Journeyman_2012

Hello Chris....First thing let me say that I love the site. Anything audiophile always grabs my attention without delay. And keeps it.<br /> <br /> Having checked out the J River information on their website & seeing the video that's a part of this article, I think it is the best choice for my needs. <br /> <br /> As to the need for a good powerful computer for the task - well, that's another thing for my 'shopping list'. Most of my work these days is done on a four year old Dell with 4GB Ram. So, I will definitely get something with much more horsepower for the job. Though, I think I already see a usage for this older PC. Especially in having been a musician myself, I am interested in most everything to do with the recordings and so a part of the archiving includes all the liner notes. Quite a task to scan, but luckily I already have a couple of volunteers. Possibly my current machine can eventually be used for this purpose.<br /> <br /> Again, thanks so much for your advice. I will certainly be one of your websites dedicated readers in the future.<br /> <br /> Rob <br />

I'm new to the ComputerAudiophile website and I would like to ask for some advice about putting together my music archive. I have been a journeyman rock & roll musician during the late 60s (thanks to which I was able to seen much of the world), a songwriter, a music producer, a music journalist and now I write film scripts (which invariably) are annotated with great music. I was first truly "introduced" to music (starting with the blues)at the ripe old age of 14 and due to my contacts from then (both top musicians and label employees) I have been, for over forty years, the happy recipient of promos, reviews copies and pre-release freebies of the majority of the music that I have in my collection. 'Thing is', my collection now numbers over 37,000 cds, lps and reel-to-reel tapes and increases at a rate of ca 500 to 750 new recordings per month. I would like to digitize most of the titles (slowly running out of space)so I that can eventually free up much of the space it occupies. At this time, I'm not in a situation where I can 'spring' for a Sooloos set-up, but I read with interest this "Joe Sixpack" idea. I'm thinking of the following and would welcome all comments (and tips) that anyone may have: The 'Joe system' as written - the Dell SX2210T Multi-touch Monitor & J River MC 15 and for such mass storage needs as I have, possibly something such as the Synology DS1010+ NAS server, beginning with 5x 2TB Samsung ECO disks. Later using the Synology DX510 server add-on I could expand the set-up to a total of 20TBs. One key question I have is this - can software such as the J River MC 15 handle such an amount of data - thumbnails, metadata, etc. - that will be generated by such a large archive ?? (I can, of course, contact J River and ask them directly, but these days you often get pointed directly to their forum. So I thought first I'd ask here first if anyone has dealt with data at this level.) The other clear question is, does anyone see potential 'bottlenecks' anywhere else in the 'concept'. In advance, thank you very much for any input, ideas, tips, etc.<br />