Laammmmmmee

• Posted by admin on January 16th, 2009 filed in Sleep Recordings

Since I’ve failed to post for quite some time I’m going to reveal exactly why.  I doubt anybody gives a toss, really, however, I’m tired of posting “it’s coming” posts and need to beef this one up with facts.  Do not discount the slackness factor in all of this, it still remains the underlying cause.

Each recording I make, for one night, is over 2 gigs in size.  I record in fairly high quality, probably above what I should.

To process this file, I make changes to a copy of that file and use it as a guide to find audible sounds.  I keep the original so I don’t have a wrecked recording (making filter changes to this point does infact wreck it).

So now, every night costs 4 gigs of working space.

Fast forward to 3 months of not processing the files and yes, that’s right, the total size of the files is up towards the 180 gig mark - and I haven’t even made that crucial copy to process them.  So, inevitably, I got through a few and then the whole situation got out of control.

I knew it’d come down to buying another drive and that has occurred today.  So, finally, I can say with some certainty that I now actually have the space to deal with all the recordings.

All this could have been saved by processing regularly.  Hopefully there is some magic in them, as this generally reignites my enthusiasm.

The good news is that the traffic here actually stays the same no matter what I do.  A dangerous thing to occur for a slacker such as myself.