[Info-vax] [OT] Home media files and backup, was: Re: SBB's

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-01-02, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote:
> In article <kc25vk$o3e$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>> Even with just a series of jpegs from some photography, the above would
>> not meet my requirements. For example, I need to be able to quickly walk
>> through a series of photographs to decide what to keep and what duplicates
>> to delete. I might want to, for example, resize some of them as well and
>> I want to be able to do all this on a desktop without having to use a web
>> browser.
>
> I delete obvious goofs on the camera itself.  I still print out photos 
> and put them in books, but at a shop, not at home (cheaper and less 
> effort).  There, I view them on a screen and decide which to print and 
> get them burned to CD.
>

Ha, we have totally different usage patterns. :-)

I never print photographs, all my viewing is electronics/PC based.

I also move around pictures as individual files, not as sets on a CD.

Also, given the size of SD cards, I never bother trying to work out which
is the best of a series of images by looking them on the camera screen
itself at the time of shooting; I only use the camera screen as a quick
check I got at least one good picture.

If I am in a awkward posture or otherwise unsure of what I am shooting,
I just shoot multiple copies and choose the best one(s) later as it's a lot
easier to do that on a large desktop screen than a tiny camera LCD screen.

>> Phillip, if you maintain a MP3 library, what machines and tools do you use
>> to maintain it ? Do you also maintain a transcoded DVD library as well for
>> use on portable devices ?
>
> No.  I actually buy CDs.  I'm thinking about something like the Brennan 
> JB7.
>

I actually buy CDs as well as I prefer having the physical media around.
It's just that the first (and only) thing I do with it is to rip it before
storing it away. The encoding bitrate I choose depends on what's on the CD.

Simon.

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