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
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