Ok so i have like 1000 something songs on itunes and i want to take them off my computer but i want them easly accesible so when i want to update my ipod...i figured easiest way would be to put them on a zip disk...my question is will it be fast to load them all up i mena generally zip fiels are but i dont know..becasue i wanna put them all on thier then delete them..so yea if you understand what im saying plz help me out..will what i want to do work?
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I dont.
Are you wondering how fast it would be? Not as fast as your hd but itll do.
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Are you trying to get files copied off your computer, and then deleting them off of your hard drive? Zip disk, CD, DVD, or USB device will all pretty much work the same, depending on our computer and how much each device can hold and how much you need to transport.
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Yes i want to put them on a zip disk and then delete them off of my computer. But when i need to add songs to my ipod im going to need to put all the songs back on the computer..what i wanna know is will this take long or just have to unzip the file and wa-la?Comment
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zip files != zip disks
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I hope this is useful, sorry if its useless
If you are going to back up the files on a zip disk, that will work just like a hd, cd, whatever as long as it isnt compresses. Any compression will have to be extrcted for I tunes to read. The fastest way would be to burn to dvds as far as I know.
Zip disks? Wasnt that Iomega or something? Are they new or old? Do they still make em? Ive got a old external somewhere...Comment
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Zip disks are so freaking slow.
Much faster to burn to DVD or buy a spare Hard Drive.Comment
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zip disk slow? no not really..burning to dvd is slow (at least bruning movies is) yea i want to put them on a zip disk and that compresses them then when i need them i want to unzip them (uncompress or expand) and then use them i just want to make sure it wotn take ours on end to do..and i wanna make sure it will work before i delete 700 something songs off of my computer and end up having to put them all back on ...no fun.Comment
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Do what I did.
Put them all on your iPod.
Delete from computer.
When you want them again, use an extracting program, such as Broken Helix if you're using a mac.
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Get an external Firewire HD. That's what I have.
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MP3s are already compressed, so when you .zip them it's not going to make them all that much smaller.
Zip drives are small and slow. It would be much faster to just burn them to a DVD would be faster. Not just in the burning process, but also the restore process.
To be honest, for the price, the best thing to do is buy a 2nd hard drive and just put all your data on there and you won't have to worry about space.
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It will work, just take a while.
So zips are running off the same ol platform? I know they came out with larger disks but are the drives any faster?
Dvds are slow to burn but fast to read once its outa the way. The compresion could take the most time, but I dont think you can even compress mp3 much more(Ive never tried)
It seems that you want to use your zips so rock on. If your worried, test it.
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Reason i want to use the zip is becasue i have a 750mb external zip drive so only thing im spending money on is zip disk..which arent tha bad, im sure alot less then an external hardrive
and i dont use a mac so i dont know how easy it would be to take the files from my ipod..i wasnt even sure you could do that i always wondered..but i guess im going to give the zip a try.
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You uh.Originally posted by CKY_Alliance
Don't NEED a mac. I said programs LIKE that.
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Then just use multiple zip disks and don't try and compress them.
I would how ever make two copies. Any media can go bad and it's always a good idea to have at least two copies when archiving.Comment
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