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Hi All

re the capacity question.

I am looking at getting an MC200 but I do have one concern. The MC200 spec says that it can handle about 1000 CD�s. All of my music has been ripped using dBpoweramp to lossless FLAC and I have 1050 folders (CD�s) which occupy about 200Gb on my HDD. I assume therefore that this would fit on the MC200? I am just concerned that maybe the software adds to the file size when it copies over to the MC200 and I would run out of space (would have to be a lot of extra metadata).
Do you see a problem here?

If only the MD600 had a digital out.

I have my MC200 storage disabled and am using a TwinStore. However I think the the amount of storage needed would be similar.

My FLAC files as ripped by dBpoweramp occupy 369GB
My Sooloos storage occupies 499GB but that includes Sooloos generated MP3s which you can turn off.

I think you'd be OK with an MC200 for a while.

You could check "info" on Controlmac for remaining space, import CD file of known size and compare? I suspect metadata takes up very little space.

About how many albums does that equate to?

I was just checking the specifications of the proposed 880 music server. That was planned to offer up to 750 hours of CD storage (say ~1,000 discs) for �20,000. Ten years on the MC200 offers similar capacity for 10% of the cost.

What does an MD600 cost, I couldn't find it in the various lists? (addendum: �2,500 - found on press release)

Plus cost of two discs which if you go for the recommended enterprise drives don't work out cheap - couple of hundred pound each.

I'm going for two of these . Going to set me back �200, plus I need to get a switch to expand my router and an extra bit of cabling, so in total about �250 extra.

Felt it prudent to part-ex the MC200 whilst there was still a good re-sale value in it, and take advantage of the iPad discount. I would have run out of space in about a year and now that the MD600 runs as a core, it was a no-brainer. Or at least that's what I convinced myself

I can't say exactly because of my idiosyncratic method for dealing with metadata. I always set album artist to the composer of classical albums which works well for me but obviously gives me a problem with albums that have more than one composer. In that case I create separate albums in Sooloos for each composer on the album; so /debug is showing 1296 but the real number of physical albums is probably about 1200. About 16,000 tracks. Included in that are a small number of hi-rez albums.

God willing I am going to do exactly this before the end of April too.