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| Shando |
 Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 1:29 am |
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Hugh Scully wrote: a: does ripping your cds wear them out or eh damage them?
b: could you not store all your high quality rips as information on dvd-r's?
a) Nope, it's just the same as playing them
b) Yep! |
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| Hugh Scully |
| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 2:34 am |
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is there any reason why people favour external drives over carefully stored dvd-r's? is there any special process for storing hq files as information as opposed to making a playable disc?
and yes I am a bit slow about all this  |
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| RobMcS |
| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 7:26 am |
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Hugh Scully wrote: is there any reason why people favour external drives over carefully stored dvd-r's? is there any special process for storing hq files as information as opposed to making a playable disc?
and yes I am a bit slow about all this
It's just much easier to transfer stuff to an external hard drive and a hard drive will take up less space than a bunch of dvds, also easier to find files again on an external drive. Just dont do what I did and drop the drive on the floor, they dont tend to fare out too well! |
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| stabmasterarson |
| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 1:02 pm |
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| Yeah hard drives are better for quick access to to save or retrieve files, but the end product should always be data disc back up's! |
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| Hugh Scully |
| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 2:42 pm |
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| are there any special archiving data discs or are they as dear as just getting a harddrive anyway? |
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| stabmasterarson |
| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:52 pm |
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| Just get decent quality DVD discs. They usually hold 4.7gb, but pound shop ones can be ropey sometimes. |
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| Hugh Scully |
| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:51 pm |
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| theres a fucken lot to contend with doing this.... |
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| Quid |
| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:27 pm |
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| Putting everything onto dvd's seems to defeat the point of digitizing your collection. Why would you rip everything if you weren't trying to get away from optical media? |
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| Hugh Scully |
| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:33 pm |
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| it's more about gaining something rather than leaving something behind, as you put it optical media...yet the process of gaining 'convenience' seems complex and inconvenient. |
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| Quid |
| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:02 am |
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| Convenience is dumping everything onto one hard drive (With backups somewhere in case you're worried about failure) as opposed to putting everything in 4.7GB chunks spread across however many discs. |
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| Hugh Scully |
| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:48 am |
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| Ah just weighing it all up, the 2 hard drives and the required 16gb mp3 player could be dear... not sure if overall it balances out losing the benefits of a physical collection... |
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| Quid |
| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:09 am |
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do you not have a computer/laptop? You wouldn't need to be buying two of the things... and mp3 players are dirt cheap. If your phone has a micro sd slot, you can pick up a 16GB card for under 10 euro on amazon and that would do the same job as an mp3 player.
edit: Not that I have anything against physical collections, you just really seem to be overestimating how simple this technology is. |
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| Hugh Scully |
| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:42 am |
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| yea my laptop has 275 free gb which should be enough, bu an ext one spare might be go in case the worst happens... damn thats true about the sd cad too! a lot to investigate! |
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| Hellbound lifer |
| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:53 am |
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| If you fill up the 275GB on your laptop with music , your laptop will run as slow as hell. Put it all on an external drive. |
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| Hugh Scully |
| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:57 am |
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| thats a good point about the laptop... even more to work out! |
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