bazvolta

Uploading cd's onto your itunes. I cannot think of anything more soul destroyingly boring. I've spent all day doing it and still have a pile to get through.

judgejules

I can beat that, backing up 900+ dvd's to my movie server. Then having to do it again a few days later becuase I did it slighty wrong the first time

Funkii Munkii

I know what you're saying LOL

I managed to get 1800 songs on mine before cocking it up and losing 1600 of them and having to start again, soul destroying .

As for the album artwork if i-tunes cant find it does anyone know if I can update items and add to the entire album or do I have to do it for each track, as that seems the case at present

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

I'm sooo glad my car radio just plays straight off a USB stick:

Dump 32gig of mp3s onto it. Few mins later job is done and its good to go. Of course I had to rip everything off CD to MP3 in the first place (or DL), but that only needed doing once.

Getting music on to my Sony Ericsson phone on the otherhand...forget it, far to slow and laborious.

Freak

I have somewhere in the region of 15,000 vinyl records.... (lost count years ago)
And you think transferring CDs onto a computer is tedious and time consuming???????

STi-Frenchie

Can't be bothered ripping my CDs to mp3 so download the ones I have and then add them to iTunes. For the artwork question - yes you can do an album at a time, just select all the tracks and then bring up the Get Info dialog and drag and drop the artwork to the box where it goes. When I had a PC (am not on Mac) there was a neat little app called iArt which would trawl through your library and auto-update all the tracks with artwork taken from Amazon or Google images. HTH

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

I originally did all mine a few years ago at 128kb, then I decided that this wasn't good enough so I re-did them all at 192kb. Now I've downloaded a few things at 320kb and can feel myself at the top of a very slippery slope again...

Funkii Munkii

Thanks

M444GY

iTrader: (72)

another tedious task is straightening intercooler fins with a toothpick

jsh1

iTrader: (1)

Which movie server do you have?

The storage must be colossal to get that many DVD's on it. I am in the AV industry and I dont know any server with that capacity

Jason

+Doc+

I didn't even now i tunes had this option
Might put a day a side and flog them on ebay.

judgejules

I have a self built 16 x 1.5TB RAID6 array which is 19.1TB formatted (I could have made it bigger, but it'll do for a year or two now). I'm in the process of moving it all across from my old 16 x 1TB array which is RAID5 and was doing my head in with disc failures.

I'm using 4 of these:



In one of these:



and its working pretty nicely

I then use MEDIAPORTAL - free media center - Home in a self built HTPC for the lounge to play the stuff back.

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

What a great little programme, I've just done my whole library with it

Coffin Dodger

If you've got the capacity it's a good idea to rip to a lossless format e.g. FLAC, and then down sample it for your iPod etc. if required. Much simpler than ripping the whole thing from CD again. That's what I *intend* to do if ever I get round to ripping all my CDs. If only I didn't have to w**k

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Is that switched on all the time ?

That must really chew some juice and make some noise !

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

I'm toying with the idea of a 1TB external hard drive for all my media in which case I could probably use FLAC, that's a good idea, cheers

Stop encouraging me

judgejules

Its on all the time yeah. I have a 1kw psu in there and the spin up on all 16 drives will only ever take 540w. As it has on board graphics, its probably comparable to a high spec desktop machine with a decent graphics card.

judgejules

If you're going for an external 1TB, I'd suggest getting this:

WDH2Q20000E - 2TB Western Digital Studio Edition II USB/FW400,800/e-SATA - Ultimate Spec - Scan.co.uk

Its had 2x1TB drives which means you can mirror the disks. If one disk fails, you wont then lose all your media. If however you have the originals and dont mind re-ripping etc, then just go for a 1TB version.

Also, look for one that has eSATA as you wont be limited to firewire/usb speeds and grab a 5 quid esata backplane if your mobo doesnt have one built in.

MJW

Nice media centre Judgejules - what's betting a year from now you need more storage !!

bazvolta

Where did u get the iArt program from? I've tried googling it but don't think it's shown up.

JerryTerzo

Downloads - iArt 3.2 Shareware Software

darts_aint_sport

That's an awful lot of ****.