Re: Introductory post, CL projects, and more!

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:53:20PM -0700, Miles Egan wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 12:12, Zachary Beane wrote:
> > ObConcreteLispApplication: I just released RIP-L, a ripping/encoding
> > application for SBCL on Linux/x86. The site is
> > http://www.xach.com/rip-l/.
> > 
> > It's intended to operate over the network, so the ripper and the
> > encoder talk to a controller via TCP. However, it also happens with
> > the ripper, encoder, and controller might be running in the same
> > image. I'd like to make the connection into a class, and make
> > subclasses for network connections and in-process connections.
> 
> Sounds cool.  The network transport is there to allow scaling this
> across multiple machines, right?  On most of the machines I've used,
> ripping is far slower than encoding.  Do you envision parallelizing the
> encoding or the ripping part primarily?

A bit of both. My personal setup involves a fast network, fast CDROM
drives, and only a few fast CPUs. The CDROM drives on the slow systems
would easily outpace encoding if encoding had to be done on the local
machine.

I'm mainly doing this case I get a new audio CD library, or if I
decide to convert my existing library entirely to ogg. The initial
conversion of my current (modest) collection took several hours of
disc swapping. I figure ripping and encoding in parallel will cut the
time down significantly. It's probably not much of a win (other than
configurability) on single-drive, single-CPU, non-networked systems.

Zach