Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #42   Report Post  
Posted to rec.audio.high-end
Kalman Rubinson Kalman Rubinson is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 312
Default Interesting new High-end Digital System

On 7 Nov 2007 00:05:13 GMT, codifus wrote:

It's a very closed, proprietary system.


Yup.

You buy a music CD from Sooloos.
Sooloos sends you the CD as well as an encoded hardrive with the music
on it.
That hard drive is attached to your Sooloos system and the music is
then almost instantaneously uploaded into the RAM of the system.


It seems so.

The mirroring you mention must be part of the secondary, offline
storage.


Nope. I have only one source unit; not the standard configuration.

Talk about being locked in. I'll continue building my own server,
thank you


You are welcome.

Kal
  #43   Report Post  
Posted to rec.audio.high-end
Steven Sullivan Steven Sullivan is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,268
Default Interesting new High-end Digital System

Serge Auckland wrote:
irritating short break (around 200mS) between tracks. Does Foobar also
introduce a short break, or will that keep tracks continuous.


Foobar does not introduce a break...but that be because I
am playing FLAC files.

___
-S
"As human beings, we understand the world through simile, analogy,
metaphor, narrative and, sometimes, claymation." - B. Mason


Thanks, but I don't understand the reference to FLAC files. Most of my music
on my Musicmatch jukebox is in WAV format, some more recent additions are
320kbps MP3. On Musicmatch, all types of files have a short break between
tracks, it's just a part of how it works. Musicmatch's Tech Support people
were very helpful, but said it's a "feature" of the software, and there's no
way round it other than to put the CD in twice, once as individual tracks
when one wants to pick and choose, and again as one single track for playing
all the way through. I really need to know if there's any other software out
there that won't put in this short gap.


Yes, most software DOESN'T introduce a gap between .wav files during playback.
That was usually a problem with mp3 files only.

Have you ever tried Windows Media PLayer or Winamp?

___
-S
"As human beings, we understand the world through simile, analogy,
metaphor, narrative and, sometimes, claymation." - B. Mason
  #44   Report Post  
Posted to rec.audio.high-end
Arny Krueger Arny Krueger is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 17,262
Default Interesting new High-end Digital System

"Codifus" wrote in message

Arny Krueger wrote:
wrote in message
...
"Seems it stores the music files in memory, not hard
discs." There are just now starting to appear drop in flash
memory "disks" for conventional hard drives. Very
expensive but as always the price is dropping and can
be projected to be the storage device of the near
future.



Ipod type plug in devices are a form of this even now.



MP3 file players that are based on flash have been around for most of
the decade. The only thing that has
changed is the amount of flash memory that was available.

My M-Audio Microtrack is a credible mp3 and wav file
player that uses CF cards up to 16 GB. Oh, it also
happens to record from professional mics even those that
need phantom power, up to 24/88 or 16/96! As a MP3 player for consumers
the Microtrack would
probably be a dud, because its directory services are
very basic.


Must be a typo,


Nope.

but why in the world would someone choose 16/96 over 24/88?


Good question. But, that's what the spec sheet says. I suspect we're
supposed to read it as meaning that either the internal processing or the CF
interface can only do 88 with 24 bits, but it will do 96 with 16 bits.

I believe the current model, the Microtrack II does 24/96.

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_u...kII-focus.html

  #45   Report Post  
Posted to rec.audio.high-end
Arny Krueger Arny Krueger is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 17,262
Default Interesting new High-end Digital System

"Sonnova" wrote in message


Granted that at this moment the cost/megabyte favors HDD,
but I don't see how you can possibly assume that this
will always be the case.


Agreed.

There are good reasons to be pretty sure that solid state memory will go
down in price per byte almost indefinately, while hard drives will bottom
out because of their fairly inflexible need for signficant amounts of
mechanical overhead.



  #46   Report Post  
Posted to rec.audio.high-end
Codifus Codifus is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 228
Default Interesting new High-end Digital System

ScottW wrote:
"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
...

"Sonnova" wrote in message



Granted that at this moment the cost/megabyte favors HDD,
but I don't see how you can possibly assume that this
will always be the case.


Agreed.



Samsung is now sampling a 64Gbyte flash drives.


There are good reasons to be pretty sure that solid state memory will go
down in price per byte almost indefinately,
while hard drives will bottom
out because of their fairly inflexible need for signficant amounts of
mechanical overhead.



A minimum unit price due to the mechanics does not mean
cost/bit will not continue to decline. Its been on a very rapid pace
as succeeding generations with 2 or more times the density rapidly
fall to their predecessors price point.

Meanwhile the capital investment for each successive generation
of silicon fabs grows and the cost of process technology development
has outpaced the means of any single company to pursue.
It now requires consortiums.

ScottW

Exactly! I don't see RAM getting siginificantly smaller as hard drives
have been without huge investments in advanced and expensive technology.

Hard drives are not going away anytime soon.

CD
  #47   Report Post  
Posted to rec.audio.high-end
Arny Krueger Arny Krueger is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 17,262
Default Interesting new High-end Digital System

"ScottW" wrote in message

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
...
"Sonnova" wrote in message


Granted that at this moment the cost/megabyte favors
HDD, but I don't see how you can possibly assume that
this will always be the case.


Agreed.


Samsung is now sampling a 64Gbyte flash drives.


At what price?

There are good reasons to be pretty sure that solid
state memory will go down in price per byte almost
indefinately, while hard drives will bottom
out because of their fairly inflexible need for
signficant amounts of mechanical overhead.


A minimum unit price due to the mechanics does not mean
cost/bit will not continue to decline. Its been on a
very rapid pace as succeeding generations with 2 or more
times the density rapidly fall to their predecessors
price point.


Agreed.

However, IME 90% or more of all consumers don't need bigger hard drives.
Just about the only consumers who are actually filling hard drives are doing
it with video. It is very hard for most people to fill a 500 GB hard drive
with music or pictures, which are the other two common options. Filling a
20 GB drive with music and/or pictures is possible, but going the full
half-terrabyte is something else.

Meanwhile the capital investment for each successive
generation
of silicon fabs grows and the cost of process technology
development has outpaced the means of any single company
to pursue. It now requires consortiums.


That ain't gonna stop solid state memory from getting denser or cheaper any
time soon.

Reply
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules

Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Interesting digital recording differences David E. Bath High End Audio 18 February 27th 07 08:28 PM
Does a high-end system rob you of musical enjoyment? D.Kreft Car Audio 11 January 23rd 07 07:18 AM
FS: Sonos Digital Music System Introductory Bundle Wireless multi-room audio system [email protected] Marketplace 0 December 3rd 05 05:05 AM
FA: High End B&K REFERENCE 30 A/V System Controller The WoodMitch Shop Marketplace 0 May 13th 04 02:11 AM
Interesting Digital Stuff on Ebay Graham Hinton Pro Audio 7 August 13th 03 12:17 AM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 02:06 PM.

Powered by: vBulletin
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 AudioBanter.com.
The comments are property of their posters.
 

About Us

"It's about Audio and hi-fi"