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Re: [ECS] Help with Log States Don Stephens Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:07:55 -0800

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From: Michael David <michael@michaeldavid.com>
To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org <ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org>
Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 7:36 AM
Subject: RE: [ECS] Help with Log States


>Hi Don!
>
>Yes, Dan has been very busy trying to solve the connect/disconnect issue.
I
>think he'll nail that soon, now that he can reproduce the problem.
>
>I'm intrigued by this music server idea.  Tell me all about it.

Think of converting your cd collection to a series of wav. files, very big
files. These are compressed via mp3 and put in a database on the hard drive
of a music server. These files are decoded at play time. No wait for the CD
to spool up, only limitation on a play list is the size of the hard drive.
Very trick
>
>What's mp3 encoded music sound like?  Is it good enough for listening
though
>a nice A/V system?


Yeah, I think so, although so far I'm playing them through my sony computer
speakers. Sounds good. You can control the accuracy through the ripper.
>
>How about naming, categorizing, searching and retrieving?  Is there a
ripper
>that will automatically name the tunes?  Is the a mp3 player out there that
>can handle a database of a few thousand tunes?

AudioGrabber calls a net database and labels the CDs and names the tracks.



>What are you thinking for Ace? For a large database, ACE may not make the
>best user interface


I wanted to set up certain play lists, mood, artist, etc and have ACE
accesss the mp3
player to play them. Having ECS would be the cats meow, but for an interface
ACE would be great.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Michael David
>michael@michaeldavid.com
>

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