Thread: Help with MP3 radios, files, & directories

I couldn't even fit 200 songs on a 700mb cd.. At an average of 5mb per song (@192kb/sec), I'd be able to fit about 140..

I would just seperate the sounds by artist or album subdirectories unless you are doing all singles.. where you might do genre sub-dirs.

I generally go for the full album approach.. There's more than one way to do this though, and no "right" way..

Thanks but how many directories or sub-directories do you and the average MP3 burner use? There seems to be a direct link between number of directories and tunes tied to long inititalization times for the radio.

ive never heard of the long initialization with just 7-8 directories. what ive seen is long times for directories that are 7-8 deep and usually that can take a while.

Originally posted by RaZor:
<STRONG>ive never heard of the long initialization with just 7-8 directories. what ive seen is long times for directories that are 7-8 deep and usually that can take a while.</STRONG>

Thanks but that still implies that more directories lead to longer radio initialization times, probably as a function of how much RAM the radio has???? When you burn your MP3 CDs, how many directories do you use, how complex, and how many tunes can you, or should I try to get onto a disc?

Well, I'm downloading all my music at my work, we've got a very fast -dedicated- connection to the internet here.
At home I only have access to the internet trough a 56k6 modem, just because I don't have any other option like (a)dsl or Cable.

When I want to take these mp3s home I burn them on a cd. And -almost- only download full-albums I usually get 10 or 11 (depends on the album) albums on 1 cd. Which means that there will be 10 or 11 directories on the cd.

When I download single songs I usually put them all toghether in a directory called 'Various' or 'Top40' or something.

But I usually get 10 or more directories on a CD-R

Hope this helps you out..

Greetz

PS I don't use nested directories on a mp3 cd (dir inside dir)

G.

[ 10-03-2001: Message edited by: Raas ]