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Here's a challenge: do you reckon you can fill half-a-terabyte of memory using only a smartphone?
For some people, we're sure, the answer will be along the lines of “hold my beer while I set my camera to HDR mode and snap some selfies”. So the good news is that from February, you'll be able to lay out the readies on a 512 GB microSDXC card from Integral Memory.
At a transfer rate of 80 megabytes per second, you'd need more than an hour and a half to transfer a full card's worth of data; last year's 400 GB monster from SanDisk (no longer the world's biggest little memory card) still has the edge there, claiming a 100 MB/second transfer rate.
Integral's 512GB microSDXC V10, UHS-I U1 card is fast enough to meet V10 (Video speed class 10) for capturing full HD video.
Integral has put up a web page and a Spec sheet (pdf) for it.
Now we can set them up as media hubs for all.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:47AM (11 children)
I won't use Android for the same reason I won't purchase the current model of MacBook Pro.
That MacBook Pro has two USB Type C sockets. One of the sockets will have a power plug in it most of the time.
Apple's brilliant plan is to force all its users to buy lots of dongles just so that today's MacBook Pro can work just like the one I bought in 2013, which had lots of IO sockets. I never needed a dongle.
My iPhone 7 has 256 GB of Flash. I'm quite close to using up all the space because I'm heavily into music.
The way I find new bands is to listen to http://www.radioparadise.com/ [radioparadise.com] then write down the artists and album names in the Notes app.
From time to time I go to a record store - yes I still call such Compact Disc stores "record" stores - I purchase some of the albums that I listed in Notes.
It is commonly claimed that albums containing hit songs have "filler" for the rest of the trucks. In my experience that is not the case.
I expect that's because artists who are good enough to get airtime at Radio Paradise don't suck.
I own roughly four hundred CDs. I recently started ripping to 320 kBps MP3 files because I can tell the difference between 192 kBps MP3s and FLACs.
Many claim that's impossible. Many don't listen to music as much as I do: listening to 192 MP3s for any length of time makes me feel tired. That's not - yet - the case with 320.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:07AM (3 children)
So what do you do for fun?
(Score: 3, Touché) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:21AM (2 children)
I Am Absolutely Serious.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:26AM (1 child)
That's cool. You do you.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:57PM
you have not lived until you have read my latest journal:
An NSFW Review of Portland's Oregon Theater [soylentnews.org]
You can expect me to be there every Saturday evening until the heat death of the Universe.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:37AM (1 child)
I'd love a truck for meself. Wheredyasay was that Compact Disk store yer spoke of?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:52AM
It's on Burnside about three blocks west of Powells City Of Books.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @12:13PM (2 children)
Then why are you ripping to MP3s? Phone MMPs can play other types of music files than MP3s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @01:01PM (1 child)
Probably because iPhones do not support much else.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:11PM
You can encode to ALA (Apple Lossless Audio) in iTunes if you think you can hear the compression on a 160-320 VBR MP3 coming out of a good modern encoder like iTunes (or an even better one if you know where to look).
Unfortunately that won't fix the dynamic range compression the studio did to the master recording before shipping the album.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:15PM
Claimed by whom? The big singles on an album are usually good, but far more often my favorite tracks are to be found in the "filler" that would never see play on the radio.
That said, I have heard albums more on the pop end that have a "filler" problem. I have a feeling though that it's less that the rest of the album is filler for the single and more that the single is the one that unintentionally hit exactly the right requirements to be a big hit.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2) by arslan on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:16PM
Eh? Here I thought their brilliant plan is to force everyone to go wireless and the Cloud (specifically iCloud). I like the first part of that plan (wireless) cause I really detest cables but I detest cloud storage more - we are seeing more wifi enabled external disks now so that may plug that gap.
The only problem I see with Apple's plan though is that is poses economic hurdles for frugal folks like me, going cable-less has an added premium. On the other hand Apple's target crowd ain't me - I do wish them success though so that it gets mass adoption and prices go down for that cable-less lifestyle.