Michael Herger <[email protected]> writes: >> Google music only lets you download compressed versions later, so while >> a useful service, it's not a backup. Take a look at iBroadcast which >> does all the same stuff properly (but doesn't have a shop). > > Simply put: don't choose a music service as a backup. Choose a storage > service. Wherever you store your files, they should just store them > like any other file. No matter what its content. A backup solution > should simply guarantee that the bytes you send are the bytes you get > back at any point in time.
Completely agree - but having iBroadcast as a second (or third) backup strategy seems like a good approach. > > If they then can play it back, downsample it etc., then that's a > welcome addition. iBroadcast claims to be able to access your > Dropbox. Then you could consider Dropbox your backup, while using > iBroadcast for the fun part of playing back the media. But don't use > iBroadcast (or Google music, or ...) as a storage. > > And don't be cheap. You don't want to re-rip thousands of dollars > worth of CDs just because you were too cheap to spend a hand full of > dollars a month for the backup solution. -- Rainer M. Krug email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de PGP: 0x0F52F982
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