A new high in WTF has been reached

[kyburg]

Go ahead, back up your iTunes library to discs.

Tell me how many and how long it takes YOU.

Me? Backing up what I've gotten in a year? Four discs and nearly eight hours.

OUCH.

Comments

[n6vfp.livejournal.com]

With almost 65 Gb of music, I would not even attempt it. I keep my library on a portable 2.5" drive (160Gb).

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I tried that once.

I was looking at having to reinstall. Glad I didn't have to.

[dame-of-dames.livejournal.com]

DVD or CD?

And I also use an external hard drive, a 120g Western Digital.

At least you don't have my friend's problem. He's a DJ and Karaoke MC and has several big assed externals to back up his tunes...

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I used DVDs, and tried to back it up to an external drive. iTunes laughed at me. Disc, or nuthin'.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

CD's, DVD's, or DVD-DL's?

7.5GB total, that's 2 regular DVD's worth, or eleven 700mb EP-CD's. At 16x, (does the math) that's about an hour, time you count swapping CD's...

Of course, this being Linux, there's no iTunes database to corrupt... or sneaky programs that might be phoning home and telling gods know who what kind of bump and grind you have on repeat in the wee small hours...

[the-paulr.livejournal.com]

44 songs, 191 Mb plus 1 TV show, 524.9 Mb = 2 CD's, less than one hour.

Obviously I haven't bought much.

[redqueenofevil.livejournal.com]

Call me old fashioned, but I still prefer to buy cds and the like. I think I've purchased a total of two mp3 tracks from iTunes this year, preferring to go to record shops, or buy from local artists directly, instead.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I'm scary deep in CDs. I've been moving things out of jewel cases to wallets to save space.

It's the *time* I'd have to spend putting them back into iTunes that prompted the backup. I was looking at a total OS reinstall - didn't have to, thankfully.

...and so it goes.

[redqueenofevil.livejournal.com]

Ahh. I see.

We have a dedicated drive (sort of) for our music, and yeah- it would take hours to back it up, I'm sure. But the format we use is not aac, which the ipod uses, but flac. We do have .aac prints, but iTunes is kind of a chore to use. Syncing my ipod with itunes alone takes about an hour. Bleh.

Considering your house, I'd recommend investing in a squeeze network, if you haven't. Alas, I think zedmanauk did a better job describing our setup>

[makeitepic.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I wonder...

[zedmanauk.livejournal.com]

I don't like to buy from itunes because the tracks are degraded quality (128k AAC) and have DRM. Their new DRM-free tracks are better, but most of the music on the site is still not available in that format, and it is still degraded quality (256k AAC). So we tend to buy CDs and convert them into FLAC form (lossless compression) for listening around the house on our Squeezeboxes (formerly Slimdevices, now Logitech) and we also keep another copy in 128k AAC for the ipods and blackberries. The FLAC files take up 275 GB and the AAC files take 60 GB. I back them up to an external 500 GB hard drive (I really don't want to have to rip 600+ CDs again...).

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I rip and import everything. Yeah, it's double work, but I use the .mp3s for separate uses than iTunes and so on.

iTunes just makes some things that much easier at times. I frelling hate the program at the same time.

[quu.livejournal.com]

i have three directories of music... itunes is 60 gig, "unsorted" is 19 gig, and my "tagged music" is 99.7 gig

i think i'll pass

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Scary.

[quu.livejournal.com]

i am slowly working my way down, cleaning it all

then I will find some sort of website to host it on for all my friends