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In the past, there have been some posters on this forum who recommended packaged music servers because they would not have to know anything about computer audio. There have been others who recommended the WAV file format because it sounded better than Flac or other lossless compression formats. These recommendations are rarely accompanied by proper cautions about potential problems.
The link below shows what can happen when a user doesn't understand the consequences of his choices. Some things to learn:
- If you are going to use a packaged music server, be sure you understand how to back up your music files and how those files will be named and organized in folders. You should also know the disk format the music server will use for its normal storage and for backup disks it makes.
- Does the music server produce a backup of its library database as well?
- What about tags? Does the music server write tag information back to the files or just store it in its database?
- If you store music in WAV files, does the music server store tag information in the WAV files? If so, will that information be read and understood by music player software and utilities? Which ones will the server's method be compatible with?
About WAV files in general,
- Is there tag information in your WAV files? What server or software wrote it and what other servers or software will be able to read it?
- Do the folder and file names contain enough information and format it consistently enough to recover the metadata you need to know the contents of the files?
I'm not making an argument against either either packaged servers or the WAV format but I am urging that any recommendations be accompanied with adequate advice about backup, recovery and compatibility.
my blog: http://carsmusicandnature.blogspot.com/
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The key point was there was no backup.
I have my music backed up onto no less than 4 different USB drives in three different locations.
You need to define "Packaged Server" SPECIFICALLY as a product with an internal hard drive that keeps the data in a proprietary format. NOT all servers have on board storage, and of those NOT all use a proprietary file format.
I have never used, and will never use a product like this.
The Sony uses this scheme, and that is why it is DOA.
thanks a lot for that.
I like FLAC and am happy with that, your link helps a lot of the puritans however, there's too much work involved for me to use WAV with only minimal benefit.
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