Digital Life and Digital Music
Last Wednesday, the Digital Life supplement of the Straits Times reported on archiving one's compact disc collection on to a computer for playback. Interesting that this topic was covered, but it might be the increasing tide of people who are actually wanting to do so.
However, the suggestions made were too rudimentary. Not only was it not a dedicated computer system for the music playback, but there was suggestion to use networks for it. While each is not inherently bad, both may be balancing many other tasks and case dropouts during playback, reducing the user experience.
Not everyone has moved to the 802.11n Wi-Fi standard, or may have legacy 802.11g equipment at home, which results in a slowdown of the network and hence the throughput of music data. Also, leaving the networking on the computer on, may result in email and other programmes running in the background, further disrupting the music decoding.
Then, there is the huge issue of jitter that is not even covered. Yes, they may have covered enough for a pedestrian computer playback system, but it will definitely come with loads of glitches. There are so many places on the web that provide much better information for free.
However, the suggestions made were too rudimentary. Not only was it not a dedicated computer system for the music playback, but there was suggestion to use networks for it. While each is not inherently bad, both may be balancing many other tasks and case dropouts during playback, reducing the user experience.
Not everyone has moved to the 802.11n Wi-Fi standard, or may have legacy 802.11g equipment at home, which results in a slowdown of the network and hence the throughput of music data. Also, leaving the networking on the computer on, may result in email and other programmes running in the background, further disrupting the music decoding.
Then, there is the huge issue of jitter that is not even covered. Yes, they may have covered enough for a pedestrian computer playback system, but it will definitely come with loads of glitches. There are so many places on the web that provide much better information for free.