It's by far the easiest way to transfer music from one machine to the next, since you can keep the file structure intact that way, and move it all with one drag and drop, without the file sizes becoming issues.
Plus, I've discovered that a couple of really old hard drives that were too ridiculously corrupted to be read via my computer could actually be accessed using my western digital media box. I have yet to figure out how that's useful, but in a test run, it played a Billy Joel song I had downloaded from Napster in the 1990's onto a hard drive that my computer alternately reads as either a brick, or a big pile of viruses, depending on its mood. So back into the static bag went that hard drive, with some hope in the back of my mind about someday retrieving the files I want from it. (Not the Billy Joel song, I've long since bought that legally, I assure you.)
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Date: 22 May 2011 09:21 pm (UTC)Plus, I've discovered that a couple of really old hard drives that were too ridiculously corrupted to be read via my computer could actually be accessed using my western digital media box. I have yet to figure out how that's useful, but in a test run, it played a Billy Joel song I had downloaded from Napster in the 1990's onto a hard drive that my computer alternately reads as either a brick, or a big pile of viruses, depending on its mood. So back into the static bag went that hard drive, with some hope in the back of my mind about someday retrieving the files I want from it. (Not the Billy Joel song, I've long since bought that legally, I assure you.)