MicroSD as storage for a digital rig?

whgarrett1394
whgarrett1394 Posts: 217
edited August 2014 in Going Digital
Does a micro SD card have adequate read speeds for hi resolution audio? Thanks in advance.
KEF Q50 mains, M&K center, Boston Acoustics surround, Marantz SR6007 pre, Emotiva UPA-700, Pioneer DV-46AV, Samsung BD-j7500, Sunfire HRS12 subwoofer
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited August 2014
    I have a 16gb MicroSD card in my phone that I play FLAC files off of with Winamp at work. No problems.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • whgarrett1394
    whgarrett1394 Posts: 217
    edited August 2014
    Thanks for the quick reply, Nightfall!
    KEF Q50 mains, M&K center, Boston Acoustics surround, Marantz SR6007 pre, Emotiva UPA-700, Pioneer DV-46AV, Samsung BD-j7500, Sunfire HRS12 subwoofer
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  • Habanero Monk
    Habanero Monk Posts: 715
    edited August 2014
    Class 10 MicroSD cards can hit 70MB / second sustained read rates. You could play a BluRay movie with no problems even.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,556
    edited August 2014
    wow I would over never thought that monk.
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  • whgarrett1394
    whgarrett1394 Posts: 217
    edited August 2014
    I asked this particular question about the sd card because I was thinking of using the dell venue 8 pro as a touch player for my
    stereo. It doesn't have much storage but it has microSD slot. I was going to use the usb jack for the audioquest dragonfly.

    However, Im not sure what media player to use. Does the jriver mc19 64 bit work okay on a 32bit windows 8.1 OS?

    Maybe I should just use wmp 12. seems that my gear isn't good enough to notice a difference.
    KEF Q50 mains, M&K center, Boston Acoustics surround, Marantz SR6007 pre, Emotiva UPA-700, Pioneer DV-46AV, Samsung BD-j7500, Sunfire HRS12 subwoofer
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited August 2014
    Use Foobar2000
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • whgarrett1394
    whgarrett1394 Posts: 217
    edited August 2014
    Nightfall,

    Does foobar2000 work well with the touchscreen tablet version of windows 8.1? I would use itunes but I've read in many threads
    that itunes for windows is not very good.
    KEF Q50 mains, M&K center, Boston Acoustics surround, Marantz SR6007 pre, Emotiva UPA-700, Pioneer DV-46AV, Samsung BD-j7500, Sunfire HRS12 subwoofer
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited August 2014
    iTunes on Windows historically has not been great software, I certainly would not use that for music playback or even ripping.
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited August 2014
    whgarrett1394 wrote: »
    Nightfall,

    Does foobar2000 work well with the touchscreen tablet version of windows 8.1? I would use itunes but I've read in many threads
    that itunes for windows is not very good.
    I'm not sure to be honest. I've never owned a touch screen Windows device, only tablet I have is an Android Google Nexus 7 2013 and I use Winamp on it which also plays FLAC files. The version of Winamp I use is from the Google Play store so it's made for touch screens. Couldn't hurt to give Foobar2000 a try though and if you don't like it, try Winamp.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • mikey1987
    mikey1987 Posts: 68
    edited August 2014
    Nightfall wrote: »
    Use Foobar2000

    Yes! The only player you can really trust not to screw with your files. And the plugin options are endless.
    Speakers: Polk RTi10
    Preamp: Parasound PL/D-1100
    Amplifier: Parasound HCA-1500A
    Neighbors: pissed off
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