I've warped 31 songs in WAV format and...

Summer2000 · Post by **Summer2000** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:30 pm

they've take up 1.21GB space on my harddrive at this rate my dang drive will be full in no time. And this a 500GB external drive by the way.

I'm seriously contemplating going back to warping mp3's instead and just put up with decoding whenever I load up a song in Live.

I hope Live 7 handles mp3's better than this current version.

Has any of you guys chose the mp3 route instead of wav?

Summer2000

djamp42 · Post by **djamp42** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:37 pm

Summer2000 wrote:they've take up 1.21GB space on my harddrive at this rate my dang drive will be full in no time. And this a 500GB external drive by the way.

I'm seriously contemplating going back to warping mp3's instead and just put up with decoding whenever I load up a song in Live.

I hope Live 7 handles mp3's better than this current version.

Has any of you guys chose the mp3 route instead of wav?

Summer2000

I only use Mp3's, just because of this. Just keep all your mp3s at 320kbs, and you'll be okay.

Until computers Get SUPER fast. I think we are going to be stuck with Mp3 support the way it is. I would rather have my CPU power go to processing effects, ect. then doing realtime mp3 decoding.

There are some people on here who sware by just using Wavs, They must have unlimited hard drive space. I don't know.

thelocalhost · Post by **thelocalhost** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:49 pm

Summer2000 wrote:they've take up 1.21GB space on my harddrive at this rate my dang drive will be full in no time. And this a 500GB external drive by the way.

I'm seriously contemplating going back to warping mp3's instead and just put up with decoding whenever I load up a song in Live.

I hope Live 7 handles mp3's better than this current version.

Has any of you guys chose the mp3 route instead of wav?

Summer2000

Why is this a problem? Disc space is so cheap.

Summer2000 · Post by **Summer2000** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:54 pm

It becomes a problem if I only want to take only the laptop on the road and not the external drive.
My internal drive is only 40 gigs which means I'd only be able to transfer over a few songs from the external drive to take with me.

Summer2000

djamp42 · Post by **djamp42** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:12 pm

thelocalhost wrote:
Summer2000 wrote:they've take up 1.21GB space on my harddrive at this rate my dang drive will be full in no time. And this a 500GB external drive by the way.

I'm seriously contemplating going back to warping mp3's instead and just put up with decoding whenever I load up a song in Live.

I hope Live 7 handles mp3's better than this current version.

Has any of you guys chose the mp3 route instead of wav?

Summer2000
Why is this a problem? Disc space is so cheap.

This is pretty much the typical response. If it's so cheap, can you send some 200gb hard disks over this way.

parke02 · Post by **parke02** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:28 pm

You can really fill up a 500gb HD? At 1.21gb per 30 songs, you must have 12,000+ tracks... Do you really have to have all of these on you at all times? You should be able to fit 1000+ tracks on your internal hard dirve. Quality > Quantity man... You probably don't ever play 50% of those tracks.

Even if you're mixing hip-hop, funk, or a type of music where you're doing lots of quick mixes or slams, I don't see how you could possibly need 12,000+ songs on you at all times.

1000 songs x 4 minutes a song = 4000 minutes = ~67 hours of music. If you can't rock a 2-4 hour set with 67 hours worth of music, frankly the music you have sucks.

If you really must have ALL of your music with you at all times, just bring along your external hard drive. An external HD isn't exactly going to break your back..

thelocalhost · Post by **thelocalhost** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:40 pm

Summer2000 wrote:It becomes a problem if I only want to take only the laptop on the road and not the external drive.
My internal drive is only 40 gigs which means I'd only be able to transfer over a few songs from the external drive to take with me.

Summer2000

1998 called and he wants his HD back.

Seriously, Get the external 500G and upgrade that 40 gig drive too.

Summer2000 · Post by **Summer2000** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:26 pm

thelocalhost wrote: 1998 called and he wants his HD back.

Seriously, Get the external 500G and upgrade that 40 gig drive too.

I gotta admit that was funny.

Actually, I plan on upgrading to a new laptop by the fall. I'm hoping to get something with at least a 160 gig HD.

Summer2000

muthafunka · Post by **muthafunka** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:59 am

MP3s are smaller but as soon as you start using them you'll see all that space on your drive disappear to the decoding cache anyway, not that it's gone forever but if your 40's fairly full to start with you'll get 'no room to decode' warnings pretty quick, that and long decode/caching times when you start. Still paddling around with Live for djing but leaning toward aiff/wavs here. Any advice from veterans?

dango · Post by **dango** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:39 am

thelocalhost wrote: 1998 called and he wants his HD back.

.

funny

i must agree with parke02 on this one. bring the ones you need on the internal plus ones you probably won't need but want to have just in case.

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