Im looking for a program to help me with my mp3 archive. currently i have all my albums in seprate folders, for example if i have green day nookie its in a folder name "Green_Day-Nookie". In the past, i would just highlight as many folders as woudl be closet to 700mbs, then i would seprate them into folders of 700mbs worth of mp3s each labled "mp3_cd_XXX" xxx would represent what cd number it is. I would then go into nero and just que it up and burn them. I currenyl have about 40GBs worth that i must do this too. and am curious if there is anything to help assit me in these teduous process, Im almost ready to just break down and buy a DVD burner and just handling it that was so its 4.7gb on each disc which results in less que. I did a search but came up with nothing. And i know how great you guys are with finding stuff like this.

Greetings!

My personal opinion is to go with the DVD burner. I had backed up my collection using CDR. It was the same time I was ripping. Between the ripping and burning for nearly three months continuously, my CDR began to have problems. Even though I had the software set to verify the CD after it was created, and the CD verified clean, I would get read errors when I brought it to another burner or tried it in the same burner after it had rested. It made the lower third of the alphabet "questionable" if I ever needed to restore it.

For bulk copying, I recommend the higher capacity media. At 40GB, you can easily get by with under 10 DVDs. For that storage volume and price, you might be able to make two backups...

Another possibility, if you can do it, is to get a cheap 40GB (or higher, of course) hard drive, install it temporarily, copy the files over to it, remove the drive and lock it in a safe place. This way, you can always recover if you need to, and at a price per GB, that is probably your cheapest solution.

I dont trust hard drives

Valid point. I would still go for the high density media though - the DVD is probably less trouble in the long run that lots of CDRs.

ya dvd burners are getting cheap enough about $200, and blank media is cheap too. I woudl buy one today if i didt get these 2 damn pointless tickets. I hate CHP!

anything to help assit me in these teduous process

Sounds like you're looking for a Windows solution, so the attached script for Linux probably isn't much help to you -- but just in case someone else comes looking, here it is. You need python and cdrtools.

Peter

ill check it out i have a burner on my linux box too, and its on the network. Thanks

I'll just put in my vote for th DVD burner. Once I got a spindle of the Ritek media, I proceeded to back up about 40 GB of data. That's good, because I was down to about 300MB of my total 180GB. Most of that was in TV shows.

It's nice to have just a few DVD's for a whole bunch of information. I have the entire X-Men cartoon series (original and Evolution) on 2 or 3 discs.

ps-do you mean Green Day's "Dookie" album?

haha ya i do.. doh i feel like an idiot, i was thinking dookie and nimrod at the name time and came out with that, i could lie and say its a really good bootleg that came out