iTunes Backup?

dubadubdub

I have about 16gb of music that I'm looking to backup. I was considering taking a .mac account but it won't have enough storage space. So is the only answer to burn a load of DVDs? If I do this, will it keep the track names, artist etc?

Is there a way to zip the files down to a size that would fit on a .mac account?

Sorry for all the question!

Gordon

Why don't you just buy a cheap external firewire drive? You can use it to back up your documents too.

I doubt zipping the files will reduce them that much, but take ten and test it out with them. The only thing you could do is to re-encode them back to a lower quality mp3 or aac file.

sturgo

16GB is only 4 or 5 DVDs. Easy!

Ham'nd'egger

Gordon wrote:

Why don't you just buy a cheap external firewire drive? You can use it to back up your documents too.

I doubt zipping the files will reduce them that much, but take ten and test it out with them. The only thing you could do is to re-encode them back to a lower quality mp3 or aac file.

I have virtually all of my music files encoded with AAC and on my Mac, I'm looking at 14Gigs for some 4,000 tracks. Admittedly some of them are short but that said it is still a large library with more to write up to my Hard Disc. Even if you zipped any tunes or ripped them on the smallest format possible, .Mac can barely hold a fraction of your library unless you pay for massive amounts of storage. You are far better off following Gordons idea and getting a external drive, it's almost as cheap as a year of .Mac, and your accessing your files is easy hat.

dubadubdub

Thanks for the replies. Think I'll probably go the DVD route.