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- smacksaw, on 03/15/2008, -12/+13Yet another reason why the RIAA sucks. I'd say almost every song I've ever downloaded are songs that I already owned simply because AS THE ARTICLE SAYS, I don't have the time or commitment to rip music all day. But nooooo...***** THE RIAA. It's my goddamn music and I paid for it. If someone else wants to rip it and share it, it's none of your business how I get it on my computer or other devices!
- OpaqueMurdock, on 03/15/2008, -1/+5Switching a CD and hitting a "go" button is really that much harder than searching for music you like, downloading it, importing it into your players database, then cleaning out the crap that was encoded poorly and fixing tags?
I Haven't done a lot of downloading recently and maybe things have really changed for the better but for me it was not that much more effort to rip my CD collection. Once it was complete, I tossed all the jewel cases and I never had to think about it again.- smacksaw, on 03/15/2008, -4/+2I can rip 1 CD at a time. I can download hundreds at a time. Downloading FTW.
- johanrocks, on 03/15/2008, -0/+5Well, I can either rip 1CD at a time, or download an artist's entire discography, fully organized and tagged, in a few minutes.
- OpaqueMurdock, on 03/15/2008, -1/+5Switching a CD and hitting a "go" button is really that much harder than searching for music you like, downloading it, importing it into your players database, then cleaning out the crap that was encoded poorly and fixing tags?
- geno24, on 03/15/2008, -12/+0LoL
- woodcoxcb, on 03/15/2008, -6/+2but... jinzora's slow as cold tar flowing uphill in the middle of january.
seriously, i got so sick of it that i'm writing a new one in ruby on rails... - petrodollar, on 03/15/2008, -1/+18Welcome to 1998.
- Marmeladov, on 03/15/2008, -0/+9Seriously, if you don't have your collection stored digitally by now, you probably never will.
- tim620, on 03/15/2008, -1/+5About 6-7 years ago, my buddy and I did something similar. But no streaming. We each setup our own Linux music servers. We put all our music (combined collection of CD's, ripped to MP3) on 80 GB IDE drives. We also had the same removable drive bays, so if he added some ripped music I could come over with my drive and sync our collections. We used Samba to share the music on our local network and sftp for downloading from remote locations (we were the only two with passwords). Looking back, we could have used rsync to sync our collections. It may have been illegal to share music, but it was fun doing it and setting up everything.
- shaitanx, on 03/15/2008, -6/+9***** the RIAA
- jfg84, on 03/15/2008, -6/+0...and then the hard drives dies. What then? Backup 500 gigs of music? I think there are going to be a lot of people who decided to sell their CD collection after they ripped it all or buy songs exclusively off Itunes that are going to have a real bad day in the future.
- Marmeladov, on 03/15/2008, -2/+5Have two hard drives? I have about 300 gigs of music and there's no way I would trust any external hard drive with that much stuff. The value of the music is worth more to me than the cost of both externals put together.
- lovestospooge, on 03/15/2008, -1/+8RAID1, noobs
- MaverickCC, on 03/15/2008, -8/+1RAID is not a backup!
- lovestospooge, on 03/15/2008, -1/+2Yes, it is. You write simultaneously on several hard disks, so that if one fails, you have backups across 1+ disks. What do you consider backup? CDs? You do know that CDs have a shelf life of only 25 years (and that's for the top-quality ones).
- tim620, on 03/15/2008, -1/+2Depends. If you are talking RAID 0, then you are correct, it is not a backup. RAID 0 is just for speed. If we are talking RAID 1, RAID 5 or RAID 1+0 (some call it RAID 10) then lovestospooge is right and it is a backup. An onsite backup, but a backup non-the-less. Although none of these help you out if your house burns down. So, (along with your RAID 1 or 5) backup to an external disk once a week and bring it to a friends house, in case yours burns down. Although if your house burns down, you have bigger problems than having a copy of all your music.
- MaverickCC, on 03/15/2008, -1/+2No you are both wrong, NEITHER are backups. RAID (other than 0) is only good for 1 thing and 1 thing only. Hard drive failure. It's an important possibility to consider but to assume you are safe because you mirror is foolish (what happens if you delete files by accident? there's a fire? OS error?). Redundancy is great (i do it myself) but you would be smart to do a backup too for something you value so much. And yes CD's do count as backup, 25 years is far far longer than you'll get with any hard drive you buy.
- tim620, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2Ok. Technically you are right, that it is not a backup in the sense that you can not restore previous versions from it, etc. and that the main point of RAID (other than 0) is redundancy, not backup. But, if you view the term "backup" as a copy of your data, it is a backup. The difference is that a copy from a RAID is can not take you back in time to a previous backup, so you are screwed if you delete something. But it is a second copy, or backup, non-the-less.
- MaverickCC, on 03/15/2008, -8/+1RAID is not a backup!
- ericdano, on 03/15/2008, -3/+1AAC for me. Flac.....unless you really hear something different between it and AAC.
I'd recommend the ReadyNAS as a great little do it all device that runs Linux - doublejay1973, on 03/15/2008, -1/+4dugg instantly, as anti-RIAA rhetoric always should be.
- MattBD, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1I've been thinking for a whole about building my own home server for music. At the moment, I have two laptops, one running Vista, the other Kubuntu, and my music is all on the Vista one as I use it to sync my iPod and it has a bigger hard drive. I'd rather have the choice of being able to play anything on either laptop, especially seeing as Amarok is a much better music player than iTunes. I'm sure it can't be too hard to set up a Linux server for music.
- oduska, on 03/15/2008, -0/+3I've been using SubSonic ( http://subsonic.sourceforge.net/ ) for over 6 months. I have this setup on an old Pentium 4 Compaq just for streaming music while I'm at work. It allows multiple users ( I let some of my other co-workers log in...)... awesome program.
- JustinTX, on 03/15/2008, -0/+2Linux + MPD + pitchfork MPD client
I have my headless music server stashed away. It outputs audio to my stereo and I can control with my Wii. - jim1977, on 03/15/2008, -2/+1"Wouldn't it save a lot of space to put all those CDs onto a little HDD?"
Yes. Until it gets stolen or crashes.- clearzen, on 03/15/2008, -0/+3back it up
- jim1977, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Duh. We're talking about Digg users here - they'd probably back it up to a paid .mac account... and do it wrong.
- clearzen, on 03/15/2008, -0/+3back it up
- bincoder, on 03/15/2008, -0/+2Is there an adapter so that I can plug it into my oldsmobiles 8 track player?
- zbeast, on 03/15/2008, -1/+1I have all my music stored on a 4tb readynas...
it takes care of music distribution and my data backup.
http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/NetworkSto ... - clearzen, on 03/15/2008, -0/+2I like ampache much more for serving up music than what they are using.
- Spoomeister, on 03/15/2008, -0/+3What's the best equivalent for storing and streaming videos / movies?
- Kalakov, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1http://www.orb.com/
- dasutin, on 03/15/2008, -1/+1www.request.com just buy one, these are better and give you more features
- bpvancouver, on 03/15/2008, -3/+1Call me a twit, but I don't buy CDs anymore, or bother with MP3s. I just use Rhapsody, and can stream music to my linksys wifi music player in the backyard. At $100/yr its less than I used to spend on CDs, and I don't have to worry about iffy encodings.
- antoinewalker, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1twit
- thund3rstruck, on 03/16/2008, -0/+1This isn't a real Music server solution. It requires a Squeezebox. Go get the MP3-CMS (http://www.nealosis.com) if you want a great music server.
- wrangler1969, on 03/18/2008, -0/+0I think this portal is a music server (maybee???)
http://www.mp3album.us - ItaloSuave, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1This controversy illustrates exactly what has gone wrong with America; lawyers and fancy big business shysters keep succeeding at cheating regular everyday Americans out of bigger and bigger pieces of paychecks, while reducing those same paychecks remorselessly. Workers work harder than ever, for less. Meanwhile, cable television companies make mega-millions on cable, for example, by running advertisements we are so used to watching, that we do not object when we are paying for cable or satellite television delivery to our homes, yet still used as eyeballs for advertisers. The entire CD industry was built on charging music owners a second and a third time for music they had already purchased on LPs or 8-track or cassette tapes. Now, the smart entertainment industry folks are unilaterally trashing a great new digital video standard, HD-DVD, in favor of the crummy but locked up tight Blu Ray standard for High Definition Television and Movies. The entire upgrade to new television sets, combined with cable companies like Comcast forcing customers to pay more and to upgrade to digital TV service packages, is a thinly veiled attempt to control and exclude ordinary people from ownership and influence over video and music files and markets and tastes. We have these same corporations to thank for the prolific and atrocious bad taste of rap and gangster music, for example. If they can make money selling this incredibly awful music to youngsters around the World and here in America who for some reason do not know any better, well, who is to stop them? The Internet should be used by Artists and by Audiences to find each other directly, cutting out the corporate recording industry and television and Hollywood and cable company "middlemen" who do not even share a penny on the dollar with their erstwhile striking Creatives and Writer's Guild members from Internet sales, which are again a 3rd or 4th round of millions of dollars of revenues going into their own deep pockets, without their having produced anything save maybe a lawsuit or a shyster recording contract here or there to earn that money. It is called legal blackmail. It is also a severe form of dishonesty. These people do not own your ears; neither do they own the instruments, the talent, or the music. They do have a genius for enlisting the agencies and powers of government authority to interpose their own avariciousness between performers and fans. Fortunately, the Internet (not so-called "Internet version 2.0" but the current Internet) frees and empowers music lovers and performers everywhere, as it does citizens and communities and individuals around the world. It is profoundly enabling and therefore as revolutionary as the Gutenberg Bible was in it's day. Talk about Reformation! Let's protect what we have, this Internet, and not let the Government and the Corporations take it away from us! They lay snares to entangle internet users, with the determination and persistence of spammers. Have you noticed how, nowadays, it is "for the children"? That's when you know, the Politicians are getting involved on behalf of their big money big corporate big business clients, and against you and me, mark my words.
- webmusic, on 05/01/2008, -0/+0Here is another nice digital music server software that can be used to build your own home music server, try http://us.raidentunes.com/ RaidenTunes network music station.
- lolo2007, on 06/17/2008, -0/+0I've been thinking for a whole about building my own home server for music. At the moment, I have two laptops, one running Vista, the other Kubuntu, and my music is all on the Vista one as I use it to sync my iPod and it has a bigger hard drive. I'd rather have the choice of being able to play anything on either laptop, especially seeing as Amarok is a much better music player than iTunes. I'm sure it can't be too hard to set up a Linux server for music.
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