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

[Martin Blackwell]

Hi- just wondering, what would be the best quality rating to use to fit lots of music into 10GB of HD space.
The audio quality has to be high enough for it to sound good when played through PA systems (for when my college is stupid enough to forget to hire a DJ, or when the realise the DJ they always hire can't use a mixing desk properly) ranging from a functional PA system thats stuck in the theatre permantly, to a seperate PA system that is very nice and is used for when we're stuck in the middle of a field. The resulting filesize of the Vorbis file has to be low enough to fit neatly onto my crappy 10GB HD (untill i can afford to buy a nice new one).
I've attatched a playlist generated by Winamp listing the music collection i've got. It fits into 8.41GB which excludes the few remaining MP3s, lyrics files & midi files which take up 425MB.

The situation the music will be used in will be (through my Audigy EX nicely provided by the Princes' Trust):

1) Where a low-cost (eg free) "dj" is required for college discos & other college events.
2) In a middle of a field through at the other college site when the performing arts department puts on a show & they need a break
3) For my own personal pleasure :P

So basically, me needs help in resizing the music collection to a point where the filesize is low enough to fit more music into, but where the quality is high enough to be played at live gigs, and messed around with digitally without causing hair-tearing artefacts, so any suggestion for config specs to encode CDs directly to Vorbis files ? (I will most likely be using CDex unless someone has a better idea)

PS- where can i get my hands on a windows version of that Huffman tool to further reduce the file size

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