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- woodan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Isn't this just paraphrasing what it says on Apple's site?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302392 - leisuremonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9This is the same basic info that Apple has on their site... but it wasn't available when I wrote the tutorial. I wrote mine on 6.28.05. Apple didn't add this until 9.16.05.
- arizonagroove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I recently finished backing up all my audio cds. I ripped them all in iTunes on my Mac, then plugged in an external harddisc and just copied the whole iTunes music folder to it. Now when I get a new cd I rip it, plug the harddisc back in, fire up a terminal and do
$ rsync -vr --ignore-existing Music/ /Volumes/icybox/Music/ | tee rsyncout.txt
to copy over any tracks ripped since the last time I back up to the harddisc. - aMillionAndNine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I combine the USB hard drive and dvd approaches. I copy my whole library to a hard drive and leave it at my sister's house for off site storage. Then, every month I do a backup of everything I have added that month. After 4 - 6 months I get the hard drive and copy over the whole library again.
Redundancy is good
Redundancy is... - leisuremonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I use a Mac, so the screen-shots are from a Mac... but this procedure works in Windows too.
- ModernTenshi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Why the hell didn't it occur to me to make a playlist that has songs added after the date in which I backed up my music?
Good find. - djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I totally agree that an external HD is easier & faster for back up, but I'd say it would also be smart to burn purchased music to DVD since hard drives have a nasty habit of crashing/dieing.
- dhaen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Fine tutorial. Better than Apples.
Just orderd 50 DVD's to do the job. It's the penalty paid for using Apple lossless I guess, but I wouldn't change. - grahamcase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There is a way, through iTunes, to de-authorize all authorized computers that are currently authorized to play your downloaedd music. All you have to do then is reauthorize your computer (which is easy enough to do). I'd tell you where to look to do this, but I'm on my work computer, and I don't have itunes on it :(
wait, here's a link: http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/authorization/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow, handy to know that it would do it across multiple DVD's/CD's--I've been doing this in the past by manually divvying up my library into ten or so 4.4GB-sized playlists.
- kotatsu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Pretty cool, nice to know. I wish dual layer DVDRs were cheaper though, I'm going to be here all day with single layer discs.
- mesostinky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Waste of time if you have a decent size collection though. In that case your better off with a USB external hard drive. That way you back up your docs, itunes, email, and everything else. Nothing wrong with doing a set of DVDs and them dropping them off at your parents house etc for offsite, but otherwise again IMHO you better off with a USB drive.
- boozedrinker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Really good find. I don't need to do this quite yet, but when I do, the article will be ultra-handy! THX!
- nigeltufnel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"as long as you're the type who plans in advance"?
At this point, people are reminded so often to back up that not doing so is wilful ignorance.
But even so, they can get free utilities that are probably better than the one you're spamming about. - neofactor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Backup your whole system with incremental backups. Why would you do anything else?
Backup today... it is not too late to get started!
I use SilverKeeper by Lacie for my wife's computer and I use SuperDuper on my laptop... daily backups... works like a champ. - fartninja, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Like others: "why the hell didn't I ..."
I knew the "data" disc option was there, and I knew I could not make MP3 cd's with it. Just didnt occur to me that the data disc option would work instead. Same with the playlist options. Nice! - Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You do this because you don't undersand what a database is and how it makes your life easier.
- bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One thing I hate about backing up my music in iTunes is that if a song does not have a check mark beside it, iTunes will not burn it. I have a lot of LPs and other songs I've downloaded that I don't want to sync with my iPod, or show up in iTunes' shuffle, so I just remove the check from beside it.
- madrigalia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1An external hard drive is probably the best method, but I'd rather fork out $10 for some blank DVD-ROMs than $100 for another hard drive. Nicely written article.
- Mond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@bbbrian... there is a free method of doing so... i don't have the link right now, but just do a google search
- bbbrian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Using iTunes to backup your music library to CD or DVD is great as long as you’re the type who plans in advance- what if you’ve already lost your music? If you have an iPod, you already have a backup of your music - your iPod is your backup. Except that iTunes won’t let you move the music library from your iPod back to another computer. Backstage is a program that does just that- quickly and easily letting you copy the music from your iPod to any Mac or Windows pc. You can purchase a license key that unlocks both the Mac and PC vesions for $9.99 at http://www.widgetfab.com
- macskickass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have to agree that it's not "Earth-shaking" news, but the article is excellently written and laid out clearly and concisely. A different way of doing things, I never would have thought of the smart playlist that only included the newest stuff. Good Job!
- djdole, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Ya gotta be pretty dense if you can't look at the Mac screenshots and figure out how to do the same in Windows with the SAME software.
DigPoints-
(Also also minus for "teh windowz") - djdole, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4yeah
Call me a digg-slut, but I'd digg this article just for THAT. - andywaite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh, Michael Robertson, how the mighty have fallen. The founder of of MP3.com, a site once valued at 2.2 billion dollars, and now resorting to spamming in blog comments.
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you are a .Mac subscriber the Backup progam can do this automatically on a schedule of your choosing.
- bbbrian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1'Spamming' implies that my post was off topic and unwarranted. Even thought it referred to a for-pay product, the post was pertinent to the discussion thread... And as for the free utilities- nobody is stopping you from actually taking the time to look at the various alternatives before deciding which is 'probably better'. If free software works for you great. But lots of people decide that well thought-out and easy to use software is worth paying for.
- krewemaynard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i have my music and my wife's music stored on a seperate machine, and use itunes to keep it organized and sync with our ipods. the server sees less load than my desktop box, so less worries of disk failure. plus, all music is also on our ipods. works for me :)
- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know why I never thought of this.. Clever.
Jimzip :D - CasadeMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1astrotrain - re-compressing the files will lead to significantly reduced sound quality. Bad idea IMHO.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lossless right?
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I digg it even though it's simple.. I wouldn't have seen Apples page, and it just didn't occur to me. I like this sort of stuff.
Now if there were a point to backing up some of my AAC tracks I'd do it, but because of HD failures, etc, they've only got one more "Authorization" left anyways. Stupid Apple locking up my files when I paid for them.. argg.. - Linh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i dug it only because it makes it simple for ppl i know who are very computer illiterate.. easy to follow. I however, do not like this method so much because I organize my music by source... stuff purchased from itunes, stuff i ripped, stuff i've downloaded. Standard backup methods work for me.
- theWaterboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is a great read, but I have learned from personal experience that it is wise to use a reliable backup software to backup to an external hard drive -- as mesostinky mentioned above.
++ digg tho - btkt1623, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0great site thanks for the usefull info
- suburbia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Unfortunately, I sort my music into folders by Artist/Year - Album, so if I were to reimport my music from a DVD with this method and keep using the same iTunes library (to keep my play counts, playlists, etc.) I'd have to make iTunes point to the file manually for every song.
Which is why I just drag and drop with Nero.
Good article though. - mydave, on 08/06/2008, -0/+0Pretty cool, nice to know. useful information.
http://www.procleaner.net
http://www.wmpowered.com
http://www.sooslic.com - Deived, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ive been doing this for a while, but move the music to an external HD rather than burn to disk. Just select all the songs in the playlist and drag them to your HD.
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2For you Windows users who have to use a hacked iTunes application that Apple provides (because they didn't want anything to do with Windows).
01. Download your music
02. Burn an Audio Disc using CD-RW (yes a re-writable).
03. Use CDex or Windows Media Player and Rip the freshly burned disc into MP3 format back onto your hdisk.
04. Erase CD-RW and burn next Audio Disc
05. Repeat step 02 through 04 until your iTunes are migrated over to MP3 on your hdisk
06. Turn and burn your migrated music down to CD or DVD
Kudos to aMillionAndNine's idea of off-site storage... your own DR copy... sweet! so I would recommend the
off-site storage at a relatives house as step 07 if you can do so. - gorkon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I just back everything up on 2 DVD's.....but I may start using this so I can have my library backed up more frequently.
- Mike_N, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1DVD burning never worked for me with iTunes on the Windows side, i used Nero to back up my music a few weeks ago, took 14 DVDs...
- djspike, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I knew the functionality was there... i just never had the time to fool with it. It seems easier than I thought. Sadly it would take over 14 DVD's to back up my library.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1If you don't know how to do this you don't have iTunes or own an iPod.
- TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2I've been doing this method for a year and a half now, but this is good read for those who haven't.
- mykill, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Another option for backing up your music is to use MP3tunes and get an online music locker. For $39.95 per year you can backup your entire music library very simply. Just run the Oboe Sync software and it copies all your itunes music AND playlists to your online locker.
There are real advantages to an Oboe locker from MP3tunes:
* You can backup the music on ALL your computers. Just run Oboe Sync on all your computers (home/work/laptop).
* Oboe Sync backs up all your playlists not just your music. I HATE losing playlists.
* Oboe Sync syncs all your music so everyone of your computers will have all your music.
* You can access your entire music collection from a webpage and view, play and organize your music.
* If you add new music or playlists, just run Oboe Sync again and it will only copy the new files and playlists.
* Even if your computer is stolen, broken or whatever your music is safe.
* There is unlimited storage for the 39.95/yr plus no bandwidth fees whatsoever.
There’s some great screenshots at:
http://mp3tunes.com/screenshots - truebullfan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1anyone have a windows friendly guide to this tutorial? the apple itunes images confuse me
- radixus, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2This information is extremely dated. Apple has had a detailed how-to on this since 2003, but just recently modified last year.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93474 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -22/+1I thought this was for teh windowz but it's not! so no digg!
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