Tommys Thoughts

I tend to be a very obsessive person when it comes to new things and so I was no different when I got my iPod for Christmas. I went out and bought a NAS drive (Buffalo Tech HD-H160LAN) for my network so that I could put all my music out there. And so I became obsessed with ripping all my cd’s in and making sure all the cover art was there with each song. I had gotten my library up to 3700 songs and thought to myself that I should back it up. For 3 days I tried to back it up to DVD, but every night it would die on me. I guess it was just a vision of things to come. On the 4th night I was unable to access the drive from my laptop and after turning it off and back on (to a loud clunking noise), I found that the drive had crashed and crashed hard. Two months of work and 18 GB of music down the drain because I didn’t have a backup of it. Then I ran across this: CopyPod backup iPod Music from iPod to computer, playlists - I was able to extract all the music off my iPod last night and back into iTunes and only lost those songs that hadn’t been added to my iPod yet. I’m a somewhat happy camper again and hope that this time I will be able to back them up to DVD. I’m still waiting for Buffalo to send me a new drive, so when I get that I will use the drive as a backup to the new hard drive I just bought for my main desktop and hopefully won’t have to lose all this music again.