Farewell to my digital music. Dap Dippin' in my Dreams
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We lost everything in a computer incident on Wednesday. Oh, I've been able to restore a considerable amount from my back-up drive (though the back-up software would not work) and I had a lot of good stuff on flash drives. But the music and many of the photos are toast.
Funny thing. I lost Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. http://mog.com/Spike_1/blog/1527114 And every night since then, that funky music has been playing in my head and I've been dreaming about it. Last night I dreamed that I was organizing a convention on Daptone music and I was setting up listening stations with digital players and headphones so people could sit and listen to their choice of songs by * Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. (Woooo! At the point in that sentence where * appears, Windows media player suddenly started playing this song! What's happinin'?)
I haven't been able to buy a replacement for Dap Dippin' yet, but I picked up the Daptone free sampler again. This funky collection includes great cuts by Jones and the Dap-Kings, Sugarman Three, with and without Naomi Davis, The Poets Of Rhythm, Budos Band, the Daktaris, Bob & Gene, Como Mamas (From Como Now ), and Menahan Street Band. You could do a lot worse for a daily sound track. It's not often you hear a sampler that makes you want to get and listen to every artist featured on there. This one positively does that to me.
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Sorry to hear about your misfortune. Earlier this year I was having trouble burning stuff, so I turned over my external burner and the external hard drive that was on top of it, in order to find the burner's serial number in case tech support asked for it. In doing so, you guessed it, everything in my external burner vanished, and even the best data recovery outfit in the U.S., located in Wisconsin, couldn't help. A lot of the music is on my CD's, but photos and downloaded music is another matter.
Also, I learned that I hadn't needed an external burner because it turns out that my laptop had its own internal burner.
Those darn computers again - let's dance on their little dead circuit boards to the beat of the Daptones.
In case you're interested, there's plenty of online backup services with many of them being the free variety. Check out
http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/free-online-backup.shtml
for instance.
From Lucinda Williams '98 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road:
This is a fear I have..sorry about that Spike 1.
Holy moly, Dabeef! Looks like a lot of info, there. My Staples Easy Tech guy recommended https://www.dropbox.com
Spike, I certainly sympathize! Ouch about the irony.
Thanks, Cody. Really, though. I can't get over the fact that I've focused so much on the lost Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. To the point of all this music in my head and dreams. What can it mean?
She is a heart stopper..mentioned her as well in my last post.
External Back Up
Online Back Up
Burning your downloads to CD's every 10 songs or so and adding it to your Hard Copy Library.
Three things I do. Why....... I lost it all once too.... ONCE!
seriously, its a dark day when our music is lost. let us pour out a 40 for our fallen brethren!
): i'm sorry to hear it, Spike 1. it's happened to me at least three times. the last time it happened, i still lost music but had previously been able to back most of them up.
i'm intending to buy an external hard drive for the backups.
I use the most space-intensive system for digital music: Music CDs. There's nothing like an increasing stack of music CDs to make me wonder whre it will all end. Then I read about folk who have lost music downloads when the HDD takes a dive. Then I go back to searching for physical space for hard copy music, looking at the CD cover art, translated foreign language lyrics, and haul out the olc CD player to do the "Is the CD better than MP3?" challenge. It's also time for a date with Carbon Copy Cloner...just in case.
Thanks for the Mitleid, everyone. I like the off-site storage idea great, but for large gigabites it costs. I'm to timid to erase what's on the backup drive now to reuse it, so I'm limping along with one I junked from my daughter's computer until Black Friday, when I hope to upgrade to a big new one. I put documents on Dropbox.com. 5GB free.
I like the physical solidity of CDs and the "sing-along sheets". A thought: perhaps a CD is merely an extension into our temporal and corporeal dimension of some ethereal being? Music being a spiritual being.
Actually, as an archive device, the CD is amazingly ephenmeral. They degrade faster than most people think. There's a better chance of archeologists in the next century being able to play our records than for our children to enjoy our CDs in their original quality. Sooo. let's all get two REEEEEEALY Big external hard drives and back up everything to one and switch it all to the other one every year to avoid degradation of the digital files by neglect on only one drive.
How much worse than CD is MP3? I hate the idea that MP3 is lower quality and that store-bought ones are lower quality than the ones you can make yourself. Then I think, when was the last time I got to sit in the living room and listen on my hifi? There, I've said it. "Hifi"! By the time the kids are outta here, I could be a deaf codger. Heck! I'm already half there. Proud to be a codger. So, as my mother-in-law used to say, "Pig Snoots On 'em!"
Pig Snoots Part I (single version. couldn't you spare the album version? Why not Part II?) by Natural Bridge Bunch
Sorry to hear about your loss, Spike 1.
Like you said, though, that is so weird (in a cool way!) that you actually DREAMED about Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings---and then THAT song came on while you were posting!
Dang!
As I suspected, making this post acted as a sort of exhorsism. I haven't been haunted by this music since.
well then, I'm glad it's over! (-:)
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, is a terrible thing to lose. I've been there too. I don't have the money to rebuild a physical library, or re-buy all the mp3s I lost, so I extend my library with online listening services like Rhapsody and other free ones.
You may like this when you are in the mood for more Sharon. Also this at Grooveshark. Hope these help ease the pain a bit.
Now that's what the doctor ordered, Rx!!! I've been thinking about these services since they announced the forthcoming Mog thing. Is that what it's supposed to be? I got the golden ticket, but I'm ready to emialy them to ask if I should just wait or put my name in when the corner of the window peals down. I can't help thinking it's a lot of work to set those up. Also, I like to hear odd stuff.
Speaking of Odd Stuff. I stumbled upon Weirdo Records yesterday. I haven't been able to explore the site even half way, but it looks like a real mind-bender. Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraisos UFO This here little number will clean out the old attic for ya.
As far as I know, your golden ticket will be redeemable in a few weeks. Then, you'll be able to see if MOG has the odd stuff you like to listen to. If not, the ones I gave you have lots of free listening as well- although, probably not the acidmoms93.
They sure can bring the noise! OMG.....