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maevans · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:35 am Post subject: How Strange

I was just updating my mp3 player when I noticed the status bar showing something rather strange...

Not quite sure where it thinks I've got 16,777,216 TB of music!

(Terabytes (TB) is 1024*1024 Gigabytes! - my harddrive's only 300GB)

Confused

Seeing as it's transferring to a 30GB mp3 player, I understand even less how it can be...
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Stephen Evans · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:31 pm Post subject:

its coz its linux...

Little Luke · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:24 pm Post subject:

it'd be nice to have that much storage

maevans · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:28 pm Post subject:

Stephen Evans · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:55 pm Post subject:

Well, i didn't like it for the period it refused to use my soundcard...

Tim Evans · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:00 pm Post subject:

I use winamp on windows (don't listen to music on linux as I don't know if winamp can be installed on linux and can't get the hang of putting music into Amarok) which I have had no problems with.

Stephen Evans · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:17 pm Post subject:

You just select where your music is and it does the rest for you!
anyway, time for another linux rant...
It doesn't let you add music that's on the network drive!
that's like half the music I listen to!!!

Tim Evans · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject:

and it's like all the music I listen to, I deleted all music off my PC long ago to save space

maevans · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:42 pm Post subject:

Right, if I could be bothered to set the network drive up with it properly it'd work fine, just that I haven't as I only use it to write backups to (you can tell it to mount the network drive as a local folder on boot, as well as your hard drives).

& Amarok's easier to figure out than Winamp! The first time you run it you just choose the folder all your music's in and click next, and it automatically gets everything for you Smile

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Tim Evans · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:24 pm Post subject:

I don't want everything, I'd have to scour through circa half a terrabite of music to find the tracks I wanted

(btw, circa means approximately)

Stephen Evans · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:37 pm Post subject:

or just select the whole folder?

Cap'n Jeremy · Aslan Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 288 Location: Cambridge

Replying all the way back to Mark's original question, I wonder if the reference to TB could be the size the music files would be if they were in uncompressed 16-bit format (like on an audio CD.)

Thinking of typical numbers, a 12 track CD is about 700MB total, say 500 MB of actual music.

2400 tracks could be 2 x 100 x 500MB = 100GB = 0.1 TB

No, that's not nearly enough - although it is 10 times bigger than the 11.6 GB that is also quoted.

Hmm, why does there seem to be some link between 16 million TB and 11.6GB? Could TB not mean Terabytes? If not, what else?
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maevans · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject:

I think it was just a bug! That many terabytes of storage would be rediculous! Also, the files aren't being converted, they're being copied straight onto the player in the same format (so I don't think it's anything to do with CDs either)

Tim, it's not hard on Amarok to find the music you want and add it to a playlist; however ALL designs of music player software nowadays are designed to work best when they just track a single folder and automatically add any tracks that appear in it (in Winamp it's called watch folders).

There's also several other bits of software on Linux for playing music, all different but probably just as good (I use Amarok as it's what I'm used to)
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