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Some time later, though, the RAID controller goes kaput, but not before corrupting some data on your drives. Oops, you may have just lost some music.
I had this happen and no I hadn't done any true back ups. Luckily I was able to retrieve the data by hooking the drives up to my Ubuntu box and pulled all the info I needed off of them, luckily nothing was corrupted. Hmmm, I've never had it report an error on any rip. Sometimes it is a little less sure my rip is correct, because there were so few (or no) other examples.
Who made the drive you're ripping with? I used to use Plextor, until LiteOn started building them, and then switched to Pioneer. I am using a LG drive - GH20LS10. I should try the questionable discs in one of the other machines in the house; the PC I built for my son has a Pioneer drive in it.
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Definitely start ripping your collection now. Take a look at DB Poweramp before you do though, seriously. I started out with just EAC, and sure do wish I would have used DB from the beginning. Something as mundane as album art can really turn into a nightmare later. I've tried numerous album art finding programs to only give up and live with no album art for the majority of my collection. PS Audio makes some pretty killer audio gear, including stand alone DAC's. They also make a music server worth a look. Not as expensive as the Olive products, but not cheap either. They took a different approach than Olive by not incorporating an internal hard drive or CD ripper. You just plug your Ext hard drive into it, or your network and it does the rest. I'm actually quite intrigued by this device..... http://www.psaudio.com/ps/products/description/perfectwave-dac?cat=audio
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To prevent data loss, you need a backup. A good backup routine is to make an identical copy of your precious data and save it to a completely different device, preferably in a different location, at least once a day. There's plenty of software that will do this for you. Naturally, everything doesn't get copied over every day. Most software will only transfer anything that has changed since the last successful backup ran.
After the pain of ripping my collection, I have a back up of my backup of my music folder. (my photos too) Problem I have now is clutter. I need to take the time to organize all the drive folders. I wish I would have put more thought into a filling system when I first started too.
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Naim offer also good product in that departement. http://www.naimaudio.com/hifi-products/type/2
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Well, after extensive research I finally found an excellent program to rip cds for Mac (since, unfortunately, EAC is Windows only) called XLD. Like EAC it's very accurate but sloooow. Now I'm starting the huge undertaking of archiving my cd collection. I'm ripping to .aiff @16/44 uncompressed. It seems to have all the metadata that one needs for info/artwork. I've even finally loaded some music on my iTouch via iTunes (it's at least good for that!). Gonna be very cool for a road trip! This archiving endeavor should keep me busy for a long while. I appreciate all the suggestions Axiomites... keep 'em coming! I like the high end servers a lot, but I'm wondering if it's better (cheaper too) to concentrate on the software that will play/organize the music and put the money into a nice D/A converter for two channel playback. Gonna get interesting when I digitize my vinyl at 24/192!
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db poweramp is a great program for sure Drew.... I use it fairly often to convert music formats for IPOD use, etc.
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Gonna get interesting when I digitize my vinyl at 24/192! Awwwww, Man! Imagine the creaminess of surface noise and the sharp transients of pops and clicks at THAT sampling rate!
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Pretty much. Hate to say it, but vinyl has no where near that resolution. Especially if it's been played more than once. Better use FLAC to try to recover some of the space of those top four octaves of inaudible hiss.
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I've even finally loaded some music on my iTouch… ...... We interrupt this thread to bring you an important message:There is no Apple product called the iTouch. It is called the iPod Touch.Thank you. We now return you to your thread ......
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