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Originally posted by ServerBaboon ServerBaboon wrote:

For ultimate safety 2 backups one of which should be stored offsite (a relative), a 1 TB disk is only about £55 on Amazon much cheaper than the re ripping price.

Will save me the time of ripping 600+ CDs, although if truth be told I suspect that I only really care about half that number.


 
Thank you SB. This is excellent advice for anyone using a computer for music, videos or other data.
 
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Originally posted by Fatmangolf Fatmangolf wrote:


Originally posted by ServerBaboon ServerBaboon wrote:

For ultimate safety 2 backups one of which should be stored offsite (a relative), a 1 TB disk is only about £55 on Amazon much cheaper than the re ripping price.

Will save me the time of ripping 600+ CDs, although if truth be told I suspect that I only really care about half that number.



 
Thank you SB. This is excellent advice for anyone using a computer for music, videos or other data.
 

I use a Drobo at home so everything is safe unless the Drobo is stolen or the house burns down. For remote backup Crashplan is highly recommended. It backs everything up to a HDD attached to a friend's computer anywhere in the world. It's best to seed a disc locally with all your files before moving it to the remote location. It would take forever to load everything remotely, but incremental backups are fine. Best of all, it's free for non commercial use.

Before I had the Drobo my local backups were on two external HDDs. The both failed within a few days of each other and I lost everything. Fortunately everything was backed up to my brother in Streatham via Crashplan.

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Sorry to hear that. You were very unlucky to have 2 discs fail like that ICL1P.
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Originally posted by musicdude musicdude wrote:

I don't think so because technology gets better and more affordable ...? Ermm

http://www.stereophile.com/content/rip-high-end-audio

But then on an other thought I have to say that the source, the MUSIC is the culprit of the high end dying. I just mention "loudness war". Sick

http://www.stereophile.com/content/winning-loudness-wars
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Very good point that's been missed is the source/music. Not just the loudness war but bad recordings in general.

One band in particular lets just say they are red hot have been championing the high fidelity service that mr Neil Young mentioned back in 2012, only to myself have some of the worst recordings my ears have ever heard. It doesn't matter how high end and how good the kit is, you need a good source to get the most. If anything, good kit shows up a bad recording more. We have a saying here in Yorkshire. I imagaine its used wider than here "you can't make a silk purse out of a sows........"



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the real art of conducting consists in transistors :p
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 . . . or GIGO: garbage in, garbage out Wink
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The worst weapon in the loudness wars is brickwall limiting which distorts any peaks. But there are musical casualties from heavy multi-band compression that makes everything from intro to last chorus almost the same volume, just more or less squashed.
 
IMO a little compression is essential in mastering but too much removes any build-up or dynamic from a song. FIne for radio play, not great for hi-fi
 
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