http://davisfreeberg.com/2006/11/16/stuck-inside-of-web-10-with-the-web-20-blues-again/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:12:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://davisfreeberg.com/2006/11/16/stuck-inside-of-web-10-with-the-web-20-blues-again/comment-page-1/#comment-209557 Rhapsody And The Art Of The Up-Sell Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:13:10 +0000 http://davisfreeberg.com/2006/11/16/stuck-inside-of-web-10-with-the-web-20-blues-again/#comment-209557 [...] experience with Real’s Rhapsody music service. Before the internet, napster, and digitization, I used to collect music with a passion. Records, tapes, CDs, it didn’t matter. I would scour local garage sales and thrift stores [...] [...] experience with Real’s Rhapsody music service. Before the internet, napster, and digitization, I used to collect music with a passion. Records, tapes, CDs, it didn’t matter. I would scour local garage sales and thrift stores [...]

]]> http://davisfreeberg.com/2006/11/16/stuck-inside-of-web-10-with-the-web-20-blues-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1964 minorgod Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:58:02 +0000 http://davisfreeberg.com/2006/11/16/stuck-inside-of-web-10-with-the-web-20-blues-again/#comment-1964 I converted my entire CD collection to MP3 format back in 2002 using the LAME MP3 codec and CDex to rip them. Never had a single problem with my Terrabyte+ MP3 collection. I rip them into folders by artist name and album name, then access them over a computer network from any room in the house (all my rooms have PCs instead of DVD players and are connected by a gigabit network) or any internet-connected location. If you spend a little time setting up your firewall and share your MP3s via private FTP or network share, you can access any files you want from anywhere. I never met a copy-protected audio CD that couldn't be ripped by EAC or CDex running on Windows. Don't import your entire library into any player application, any program will hang if you tell it to scan the metadata for a terrabyte of MP3s. Just drag and drop artists or songs into your player as needed via a regualar file browser, or set up playlists for artists and albums as needed. As for backing up, that will always be a problem no matter what media your music is on. Even your original CDs will eventually need to be backed up. With terrabytes of hard drive space now under $500, I say, just buy space as needed and run a decent backup program like Norton Ghost once a month. Heck for my music collection, I feel little need to back up more than a few times a year. It's just music after all and presumably you have the original CDs or vinyl somewhere anyway. As for backing up DRM-protected files, if you buy downloadable music in any DRM-d format, then you're just a schmuck who deserves to lose his music if his hard drive fails. Buy the CD or download from a service like allofmp3.com that offers the kind of files YOU want, not the kind of files the music industry wants you to have. As for me, my work files get daily backups, but I can afford to lose a few albums every now and then, so I don't sweat not backing up my music all the time. Still, I see no reason you would need to resort to commercial services. With a little network configuration up front you can have your music and listen to it too. I converted my entire CD collection to MP3 format back in 2002 using the LAME MP3 codec and CDex to rip them. Never had a single problem with my Terrabyte+ MP3 collection. I rip them into folders by artist name and album name, then access them over a computer network from any room in the house (all my rooms have PCs instead of DVD players and are connected by a gigabit network) or any internet-connected location. If you spend a little time setting up your firewall and share your MP3s via private FTP or network share, you can access any files you want from anywhere. I never met a copy-protected audio CD that couldn’t be ripped by EAC or CDex running on Windows. Don’t import your entire library into any player application, any program will hang if you tell it to scan the metadata for a terrabyte of MP3s. Just drag and drop artists or songs into your player as needed via a regualar file browser, or set up playlists for artists and albums as needed. As for backing up, that will always be a problem no matter what media your music is on. Even your original CDs will eventually need to be backed up. With terrabytes of hard drive space now under $500, I say, just buy space as needed and run a decent backup program like Norton Ghost once a month. Heck for my music collection, I feel little need to back up more than a few times a year. It’s just music after all and presumably you have the original CDs or vinyl somewhere anyway. As for backing up DRM-protected files, if you buy downloadable music in any DRM-d format, then you’re just a schmuck who deserves to lose his music if his hard drive fails. Buy the CD or download from a service like allofmp3.com that offers the kind of files YOU want, not the kind of files the music industry wants you to have. As for me, my work files get daily backups, but I can afford to lose a few albums every now and then, so I don’t sweat not backing up my music all the time. Still, I see no reason you would need to resort to commercial services. With a little network configuration up front you can have your music and listen to it too.

]]> http://davisfreeberg.com/2006/11/16/stuck-inside-of-web-10-with-the-web-20-blues-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1727 snarkolepsy Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:20:27 +0000 http://davisfreeberg.com/2006/11/16/stuck-inside-of-web-10-with-the-web-20-blues-again/#comment-1727 All this storage space is a nightmare. You almost can't back them up.. just easier to buy a new drive to back up your old dive. All this storage space is a nightmare. You almost can’t back them up.. just easier to buy a new drive to back up your old dive.

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