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omg, is that peep stuck through with a pen? (3:00)

Quick foobar2000 benchmarks (Robert mentioned speed with tons of files)

The test: 7884 mp3/wma/wav files in 1112 folders.

Drag and drop into play list: Just under 3 mins (has a nice little "currently adding" message). When the files showed up - they had full track info (artist / title / length)

Add to library: The same, about 3 mins. But the nice part of about foobar - dragging the "All music" super heading in the album list into the playlist window had everything added instantly.

I'm a huge audio nut. I rip my CD's (of which there are many) in 192kbps MP3 at the absolute bottom.

For external drive enclosures I use Wiebtech. They have an enclosure that for SATA drives that has SATAe, firewire and usb ports.

check out:
http://www.wiebetech.com/products/toughtech.php

Winamp is also a video player, my primary use for it. Haven't found another player that works so well. I especially like some of the PVR-like features, like using arrow keys to jump ahead or back 10 seconds.

Why is Robert wasting his time with the whole lossless audio stuff? I haven't bought a CD or downloaded a song in a long time. I've got a suggestion YAHOO MUSIC SUBSCRIPTION. I pay 6 or 7 bucks a month and I can listen to anything I want directly from the player. I got rid of all my CDs years ago. Who needs them? Why do people waste time buying CD's off iTunes?

OWC (Other World Computing) also has SATA enclosures with all sorts of port combos. They're available with or without HDs preinstalled.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/external/elite-al-pro-quad

In addition to the single drive series, they also have simple RAID enclosures and other fun stuff.

Here is a link of list of external hard drive enclosures that uses sata and firewire and some of them even use firewire 800.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2000090092+1053807123+1054107131+1054207135&name=USB+%26+1394

Hi! I downloaded and Installed Folding@home. I started working almost 3 days ago, I see the team statistics with almost 800 in the team...and i'm not in it!?!?

Nice to hear that Robert's digging the FLAC. I ripped my 500+ CD collection to FLAC and have them stored on a server running ClarkConnect Home 3.2 with SlimServer as a service. That feeds to my two Squeezebox 3s, one of which is plugged into my hi-fi amp and the other in the kitchen with powered speakers. I chose FLAC over the other lossless formats as it seemed the most sensible option. I used Exact Audio Copy for the ripping. I didn't do the cue sheet rips and ain't about to go back and do it all again. The individual files work well and I absolutely swear by www.mp3tag.de to tag ALL my audio files (donation ware and very powerful - check it out)

Robert, check this link for a SATA enclosure with Firewire:

http://www.raidsonic.de/en/pages/products/external_cases.php?we_objectID=4838

Robert,

Look at FireWire Depot at www.fwdepot.com. They have a single enclosure with USB 2.0, FW400, FW800 & eSata. They also have many dual drive cases for the same money. You can even set these up as RAID boxes.

www.cooldrives.com has some, too.

check this one: http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/1771

The problem with Vonage is that it looses close to 2.5% of its customers per months (30% per year). With a base of 2.2M customers that means that Vonage needs to replace 600,000 customers per year. If it is prevented from adding new customers, Vonage is dead.

I like foobar2000 & XMPlay better because they are light & does not suck up all of your resources to play an mp3 file or any other file for that matter. But XMPlay does not need to be installed, you just have to create a folder for it & unzip or drag the folder contens to the folder that you create for it, but one thing about (XMPlay) the default gui interface sucks a big one, so I always goto the XMPlay main web homesite & download a better frontend gui and I in stall it because I cannot stand the one that come with it by default, but this (XMPlay) plarer works very seemless and it to me is the lightest player that I have ever seen or used in a long time. Now all of these people that just love there Winamp to me aka (Wincramp) is always saying how good winamp is but the truth about Winamp is that it is a bloated piece of sluggish crap plain & simple & I have tested it on fast & slow systems anyway you go with Winamp it sucks I am sorry & I say death to Winamp all the way.