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  4. Netbooks aren't. It's these massive capacitive touchscreens that do the damage. I bet the warranty won't cover drops either.
  5. Got another question - I have about 180 CDs I'd like to re-rip sometime this year. If I was to do the entire lot to FLAC how much space might that take up?

    My current rips are about 14GB so far at 192kbps MP3.
  6. Each CD will be 700mb MAX drew so you can do the matys there and work out the most it will take from that. Most are 4-500 though.
  7. FLAC increases around a x4.5 factor in size with respect to a 192kbps MP3. A normal 4 minutes song is around 6 MB on mp3@192, and around 25-30 MB on FLAC, so... Your current 14 GB collection would be around 65 GB.

    You can also do it measuring the normal CD size when ripped to FLAC (around 400-500 MB) and multiplying that for the number of CDs you want to rip:
    450MB · 180 CDs =~ 80 GB.
  8. Originally posted by LikeASong:FLAC increases around a x4.5 factor in size with respect to a 192kbps MP3. A normal 4 minutes song is around 6 MB on mp3@192, and around 25-30 MB on FLAC, so... Your current 14 GB collection would be around 65 GB.

    You can also do it measuring the normal CD size when ripped to FLAC (around 400-500 MB) and multiplying that for the number of CDs you want to rip:
    450MB · 180 CDs =~ 80 GB.


    Going by that calculation, one song would take up 180MB. I'll wait 'til I get a bigger drive then.


  9. What? No! A normal 14-songs CD uses to be around 400 MB, that means 400/14 ~ 28 MB per song (approx). Where did you take the 180 MB figure from?


  10. u can get 1TB exteral drives for about 70 odd bucks now, 2TB for $128
  11. Found 2TB internal for €85 euros

    Rockbox and Gingerbread beta's for N900, amazing how a 'dead' device is carried by the community. Finally gapless playback! EQ, compressor, stereo width, pitch, timestretching + lots more of DSP possibilities Using them a lot will probably kill the batery
  12. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]

    What? No! A normal 14-songs CD uses to be around 400 MB, that means 400/14 ~ 28 MB per song (approx). Where did you take the 180 MB figure from?

    If the song is 24 minutes long and as part of the CD (the full 400MB) then it's going to take up 160 - 180MB for that one song.


    Found 2TB internal for €85 euros

    Rockbox and Gingerbread beta's for N900, amazing how a 'dead' device is carried by the community. Finally gapless playback! EQ, compressor, stereo width, pitch, timestretching + lots more of DSP possibilities Using them a lot will probably kill the batery

    They're just so cheap now. Rockbox is awesome too - I used to use it.


    u can get 1TB exteral drives for about 70 odd bucks now, 2TB for $128

    Officeworks had one for 75 and Dick Smith's for about 79. Not bad.


    Each CD will be 700mb MAX drew so you can do the matys there and work out the most it will take from that. Most are 4-500 though.

    250 - 500 for most that I've got. So maybe 50GB space at a rough count.
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