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traceroo

Annual Music Collection Crash

May 17, 2010 10:24

ARGH! It seems that no matter what system of organization I choose for my electronic music collection, I suffer an annual crash and have to rebuild it. This year's crash is thanks to the recent plague among our computer monitors. When one of Ian's monitors died, I offered to let him use my second one since I depend on it less than he does. When we ( Read more... )

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Thanks! traceroo May 17 2010, 15:50:21 UTC

No, to be clear, all my files are still there -- it's just my means of organizing them in Winamp that was zorched -- ratings, playlists, and so forth. Without those things, the music itself is just a big jumble... or was, before I started the cleanup.

Thanks, though!

Trace

Re: Thanks! kumir_k9 May 17 2010, 16:24:13 UTC

I take it you don't regularly back up the files that hold that organziation?

Re: Thanks! traceroo May 17 2010, 16:33:38 UTC

No -- it's in the bowels of Winamp, somehow. Winamp holds the ratings and the playlists (which, truthfully, still exist on my iPod, so I can rebuild them -- just gotta do it).

I'll ask Ian about figuring out how to back this stuff up - thanks!

Trace