john.stone

Cheers for the input guys, it's all most helpful. As an advocate of anti-piracy in music and film, I was blissfully unaware that getting 'rid off' my master copy was breaking the law I hadn't thought of the reversal of that position in not having ever bought the original and having the file on the PC. I'm rethinking that step now. The G5 is non-Intel so won't run Snow Leopard but I'm happy with Leopard for the moment. I'm also going to run the two week demo of Pure Music and see how I get on with it.

5 days, no replies, does my first post stink? Come on, someone must be able to help, even if it's only a link to another thread..... please?

Hi, this will be my first post although I've been lurking and reading for a while. I'd have to say that despite trying my hardest to get a handle on a computer based system, I'm still struggling to work out a best case plan for my first attempt. I have a 1.8GHz PowerPC G5 that I'd like to put into service, and having read some enthusiastic threads on here regarding the G5, I'm sure that it's a good start. Storage wise my thoughts were to add in a G5 Jive, with three WD Caviar Black 2TB drives installed, another WD 2TB in the second internal drive bay and a 300mb WD Velociraptor in the first to take the system software. I've had to add in a Sonnet Tempo SATA card to take the extra drives and I installed 8gb of new Kingston RAM. I suppose my first question would be on what version of Mac OS is best and on how to install the bare minimum given that this will only be used for music and films? Second question then would be on how to set up the four 2TB drives so that I have 4TB in total but mirrored? I'm nervous about losing the 2000 odd CD's that I intend to copy over before selling the lot. And thirdly, if I use iTunes, I assume that I also need something like Ammara or PureMusic to get the best out of the set up. Again, what is generally regarded as being the best ripped file format given that I'm not too bothered about file size and gather lossless is preferable over any lossy file. If space does become an issue I can add further external drives later I suppose. This is all going into my main system which I've been feeding through my CD and TT but have decided if I can get this to work as well then they'll both be resigned to the classifieds. I'll need to replace the Meridian DAC with something USB fed I guess and that should be that. The other thought I had was that of 'storing' my DVD's on the Mac too. Is this as easy a deal as music is or are there other issues with copyright, etc? Basic questions I know and I have tried to answer as many as possible through FAQ's but I'm still not certain and would appreciate any pointers given. All the best, John.