Received an email regarding bandwidth usage. It's only 17 of the month, and bandwidth usage is already 80% of the total allocated 3GB.
Congratulations.
And that forced me to add some protection. Somehow, the hotlink button in cpanel don't work. Mr Law, if you free, see how hor…
IP recorded points to some China server, which is referring the link to some media files stored somewhere. I have removed most of them. The files stored are as a form of backup, and not for people to download indiscriminately. I don't support piracy by letting people to get such files directly from the server. Want the songs? Go! Get original!
Next, I reduced a 6mb file to 2mb. That will cut down the usage of bandwidth. Quality-wise, it's still acceptable. File name's still the same. A song sampled at 44.1kHz, 192kbps and another sampled at 44.1kHz, 64kbps has little difference when precision is not so particular. The file size, as it can be seen, is reduced by 3 times! Note that we cannot have the best of both worlds. Good quality == big files, small files == poor quality.
Let's revise on Signals. at 44.1kHz, it means it has 44 100 samples/second, and at 192kbps = 196 608 bits/second. And so, 1 sample is 196608/44100 = 4.5bit? Erm… opps… perhaps, 4 bit? No? Don't know la. Can be done. Somehow.
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Hmm… Ok, bandwidth is expensive. Cut down on usage!