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depriens
Senior Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Post Count: 350 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I don't really know what is plays, but should you want to copy a regular audio-cd, try to figure out how www.exactaudiocopy.de works. IMHO it's the best way to copy a cd onto your HD. Exellend sound quality because of the error-correction and read/write-offset compensation!
---------------------------------------- The best thing for me so far!I bought an external HD of 300GB last week. What a great thing that is, now I don't have to delete a dvd anymore when I want to download another.  Oh, and I just broke the 1.000 results mark. Not bad since 7/29/2005 with 3 active devices (4 since 2 weeks)!    [Edit 1 times, last edit by depriens at Dec 14, 2005 7:26:47 PM] |
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I don't really know what is plays, but should you want to copy a regular audio-cd, try to figure out how www.exactaudiocopy.de works. IMHO it's the best way to copy a cd onto your HD. Exellend sound quality because of the error-correction and read/write-offset compensation! The best thing for me so far!I bought an external HD of 300GB last week. What a great thing that is, now I don't have to delete a dvd anymore when I want to download another. Oh, and I just broke the 1.000 results mark. Not bad since 7/29/2005 with 3 active devices (4 since 2 weeks)! Thanks, depriens.  I took your advice and called a friend who walked me through it. And glad that I did. It's like day and night. So much for the online services.  300GB just for music? Wow! |
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depriens
Senior Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Post Count: 350 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I took your advice and called a friend who walked me through it. And glad that I did. It's like day and night. So much for the online services. Great that it works for you. Exact Audio Copy (EAC) is not the quickest way to copy your cds onto your HD, but it really keeps the sound quality up. When you make an Image with a cue-sheet and all the correct settings, it's proven that you have a real 100% copy. I have a large manual for EAC, but unfortunately it's written in Dutch so it won't be of any benefit for you I guess... 300GB just for music? Wow! It's not only for music, although my lossless-compressed music collection requires quite a lot of space as well. Those files are approx. half the size of normal wav-files. But I like dvds too!  |
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coolstream
Senior Cruncher SCOTLAND Joined: Nov 8, 2005 Post Count: 475 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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depriens, what format do you archive your music to? Many years back, I decided to back up all my CDs to HD and at that time, all that was available was mp3. Now, mp3 is a lossy codec, but I get older and my hearing discerns the difference less. Yet when I download lossless files I hear still the difference between flac and mp3.
----------------------------------------I think it is worthwhile to choose a better option than mp3 yet if I were to atempt to play these files with my networked KiSS for example, the player cannot read such a codec. So, it is good to backup the files, but we must be wise and choose a codec that can be read by all our machines. Which format do you use? Would you choose to re-encode data for a certain device (phone etc?)  Crunching in memory of my Mum PEGGY, cousin ROPPA and Aunt AUDREY. |
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depriens
Senior Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Post Count: 350 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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When I archive my own cd's I create an image c/w cue-sheet using Exact Audio Copy. During the ripping process EAC converts the ripped WAV-file into an APE-file. This is a lossless format by Monkey's Audio (http://www.monkeysaudio.com). Doing that, I am sure that I have a 100% copy when I should burn a cd using EAC with all correct offset correction settings.
----------------------------------------Using Monkey's Audio APE is only a personal choice for me. It also could have been FLAC. When I download music (uh oh ) It can be either APE or FLAC, but I won't download other formats.The reason for this is that I haven't been very active lately with my music, so I didn't keep up with the latest developments. I used to have lots of MP3 as well, but most MP3-files sound kind of crappy. I have archived own cd's to MP3 as well in the past. I also did that using EAC to rip the cd and LAME for coding it into MP3. I have to admit that I can't hear the difference between this and the real thing on a good quality sound system. But I guess it's just in the head that I want to have better quality. Since most players do not support FLAC or APE (yet) and I am not really into the OGG, I would choose to archive the files into WAV-files or otherwise use the EAC/LAME combination and rip to MP3 @ 320kbps. I'm sure that you'll like the sound quality. I'm not sure what you mean by re-encoding, but I assume you mean converting an MP3 file into another format? I shouldn't do that. When the information is gone (MP3 is lossy compression, so you'll lose data) it won't be coming back anymore .Take a look at http://www.exactaudiocopy.de there's a lot if information over there. Sorry for my poor English, but it's not my primary language, so I have to try and make the best out of it... |
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coolstream
Senior Cruncher SCOTLAND Joined: Nov 8, 2005 Post Count: 475 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Sorry for my poor English, but it's not my primary language, so I have to try and make the best out of it... Hi depriens. Your english is very good and perfectly understandable  I think our approach is very similar. Indeed, what seemed like a good idea a few years back of backing up my CDs to mp3 now isn't so good. A lossless rip is now a much better option - I am so glad of faster machines these days to cope with the encoding and so glad that I didn't get rid of the discs as I had initially planned to do. The idea of archiving to disc in WAV format is obviously the best but would require large capacity discs for the many CDs I have, so lossless seems to be the best direction to go. APE or FLAC seem to be just as good as you have pointed out. My question about converting to mp3 was aimed at a means of getting the information onto a device that can only read that format. Naturally, I would only want to convert from a lossless format to a lossy one, so again, this is another reason for choosing APE or FLAC. I am interested to hear that you are not into ogg though. I find it better than mp3 as a lossy codec. I think it is just as good an option as mp3 if your device supports it! and there is the fact that it is open source (so in theory, a device manufacturer would not have to pay royalties. On the other hand, mp3 is so common these days that it would be less of a gamble to choose it as the lossy codec of choice. I guess that until set top devices become able to cope with lossless codecs, I will be choosing the cheapest and easiest archiving the CDs (keep them on the shelf  )Crunching in memory of my Mum PEGGY, cousin ROPPA and Aunt AUDREY. |
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Former Member
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CPU Temp:
I have a Compaq Intel P4 box running SUSE Linux 9, I'm concerned about CPU temps. I had a problem with the fan running very loudly, so I took off the heat sink, cleaned out the dust, and cleaned off the old heat sink gook and put on some Radio Shack silicone heat sink gook. Now I am running WCG and the CPU is at 100%, but no loud fan. How can I monitor the CPU temp? I installed gkrellm but it doesn't show CPU temp. |
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Former Member
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Hello blambert,
----------------------------------------I reposted your query in Linux Support here: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=5248 Hope it gets an answer. I am clueless. mycrofth Added: Here is a reponse from muckshifter: Yes, there is ... Depends on the "flavour" of Linux as to how easy it is to set-up. The most popular front end is "gkrellm" and most 'Distros' will have it to install. In Suse, look via YaST for sensors and you'll find the correct "lib's" that need installing. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 18, 2005 7:14:29 PM] |
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depriens
Senior Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Post Count: 350 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi depriens. Your english is very good and perfectly understandable (...) I am interested to hear that you are not into ogg though. I find it better than mp3 as a lossy codec. I think it is just as good an option as mp3 if your device supports it! and there is the fact that it is open source (so in theory, a device manufacturer would not have to pay royalties. On the other hand, mp3 is so common these days that it would be less of a gamble to choose it as the lossy codec of choice. I guess that until set top devices become able to cope with lossless codecs, I will be choosing the cheapest and easiest archiving the CDs (keep them on the shelf )Ah thanks, I'm glad that it's understandable! The reason that I'm not into OGG is that I haven't been really active in music lately. I'm kind of continuing as how I used to do it a year ago or so. So maybe OGG is a better choise these days, so perhaps I should read some more info about that. I understand that there's also some kind of lossless OGG-format, but I'm not really sure? Keeping them on the shelf is still the best solution, hehe! Maybe when the new goodies as HD-DVD, Blu-Ray disc or maybe HVD arrive, it will be a little easier to archive your cd's.Especially with the HVD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_versatile_disc) with a capacity up to 3.9TB! |
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coolstream
Senior Cruncher SCOTLAND Joined: Nov 8, 2005 Post Count: 475 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The reason that I'm not into OGG is that I haven't been really active in music lately. I'm kind of continuing as how I used to do it a year ago or so. So maybe OGG is a better choise these days, so perhaps I should read some more info about that. I understand that there's also some kind of lossless OGG-format, but I'm not really sure? Keeping them on the shelf is still the best solution, hehe! Maybe when the new goodies as HD-DVD, Blu-Ray disc or maybe HVD arrive, it will be a little easier to archive your cd's.Especially with the HVD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_versatile_disc) with a capacity up to 3.9TB! I'll have to look into the developments with ogg. A lossless 'variation' sounds interesting. To be honest, my interest in ripping has been reawakened when I started converting 5.1 DVDs to dts audio CDs. Noticing the difference between PCM and DD ac3 has really inspired me to persevere with APE and FLAC. It's interesting to think of the larger capacities of the next generation DVDs and the possibilities they offer. They are certainly going to be required when you consider the successes in broadband announced in America last week. The next target is quoted at 40Gbps!!! http://www.betanews.com/article/MCI_Progresses_with_40_Gbps_Network/1134409648 Crunching in memory of my Mum PEGGY, cousin ROPPA and Aunt AUDREY. |
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