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Ultimate Audio Playback / Music Storage and convenient playback / Re: Most convenient Storage Structure ?
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on: August 01, 2007, 11:12:11 am
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This all seems too simple - I must be missing something? On my new hard drive I have created a system based on folders, with 5 layers of depth Top layer is genres such as: - Country
Pop Classics Irish Jazz etc
Second layer is: - Solo male
Solo female Group male Croup female Group mixed
Third layer is performers name (eg under Country - solo female); - Reba McEntire
Gretchen Wilson Shania Twain Alison Krauss etc
Fourth layer is Album tiltles for each selected artist. Fifth layer is the album itself from EAC with track numbers, titles, lengths, and album artwork. I can get to any album or track with 5 clicks of the mouse
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Music Storage and convenient playback / Re: Recommend external hard drives
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on: July 31, 2007, 05:33:03 pm
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I can add that the blue lights would match the CrazyA perfectly ... (might you get the CrazyA ...) Well, it is in my peripheral vision, but I am so happy with my EAR 861 power amp that I cant believe it would be so much better as to warrant a change. One virtue I accept is being able to leave it on all day. At the moment having valves tends to make the Hi-Fi just for 'special' listening, and most valves take about 30 minutes to come on song. So the Crazy A would not be an instant purchase - I would need to hear it to be persuaded. Unfortunately I checked with Bert, and there is not one in the UK yet. One further remark : The backup feature you describe as "Raid" will be about automatically duplicating the one disk to the other. This means that if you by accident delete a couple of folders (or all), they are gone on the "backup" as well, instantly ... Raid (whatever type) really is not for backup, but for continuous uptime (like with drive failure), which is something different. So be careful ! Yes I did take note of your earlier comments. I do like the automatic way it does back up (saves me a job) but I agree that care is of the essence.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Music Storage and convenient playback / Re: Recommend external hard drives
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on: July 31, 2007, 01:53:26 pm
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I settled on this to get me started - the Freecom Data Tank 1TB This is something of a bargain at present, with some free promotional vouchers I had, and free P&P it came in at £211. What pursuaded me? 1. Price 2. Probably the simplest and prettiest box around, which will be OK on view with the sound system 3. Small and portable, for regularly, but temporarily moving to my desk top Internet system for loading music, track titles and artwork using EAC. 4. Quiet, and hopefully reliable - my wife has had a smaller Freecom external hard drive for some time. 5. Capability for automatic back up on its two internal drives (RAID) 6. USB or Firewire 800 I would second what Gerner says, that I will probably only store those Albums that I enjoy listening to on the Hi-Fi. Others will stay on CD for the car etc. So now to finalise the indexing of folders
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Music Storage and convenient playback / Re: Recommend external hard drives
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on: July 26, 2007, 04:19:02 pm
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Hi Gerner. Those Freecom DataTanks look pretty attractive and would not look out of place alongside the Hi-Fi. By comparison the Buffalo kit looks a bit utilitarian (albeit a bit cheaper). One reviewer of the DataTank said it was not ready for Vista yet, but this may well have been an old review. Are you running yours with Vista? PS Dont forget to put your system on your profile signature
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Can't drag files from Explorer onto Playlist area
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on: July 25, 2007, 06:27:47 pm
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Chris If I might be so bold, I think your 2 issues so far have been "user orientated" (don't hit me!) The problems are neither XX or OS related.
Thanks Jack, said with maximum diplomacy . What you really mean is, I shot myself in the foot - at least twice Being an analytical scientist by trade I tend always to move too fast and too deep into this sort of thing without the knowledge to support it. It is a rapid learning curve, but also a slipperty one.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Music Storage and convenient playback / Re: Recommend external hard drives
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on: July 25, 2007, 06:17:32 pm
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If they are not in one box (hence one USB connection), it's my guess that you can't "span" them into one volume. But maybe others know better ? And indeed, when you'd end up with 4 drives, that would be very inconvenient.
Btw, boxes for two drives exist for sure, and 2x 500GB would be a good price/value. 2x 1TB (which also exists since 6 weeks or wo) would be more "infinite" though ...
OK, thats the way I was thinking
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Music Storage and convenient playback / Re: Recommend external hard drives
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on: July 25, 2007, 03:49:11 pm
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Just trying to get my head around this storage and retrieval lark
Initially lets forget the back up drives, and concentrate on USB2 drives
So, if I get one very large (say 1TB) device presumably this will have a title such as drive f and can be readily searched, providing I have my albums well indexed.
If I was to buy say 4 x250GB drives, I guess I would then need a hub to connect them all. Are they then called say drives f, g, h, and i, and therefore more of a hunt is required to find specific albums?
Cheers Chris
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Can't drag files from Explorer onto Playlist area
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on: July 25, 2007, 02:05:39 pm
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Emmmmmmm This takes me way out of my depth with my existing computing knowledge Can I ask a few direct questions? 1. Am I right in saying this is not an XXHighend issue, but more about how Vista sorts out the storage of files? 2. I am planning to load all my CDs onto a dedicated USB external hard drive connected, during just this process, to an XP computer on the internet (for getting track names and album art). Will this get around any Vista storage issues. 3. If this is not an XXHighend issue will you still be striving to resolve it (Couldn't blame you if you didn't ) 4. What should dir *.wav have in it. Is it a permanent store or should it renew (say) each time you reboot?
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Can't drag files from Explorer onto Playlist area
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on: July 24, 2007, 06:23:05 pm
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Hi Peter
Had a look at this today.
I tried a few times (without success) to drag and drop several recognisable tracks into XX
I then went straight to opening a DOS box and looked for those tracks.
There were plenty of tracks listed but all had yesterdays date when I moved quite a few CDs onto the hard drive.
There were no tracks with todays dates to show the drag and drop.
Cheers Chris
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