Back Up Your Media Files
In my latest article for Macworld, I look at the problem of backing up media files: music, audiobooks and videos.
Posted: 3/3/2009 by kirk | Filed under: iPod & iTunes | No Comments »Of course it’s a good idea to back up purchased content—hard disks fail eventually and Apple, unlike eMusic, doesn’t let you re-download your content—but it’s also important to back up music you’ve ripped from CDs, or videos they’ve ripped from DVDs. Yes, you can always rip the discs again, but that ignores the amount of time you spend ripping the discs, and how much work is needed to tag the files, add album art, and otherwise manage them. So of you lose the content on your Mac, you’d not only lose any purchased music, but you’d need to spend a lot of time rebuilding your library.
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