i had about 9 gigs of music… and please see that i used the word “had”. about a week or so after i bought my tr, my desktop decided to crash. i don’t blame it tho, poor thing was probably just jealous of the tr. well i lost a lot of info on that hard drive, including my 9 gigs of music. what sucks it that i had some music on there that some friends had introduced me to over the years, and they’re just so freaking hard to find again. oh well tho, the rebuilding has started once again.
Actually, I don’t know exactly how much i have but i’m guessing. I’m currently in the process of consolidating all of my music since it’s littered all over the place. I basically decided to re-rip all of my CDs just to make it easier on myself. I’m giving iTunes 4.5 a try to manage everything and so far it’s working ok.
It has this insanely annoying habit of truncating the names of mp3s that don’t have full ID3 tags. Some of my older ripped mp3s have the artist, track number, and song titles in the filename and iTunes loves to simply truncate the files making it difficult to go back and later rename them. I know I can turn off the automatic feature but I want to use it so it will consolidate everything while I’m working.
Well over 60GB. I downloaded over 25GB from AllOFMP3.com before they canceled the unlimited plan. I was a member of Emusic when it first came out as well.
Do I listen to all my tunes? Na…but it beats having 100’s of CDs in my house.
My collection is on 1 Hard Drive (a copy on a removable drive), backed up to DVDs, and 20GB are on my portable player, the Dell DJ-20.
my collection is spread across cd’s, dvd’s and hard drives on the various units i own. Maybe time to organise my crap and put em all on one whopper hard disk somewhere
Yeah, organization is the tricky part. Despite my earlier complaints, iTunes is doing a pretty damn good job so far. I love the sharing feature which allows me to centrally store my music on one computer and easily access it on my HTPC (Home Theatre PC). The HTPC has a nice optical out (SPDIF) to my amp with pure digital 5.1 sound. Sounds great!
Well, I carry around a 40GB Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra, and it holds my tunes with just a little room to spare. I like to use iTunes to manage them, just sometimes it seems a little too intensive at times.
A pretty modest music collection, about 12GB of 320kbps CBR mp3 files and another 2GB of ATRAC3 files converted for my Music Clip and NW-E3. My iPod mini has about 1GB of music on it and 3GB saved for file storage.
Hm…. about 74 GB of music, a lot of 24, 48+ hour trance campaigns. Anywho, i was wondering, a bit off topic, does anybody know of a pain-free (ie, not sony based) ATRAC3/A—> MP3/MP3—> ATRAC3/A converter? I just picked up a NW -MS9 walkman off ebay for 10 bucks….but the OpenMG software blows. Any hints or URLs?
RealPlayer will convert MP3s to ATRAC and do the transfers to your Sony device. I don’t like RealPlayer that much but it’s sure a lot better than Sony’s Sonic Stage.
Sonic Stage is the perfect example of any Sony software. At first glance it looks neatl because it’s so slick looking…and then you try to use it and realize it’s unusable and that they never ran it past any usability focus groups or QA departments. It’s so sad…they try to make it cool and futuristic but nothing is readily apparent and you probably “have to” read the manual to use their software. Good software (like iTunes) should just be easy to use right out of the box.
[quote author=“gr00vy0ne”]I’m giving iTunes 4.5 a try to manage everything and so far it’s working ok.
It has this insanely annoying habit of truncating the names of mp3s that don’t have full ID3 tags…. I know I can turn off the automatic feature but I want to use it so it will consolidate everything while I’m working.
i am using itunes 4.5.0.31 and no problems whatsoever. my TR1 drive crashed, bought a new TR3, reloaded from backup, switched from musicmatch jb to itunes, and did not loose a single tag. perfect.
i now have a split library, most on the external drive, some on the tr3 to play when i am on the road and the ipod battery goes dead. when i want to change the music on the tr3, i do a “consolidate” to the external drive, and then load up some new tunes for the road.
i can’t rave enought about iTunes, it’s the best program on the box!
Couldn’t agree more - iTunes is just perfect (although they could offer video as well as I have a lot of US shows before they hit the UK).
Running about 68 Gb of music on an external WD drive along with all the other stuff - it was backed up on a mirror but i had to steal the drive for my main machine after it died.
DVD’s don’t look viable for backup and what with tape drives being so expensive has anyone seen the new Iomega Rev drive? supposed to be 35/90 Gb and way better than my old jazz drive…........
On the backup front this is a rant i have which given that i have the time i will make - i have had PC’s of some description for over 10 years now and have so much data (music, photos, video, scans or important docs, company accounts, general crap) that i seem to need about 250 Gb to keep it all at on-line storage. Now, yes I could archive it but even then onto what? Don’t trust DDS2 or DDS3 having had tapes fail or fail to work on a different tape drive, DVD’s and Cd’s are just pointless…..
I currently have a slight server issue as well given that my old W2K box after an upgrade to W2K3 has so many unsupported drivers that it makes it a bit crap (OK - turned off right now). I normally run a couple of mirrored drives but even that is sketchy some times as I rely on motherboard versions. If i look at how much big SCSI drives are, SATA looks more attractive in the GB/£/Speed stakes and is prob. the way I will go. I have looked at NAS but too much ££££ for what it gives you.
It’s not too bad as my TR1 which has all my current stuff (work, accounts and dev environment) is ghosted every week to an external drive but that it just not possible for the rest of it. What the hell do you do???? OK so I am a company and can get kit at cost and save the tax but it still comes out to a lot of cash to sort all this out - I don’t want to tempt fate but I have only ever lost a couple of photos but the idea of losing stuff scares the proverbial out of me…
Any opinions?
(Sorry for the rant but cabbaged on the sofa after seeing The Pixies last night - why listen to mp3s when you can go live! 3rd time I’ve seen them and they just get better. Orbital in 2 weeks…..)
I have a cheap box which have 2 250GB hds in them, and its strictly a network server, which i can backup everything. Gigabit ethernet is a must. I’m just a home user, so this might not work for your needs.
