Topic: Digital Archiving of Live Shows -- Advice question

[Brian Skalinder]

Wow!   With all these backup versions you guys do, have you ever gone back to do anything with the 24 bit versions of the shows?

Well, I suppose so, if you consider the fact that the 24-bit versions are the ones to which I actually listen.  The 16/44 versions are only for those fellow music fans who've not yet made the jump to 24-bit.

[svenkid]

lol, I didnt even see fujifilm on that list of dvds 

[Gordon]

lol, I didnt even see fujifilm on that list of dvds 

if it's a made in japan fugi it's taiyo yuden.    the made in taiwan Fugi's are on there under 2nd class media.

[Oysterhead00]

After getting my newest toy, a Lightscribe DVD burner, I archive my FLACs on a DVD+R with a nice fancy image on it and keep them in a binder that I have by my computer.  Went back and did all my Masters that way and it looks really cool...much better than my chicken scratch written on there.  I also burn both the original unedited file from my CJB3, the edited Wav before I split it and the CD Wave cue sheet for how I split it on another regular DVD+R that I stick in a spindle and it goes it my closet and I forget about it.  Had one show that magicially got corrupted so this redundancy is great to have.  I only record in 16-bit/44.1 so I don't have multiple versions that I have to worry about. 

[bgalizio]

I do the following for backups:

24bit master WAV on DVD+R
24bit master FLAC on DVD+R
24bit edited and tracked FLAC on DVD+R & external HD (Squeezebox 3 library)
24bit edited and tracked on DVD-A
16bit edited and tracked FLAC on DVD+R & external HD (Squeezebox 3 library)
16bit edited and tracked on CD-R

I also keep most of the FLACs on my internal HD (but I haven't taped nearly the amount of shows as some/most of you). As a result, they are also on another external HD that is a monthly mirror of my internal HD. I back up my internal HD files weekly (or before/after a major change) to an external HD as well, so many of the FLACs are backed up there as well. This is all in addition to trading most of my recordings via BT, FTP, archive, etc. I think I'm pretty well covered

[tfs8271]

Why keep a master Flac & master WAV?

I don't do 24 bit as the 660 is 16bit max. I burn master WAV to DVD-R and edited track version FLAC to DVD-R. I did just buy a 300GB harddrive that has gotten me lazy on the DVD-R backups. 

[bgalizio]

Why keep a master Flac & master WAV?

Just for extra backup. Generally, the master WAV will be on one DVD+R, while the master FLAC and tracked FLAC will both be on another DVD+R.

[lbgspam]

Thanks guys. Lots of great strategies!