As some of you have no doubt noticed, I've been absent from these forums for quite some time. This was due to a number of things, but mostly I just hadn't been updating the music on my PhatBox as I have quite a complicated system to do so (at nearly 2200 CDs, I'm well beyond the capabilities of PMM to handle the music). Looking at the catalog printout from my DMS, it was last updated on April 13th, 2004 - 3 and a half years ago.
The availability of 250GB IDE drives means I didn't need to bother with doing a SATA conversion for the DMS, PhatBox, and cradle. I'm using the WD2500BEVE mentioned in another thread here. I have about 50GB free after all my music is loaded.
I've just finished testing and I now have a DMS with 2192 CDs on it. They're all stored as single MP3s so I have gapless playback, but can still seek between tracks to pick songs I like / skip the ones I don't.
A DOS "dir" of the DMS ends like this:
Total Files Listed:
19353 File(s) 198,477,476,579 bytes
38 Dir(s) 50,965,356,544 bytes free
In the 3 years I've been gone I see that a new generation of members have been generating handy new PhatBox tools and utilities.
I'll be hanging around here again to answer questions about PhatVoice and anything else I can help with.