[geeks] So what is a "Frankenmac"?

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> > And, if you are looking for lossless, look at FLAC.  It is truly lossless.
> > Granted, it doesn't compress nearly as far down as MP3 or vorbis, but you
> > can't compress taht far down without throwing out some information...

> Yeah, well, it occours to me that todays cheap 60 IDE drives can hold at least
> 100 CDs (assuming each CD is nearly full, which most aren't).  A 1/4 lossless
> compression ratio would mean space for 400 CDs.  Now, 60 drives are fairly
> cheap, and I don't have 400 CDs, and I bet that majority of people also don't
> have more than 400 CDs.

Well, I don't think it'll usually get down THAT small.  Seeing his comparison
page, I only see one track that got down into the 0.4 range.  Most were about
50% though.  So that's still 200 CDs. =)

--Kurt