tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9944221.post480339436910844183..comments2023-11-03T06:15:55.087-05:00Comments on Meme Agora: The Music ProjectNeal Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12839796402858974817noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9944221.post-65413455933368770582010-01-09T14:32:33.629-05:002010-01-09T14:32:33.629-05:00The next challenge -- what's your offsite back...The next challenge -- what's your offsite backup strategy? Cheap services like Mozy Home won't back up NAS drives.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04667736036423173869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9944221.post-60746704915832175132010-01-09T14:26:04.411-05:002010-01-09T14:26:04.411-05:00I've released my (newly rewritten) scripts for...I've released my (newly rewritten) scripts for this; see: http://www.briangoetz.com/blog/?p=92Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04667736036423173869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9944221.post-48538880036678097262008-12-17T16:17:00.000-05:002008-12-17T16:17:00.000-05:00The magic of cue sheets kept all the meta-data for...The magic of cue sheets kept all the meta-data for the entire trip. All the meta-data's intact. In fact, Max downloads track information automatically for lots of stuff, and I added it myself for the really obscure stuff. There is some magic about how FLAC (and others) handle cue sheets, but I never delved into it because it all Just Worked.Neal Fordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12839796402858974817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9944221.post-9400521865042147752008-12-17T09:21:00.000-05:002008-12-17T09:21:00.000-05:00Great article, thanks. But I have one question: Ho...Great article, thanks. But I have one question: How did you handle the metadata of your CDs? How did they survive the several encoding processes?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08732896796839210203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9944221.post-56571821086047987372008-09-04T12:55:00.000-05:002008-09-04T12:55:00.000-05:00Everyone calls MP4/AAC an Apple format, but it's n...Everyone calls MP4/AAC an Apple format, but it's not. It's just the successor to MP3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding It was not created by Apple, Apple just added support for it in iTunes, since it's a better format than MP3. There are also open source encoders and decoders for AAC if that's important to you.<BR/><BR/>I also don't quite get why you didn't go with Apple Lossless. It's not an open standard, but again: there are open source libraries that can read these files, you can play Apple Lossless in iTunes and you're not trapped as you can always transcode to another lossless or lossy format in the future.breunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11076354498835513366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9944221.post-42200812105758716972008-08-29T15:57:00.000-05:002008-08-29T15:57:00.000-05:00Blatant self-promotion: I did something similar wi...Blatant self-promotion: I did something similar with Rails and an iPod last year.<BR/><BR/>http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/12/back-up-your-ipod-with-rails.htmlGiles Bowketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06462574543661010181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9944221.post-34028510052728167922008-08-29T11:21:00.000-05:002008-08-29T11:21:00.000-05:00(Sorry about that last comment ... 1Password betra...(Sorry about that last comment ... 1Password betrayed me.)<BR/><BR/>Thanks, Neal ... great info.<BR/><BR/>It's really a shame Apple won't open the Apple Lossless spec. There are good reasons for the format to exist -- FLAC isn't great for streaming to underpowered devices like Airport Express, whereas Apple Lossless is less symmetric in its CPU demands. And I can't think of a good reason to keep it proprietary. But your solution is a great practical compromise.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12459229108820421654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9944221.post-72361616442404206582008-08-29T11:18:00.000-05:002008-08-29T11:18:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12459229108820421654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9944221.post-63990773961231884262008-08-29T10:10:00.000-05:002008-08-29T10:10:00.000-05:00Fixed errors: 500 GB, not TB (I wish that was true...Fixed errors: 500 GB, not TB (I wish that was true as well).<BR/><BR/>FLAC is in fact entirely lossless.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the corrections!Neal Fordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12839796402858974817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9944221.post-55707226110741712982008-08-29T10:00:00.000-05:002008-08-29T10:00:00.000-05:00You know, now that I've looked at the FLAC documen...You know, now that I've looked at the FLAC documentation again, I think the statement "FLAC is a open standard encoding for music that offers lots of levels of lossiness (including lossless, which is what I wanted)" is misleading. According to http://flac.sourceforge.net/features.html , "...FLAC is intended for lossless compression only, as there are many good lossy formats already..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9944221.post-92142862763009862812008-08-29T09:42:00.000-05:002008-08-29T09:42:00.000-05:00This is a great post. I follow a similar process ...This is a great post. I follow a similar process - I don't buy lossy digital music (well, there are some exceptions), I rip/encode to lossless FLAC, and use a BASH script to search through my FLAC collection and re-encode to lossy M4A for my iPod. (This is all on Linux). I don't have NAS, and wouldn't trust it myself anyway (what happens if the house burns down?). Instead, I backup my files to Amazon S3 via JungleDisk. I wasn't aware of FLAC supporting lossy compression, nor M4A supporting lossless compression, so I'm going to have to do some research on that now...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9944221.post-76255622717625985452008-08-29T09:32:00.000-05:002008-08-29T09:32:00.000-05:00A portable 500 TB drive? I wish this was a reality...A portable 500 TB drive? I wish this was a reality :DPaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18224234643439645641noreply@blogger.com