On the disk structure level, what is the best way to store a large quantity of MP3s (10,000+) that may need to span several drives?  What are the best top level folders to create for the best efficency? Genre, artist, decade, or maybe something else.\n\nnote - I'm not looking for an media library application, just a logical disk structure.
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The best way to store them is to create folders with artist names and then create playlist files for speacific genre that you would prefer to to listen on that specific day.
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Yea, what sort of layouts? Graphics are larger than text so you can hold less of them.\n\nDivide 512000000 by the size of one of your normal files and that's how many you can hold.
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The larger the number, the better the quality. However, the larger the number, the larger the final file will end up. It's up to you which one to use. If it's strictly on your home PC, I would use the largest you can.  However, if you intend to upload them to a web site, users who don't have broadband connections will stay away from large files.\n\nThe best thing to do is to try to make different quality files and weigh your options. File size vs. quality and see what works best for you.
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DVDs are the best way for music. CDs wouldn't hold much.\nUse Nero other other software that will make DVD data files.
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Flash is expensive. You can get a 300gig drive where I am for $150. \nAt $35 per 2 gig, the same flash capacity would cost over 5000 bucks.\n\nAlso, flash has an endurance problem. You can only erase/write to it so many times before it wears out (reading is no problem).  There are some ways to extend the life, but they add to the cost.\n\nIt would be helpful of your 100gig "flash drive" was accessible the same as regular memory to the OS. That would make for lightning-quick retrieval.\n\nBy the way, nothing stops you from using a flash stick as a regular drive right now. Two gig is enough room to store all of Office, several games, and a schwack of music.
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ReiserFS 25% Space Savings vs. ext3\n\nNavindra Umanee has an interesting comparison between the ext3 and ReiserFS file systems on Linux. With a large number of directories and [I am assuming] mostly small to medium sized files, ReiserFS used roughly 25% less space than ext3, and it was considerably faster.\n\nThe space savings are similar to my own results, when I was looking for the most efficient file system to set up a server with limited disk space, for mail- and web file storage. Since then I have been running ReiserFS on several different systems without any problems. Check it out, if you haven’t already.
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I have two versions of it on my PC. One is 6:28, the other is 11:42 long. Both are ripped@224 so they are larger than 10 meg.\n\nWant a copy of either? Send your email address and remind me what song, I offer dozens of tunes a day to questioners. \n\nY!A Reply To:  doesn't allow attachments.
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If you're dual booting I'd go with three (half for shared storage and a quarter each for your 2 OS's) \n\nIf you are only running 1 OS, I'd still go 3 - give btwn 60-80GB for you OS, and split the rest in 2 - one half for long term storage and the other for files regularly sorted or deleted (will allow for regular clearing and won't cause fragmentation of more important areas in your drive.\n\nOh, and as to another ding-dong's suggestion about creating a partition for swap space...forget it. Your paging file either need to be in the same partition or on a separate PHYSICAL drive - simply placing on a separate partition can cause SLOWER speed and more complications
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Wow, those are horrible options.  Here is the program you want to use.  If you like it, buy it.  It's a great program!\n\nDiskdata  (see link below)
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I had the same need but I took a slightly different approach.  After some thought, I determined the following:\n\n- I didn't need all of my files all the time but rather I only needed a core subset of files all the time and then some other files depending up on what I was doing at that time.\n- I always travel with either my phone or some other device which can store information.  Sometimes I have a pda or an ipod-like device or laptop.\n- I was not completely thrilled with the idea of having all of my information on some server out there on the internet.  I am comfortable with the level of security which currently exists but I've learned not to trust it fully and to remain a little bit cautious.\n- Backing up files (or archiving files) OR making all of my files available, were two different scenarios and so I didn't need to solve these at the same time.  I could pick and choose the best of breed way to solve these separately.\n\nSo, here is what I decided to do:\n\n1. Backing-Up/Archiving old files: These are files which I wasn't planning on using anymore but which I didn't want on my hardrives.  I realized that I will have this need for as long as I live :) so I purchased an external DVD Burner and started to burn my files to DVD's which I then kept in a safe place.  There are others options you can use here (e.g. separate external harddrives, a zip/jazz drive etc) but I decided on the external DVD since they are pretty inexpensive in most every way.\n\n2. Sensitive/personal information I want accessible all the time: I decided that I would put this information on whatever device I was carrying with me at the time.  For instance, I would sync my home computer with my smartphone and/or my laptop and have that info on it (e.g. contacts, calendar info, documents, music etc).  If I needed a little more space and didn't want to bring my laptop, I would use a portable USB drive which are pretty huge these days.  I've also heard that there may be ways to put information (other then songs/vids) onto ipod-like devices and so I would consider doing that as well.  The mindset here is that there is no safer place to keep that stuff then by my side, in my ear, on my wrist, in my pocket etc.\n\n3. Everything else: For all other files which I didn't think were too sensitive or personal, I use an online storage service like xdrive.  This is not free and so I might investigate some of the other free services to see if they work for me.  Again, since I am not overly protective about these files and I am confident that the current state of security is good enough, I will be ok with just about anything.\n\n4. What about just remotely accessing my home computer in a secure way?  I've used this approach for many situations when I was not at home in front of my computer and it has worked out very well.  The service I use is GoToMyPC.  This approach holds the most promise for how I see myself interacting with my information/files wherever I may be and from whatever device.  With that said, there are some things you need to set up and have running in order to use this and this service is also not free.  Also, since these types of services are still fairly new, they may not yet be battle hardened enough...but they are getting there.  I recommend you take a look to at least familiarize yourself with it and if you can try it out, definitely do.  You may find it to be the right answer for you.  Another to look at is FolderShare.  I haven't tried this yet but am looking into it.\n\nKeep in mind:  Security is not 100%...don't forget what you know.\n\nGood luck!\n\nDVD Burner Buyers guide: http://reviews.cnet.com/Drives_&_burners/4520-7613_7-5135505.html?tag=dir\nPDA info: http://reviews.cnet.com/Handhelds/2001-3127_7-0.html?tag=otgfd.hnd\nPortable USB Drives: http://reviews.search.com/search?q=usb+drive&nodeid=3240&format=customlayout&channel=54&cat=312&mode=products&allfields=0&k=25748383\nxdrive: http://ww
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one good site for hosting songs and other files is at snap drive, just go to http://www.snapdrive.net/ and register and upload. it works great for all files but I reccomend a DSL or faster connection.
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sure u can do it. use the option mp3 audio . and just drag and drop files u want .there is a progress  bar indicating how much u can add on the bottom of the window. an average of 150-200 songs can add as mp3 format
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Hands up how many people here have used all of their 1gb allowance?\nOh good none of you\n\nI'd be surprised if I've actually used more than 20mb of mine. I remember when YM was initially only 1mb (and Hotmail's big selling point is that it offered TWO mb!)... then 5, and 11.... and stayed at 11 for donkeys years before suddenly jumping, after the arrival of the dreaded GMail.\n\nIt's known as a quota system, where you don't actually have a fixed space on the disc, your stuff just all goes into a folder or an archive file that's part of a big distributed storage array. They may offer you a maximum of 1gb, but the discs they buy and the average space allocation per user is based on some statistical analysis to give a rough guessimate predicition of what a typical person might burn through in a year. Call it 20mb, with some people using a few hundred megs, others barely making it to one. Your space requirements have now been slashed by a factor of fifty and you can get 25,000 users into one of those mammoth hard discs.\n\nThey could, theoretically speaking, offer you nearly unlimited storage (certainly several terabytes out of the *enormous* total) and still have a workable system.... if everyone was honest. The 1Gb limit is to stop the usual conceptual Handful Of Miscreants abusing it and leaving no space for anyone else.\n\nBesides, and especially in business terms, storage space is dirt cheap these days. How else would I be able to buy a brand new 20gb mp3 player for £90? A server spec hard disc of about 75gb (high-speed ones like that are smaller for some reason) is only about £50 these days. If, once again, you assume that to be about 3750 people, that's not even 2p per user. They can make that back with a couple of banner ads that the user sees on logging in. Job's a goodun.\n\n(Same reason, really, that Google can offer their "Maps" and "Earth" services, or any online seach engine such as Yahoo can work these days... if you have even a comparitively paltry ten grand to blow (might have got you, in the early 90s, the storage space represented now by a couple of Blu-Ray discs) you can afford such a mass of hard drive space, and the rather simple fileservers to manage it, that satellite mapping the entire planet at 10 centimetre resolution becomes more of an administrative than a technical problem)
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If you're using windows then you'll want to use the Media Player. It's not only as fast as any other program, it doesn't cost you any money cause you already have it. It's inherantly more stable since it's already built into the OS. You can save your files as either WMA or MP3 in the options. But don't make the mistake A LOT of people make and--Well, let me start over--Media player (by default) adds copy right protection to your music files. If you don't disable it from the options then you won't be able to share or use your music files anywhere but on your computer. Hope that helps. :)
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I didn't get you well, I think.\n\nIf you want to gather multiple files in one you can use any compressor software (I use WinRaR), or Select them in Explorer and Right click > Send to > Compressed folder.\n\nthen just attach the result file/folder\n\nIf this is what you need, I am waiting for my 10 points.\n\n\nThanks
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If your computer has a CD burner, make a CD of the music. Make sure that you make a data CD, not a music CD. data CDs can carry up to 800 MB of music (usually) while music CDs hold a maximum of 20 (if you're lucky).\nOtherwise MP3 players or flash drives are a good choice too.
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make it using the make a data cd option.. 700 megs goes a long way when you do that.\npeace out\nthe maddmann\ni use acoustica