John Hesch

With my recent hard drive crash and subsequent new hard drive installed I have a fresh drive to try to organize in a more efficient way.

On my old hard drive I cataloged my music by artist name and then I dumped all the tracks into the folder. My new system will be set up differently.

First I partitioned my drive into several smaller sized partitions. One of the partitions is called Media. Within the media partition I have Music, LDS Music, and Videos. Since storage has become so cheap I am going to begin encoding all the music that goes onto KZION in both FLAC and MP3. FLAC is a lossless format but is compressed similar to an MP3. If I encounter a corrupted MP3 on KZION or I lose an MP3 I can encode quickly from the FLAC file without having to dig through my CD’s. FLAC can also be played in many different music players.

So my catalog looks like so

1. LDS Music
1. – Artist Name
1. – Album Name
1. – MP3
1. – MP3 version of the files go here
2. – FLAC
1. – FLAC version of the files go here

I do have quite a few compilation CD’s and its always been a struggle to know what to do with them. I think this time I will use the same naming scheme as above and break up the compilation albums.

As soon as I get some spare change I’m going to purchase another 160 GIG hard drive and create a back up to clone each night.