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GoingDHfast
18-03-2005, 05:11 PM
I have amassed a collection of over 300 different (whole) albums so far, about 40 of them are CD's I own, the others all being family/friends CD's. All my music is recorded in 256kbp/s or higher (good quality) and I have a really broad range of music (Beastie Boys, Moguai, Hill Top Hoods, The Cure, Chemical Brothers, Eric Clapton to name a few recent additions).

I've got a portable hard disk which I take round to mates places and trade CD's - we've actually setup a really good system so we all get to share each others music. Its just a simple 1:1 trade system where if you donate 5 CD's you get to take 5 back... Works well and means people always rip stuff they might not have bothered to (so they get to take more music) and the collection keeps getting bigger.

Anyway... Was wondering if anyone else does a similar thing - it seems most people are only interested in trading single tracks - not whole CD's like me. I just think its alot nicer to have whole CD's, it feels more like a physical CD collection than just a jumble of low quality tracks in a folder.

If I can find other people who do the same thing we could getting some server space (I have some connections) sorted out and put this thing on the internet? Just an idea at this stage, but I'd like to see if theres anyone else out there who would be interested.. Members would need broadband and preferrably high quality music. A 1:1 trade system could be used to begin with, and we could have CD's verified by other members as containing legitimate tracks? Maybe its a pipedream and I should get back to my uni assignment....
DiMmY
18-03-2005, 05:17 PM
I have 2572 tracks. NFI how many full albums, but I'm guessing in the area of about 40-50 (alot of the albums are just ripped into one single mp3)
GoingDHfast
18-03-2005, 05:20 PM
I have 2572 tracks. NFI how many full albums, but I'm guessing in the area of about 40-50 (alot of the albums are just ripped into one single mp3)

Hmmm.. 1 track whole CD's would get really annoying on an MP3 player after about 10 minutes! Apart from wearing out your fast foward button :D
dmwill
18-03-2005, 05:30 PM
Sounds like a good idea, perhaps have a section for both full CD's and single MP3s.

Just have to be careful of copyright etc. It's alright to have them for personal use if you ripped them, but if they're distributed...it becomes illegal.

I don't have a problem with that...I down/up load music myself all the time...just if you get caught by authorities...you are screwed.
ashhash
18-03-2005, 05:30 PM
Yeah I may or may not do the same thing with my mates....it is illegal after all :o
At the risk of making my last reply sound hypocritical....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v481/ashhash/mp3s.jpg

:p
naz
18-03-2005, 05:35 PM
5200 songs.

1100 aussie hip hop
the rest is a assortment of french rap, bit of spanish rap, one russian rap album, some american crap (all ur usual year 10 dre is cool crap) heaps of drum n bass, breaks, old school techno, hard style, dub, chillout, house, scratch dj'in, sets,

dude havent u heard of P2P its the same theory, and there is one specific program that i use that u can buddy lists, and u can browse all there files.

or set up a FTP server and u only give username n password to people who u want.

but u haveto remeber, if ur moving copious amounts of data isp's get sus. but even though i downloaded 10gigs of songs in less that 20 days. doesnt seem to worry them.
GoingDHfast
18-03-2005, 05:35 PM
Sounds like a good idea, perhaps have a section for both full CD's and single MP3s.

Just have to be careful of copyright etc. It's alright to have them for personal use if you ripped them, but if they're distributed...it becomes illegal.

I don't have a problem with that...I down/up load music myself all the time...just if you get caught by authorities...you are screwed.

It would be a fairly high security, password based thing.. Probably only people from Australia (would also help with speed). The server would only be small to begin with and we would have to limit the number of users due to bandwidth.. I have a couple of old servers and hard disks at home but I dont really know much about connecting them to an ISP... If I get enough interest I can start to figure out details like that.
DiMmY
18-03-2005, 05:41 PM
http://members.optushome.com.au/ephesus1/music.jpg

Take that ashhash :) You have like 1,500 more files, yet only it's only 4gb more... someones got low quality music :p

12.4Gb of Techno :|
GoingDHfast
18-03-2005, 05:51 PM
Take that ashhash :) You have like 1,500 more files, yet only it's only 4gb more... someones got low quality music :p

12.4Gb of Techno :|

Or perhaps you've got some huge files in the Daniels Stuff directory that you wouldnt exactly call music? :p

What recording type/quality to you use DiMmY?
curtisrider
18-03-2005, 05:53 PM
all music.
GoingDHfast
18-03-2005, 05:56 PM
all music.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT is about all I can say to that one.

Are you some sort of crazy audiophile who doesnt believe in compression?
curtisrider
18-03-2005, 06:03 PM
HOLY FUCKING SHIT is about all I can say to that one.

Are you some sort of crazy audiophile who doesnt believe in compression?

Search ape files on google, it does compress them, but only slightly, its said to loose no quality at all.
naz
18-03-2005, 06:08 PM
pffft.

ogg is the only way
DiMmY
18-03-2005, 06:08 PM
Search ape files on google, it does compress them, but only slightly, its said to loose no quality at all.

What kinda speakers/sound card you got to be wanting files with nearly no compression :p
DiMmY
18-03-2005, 06:09 PM
Or perhaps you've got some huge files in the Daniels Stuff directory that you wouldnt exactly call music? :p

What recording type/quality to you use DiMmY?

MP3.. and it varies. Some 128, some 192. Everything I rip is VBR ranging from 240? to 320. There's a seperate folder inside 'Daniel's Stuff' called Music. Dunno why it didn't show that.
GoingDHfast
18-03-2005, 06:14 PM
MP3.. and it varies. Some 128, some 192. Everything I rip is VBR ranging from 240? to 320

Ahhhh VBR... good for doof-doof Techno! After listening to a high quality CD through my $300 Sennheiser headphones then listening to it in both 128 and 256 compression I decided never to go with anything below 256 again.. Most of my friends consider me stupid for even using compression (audiophiles). The way I see it hard disk space is only going to get bigger and bigger over the years so recording in high quality is the much more logical and "future proof" method. Thats if you value quality of course. You can always downgrade to a lower sound quality if the need be but you cant easily upgrade!
DiMmY
18-03-2005, 06:19 PM
Ahhhh VBR... good for doof-doof Techno! After listening to a high quality CD through my $300 Sennheiser headphones then listening to it in both 128 and 256 compression I decided never to go with anything below 256 again.. Most of my friends consider me stupid for even using compression (audiophiles). The way I see it hard disk space is only going to get bigger and bigger over the years so recording in high quality is the much more logical and "future proof" method. Thats if you value quality of course. You can always downgrade to a lower sound quality if the need be but you cant easily upgrade!


Hehe yea. I have Grado SR-80 headphones.. and Logitech Z-560's for the techno (mmm bassssss). I really never take notice the quality difference between 192+. I only use a SB Live! Soundcard though.

One question: What music player do you use??? I use foobar2000
naz
18-03-2005, 06:22 PM
pfft.

i use ogg vorbis open source codec.

i own about 5 cds, and there all ripped with 256kbps(level 8) quality ogg.

i use a iriver h140, sony g57r sport style headphones riding.
koss headphones, when im on foot
sony mrd-v500, when im at home

still chasin down some shure e2c's
GoingDHfast
18-03-2005, 06:24 PM
Hehe yea. I have Grado SR-80 headphones.. and Logitech Z-560's for the techno (mmm bassssss). I really never take notice the quality difference between 192+. I only use a SB Live! Soundcard though.

One question: What music player do you use??? I use foobar2000

I alternate between a few, havent found one I really like actually. Whats good about foobar2000? I thought that was some sort of DVD ripping program..

I've tried WinAmp, MusicMatch, I-Tunes and several others. WinAmp being my favourite due to its simplicity. I dont use playlists and I dont sort my music into genres/ratings (musicmatch) so simplicity is good for me.
GoingDHfast
18-03-2005, 06:27 PM
What kinda speakers/sound card you got to be wanting files with nearly no compression :p

Even if he's got a crap sound card in his computer its worth recording at that level if he has a half decent home hifi system - then he can just burn CD's and play them in the "traditional" way without quality loss. Although alot of people connect their computers straight up to their stereo in which case the sound card would be important I guess..
DiMmY
18-03-2005, 06:28 PM
I alternate between a few, havent found one I really like actually. Whats good about foobar2000? I thought that was some sort of DVD ripping program..

I've tried WinAmp, MusicMatch, I-Tunes and several others. WinAmp being my favourite due to its simplicity. I dont use playlists and I dont sort my music into genres/ratings (musicmatch) so simplicity is good for me.

Call my crazy, but between Winamp and foobar2000, the music seems slightly higher quality. Foobar2000 also supports heaps of different formats (like ogg for naz :) ) foobar2000 is even more simple than winamp.

Here's a screenie of foobar2000 - http://members.optushome.com.au/ephesus1/foobar.jpg
GoingDHfast
18-03-2005, 06:38 PM
Call my crazy, but between Winamp and foobar2000, the music seems slightly higher quality. Foobar2000 also supports heaps of different formats (like ogg for naz :) ) foobar2000 is even more simple than winamp.

Here's a screenie of foobar2000 - http://members.optushome.com.au/ephesus1/foobar.jpg

Winamp has lots of nice features that make it easy - I also like the skins, especially compared to the boring look of Foobar (IMO). Its also cool to be able to adjust the size in pixels that the program takes up. I like running Winamp in always on top mode with pixels turned down and on "slimline" or whatever they call it.
protecon
19-03-2005, 12:29 AM
Who would have guess this thread would turn into an e-penis contest?
Dim
19-03-2005, 08:26 AM
i have 2600 songs mixed with everything...most of it is albums downloaded off DC++ :S
scottmeister
19-03-2005, 08:52 AM
I didn't wanna show my e-music penis which is only 1500 songs long at the moment.

So I thought I'd show my digital photos e-penis, which is about 12,000 files long...and that's only the ones I haven't backed up to DL DVD :p
lotec
19-03-2005, 09:28 AM
all music.
and i thought the guy at the mp3 player store was joking when he said someone ran out of space on their 60gig zen touch... thats insane
dmwill
19-03-2005, 11:05 AM
Ummm, I thought we were talking about setting up some form of music sharing, not telling each other how big our e-penises are!
DiMmY
19-03-2005, 11:19 AM
Ummm, I thought we were talking about setting up some form of music sharing, not telling each other how big our e-penises are!

We were, but then it turned into a e-penis competition. I like the idea of sharing our music, but cable internet only has 128kbit upload, which is 16kb/s. Uploading a album which could be about 100mb would take quite a long time.