[vorbis] Re: Re: fitting lots of music into 10GB with Vorbis

[Graham Mitchell]

>> Counting total space allocated for the files (including "slack") is nearly
>> 8.5GB, whereas summing the file sizes for all 1864 oggs in the HD comes up
>> to barely over 5GB.
> 
> That would be 1.7 MByte of slack space *per each file*. Looks a bit 
> too much to me.
>
> Maybe there are other files not ending in ".ogg" on that partition 
> too, or else something is wrong.

Yes, there are.  Of course, the ogg files dominate the space consumed, since
the other files are small, but it turns out there are quite a few of them...

% find /music | grep -v .ogg$ | wc -l
   1504

Anyway, my conclusion still stands: one can easily fit 100 albums worth of
oggs on a 10GB hard drive at quality 3.5.  Especially since I've got 149
albums at quality 4, plus some other small files which consume only 8.5GB total.


-- 
Graham Mitchell - computer science teacher, Leander High School
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 I'm not bigger than life."
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