tunequest

My new file storing powerhouse. I like to keep my eye on on the price of hard disk storage. More storage more better is my philosophy. Not only can I never tell when I'll need an extra gigabyte or two for projects, but I'm justifiably paranoid about data failure and have become something of fiend for backups as a result. So I've been watching with interest as the price of ...

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A couple months ago, I wrote about the advantages of maintaining a large digital music library, specifically with regards to cost and storage as compared to maintaining a large physical music library. One of my points was that the decreasing prices of hard drives makes it increasingly easy to store, as well as backup large quantities of high-quality music. I even went so far as to say that "before ...

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Volkher at livingwithmusic posted the other day a rather thoughtful treatise against digital music files as a medium. He does a good job of bringing up all the relative shortcomings of abandoning physical media, including the effort required to encode/download and properly organize/tag files as well as the burden and cost that goes into storage and preventative backups. And he's right on the money about picking an audio format ...

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Like clockwork, each January means the end of Christmas decorations, the onset of the full desolation of winter, learning the motor-memory of writing a new year and, of course, a sudden, massive hard drive failure. Every year since 2001 it has happened to me, always to my external music drive and always in January. It's quite comical, if you have the right sense of humor. Then it should not have been ...

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