Sorry I didn't get back to you till now. I have new kids, plus my weekly session with Christy.
Anywho. All of the MP3 data is backed up on my normal computer back up schedule. Plus I have put most of it on CD that I have burned "just in case". So far it hasn't been too sizeable an investment since I have been taking those one or two songs of my CD and placing it on the iPod.
I use the iTunes music store for the most part due to a larger selection of main stream stuff (and some off the wall stuff like Dick Dale and the Deltones). It has more 80s stuff and more of the sound tracks to movies I like. I use emusic to download those off the wall numbers. Plus there seems to be more of a classical music selection on emusic. So far between the two I have managed to find most of the stuff I tend to look for.
I have done the casset copy and the first couple of times it was a pain but once you get moving it seems to work ok. I do have to admit that if there is only one song of a cassette that I want I usually just buy that one song. 99 cents vs. work of getting one song off the cassette is worth it.
I haven't tried some of the other services yet. I might try legal Napster at some point just to see whats up with that. I also think that Sony has something out now.
I wish I had the article at hand but "Cargo" magazine compared the download services and I think it was in the July/Aug. edition. Will go hunting for it and I can give you the song totals on some of the major services.
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Re: MP3 info from the LJ Brain Trust
Sorry I didn't get back to you till now. I have new kids, plus my weekly session with Christy.
Anywho. All of the MP3 data is backed up on my normal computer back up schedule. Plus I have put most of it on CD that I have burned "just in case". So far it hasn't been too sizeable an investment since I have been taking those one or two songs of my CD and placing it on the iPod.
I use the iTunes music store for the most part due to a larger selection of main stream stuff (and some off the wall stuff like Dick Dale and the Deltones). It has more 80s stuff and more of the sound tracks to movies I like. I use emusic to download those off the wall numbers. Plus there seems to be more of a classical music selection on emusic. So far between the two I have managed to find most of the stuff I tend to look for.
I have done the casset copy and the first couple of times it was a pain but once you get moving it seems to work ok. I do have to admit that if there is only one song of a cassette that I want I usually just buy that one song. 99 cents vs. work of getting one song off the cassette is worth it.
I haven't tried some of the other services yet. I might try legal Napster at some point just to see whats up with that. I also think that Sony has something out now.
I wish I had the article at hand but "Cargo" magazine compared the download services and I think it was in the July/Aug. edition. Will go hunting for it and I can give you the song totals on some of the major services.
If you have anymore question drop me a line.