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because when your harddrive dies it's gone.
I am tearing around the house trying to find original cd's and I just don't have them. Ten gigs of music gone including pretty much every buffett cd. I've known the stuff was gone for a couple weeks but today it really hit me. It's a cloudy day and I"m cleaning to the music on CMT on my tv. Not so good.

By the way, a super kind bn'er is going above and beyond to help me get the pc running again. Thanks so much. I'll post the person's name if they're ok with it but only if they say ok. My music can't be saved but you can't believe how helpful this person has been.

OceanCityGirl wrote:because when your harddrive dies it's gone.
I am tearing around the house trying to find original cd's and I just don't have them. Ten gigs of music gone including pretty much every buffett cd. I've known the stuff was gone for a couple weeks but today it really hit me. It's a cloudy day and I"m cleaning to the music on CMT on my tv. Not so good.

That is why I copied all my Buffett music (among others) to CD, just in case I need to restore a hard drive.

That is why I copied all my Buffett music (among others) to CD, just in case I need to restore a hard drive

I'm in the process of doing this for my two kids on their pc's just in case. Also backing up some other stuff. I"ve had pc problems before but never had a hd go like this or any other complete meltdown.

OceanCityGirl wrote:

That is why I copied all my Buffett music (among others) to CD, just in case I need to restore a hard drive

I'm in the process of doing this for my two kids on their pc's just in case. Also backing up some other stuff. I"ve had pc problems before but never had a hd go like this or any other complete meltdown.

Just lost the 20 I had in mine. (The data drive). Fortunately, I had begun moving stuff from it to a iPod-like device with card readers built in, so now when I get the system to recognize the new 160 in it, I can just dump everything right back

I ran into that problem when I loaded all my music onto my iPod. I thought, "great, I can free up some space on my hard drive." That worked for about a week until I accidently erased everything on my iPod.

land_shark3 wrote:I ran into that problem when I loaded all my music onto my iPod. I thought, "great, I can free up some space on my hard drive." That worked for about a week until I accidently erased everything on my iPod.

now you are scaring me...

Some things you don't even realize you have til you try to replace it. I had some neat Hawaiian reggae type music, quite a bit. I probably can't get that. And the Buffett stuff probably a few hundred bucks. I can't even find my newer cd's let alone the old ones. I never really worried about it. Once I bought something I downloaded it onto the pc. Been doing this for years. Afterwards the kids would borrow the cd's. Or they might sit in the car, etc. I had alot of them (2 large cases) stolen from my jeep last winter.

MP3s and WMA files are convenient and all, but nothing beats physical formats which I strongly prefer over Itunes and illegal downloading so all my eggs aren’t in one basket.

Having your only copies of your music on your hard disk just like keeping your entire CD collection in a CD booklet, as if you loosing it it’s all gone.

Parrot Monkey wrote:MP3s and WMA files are convenient and all, but nothing beats physical formats which I strongly prefer over Itunes and illegal downloading so all my eggs aren’t in one basket.

Having your only copies of your music on your hard disk just like keeping your entire CD collection in a CD booklet, as if you loosing it it’s all gone.

which works right up until the house fire, or the loss of the CD book..

which works right up until the house fire, or the loss of the CD book.

True there is no foolproof protection. I just wish I had copied things to disk. There's some irreplacable stuff, other things because of $$$ will take some time. Also there are program files I may not realize I"m missing right away and drivers.

I don't leave the music on the hard drive unless I am putting it directly from or directly to a cd anyway.

aeroparrot wrote:I don't leave the music on the hard drive unless I am putting it directly from or directly to a cd anyway.

Usually I will put a few of my CD's onto my hard drive so I could listen them and not scratch the CD.

I use my pc as my music source. It runs into my surround sound and that brings up play lists, then the music can go anywhere in the house or on the back porch/yardd. The only exception is in the car. But since I sold the wrangler I haven't put a music system into my car yet. I teach so I don't usually do much driving in the summer so even that hasn't been a big priority.

I'm in the process of burning all of my pc music onto CDs. Just to keep my computer running for another few weeks. It's on it's last leg, and now it's on survival mode. MP3s are not part of this format. It's been a rough adjustment.

I store my music on vinyl

prrthd1987 wrote:

aeroparrot wrote:I don't leave the music on the hard drive unless I am putting it directly from or directly to a cd anyway.

Usually I will put a few of my CD's onto my hard drive so I could listen them and not scratch the CD.

Exactly, until my computer hung up while upgrading the MusicMatch and now I can't play it.

I'm pretty paranoid, so when dvd writers came out and the dvd formats started to settle down, I invested in one of them. Very, very convenient to burn off and backup mp3's, and other data. I've been down the road of losing everything because I was lazy and didn't back things up. Now I have every machine in the house synching between each other so if one goes down, I know I'm good (I'm that paranoid).

Cubbie Bear wrote:I store my music on vinyl

Is that like an 8 track?

sy wrote:I'm pretty paranoid, so when dvd writers came out and the dvd formats started to settle down, I invested in one of them. Very, very convenient to burn off and backup mp3's, and other data. I've been down the road of losing everything because I was lazy and didn't back things up. Now I have every machine in the house synching between each other so if one goes down, I know I'm good (I'm that paranoid).

The software fairies are not that spiteful...