[Imc-g8-2005] Request for audio machines in Media Centre

[ana]

Hi,

catching up sporadically with emails... i'm only replying to this bcause 
i have not seen an anser anywhere else... re: hard drive space for audio 
editing. Not sure if it depends greatly in the operating system you use. 
I use audacity in windows and 40 minutes of unedited stuff gets 1 gig in 
hard drive space. Once you start editing the space needed is bigger and 
bigger (undo information that to get rid of it you need to close the 
program and start again) . and audacity is _very_ tricky when working 
from CD.

hope it is useful to get an idea of what would be needed...

ana
zcat at ametrika.com wrote:

>
> hi techs and all
> Request for audio editing machines
> can the audio group have 2 or 3 of the 500mhz DUAL CPU boxes put 
> aside/capable of for editing audio in the main media center space?
> (best to have more than needed and not used than other way around can 
> awlays be used for other stuff eg pic editing)
> I have
> 3 old cd rom drives
> 1 1speed dvd drive
> and some very small hard drives
> 1 at 3.5 gigs
> 1 at 4.5 gigs
> 1 at 6 gigs
> are those big enough to do audio on I would think so but not sure 
> maybe not?
> what ram do they have ? 256 would be good :)
> I have 2 sound cards
> they could be stand alone with blag or debian they would need audacity 
> and browser and ftp at minimum I guess, which blag has as standard, 
> and is fairly simple to install
> cheersAndrew