From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Tue Nov 24 1998 - 10:58:30 MST
Noo... MP3s may be nice, but they are lower quality. Why not
buy a Slink-e from nirvis.com and one or more 200 CD changers
and permanently locate your music somewhere with a nice net
connection. Then you could stream from the pc hooked up to
the slink-e and listen to your music anywhere in the world
that has the bandwidth. There probably needs to be a company
that provides this service... hmm.
Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> A whole while ago we were talking about personal data/document management.
> This has become especially relevant to me since I've had to move a lot in
> the course of the last two years -- and resources I can't access are useless.
>
> Albeit belatedly, I am happy to report to having begun destillation of
> my music CDs into mp3s. It's slow, and I can't batchify it yet, but
> it's a start. With 128 kBit, which is roughly CD quality one averages
> at about 1 MByte/min audio. On a 10 GByte disk you thus can store
> ~160 CDs or about 7 days of audio. With a laptop, or a wearable,
> you're even mobile.
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't managed in creating a capability to scan
> personal books whether as bitmap or using OCR in time before my next
> move -- a lot of books will thus have go into storage, and probably
> not under ambient conditions :(
>
> Has anybody experiences in converting treekiller literature into data,
> particularly under SANE/Linux? (I'm not a zealot, I have FineReader
> and NT as well, it it's of any use).
>
> Is it doable, or a pipe dream?
>
> How long do you take for a single book on the average?
>
> Did you do straight bitmaps or went for the whole hog (OCR)?
>
> What is your storage medium?
>
> Retrieval method?
>
> Migration strategy to future storage media?
>
> thanks,
> 'gene
--
The future has arrived; it's just not evenly distributed.
-William Gibson
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