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02-22-09
Yes. the new itunes format is 256kbs aac which is a lossy co ... Ckorody
02-22-09
when comparing these file types, do use something other tha ... Blindjim
02-22-09
I'm also interested in high def downloads but doesn't it mak ... Jamesw20
02-22-09: Sfar
Jamesw20 - you're right to be paranoid about your hard drive failing, it eventually will, but the best strategy for dealing with that is to have a backup of your hard drive, or two, but CD's or DVD's aren't necessarily the best option.
With drives costing $100 per terabyte right now everyone should have a second drive that mirrors the regular storage drive. If you're really concerned, have a third drive and rotate the backups, keeping one off site at all times. Sounds obsessive but if you back up to another drive once a week and rotate the two backups once a month your chances of losing more than a week's worth of downloads are very low and the $200 you spent on the drives will seem like nothing if you ever really need them. Taking that a step further, you probably ought to replace the drives every two or three years.
It's a fact of digital life that we'll have to keep duplicating all our data over and over as technology advances. We think of CD's and spinning magnetic disks as standards but they'll be obsolete soon enough, just like the analog tape and Syquest and Jaz disks we used to rely on. Fortunately the cost of storage is getting to the point that it's not much of a consideration.
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02-22-09
ummm, maybe you think of cd's as spinning magnetic disks, b ... Jax2
02-22-09
My hard drive became too cluttered with my itunes library so ... Unclejeff
02-22-09
amen. another moral you are missing: store your itunes lib ... Jax2
02-22-09
Jax2 - i said "cd's and spinning magnetic disks," ... Sfar
02-22-09
Sfar - sorry, my bad having misread your post. yes, either ... Jax2
02-22-09
Jax, i download chunks of the itunes to my iphone and play ... Unclejeff
02-23-09
The best backup is to share your files with your friends! Argyro
02-23-09
Sfar you said: “with drives costing $100 per terabyte righ ... Blindjim
02-23-09
For those of you who don't live in a major metro or prefer t ... Ckorody
02-23-09
Ckorody - it is only in the ads that agon does not allow hyp ... Jax2
02-23-09
Correction; a 1tb rocraid is currently just under $300 at a ... Jax2
02-23-09
Blindjim - i got this lacie drive for $99 when they had a ... Sfar
02-23-09
sakahara, it is very easy to use your cds to test the itune ... Edo_musica
02-23-09
I didn't know what itunes + was at first (thought it was ano ... Sakahara
02-23-09
I wonder if these itunes + lossy files are made from origina ... Sakahara
02-23-09
Sakahara, a great number of users have music stored on exter ... Edo_musica
02-24-09
ckorody…… big thanks. i’ve been out of the hardware loop f ... Blindjim
02-24-09
there's plenty of threads on this subject if you do a searc ... Jax2
02-25-09
I'm a mac. 10+ years of windows was torture enough. ;-) i' ... Sakahara
02-28-09
I realized one important detail about storing itunes on an e ... Sakahara
03-08-09
Found a perfect solution; two lacie 2big triple 1tb (2-disk ... Sakahara
03-12-09
Addendum: the lacie 2big triple was a great raid unit, but ... Sakahara
04-09-09
Blindjim, i'd like to point out for the sake of clarity th ... Naschbac
04-09-09
Omg naschbac... you've been captured too! this is some scar ... Ridgestreetaudio
04-10-09
yet they most certainly can sound different. it must be th ... Jax2
04-10-09
Good thought about the new math jax2 but.... to me seems th ... Ridgestreetaudio
04-10-09
The paint-by-numbers is a great illustration, robert (pun no ... Jax2
04-11-09
Let me ask you a question, since you're convinced that they ... Naschbac
04-11-09
we are not talking about a word file. it does not have to ... Jax2
04-11-09
Timing information? you pull down the audio from a cd into ... Naschbac
04-11-09
Naschbac, what you say makes a lot of sense. as long as the ... Shadorne
04-11-09
i believe that in reality i can do so. mathematics or comp ... Jax2
04-11-09
it is probably related to software bugs. if the algorithms ... Shadorne
04-11-09
It very well could be, shadorne. i don't know...i can only ... Jax2
04-11-09
and i don't doubt you. here is a manufacturer's explanatio ... Shadorne
04-11-09
Shadorne - here's a further, long thread on head-fi that ... Jax2
04-11-09
Hey naschbac. my personal results and conclusions came from ... Ridgestreetaudio
04-11-09
Hey robert - i've done similar comparisons, but with wav fil ... Jax2
04-11-09
Hey marco. would really like to explore something different ... Ridgestreetaudio
04-12-09
Hi robert - i think there are some flac conversion software ... Jax2
04-12-09
Just wanted to jump in and thank the posters here for one of ... Sbank
04-12-09
Hey spencer - thanks for the vote of confidence. i'm sure t ... Jax2
04-13-09
Some utilities which may be of interest to mac users: xld a ... Humanmedia
04-13-09
Marco, yeah, i got to hear a friends' modwright transporter ... Sbank
04-13-09
spender - yes, it really is a damn fine digital front end ( ... Jax2
04-26-11
Sorry to dig up this old thread, but i was looking for infor ... Grandpixel
04-29-11
I have done blind testing with aac lossy at 256k and apple l ... Grege
04-29-11
Grege, i have done the same. 256 kbps with a good compressi ... Shadorne
04-29-11
Grege, shadorne - my experience has been the same. while i'm ... Sfar
05-01-11
Reading all this gives me a headache. i've been thinking abo ... Wildoats
05-01-11
Computer audio is a headache and one you need not suffer. yo ... Nglazer
05-02-11
Wildouts - you need not get a headache with computer audio. ... Grege
05-02-11
Update: i'm using xld - aiff. i recently decided to start u ... Sakahara
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