I've been living nervously ever since I digitised my entire CD collection at full CD quality in case i get anothe hard drive fault and lose a chunk of it since it's spread across four 350G external drives
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I was seriously considering writing a tool to do the job, but in the end decided that the extra saving in disk space the was on offer above Apple Lossless wasn't really worth all the hassle.
Although I do have a nice new nasty interview question for job applicants
"I have a backup of my music folder on one drive and the originals split across a number of other folders in different places. Both source and destinations are in Artist/Album directory format. How can I tell which albums are missing from my backups, and give me a list of them."
Let's see how many people think in terms of a quick perl script or similar before they build me an all singing all dancing C# .Net GUI application ;)
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...and yeah, there's never a tool that does exactly what you need. You should have written one ;)
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I was seriously considering writing a tool to do the job, but in the end decided that the extra saving in disk space the was on offer above Apple Lossless wasn't really worth all the hassle.
Although I do have a nice new nasty interview question for job applicants
"I have a backup of my music folder on one drive and the originals split across a number of other folders in different places. Both source and destinations are in Artist/Album directory format. How can I tell which albums are missing from my backups, and give me a list of them."
Let's see how many people think in terms of a quick perl script or similar before they build me an all singing all dancing C# .Net GUI application ;)
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