AhPook said:

SquirrelMeat said:

Just look at the difference between the Bowie estate and the Prince estate.

Bowie's site has three pages of CD's to buy. Prince has none. I'm not talking about vault stuff, and the legalites that go with it, I'm talking about the core message, the music. The back calalogue.


With the Prince estate, we get magnets, leggings and keyrings, but not the body of work. We get a 7" single bundled in with a tacky jacket and bank loan priced tamborines.

That's because Bowie had his shit in order when he died.

Although Prince was living VERY WELL financially. His private business affairs was in disarray.

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jstar69 said:

ChocolateBox3121 said:

Dandroppedadime said:

djThunderfunk said:

udo said:

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Reading data from a harddisk should not harm the data. (the head floats over the platter)

It should just add a little wear to the mechanics that move the heads, the platters.

In case of the flash drive:

It's electronics. Writing to the flash adds wear. Reading should not really add wear.

Thanks for that info. I need more hard drives to back up my back ups.... Redundancy seems wise.

Migrate to SSD as a storage solution. Whilst not infallable, certainly better than mechanical drives.

Or even better, back up your stuff in the cloud. If you got Windows 10 then Onedrive is built right into your Windows Explorer so there is no need to actually do anything other than save your stuff in the Onedrive folders. You can even mark them as "online only" so they do not take up space on your hard drive, yet you can still see the files as if they were there.

Alternatively you have the likes of Google Drive, Amazon, Dropbox and whatever Apple provides to name a few.

I probably have around 400 gigs of Prince music/video and have it stored in the cloud, on a mechanical hard drive and an external SSD. Hopefully I have my bases covered.

Rebeljuice said:

djThunderfunk said:

Thanks for that info. I need more hard drives to back up my back ups.... Redundancy seems wise.

Migrate to SSD as a storage solution. Whilst not infallable, certainly better than mechanical drives.

Or even better, back up your stuff in the cloud. If you got Windows 10 then Onedrive is built right into your Windows Explorer so there is no need to actually do anything other than save your stuff in the Onedrive folders. You can even mark them as "online only" so they do not take up space on your hard drive, yet you can still see the files as if they were there.

Alternatively you have the likes of Google Drive, Amazon, Dropbox and whatever Apple provides to name a few.

I probably have around 400 gigs of Prince music/video and have it stored in the cloud, on a mechanical hard drive and an external SSD. Hopefully I have my bases covered.

I would say "redundantly".

Put your stuff in at least two competitor's cloud services,
three being better (this message is sponsored by bonatoc's indecipherable crypted syntax©®™).

Hey, they have 2 x 3 = 6 in planes.
And to think everybody still wants to fly.

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djThunderfunk said:

dustoff said:

Just curious. Hypothetically, if the release (or any official release) were made up ONLY of songs that most collectors might already have -- but in good shape -- would that be a disappointment? If there was a killer compilation with, say, "I Wonder" and "In a Room With No Light" and "Purple Music" and "Wally" and all that, would that be for most fans a good thing, or a bummer?

(And I know that the upcoming release won't be that -- just idle curiosity here.)

Getting upset that official releases contain tracks we've already heard on bootlegs is asinine. We knew that we were essentially consuming "spoilers" but chose to keep on doing so. Many will get mad if a new 12 track CD contains 8 tracks we already have, but, who's fault is that? It's like a kid who peaks at his Christmas presents and then gets disappointed on Christmas morning because there are no surprises.

Yup! that is the deal we made! I do HOPE it is mostly new...but I will get it. Just like a prefer Studio to Live.


But they really need to have some people to consult on these things

Rebeljuice said:

djThunderfunk said:

Thanks for that info. I need more hard drives to back up my back ups.... Redundancy seems wise.

Migrate to SSD as a storage solution. Whilst not infallable, certainly better than mechanical drives.

Or even better, back up your stuff in the cloud. If you got Windows 10 then Onedrive is built right into your Windows Explorer so there is no need to actually do anything other than save your stuff in the Onedrive folders. You can even mark them as "online only" so they do not take up space on your hard drive, yet you can still see the files as if they were there.

Alternatively you have the likes of Google Drive, Amazon, Dropbox and whatever Apple provides to name a few.

I probably have around 400 gigs of Prince music/video and have it stored in the cloud, on a mechanical hard drive and an external SSD. Hopefully I have my bases covered.

I guess I know less than I thought I did. I don't understand the difference between "SSD" & "Mechanical" drives.

I use WD external hard drives, I have 6 of them that range from 1-5 TB. I'm hoping to buy an 8TB soon but don't have the $ yet. I don't use any cloud services. How much does it cost to store 17-18 TB in the cloud? I bet it would take FOREVER to upload...

one thing to remember about the lifespan of some of these drives is they wear out or go bad when used over and over reading and writing... but if you just write once and leave it alone it could last for a long time.

Some thoughts:

'Unreleased' of course means: `unreleased by the record company`. (we will have heard most of it already)

'Material' implies it is not an `album` from the vault but perhaps a collection of whatever they thought would fit together. (or rather: how hard can it be to define in words what you will release 6 months down the road?) (`Unreleased Prince Album coming in September` is much clearer as a message)

'Prince' implies either a marketing ploy (`Prince` sells better than `Revolution` or `New power Generation`) or a hint of the age of the tracks or the type of tracks or a show of misunderstanding whatever they are handling (Prince solo, Prince & The Revolution, etc).

well, only 154 days left until we're listening to it

hopefully, in 2 or 3 months, you know who will find out what songs are on it...

IstenSzek said:

well, only 154 days left until we're listening to it

Don't mention it...

bonatoc said:

IstenSzek said:

well, only 154 days left until we're listening to it

Don't mention it...

Time.

Always.

Goes.

Faster.

Than.

You.

Can.

Comprehend.

-

Don't underestimate time !

IstenSzek said:

well, only 154 days left until we're listening to it

or until some are whining it was not what they wanted or that it was delayed or they already had it or it was not the other version or too short... me... I assume I will be listing to it and burning MP3s to a cd and will likely never open the cd...

no ones mentioned the 1999 remaster than evaporated

luvsexy4all said:

no ones mentioned the 1999 remaster than evaporated

You think they may be a full album of 1999 remastered remasters?
Talk about killing the bike shop.

luvsexy4all said:

IstenSzek said:

Silvertongue7 said:

IstenSzek said:

well, only 154 days left until we're listening to it

Can we please not wish for September to arrive too quickly? I have six weeks holidays before that and I don’t want them gone too fast!

Well, hop on.

You could freeze yourself like Cartman did...

This is very exciting news! I just hope the estate keeps things in order and not just be teasing us, then nothing happens.

bonatoc said:

Silvertongue7 said:

IstenSzek said: Can we please not wish for September to arrive too quickly? I have six weeks holidays before that and I don’t want them gone too fast!

Well, hop on.

if I had a time machine I would make a different trip

love2thenines2003 said:

luvsexy4all said:

no ones mentioned the 1999 remaster than evaporated

The Deluxe project was abandoned just few weeks ago, I heard however that the songs on the new unreleased album'2 come in September might be fulfilled by Trax from 1999 era....but this is not a news ....so....?....wait and see

Why was that?

djThunderfunk said: