Music in the Park Tonight… PMC Review Follow up tomorrowish.
Posted By Corey on August 27th, 2004
Bah, second day of classes were slow and boring. Music in the Park is going on tonight, “eek a mouse”, should be good. Think I’ll grab a starbucks and enjoy as it finally starts cooling down. Part 2 of the PMC blog to follow soon. I’ve got details on battery life, encoding times, fun with getting DVD’s, XviD, DivX onto the device and more.
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August 28th, 2004 at 7:45 pm
You big tease! I have questions darnit and I was hoping that you would be able to answer them.
For instance:
I too have a rather large music and MCE TVshow collection (though not nearly the size of yours). In playing with Janus (3476 I think) and a removeable USB drive, I couldn’t get transcoded files to stay in the cache. If I would switch between two playlists, it would transcode the playlist every time. I thought that it would have kept as much transcoded data in the cache as possible. My ultimate desire would be to dedicate enough cache space to fit my entire music collection (@160kb/s). At that point syncs would be just transfer time. Did any of that make sense?
August 28th, 2004 at 7:55 pm
Yeah I think it makes sense… You simply need to change the size of space that WMP10 is allowed to use for it’s cache. Tools > Options > Devices > Advanced. I’ve got mine set to 20GB at the moment since that’s the size of the device. It’s an awful waste of space mind you. What you’re talking about really only works if you do manual syncing. Unless of course you do auto syncing and have less data than what the device holds and then when in auto mode you have it sync All Music. etc etc.
August 28th, 2004 at 10:02 pm
Here’s what I don’t understand:
If a) my device holds 256 megs and b) my cache is set to 6000 megs and c) I am switching between 2 256 meg playlists (once they’ve been transcoded), why would it need to transcode EVERY single time? Shouldn’t it just keep the 512 megs of cache?
I like to store my music as loseless, but it’s getting to be a pain in the neck to have a LONGASS conversion time every single time.
August 29th, 2004 at 4:02 am
Well normally, it will cache them as it should. I believe there was a bug in 3476 that made things annoying like that. Hate to say it, but try waiting for RTM, things should be better then. I know it’s working right in my pre RTM build here
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August 29th, 2004 at 6:35 am
Whoops. I’m at 3646.
August 29th, 2004 at 5:35 pm
Just to verify — you’re saying that, if I choose to and I devote enough space to the cache, Windows Media Player 10 will keep a mirror of my entire media collection in a lower bit rate.
Thus I can continue to rip all my CDs to lossless and, when syncing, only have to wait for transfer time?
That would be fabulous. After all, HDs are cheap for the desktop. One can buy a 60 gig HD for under $50. I have no problem whatsoever devoting a 50 gig chunk to a low-bitrate mirror. Now if I could just get it working…
What build do you recommend?
Cheers,
Steve
August 29th, 2004 at 9:03 pm
Wait till final, especially before you go out and buy another drive.
September 5th, 2004 at 5:01 am
So I’ve downloaded the final … Man is that *stupid*. If I switch between two playlists on my MuVo, I reconvert EVERY SINGLE TIME. Oy…