I think I'm OCD. I have a FLAC Directory on my hard drive which I've been building for nearly 10 years. I think it's over 700 albums now. There's the local copy on the PC. I have a media box (called a popcorn hour) hooked up to my tv which has a 6tb internal hard drive, so there's a clone of the directory on there too. I have some old 2tb drives I don't use anymore, so I back it up at home from time to time, and every year or so I have a hard drive at work that I back up my music and pictures on, so I make an updated copy to that. If the house burns down the biggest hits (datawise to me) would be my digital music collection and all my pictures. Having a copy offsite at least hedges against something bad happening to the house and wiping out all those copies.
It took a long time to built my FLAC collection, I don't want to loose it. I also have all the old PJ bootlegs in flac (the '00, '03, '05, '06 etc..) tours burned to bluray. I keep that separate from my overall music folder. I've still got quite a big mp3 directory too, but the only thing that still uses it is my car stereo. Everything else is FLAC.
I think I'm OCD. I have a FLAC Directory on my hard drive which I've been building for nearly 10 years. I think it's over 700 albums now. There's the local copy on the PC. I have a media box (called a popcorn hour) hooked up to my tv which has a 6tb internal hard drive, so there's a clone of the directory on there too. I have some old 2tb drives I don't use anymore, so I back it up at home from time to time, and every year or so I have a hard drive at work that I back up my music and pictures on, so I make an updated copy to that. If the house burns down the biggest hits (datawise to me) would be my digital music collection and all my pictures. Having a copy offsite at least hedges against something bad happening to the house and wiping out all those copies.
It took a long time to built my FLAC collection, I don't want to loose it. I also have all the old PJ bootlegs in flac (the '00, '03, '05, '06 etc..) tours burned to bluray. I keep that separate from my overall music folder. I've still got quite a big mp3 directory too, but the only thing that still uses it is my car stereo. Everything else is FLAC.
Address please... going to send you a lot of blank discs and a blank hardrive.
3 separate external hard drives, iTunes, also on 2 iPods and 3 iPhones.
Chicago 6/29/98, Alpine Valley(EV) 6/13/99, Alpine Valley 10/08/00, Chicago 10/09/00, Phoenix 10/20/00, Orlando 4/12/03, Tampa 4/13/03, San Diego 6/05/03, Vegas 6/06/03, Phoenix 6/07/03, Chicago 6/18/03, Alpine Valley 6/21/03, Orlando 10/08/04, D.C. 10/11/04, Chicago 5/16/06, Chicago 5/17/06, LA 7/12/08, Chicago 8/23/09, Chicago 8/24/09, LA 10/07/09, San Diego 10/09/09 (Front Row Center, Finally), Phoenix(EV) 11/4/11, Wrigley 7/19/13, Phoenix 11/19/13, Denver 10/22/14, Wrigley 8/20/16, Wrigley 8/22/16
Apple time capsule for my whole computer, and 2 external HDs for just music. I also have an Amazon cloud account but I haven't backed up there in over a ear because it takes too long. But I've got 95% of my shit there too.
It's a bit OCD, but if you've ever lost all your music, you know you never want that to happen again.
I have an external drive, but since the £GB crapped out I have started using 7digital and Qobuz more as they are now cheaper than hdtracks.com and they both allow re-downloading stuff which is a real nice service for back-ups.
I have an external drive, but since the £GB crapped out I have started using 7digital and Qobuz more as they are now cheaper than hdtracks.com and they both allow re-downloading stuff which is a real nice service for back-ups.
Qobuz? Are they international friendly unlike hdtracks.com?
I have an external drive, but since the £GB crapped out I have started using 7digital and Qobuz more as they are now cheaper than hdtracks.com and they both allow re-downloading stuff which is a real nice service for back-ups.
Qobuz? Are they international friendly unlike hdtracks.com?
Qobuz works for me in the UK fine - their prices vary wildly, but I find you have to shop around for the best resolution and prices for digital music anyway.
I keep my files on my computer but have an external backup HD. I also have another external HD that I keep in a safe deposit box. I pull that one out and make back ups every one to three months.
I have an external drive, but since the £GB crapped out I have started using 7digital and Qobuz more as they are now cheaper than hdtracks.com and they both allow re-downloading stuff which is a real nice service for back-ups.
Qobuz? Are they international friendly unlike hdtracks.com?
Qobuz works for me in the UK fine - their prices vary wildly, but I find you have to shop around for the best resolution and prices for digital music anyway.
That's true. For me the hardest thing is which sites let's Canadian customers purchase and download from cause we are pretty much restricted on the majority of HD digital downloads.
I think I'm OCD. I have a FLAC Directory on my hard drive which I've been building for nearly 10 years. I think it's over 700 albums now. There's the local copy on the PC. I have a media box (called a popcorn hour) hooked up to my tv which has a 6tb internal hard drive, so there's a clone of the directory on there too. I have some old 2tb drives I don't use anymore, so I back it up at home from time to time, and every year or so I have a hard drive at work that I back up my music and pictures on, so I make an updated copy to that. If the house burns down the biggest hits (datawise to me) would be my digital music collection and all my pictures. Having a copy offsite at least hedges against something bad happening to the house and wiping out all those copies.
It took a long time to built my FLAC collection, I don't want to loose it. I also have all the old PJ bootlegs in flac (the '00, '03, '05, '06 etc..) tours burned to bluray. I keep that separate from my overall music folder. I've still got quite a big mp3 directory too, but the only thing that still uses it is my car stereo. Everything else is FLAC.
Address please... going to send you a lot of blank discs and a blank hardrive.
Ditto that! That's a sick collection.
DC '03 - Reading '04 - Philly '05 - Camden 1 '06 - DC '06 - E. Rutherford '06 - The Vic '07 - Lollapalooza '07 - DC '08 - EV DC 1 & 2 '08 (Met Ed!!) - EV Baltimore 1 & 2 '09 - EV NYC 1 '11 (Met Ed!) - Hartford '13 - GCF '15 - MSG 2 '16 - TOTD MSG '16 - Boston 1 & 2 '18 - SHN '21 - EV NYC 1 & 2 '22 - MSG '22
Rather than start a new thread or search the forum tomes, I'll ask here since it's related.
I have a substantial inventory of music on an earlier computer (PC) that died. After substantial $$, the files have been recovered to an portable Hard Drive. Will I be able to plug that new hard drive into my current computer (MAC) and be able to upload those files (MP3s, FLACs, Torrents, etc) to iTunes in order to add to iPhones & iPods ?
Rather than start a new thread or search the forum tomes, I'll ask here since it's related.
I have a substantial inventory of music on an earlier computer (PC) that died. After substantial $$, the files have been recovered to an portable Hard Drive. Will I be able to plug that new hard drive into my current computer (MAC) and be able to upload those files (MP3s, FLACs, Torrents, etc) to iTunes in order to add to iPhones & iPods ?
Your mp3s will be fine and dandy to upload. However, iTunes does not support flac so you'll need to convert those using a 3rd party app. I'm at work right now and forget the name of the one I use, but a quick search for "flac to mp3 mac" will give you some options. Looks like Bigasoft's free converter has good ratings. As for torrents, you'll be able to upload the .torrent file itself to you Mac HD, but iTunes will not act as a torrent client. Again, you'll need a a 3rd party torrent client to download the media files and then you can upload the media to iTunes. Transmission is a really good, lightweight client for Mac.
Rather than start a new thread or search the forum tomes, I'll ask here since it's related.
I have a substantial inventory of music on an earlier computer (PC) that died. After substantial $$, the files have been recovered to an portable Hard Drive. Will I be able to plug that new hard drive into my current computer (MAC) and be able to upload those files (MP3s, FLACs, Torrents, etc) to iTunes in order to add to iPhones & iPods ?
Your mp3s will be fine and dandy to upload. However, iTunes does not support flac so you'll need to convert those using a 3rd party app. I'm at work right now and forget the name of the one I use, but a quick search for "flac to mp3 mac" will give you some options. Looks like Bigasoft's free converter has good ratings. As for torrents, you'll be able to upload the .torrent file itself to you Mac HD, but iTunes will not act as a torrent client. Again, you'll need a a 3rd party torrent client to download the media files and then you can upload the media to iTunes. Transmission is a really good, lightweight client for Mac.
Do not convert your FLAC's to mp3's, convert them to ALAC. That is the apple equivalent, and will maintain the same lossless quality.
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I thought ALAC isn't playable on an iPhone (my music source at work, Bluetoothed to a Bose)? ...or is it just not downloadable? Can't remember but I'm pretty sure I had trouble when I purchased an ALAC bootleg way back.
I use Spotify at work on my PC, which is great, but the fact that the music library in Spotify isn't actually mine, I also keep my own music library separate from Spotify, just with the music that I really want to own myself. I just keep that in a file on OneDrive, which communicates with Windows Media Player. When I'm mobile I still just use a Sony mp3 player because mp3 players are tiny, so they fit in my pocket. I just load that using the windows media player connected to my OneDrive library.
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In time I will store them all to the clouds ...
It took a long time to built my FLAC collection, I don't want to loose it. I also have all the old PJ bootlegs in flac (the '00, '03, '05, '06 etc..) tours burned to bluray. I keep that separate from my overall music folder. I've still got quite a big mp3 directory too, but the only thing that still uses it is my car stereo. Everything else is FLAC.
It's a bit OCD, but if you've ever lost all your music, you know you never want that to happen again.
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I have a substantial inventory of music on an earlier computer (PC) that died.
After substantial $$, the files have been recovered to an portable Hard Drive.
Will I be able to plug that new hard drive into my current computer (MAC) and be able to upload those files (MP3s, FLACs, Torrents, etc)
to iTunes in order to add to iPhones & iPods ?
As for torrents, you'll be able to upload the .torrent file itself to you Mac HD, but iTunes will not act as a torrent client. Again, you'll need a a 3rd party torrent client to download the media files and then you can upload the media to iTunes. Transmission is a really good, lightweight client for Mac.
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Apollo Theater 2022 • Chicago I 2023 • Baltimore 2024
Can't remember but I'm pretty sure I had trouble when I purchased an ALAC bootleg way back. 320k AAC ----> is that what ALACHD is?
That's for the help all.