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From: Anssi Saari on 21 Nov 2009 10:20 "Joe Forster/STA" <sta(a)c64.org> writes: > With HVSC 5.0 and Rockbox 3.3 on my old iRiver iHP-140, I've listened > to: Well, OK, clearly it warrants another look. I tried a few songs, I had Rob Hubbard's directory from HVSC on the device (Cowon iaudio M5). Thing on a Spring and Thrust sounded fine and a couple more, but then the SID player just quit. It pretends to play, but no sound comes out... MP3s would still play at that point. So I guess my initial assesment was a little hasty and Rockbox's SID emulation might be just fine. I'll have to update to current Rockbox and do some more testing... > Yes, it may not be a HardSID... Now *that* would be the coolest, a portable HardSID! Maybe the originator of this thread might consider that as an option?
From: A. Hornbridge on 21 Nov 2009 20:40 Clocky <notgonn(a)happen.com> schrieb: > Maybe I am missing the point, but wouldn't it be much easier to grab an MP3 > recorded from a real C64 from SOASC and put it on a portable MP3 player? Would it not be easier to buy the stick device and copy a SID file to it? What size is the whole HVSC in .mp3 compared to .SID? OTOH how about a drop in replacement device like swinSID, but better? There might be some demand from midibox users, perhaps?
From: Clocky on 21 Nov 2009 22:55 "A. Hornbridge" <ahorbridge(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote in message news:hea4qk$sbi$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Clocky <notgonn(a)happen.com> schrieb: >> Maybe I am missing the point, but wouldn't it be much easier to grab an >> MP3 >> recorded from a real C64 from SOASC and put it on a portable MP3 player? > > Would it not be easier to buy the stick device and copy a SID file to it? Not really, because a MP3 player can play your other favourite music as well. > What size is the whole HVSC in .mp3 compared to .SID? I don't know, but most people already have an MP3 capable device that can store GB's of MP3's, or can purchase them for very little money these days. > OTOH how about a drop in replacement device like swinSID, but better? > There might be some demand from midibox users, perhaps? > I would buy a drop-in SID replacement for my own C64, so I don't risk the real SID.
From: iAN CooG on 21 Nov 2009 23:30 A. Hornbridge <ahorbridge(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > What size is the whole HVSC in .mp3 compared to .SID? Current HVSC#52beta (due in Xmas) is 212294528 bytes, 37657files Any mp3 song encoded at 128kbps is about 1mb/minute, sids can vary from 30 seconds to several minutes (even 10/12), let's say an average of 4 mins, but then there are thousands of sids with several subtunes each. Do your maths but I bet more than 200 Gigabytes. -- -=[]=--- iAN CooG/HVSC & C64Intros ---=[]=- RAM DISK is NOT an installation procedure!
From: Clocky on 22 Nov 2009 08:30
"iAN CooG" <GETianRIDcoog(a)OFemailME.it.invalid> wrote in message news:heaep4$rjo$1(a)nnrp-beta.newsland.it... > A. Hornbridge <ahorbridge(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > >> What size is the whole HVSC in .mp3 compared to .SID? > > Current HVSC#52beta (due in Xmas) is 212294528 bytes, 37657files > > Any mp3 song encoded at 128kbps is about 1mb/minute, sids can vary from 30 > seconds to several minutes (even 10/12), let's say an average of 4 mins, > but > then there are thousands of sids with several subtunes each. Do your maths > but I bet more than 200 Gigabytes. > So if you spent 8 hours a day every day listening to SID's it would take the best part of year to listen to them all... that would take one dedicated SID listener ;-) |