[QUOTE]P.S. If you are really cheap and have alot of time on your hands, you could convert your CDs to .flac [/QUOTE]
Dogbomb, I have seen FLAC on the Winamp site but didn't really pay attention to it until recently. Have you made use of it yourself?
Theoretically it sounds like a good idea to use lossless compression but
OTOH I haven't done enough ripping to notice anything having poor sound
using .mp3 @320. I'm just asking out of curiousity since this FLAC idea
seems cool.
No, in 3-5 years...
I mixed & burned some custom CDs in 2002 and, if you hold them up to a (dim) light you can see right through them - they are 80% transparent :^(
I believe HD storage is the best long-term strategy for me and my 160+ AVIs.
BTW I need a newer bigger HD ;^)
(Who doesn't, LoL)
Regards
Quote:I mixed & burned some custom CDs in 2002 and, if you hold them up to a (dim) light you can see right through them - they are 80% transparent :^(
Heh. I bet in like, 200 years archeologists will find caches of CDR and
DVDR in vaults and will make the assumption that our society used these
discs as money. One archeologist to the other: "These fools made the damn coins too big to carry in your pocket too!" :)
The best method really depends on what your requirements are. From a longevity point of view it would probably be DLT but you'd have to be archiving enough music to make it worth the price (a friend of mine and I have considered doing this with DVD backups since he has access to a DLT drive at work so we'd just have to pay for the tapes). Magnetic tape is more durable and made to last longer than either recordable optical media or hard drives.
Personally I make CD images with EAC and Monkey's Audio and archive them to DVD. It won't last forever but each disc holds enough CDs (about 12-18) that it won't be prohibitively expensive or time consuming to make copies of them in the future. I'd still go with DLT if I could though.
Why not just store them on a secure network?
Or rent or buy yourself a website you can host yourself.
Seems like there would be no data corruption or loss. Seems logical to me, but thats just my opinion.
In my mind, having recorded no less then 5,000 cd's in various forms, FLAC wins hands-down!
FLAC can be played in many CD players these days, Phatnoise, etc etc
Flac is 100% Lossless, safe, takes less space then SHNs, can record right thru Nero onto CDs to produce the original CD again, and is easy to use as well as FREE@
