.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 01:34:05 -0500
> To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
> Subject: Re: [slinkelist] Digital Audio server
> 
> no no no, what Colby has to realize is that with 180GB hard drives now
> becoming available, he needs to work on ditching the whole hardware based
> CDJ approach (i.e. slink-e and changers). He needs to come up with a way
> to auto-rip CDs via changers into WAVs, and modify CDJ to work with those.
> I want to get rid of my changers!!! (and I hate MP3 quality) I would
gladly
> pay for the CDJ software if it could do this.
> 
> P.S. I am not sure if it is what you want, but look at shoutcast.com
> 
> Tom Hammond-Doel wrote:
>> 
>> Slightly off subject.
>> 
>> Is there a REASONABLY priced digital audio server out there?  All the
>> thing has to do is have an ethernet connection in and a decoded MP3
>> audio out.  After that, even CDJ could control the thing with the
>> correct interface placed on it.
>> 
>> I've seen the Audiotron, DAS, and AudioRequest, but they're over spec'd
>> and subsequently overpriced.
>> 
>> Just a SIMPLE NETWORK MP3 PLAYER!  That's not too much to ask is it?  Is
>> this another device I'm going to have to build myself (I'm a firmware
>> engineer)?  For that matter, Colby, this seems like a prime project for
>> you.  Want some help?  Throw a Net+Arm and MP3 decoder on a card, or use
>> a PC104.  Seems pretty simple.
>> 
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