The other thing I noticed is that with my 2 TB full of music, the music seems minimized somehow. Like there is just to much of it to be of value. I know that sounds strange but it feels that way.
Being an Apple guy I didn't really listen to all that techo mumble jumble that was presented about .wav's & .flac's & where is the metadata and whatnot.
Insert a disc, iTunes rips it to a AIFF at 16/44, finds the metadata and usually puts it in the correct folder. Then I just point JRiver to my iTunes music folder and it immediately finds and adds any new files to its library.
J River for listening at home, iTunes for loading my iPods.
More time to listen, less time thinking.
I guess might be the Lazy Mans way but it works for me.
Will anyone in 2050 even have a collection of music or will it be a subscription?
The other thing I noticed is that with my 2 TB full of music, the music seems minimized somehow. Like there is just to much of it to be of value. I know that sounds strange but it feels that way.
OK, I live in a Mac world (in case that was not already painfully obvious). Do AIFF (Mac .wav files) behave the same as traditional .wav files? Like full 16/44.1 data when ripped from a CD? And I assume the metadata is separate (with potential problems) as in .wav files? In order to go with imbedded metadata, do I have to use ALAC, but set at "0" compression?
Sorry for the questions. I need much scaffolding ...
I was talking to Millon after the last SMAC meet about how exactly does listening to digital audio differ from say listening to albums or to cds.
Olson, where do you keep all your files? I know you use the laptop, but you don't have them all in it, do you?
This network thing is burping here today...
BTW, I just checked and my FLAC music folder has 1254 files in 30.8 Gb on a 1 Tb drive. That means I can add about another 38,000 songs
Nope I have a couple of 3T portable drives from....Costo!
I have been considering a NAS, maybe something like the Synology DS713
Dave, are your two 3T drives redundant? One master and one back-up?
the majority of my music on the hard drive is FLAC. Can I play a FLAC file as a WAV file? Jeff was saying something about that at the meet but the room was too loud to make out what he was saying.