Completists - how do you store and play all your shows?

[Stuart]

Yeh it is (and I'm glad of it) an ever moving and expanding collection, there must still be many recordings out there in folks' attics who just aren't aware of this project.

I also splashed out on a 1Tb external, which is probably quarter full now of JP stuff. This I use to shuttle my collection between my home PC and the one where I stay when I'm working, and back up the contents onto one of the PCs.

The file structure is split between sessions, shows and individual F50 playlists. 

The shows organised into a folder per year.
I preface all show names with yyyy-mm-dd so that they can be organised by date order. Mixtapes of uncertain vintage are usually labelled yyyy-mm-xx or yyyy-mm-d1d1-d2d2 or yyyy-xx-xx depending on how much I know about the show dates. Then using Media Monkey I batch copy the file names to the track title tag so that they can be sorted the same way by iTunes etc which don't look at Folder/filename structures.

About half of the collection is on my iPod classic, synced to the external HDD, so that I can play shows in the car. Some wma shows I need to duplicate to aac or mp3 to play on the iPod.

On my home PC I run Flowserver so that all the shows on the external HDD are browsable/playable on a Pure Evoke Internet Radio connected to the main hifi. 

I doubt whether I would ever need to get a bigger HDD to store it all, but I'm probably at the two iPod stage, though obviously I don't need the whole collection on an iPod at the same time!

Stuart

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Eddie Duffy" <eddie.duffy@...> wrote:
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> Hi Stuart,
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> I do indeed keep everything, on a 1Tb external disk which I sporadically back up to another one. One of these days I'll stretch to a RAID 5 setup, but not just yet.
> 
> My original idea was to burn my collection to disc once I had everything that was out there to be downloaded & traded, but that was a wee bit naïve of me. There's been such a relentless amount of stuff that a) it's a constantly moving target, so that a DVD set would be out of date as soon as I burnt it; and b) the set would now stretch to (ulp) *66* DVDs. :-o
> 
> Usually when I'm at working (from home) I'll have something playing on the laptop, which is very often a Peel show. Or I'll listen in the car to my MP3 Walkman plugged into the car stereo. This will be loaded up with a few of my fancies for that week, and there'll quite often be a Peel show somewhere in the mix.
> 
> Eddie.
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Stuart" <stuartb@> wrote:
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> > Just wondered about the various ways folks organise store and play all the old shows - I assume some of you are as sad as me and try to keep them all.
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