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adam044

adam044

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im amazed by all theses numbers.. where do you store all this stuff? I thought mine was big at 6k songs guess not. you must download 100 songs a day
 
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rcarranza

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Music, Movies, TV shows, Podcasts, Books

Collection ever growing so considering getting a Drobo. Anyone using one can recommend/advise?
 

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AppleDApp

AppleDApp

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Jun 21, 2011
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-MRB said:
I doubt everybody with 1TB of music got ALL of it legitimately. Unless you've collected CDs for decades.
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What about having all there files in quality audio formats rather then some super compressed crappy MP3.
 
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Alex72

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Jul 19, 2002
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Roughly THIRTY gigabytes, mostly music, plus a few of those free TV shows one picks up every now and then. Amazing, how fast it all accumulates!
 
adam044

adam044

macrumors 65816
Jan 24, 2012
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what do you guys do to get the best quality from the dvds? do you rip them using handbrake? what settings if you do
 
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Music Guy123

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I have just under 9000 songs, over 50 videos. You can imagine how that long it took me to rip from CDs and DVDs! But, best of all, I spent four days solid getting album artwork and sorting names and everything for each song...not bad for a 16yr old IMO! @ adam044, for DVD, I did this: http://anders.com/guides/convert/video/iPod/windows.html Definately the best way I think, quality is pretty good, then convert it down using videora to whatever size you want. Videora does have a couple of audio issues though, it can make the sound a little funny on occasions but isn't too bad.
 
Otago Lad

Otago Lad

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Mar 22, 2011
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mac-collector said:
People who have >5 TB of media: do you keep backups? Or just know what to get back if any disk failed?
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I have an HP EX-495 home server with 4x2TB drives with an additional e-sata 4 Bay enclosure with 4x2TB drives and two 3TB Western Digital external usb drives giving me approx 22TB and what I use is the duplication system in WHS 2003 to duplicate my photo's/home videos, music and downloaded movies and TV shows and then for any dvd/bluray rips I have duplication turned off as I can always re-rip these if a drive fails - I also use the S.M.A.R.T add-in on the server to forewarn me about possible drive failure and I just replace the hardrives as soon as anything suspect occurs.

Currently I have just over 1.3TB of lossless music from a cd collection built over the last 25 years and approximately 900 movies and an unknown number of tv episodes.

Digitising everything has taken some time however it is one of the best investments I've made as everything is available through my Apple TV's, Boxee, PS3 etc and especially with the wife and the young kids the Apple TV's make watching/listening to things such a breeze.
 
Otago Lad

Otago Lad

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Mar 22, 2011
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New Zealand
adam044 said:
what do you guys do to get the best quality from the dvds? do you rip them using handbrake? what settings if you do
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I sometimes use handbrake, however I find it a bit temperamental at times with my Windows 7 64 bit system so I also use Aunsoft Bluray ripper together with AnyDVD HD.

I have read various people criticise Aunsoft, however I've not had a problem and I use the highest settings for bluray rips into either mp4 or .mov and they come out great. If I used handbrake properly etc. and then remuxed the audio tracks I know I could likely have a slightly better quality encode, however if I want the absolute best viewing experience I just pull out the Bluray disc and chuck it in my Denon or OPPO bluray players. Also on my system Aunsoft rips a Bluray with the highest settings (often 16-25GB files as a result) in just over an hour whereas handbrake takes forever.
 
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janstett

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Jan 13, 2006
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Chester, NJ
adam044 said:
what do you guys do to get the best quality from the dvds? do you rip them using handbrake? what settings if you do
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I rip to ISO or copy the entire disc structure. Not Apple TV/iTunes friendly but no generational loss from reencoding, as good as using the disc.

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mac-collector said:
People who have >5 TB of media: do you keep backups? Or just know what to get back if any disk failed?
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Even of you have only "a little" content you MUST back up. Even if everything you have I'd ripped from physical media do you want to rip them again?

And even then who has only physical media anymore?

Myself I keep my "working copy" on a raid 5 NAS and a master archival copy unplugged, plus a somewhat outdated copy offsite.
 
adam044

adam044

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Jan 24, 2012
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Ive just used handbrake with the default apple tv 2 settings, quality looks the same as a dvd to me. you'd have to have them side by side to tell a difference i think
 
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