On 1/9/07, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
> On Monday 08 January 2007 03:21, Chuck Hast wrote:
> >
> > Also what is a AV rated drive, is that AV as in Audio Visual? This is a
> > new area for me, but one that maybe I can help in, and get linux going in
> > one more location.
>
> Yes, audio visual. A multimedia rated drive. They have drives with large
> buffers and higher end parts rated for the harder load multimedia puts on a
> drive.
>
> (I had been using a drive for a long time playing music 24/7 and one day the
> drive light just stayed on solid and the drive was not accessable. Now the
> computer has very good cooling but there it was locked up. I tried to reboot
> with no luck, turned it off and on but still the light was on solid. So I
> left the computer off and the next day I turned it on and the drive worked. I
> have not used it for music since and its working fine. So there appears to be
> more to having multimedia rated drives than just a marketing ploy to charge
> more.)
>
> Having backups of your music is also a good idea as it's usually a big effort
> to recreate. I think I have something like 40G of music and I keep a copy of
> it on two computers. One is intended to be a media machine where I store
> music and movies I plan watching. This way I can watch and listen from any
> computer in the house.
>
> One thing I'm planning to do to lower the drive load is to use RAID. This way
> the data can come off from more than one drive, and there will be a backup.
>
> -
OK, this answered the other question. I will certainly take that into account.
I assume also that it is better to have a disk for the OS/tools/swap and
then a dedicated disk for the AV files, so that it is only accessed when it is
needed for the AV data and nothing else?
I was looking at different tools recommended for the podecast world and I
see that Amarok is in there. I use it all the time and I guess it would do the
job, I had just not thought of it as a tool to preset a list of pieces so that a
operator could just punch a screen button I want to use a touch screen for
this one) and start a piece. I would like to be able to either have it hand off
to another piece of stop but a punch of the play button would cause it to
play the next piece in the sequence. I will have to load Amarok on a machine
and play with it and break it or see what I can do with it. Initially more than
anything else I need to be able to do the playback, I also need to be able
to move audio from tapes. CD's and DVD's I do not think are a problem
since you can play them on the machine and just pull the audio files off,
I figure tapes and records I will have to run through the sound card and
capture the audio into audio files. I am not so worried about that right now
as being able to have something that I can set a person down and tell them
to punch a button to start the next piece. And have the music pre-squenced,
I was playing with that on Amarok the other night so I can see that I can
already do that.
I am all ears for any and all info you folks can give me, this is a totally new
area to me.
-- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- To paraphrase my flight instructor; "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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