DJMikeJames
Hi everyone.
Roughly how many songs can you fit on a 500GIG external Hard drive in wav format or Flac. Also are there any DJ's here using Flac files in Virtual DJ without any problems.
Many thanks
Roughly how many songs can you fit on a 500GIG external Hard drive in wav format or Flac. Also are there any DJ's here using Flac files in Virtual DJ without any problems.
Many thanks
Mensajes Thu 23 Oct 08 @ 11:19 am
bgane
You said "WAV" format, so that is most commonly 16 bit samples at 44,100 samples per second, which equals 88,200 bytes per second (8 bits to the byte).
Your disk holds 500,000,000,000 bytes. Technically - this is not 500GB, as they claim, but that's another story. You have 500 billion bytes. As well - there would be a little loss for formatting, but you said this is an external disk - so I am assuming there is no operating system or boot files necessary on this. You will still lose a little space due to overhead from formatting and for directory structures, but that should be small.
So that means that the disk can hold approximately 5,668,934 seconds of music. How many songs does that translate to? Well - if we assume the average song is 180 seconds (3 minutes), you have 31,494.
Safe to say, it should be able to hold more than 30,000.
How's that?
Your disk holds 500,000,000,000 bytes. Technically - this is not 500GB, as they claim, but that's another story. You have 500 billion bytes. As well - there would be a little loss for formatting, but you said this is an external disk - so I am assuming there is no operating system or boot files necessary on this. You will still lose a little space due to overhead from formatting and for directory structures, but that should be small.
So that means that the disk can hold approximately 5,668,934 seconds of music. How many songs does that translate to? Well - if we assume the average song is 180 seconds (3 minutes), you have 31,494.
Safe to say, it should be able to hold more than 30,000.
How's that?
Mensajes Thu 23 Oct 08 @ 11:43 am
DJMikeJames
Thank you for your indepth responce. I have decided to rip the files to flac whic would give me more space. Currently I have a 500 Gig drive which is being used at the moment to store the flac files i'm ripping. The other Drive i have is 1TB when i have finished ripping all my CD's i will then transfer them to the larger hard drive.
Thank you
Thank you
Mensajes Thu 23 Oct 08 @ 11:58 am
bgane
Actually - I should correct that number. I'm forgetting that stereo will require two tracks. So in completely uncompressed WAV format, you'll probably only recognize half of what I said.
But FLAC is a lossless compressed format, if I'm not mistaken, which averages about a 2:1 ratio (simple Liv-Zempel format compression?) - so with FLAC you are probably back to the 30,000 number.
But FLAC is a lossless compressed format, if I'm not mistaken, which averages about a 2:1 ratio (simple Liv-Zempel format compression?) - so with FLAC you are probably back to the 30,000 number.
Mensajes Thu 23 Oct 08 @ 12:02 pm
DJMikeJames
Hi everyone. My last question has not been answered so just reminding people. Do any of you use Flac files in Virtual DJ and if so do you encounter any problems example slowing down, click & pops etc. and is it easy to set up as i do not see the codec in the files list. many thanks
Mensajes Fri 24 Oct 08 @ 5:30 am
bmac16
I use FLAC with VDJ. The sound quality is great and they load faster than the 320 rated MP3's that I used to use with the software.
The only issue I've seen is that for some reason some of my FLAC files can't be anaylzed by VDJ. The flac file will actually freeze the software and won't allow me to do anything else, however the song still plays with no issues. It's very weird.
Also these same FLAC files that give VDJ issues with freezing the program play perfectly in Winamp, Windows Media Player etc. I don't know if it's a bug with VDJ or what but no one has been able to answer my question on this issue.
The only issue I've seen is that for some reason some of my FLAC files can't be anaylzed by VDJ. The flac file will actually freeze the software and won't allow me to do anything else, however the song still plays with no issues. It's very weird.
Also these same FLAC files that give VDJ issues with freezing the program play perfectly in Winamp, Windows Media Player etc. I don't know if it's a bug with VDJ or what but no one has been able to answer my question on this issue.
Mensajes Wed 26 Nov 08 @ 10:58 am
DJ Marcel_1
Just a side note to this conversation and to add an alternative; I've found that WMA files load faster, in VDJ than MP3's. I personally can't tell the difference between a MP3 and a WMA
Mensajes Wed 26 Nov 08 @ 11:35 am