Dear All
I have a dual Hard drive systme which i am planning on booting both Linux and Windows XP one of the hard drives is givin over exclusivly to media (music movies ETC.) what i would apprecated advice on is:
1) Whats the best Format for the shared Hard Drive 2) What is the best loss less compression for music which can be used both in linux and windows (i was thinking FLAC but i havnt had any experince of it)
And a bit off topic:
3) Any Good Free (as in beer) CD rippers for windows which compress to FLAC or simmiler
Yours
S Hammond
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On Thursday 01 April 2004 13:37, Stuart Hammond wrote:
Dear All
I have a dual Hard drive systme which i am planning on booting both Linux and Windows XP one of the hard drives is givin over exclusivly to media (music movies ETC.) what i would apprecated advice on is:
- Whats the best Format for the shared Hard Drive
I don't know what XP uses but i would suggest vfat as linux does not yet fully support ntfs.
- What is the best loss less compression for music which can be used both
in linux and windows (i was thinking FLAC but i havnt had any experince of it)
I would say FAC too.
And a bit off topic:
- Any Good Free (as in beer) CD rippers for windows which compress to FLAC
or simmiler
Pass
Ian
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:18:12PM +0100, IanBell wrote:
On Thursday 01 April 2004 13:37, Stuart Hammond wrote:
- Whats the best Format for the shared Hard Drive
I don't know what XP uses but i would suggest vfat as linux does not yet fully support ntfs.
Kernel 2.6 supports writing to ntfs volumes, but I don't know which of the other features in ntfs.
- What is the best loss less compression for music which can be used both
in linux and windows (i was thinking FLAC but i havnt had any experince of it)
I would say FAC too.
I wouldn't know, .ogg always sounded good to me, but then my in car mp3 player of course only plays mp3s and seeing how I don't want 2 copies of all of my music I am a bit stuck.
- Any Good Free (as in beer) CD rippers for windows which compress to FLAC
or simmiler
CDEX http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ (and best of all it is GPL so free as in freedom and free as in beer) It claims to support lots of different encoders so I am sure you will find something you like.
Adam
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:53:03PM +0100, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:18:12PM +0100, IanBell wrote:
On Thursday 01 April 2004 13:37, Stuart Hammond wrote:
- Whats the best Format for the shared Hard Drive
I don't know what XP uses but i would suggest vfat as linux does not yet fully support ntfs.
Kernel 2.6 supports writing to ntfs volumes, but I don't know which of the other features in ntfs.
Erm - now, you see, this is semi true... The write support is *VERY* limited, and only allows you to play with already existent files, and doesn't allow you to create new files, or change the length of the existent files.
For a shared drive, I'd say use a spare small machine, chuck the drive in it, format it in $favourite format, and share it over samba and NFS, then only the machine with it in needs to know what format it's in, everything else just plays nice. Maybe not the most ideal solution, and does require some spare kit, but nothing particularly fancy, and works quite damned well.
Failing that, FAT32 is the next obvious choice, easy to play with in both OSs, has real write support, and sorta works.
Cheers,
On Thursday 01 April 2004 19:18, IanBell wrote:
I don't know what XP uses but i would suggest vfat as linux does not yet fully support ntfs.
XP can run on FAT32 or NTFS5 volumes, it can naturally still read FAT16 and NTFS4
Microsoft recommend avoiding FAT32 at sizes over 32GB and in fact XP will refuse to format a FAT32 volume over this size.
Be carefull to check that any kernel NTFS write support is both a> stable (as I think it is in 2.6) and b> Able to cope with NTFS5 if the drive was formatted by WinXP
Stuart
- What is the best loss less compression for music which can be
used both in linux and windows (i was thinking FLAC but i havnt had any experince of it)
FLAC is very widely used and is superceding Shorten (e.g. downloads of live Phish concerts are available in FLAC because it is cross-platform).
And a bit off topic:
- Any Good Free (as in beer) CD rippers for windows which
compress to FLAC or simmiler
The best cd-to-wav ripper for windows is EAC (Exact Audio Copy) without a doubt. For encoding, EAC also supports many external encoders or there is mkwACT which is what I used to use.
To be honest I am now behind the pace for this topic but the very best place to go for information is the etree website - I'll leave you to google for the url. This is the central intenet resource site for people who trade live concert recordings at very high quality. If you want to know about tools for loss-less compression and accurate cd copying, etree is the place to go.
HTH Syd
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