At 03:50 AM 10/11/2006, you wrote:
So I usually have at least 4 copies of important data at any one time.
I had an HD crash last year and all I lost was a week of my wife's emails.
Your living dangerously admitting such a thing publicly! ;-)
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At 11/13/2006 12:34 PM, Stephen Onwood wrote:
At 03:50 AM 10/11/2006, you wrote:
So I usually have at least 4 copies of important data at any one time.
I had an HD crash last year and all I lost was a week of my wife's emails.
Your living dangerously admitting such a thing publicly! ;-)
;-)
On 12.11.2006 Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Nov 11, 2006, at 3:18 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I do wonder whether you should start by just creating iTunes library on an
external drive. Then you can burn CDs when you need them.
I assume what you're suggesting is that I buy an external drive and
On 10.11.2006 Andrew Stiller wrote:
As for the stability of CDs as a backup medium, I confess I can't get too upset about it.
After all, 2-20 years is a pretty good estimate of my own life expectancy at
this point. Mostly, I just want to be able to make a CD from an LP as an easy way of
On Nov 11, 2006, at 3:18 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I do wonder whether you should start by just creating iTunes library
on an external drive. Then you can burn CDs when you need them.
I assume what you're suggesting is that I buy an external drive and
record to it from my downstairs
Hi Andrew,
Actually, I think what Johannes is suggesting is that you still get
the second turntable to hook up to your iMac, but instead of
immediately burning all your imported vinyl to CD-R's, you could
instead buy a large external USB/FireWire HD and save your imported
LP audio files
I have experienced the same as Johannes. I have several, out of
hundreds, of CD-Rs with backup files for clients. I can recall at
least a half dozen times where I've gone back to retrieve something,
and the disc wound NOT mount or would not read the files. Damn,
floppies were more
At 06:33 AM 11/10/06 -0800, ThomaStudios wrote:
I have experienced the same as Johannes. I have several, out of
hundreds, of CD-Rs with backup files for clients. I can recall at
least a half dozen times where I've gone back to retrieve something,
and the disc wound NOT mount or would not
At 04:00 PM 11/10/06 +0100, dc wrote:
There's also a big difference between audio CDs and data CDs. I've often
seen audio CDs readable on one machine and full of errors on another.
Audio CDs do not have the error-correction of data CDs; they were created
to play back fairly accurately, with ways
On 11/10/06, dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And then, if a data CD is declared unreadable, isn't there any specialized
software that allows to salvage at least part of its content?
Dennis
http://www.fraudaid.com/security_products/categories/cd-dvd-hard_drives/cd-dvd_diagnostic_cd.htm
ThomaStudios wrote:
I have experienced the same as Johannes. I have several, out of
hundreds, of CD-Rs with backup files for clients. I can recall at least
a half dozen times where I've gone back to retrieve something, and the
disc wound NOT mount or would not read the files. Damn, floppies
On 11/10/06, dhbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These days I use two different hard-disks apart from my main hard-disk
so the data is in three hard-disk locations and then I also back up to
DVDrw.
With the discussion yesterday about how cheap web hosting is, I'm going to
purchase a domain
On 10 Nov 2006 at 9:49, Phil Daley wrote:
At 11/10/2006 09:33 AM, ThomaStudios wrote:
I have experienced the same as Johannes. I have several, out of
hundreds, of CD-Rs with backup files for clients. I can recall at
least a half dozen times where I've gone back to retrieve something,
At 11/10/2006 01:23 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
I wonder if Macs are less reliable at reading CDs than Windows?
On what basis would you wonder such a thing? The OS could not
possibly have anyting to do with it -- it's entirely an issue of the
media and the hardware that writes to it.
Right,
Fercrissakes, Phil, must you turn EVERYTHING into a platform war?
Apple uses Pioneer optical drives, which are among the most reliable
in the industry. Many PC manufacturers use the exact same drives.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brooklyn, NY
On 10 Nov 2006, at 1:37 PM, Phil
On 10 Nov 2006 at 13:37, Phil Daley wrote:
At 11/10/2006 01:23 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
I wonder if Macs are less reliable at reading CDs than Windows?
On what basis would you wonder such a thing? The OS could not
possibly have anyting to do with it -- it's entirely an issue of the
Thanks to all who advised on this topic. All the advice, tho, seems to
be about software. Most of my puzzlement comes at the hardware end.
Audio equipment output lines come with RCA plugs, mini-phone jacks, or
bare wires. I don't see input ports for any of these modes anywhere
near my
At 11/10/2006 01:44 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Fercrissakes, Phil, must you turn EVERYTHING into a platform war?
Apple uses Pioneer optical drives, which are among the most reliable
in the industry. Many PC manufacturers use the exact same drives.
All I said was that wondered about it.
I
At 02:21 PM 11/10/2006, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Thanks to all who advised on this topic. All the advice, tho, seems to
be about software. Most of my puzzlement comes at the hardware end.
Audio equipment output lines come with RCA plugs, mini-phone jacks, or
bare wires. I don't see input ports for
From one who knows nothing, is it not easier to buy a cd recorder and record
direct from LP tunrtable to CD and cut out the computer altogether?
I'm sure that this is so obvious as to be completely wrong and not a viable
option, but that's what I've done so far (without the clean-up options)
On Nov 10, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
The fundamental question I was asking, therefore, was How do I
attach a turntable to my iMac?
I've done several with this:
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic/
Dick H
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On 10 Nov 2006, at 4:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From one who knows nothing, is it not easier to buy a cd recorder
and record
direct from LP tunrtable to CD and cut out the computer altogether?
I'm sure that this is so obvious as to be completely wrong and not
a viable
option, but
Darcy James Argue wrote:
1) Get a turntable with a direct USB output, and record the output
using software designed for cleaning up input from LPs. (Often this
software comes with the USB turntable.)
Several of you have recommended this. Do any have specific
recommendations? (My
:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN: LP--CD
Darcy James Argue wrote:
1) Get a turntable with a direct USB output, and record the output
using software designed for cleaning up input from LPs. (Often this
software comes with the USB turntable.)
Several of you have recommended this. Do any
At 06:17 PM 11/10/2006, Carl Dershem wrote:
Several of you have recommended this. Do any have specific
recommendations?
Yes -- I sent a URL in my last post:
http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?productID=12071.
Aaron.
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Richard Yates wrote:
1) Get a turntable with a direct USB output, and record the output
using software designed for cleaning up input from LPs. (Often this
software comes with the USB turntable.)
Several of you have recommended this. Do any have specific
recommendations? (My turntable is
I feel an increasing need to digitally back up key parts of my
extensive LP collection. Can anyone suggest a cheap way to get these
analog sounds into my computer /or directly onto a CD?
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
At 12:54 PM 11/9/06 -0500, Andrew Stiller wrote:
I feel an increasing need to digitally back up key parts of my
extensive LP collection. Can anyone suggest a cheap way to get these
analog sounds into my computer /or directly onto a CD?
If you already have a computer with a reasonable stereo
I hook my turntable up to the inputs on my computer and record tracks using
PolderBits. I use Veritas' RecordNow program to get the files to CD (it came
with my HP Windoze computer software).
PolderBits has good filters for click/scratch, noise, etc, and you can save the
files in different
Can anyone suggest a cheap way to get these
analog sounds into my computer /or directly onto a CD?
I've had good results with the inexpensive MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab
(http://site.magix.net/english-us/home/music/audio-cleaning-lab-11/).
Beware that some alternatives require you to manually
For software, Audacity, from SoundForge, is as cheap as they come being
freeware, and does the job. It also has reasonable, if brief, documentation.
It also comes in a Mac version. On a Mac, you probably already have a decent
soundcard built in (I don't know about newer Macs).
I decided to get an
On 09.11.2006 Andrew Stiller wrote:
I feel an increasing need to digitally back up key parts of my extensive LP
collection. Can anyone suggest a cheap way to get these analog sounds into my
computer /or directly onto a CD?
Just one word of caution: CD-Rs are not a very long-lasting backup
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At 08:16 PM 11/9/06 +0100, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Just one word of caution: CD-Rs are not a very long-lasting backup
medium, and once they go they are gone for good. I am not exactly sure
what the answer is, does anyone know a backup medium which will last
longer? CDs tend to fail frequently
At 11/9/2006 02:16 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 09.11.2006 Andrew Stiller wrote:
I feel an increasing need to digitally back up key parts of my extensive
LP collection. Can anyone suggest a cheap way to get these analog sounds
into my computer /or directly onto a CD?
Just one word of
On 09.11.2006 Phil Daley wrote:
I doubt it. I have hundreds of CDs that are 10 years old or longer. I have
never seen a CD fail.
Well, I have, several. How old is that article? I recently heard a
report on the radio about a new study (I believe this was done at the
Berlin Free University,
On 09.11.2006 Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Two years? The Dutch CDR test showed deterioration beginning at about two
years for CDRs stored in haphazard conditions. My oldest CDRs are just
reaching ten years without a problem showing up in regular random checks of
the different brands that I've
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