iandouglas.com » iriver http://iandouglas.com senior web architect Wed, 02 May 2012 16:48:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Make up my mind! http://iandouglas.com/2005/08/03/make-up-my-mind/ http://iandouglas.com/2005/08/03/make-up-my-mind/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2005 23:14:00 +0000 ian douglas http://iandouglas.com/2005/08/03/make-up-my-mind/ Update: August 16th:
Nah, screw it, I'm going back to ogg files. 192kbit mp3 files were huge - I can save 35%-40% of my disk space by making 128kbit ogg files that sound as good as 192kbit mp3's. And when I'm limited to only a 20GB playe...

]]> Update: August 16th:
Nah, screw it, I’m going back to ogg files. 192kbit mp3 files were huge – I can save 35%-40% of my disk space by making 128kbit ogg files that sound as good as 192kbit mp3′s. And when I’m limited to only a 20GB player, that’s gonna be important.
Now I just need a decent windows-compatible player to play ogg files.
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I bought my iRiver H320, silently regretting that I didn’t get the 40GB version. After losing my Linux box at home this past weekend, I stuffed all of the hard drives I own into my Windows box and then started moving files around to give Elizabeth the better part of a 120GB drive. In the process, I lost about 70GB of music. Which wouldn’t have been so bad considering that I usually keep my H320 chock full of my favorite tunes… except that to keep load times to a minimum, I decided to delete all of my music files from the H320 and just store audiobooks for the commute to/from work.

So, I’ve started re-ripping all of my CD’s,but instead of ripping them into the uber-geeky-cool OGG format offering much better sound in a reasonable file size, I concluded that my entire CD collection ripped into 192kbps MP3 files would likely all fit onto the H320 since I sold the bulk of my collection a year ago.

Thank goodness for extra CPU cycles on a 3GHz machine here at work where I can run ‘grip’ and ‘easytag’ to do all the work for me … pop a CD in, let it rip automatically. Spit it out, replace the disc. Rinse and repeat. Then before I leave work for the day, I move the MP3 files to my H320 after noting where my last audiobook left off (the H320 forgets the last file it was playing as soon as you plug in the USB cable).

Anyhow, after being such an advocate for OGG files, it seems I’m going to make the move back to variable-rate MP3 files.

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