In the Hoster manual, go to the Table of Contents, scroll down to find the
Import Tracks Tab section, then find the
Compression Ratio Buttons link part way down. Click this.
You will see the different storage requirements for the various compression ratios you can select. Most users find 128Kb the best for storage and quality. This runs 1.05MBytes/minute. If you have a 3 minute long CDG track, at 128Kb compression it will requre 3.15MBytes storage on your hard drive.
An 80GB drive (less 5GB for Windows C partition - which we recommend) = 75BB song storage, or 75,000MB.
75,000MB/3.15MB/song = 23,809 songs that are 3 minutes long. If your songs
average 4 minutes each, that is 4.20MB, which would store 17,857 songs. I think your 80GB drive is sufficient for now.
Hoster's
Add CD Track operation to allow playing a Singer's CDG disc at a show allocates 1600MB of Virtual Disc buffers. Thus, if you ever use this feature, you want at least 512MB RAM. If you only have 240MB (or even 256MB), that is barely enough to run Windows XP!
You need 512MB RAM.
December 11th, 2003, 02:25 PM
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