Saturday, May 12, 2007

My own private jukebox... anywhere there's an internet connection!

The jury is still out on this service, but it does have potential. Lately, I signed up with MediaMax. For free you get online storage for your files, pictures, but more importantly (for me), music. I've always wanted to have access to my music from another internet connection and now I can have it. I am limited to download capacity per month, but if I need more, I can just pay for it. This is OK by me. It means that while I'm at work or on the road, if I'm jonesing for a little Feist, I can log in and start playing. No having to carry any extra devices around (other than my laptop).

It's gonna take a while to get my entire mp3 collection uploaded (I had 2254 at last count), but I've got the time.

3 comments:

Tim Coughlin said...

Hey Karl...I have a Hard drive here that i have about 6500 mp3s on , but , it decided to go for a shit.the new one has around the same as you have . here is my question - do you know where i might get someone in calgary to recover the data (all it does is click so i think the read arms are screwed)If you can help then your collection will grow a few thousand
let me know

Karl Plesz said...

Tim... I do not have any experience with data recovery services, so I can't make any recommendations.

But I Googled 'hard drive recovery calgary' and got a few hits:

http://www.restoringdata.ca/Prices.html

http://alberta.transparen.com/data-protection-group/data-recovery-service

http://www.cbltech.com/news/nex-data-recovery-2.html

These services are rarely local. They ship your drive away to a recovery lab and send your recovered files to you in the mail on CD or DVD. It isn't cheap either. You're looking at $400 to $1500 for the process - assuming it works.

Tim Coughlin said...

well thanx anyway for the info but it looks like its 1 song at a time