Audiosafe

I'm not using it but I had spotted it, too. Looks good but I wonder how much it would cost if you needed to restore your music files? I couldn't see any mention of this. Thanks!

Always worth checking you service provider. On my agreement with virgin for instance I can upload to their back up service as much as I like.

Never have though, its all backed up to a spare drive which is taken off site. 

IF they are only charging to restore then its gonna be expensive otherwise their business model will fail spectacularly.

+1

Bandwidth is quite cheap these days, and gets cheaper as time goes by. We are toying with the cost of $10 to $25 per 100GB of restore. A full decision will be taken on release from beta (which is around December).

My personal audio collection is around 100GB, so $10 for a restore is way cheaper than a USB HDD. It is the convenience factor also, having a USB HDD and taking it offsite is not that convenient, where as a simple program you install and forget about, is.

I've been using Carbonite for online backup of our pcs, including my music library, with absolutely superb results. It keeps multiple versions of files, which can be very handy. I've lost hard drives on laptops twice, but got up an running on new or repaired pcs really easily due to the Carbonite backup. It does take a while to upload, and throttles back after the first 200GB, but they genuinely don't limit the amount of data you can backup so are a fraction of the price of companies like Amazon. Have to say I'm very pleased with it. 

Audio de-duplicates very well (if you have the expertise)..., plus audiosafe is going to be the cornerstone of additional services, such as an automatic album art corrector, tag correction, AccurateRip v3. These 3 are very important to us, so even if AudioSafe was to bleed cash (I do not think it will with the expected 1 million users), it will still operate for the next 5-10 years, because it is important.

Currently 2% of the worlds audio is stored on audiosafe, which is quite impressive as it has only operated in beta for the last 2 months.

lol - i bet it does, especially from the hi-fi community. 

There is a good chance of asset appearing on Linux

Excellent if you get round to doing this mrspoon. I would install it on my NAS without hesitation. Thanks for a great product range.

Peter

Thanks Mr Spoon -- this is really good news!

Asset has been so rock-solid for many of us here on the Naim forum.  The only downside has been that, given there are so few WHS choices in the NAS world, many of us are doing the "double hop", and using a separate laptop or PC server just to run Asset.  It works, but loading on to a NAS would certainly help to optimize network traffic.

Hook

PS - Congrats on the success of your entire Illustrate product line -- dbpoweramp and Music Converter are both top drawer IME!   Thanks again.

From the comments made here does MrSpoon need a different designation? 

AS sounds great but probably a little expensive if you have a large collection. But I can't fathom how you can calculate it having 2% of world audio. Can you say more on this, please? Thanks!

Nagoya - I guess it is to do with redundancy and deduplicating. For example, according to one link I found 326 million albums were sold in 2010, 13 of them million sellers. 13 million out of 326 million is about 4%. Yet mrspoon (or you or I) only needs to store those 13 albums once to be able to claim that he has 4% of 2010s music stored. He doesn't need to store a million copies of those albums - just one will do. He probably has to be a bit smarter with tags, and those of his customers who have overriden the standard tags and artwork and how. Just guessing ..

Asset on Fedora - Vortexbox users would be interested.

Tog

We have over 1/4 of a million unique lossless tracks stored on AS right now.

Using AccurateRip and the various disc meta databases, it is an educated guess there are about 2 to 3 million unique discs out there, the same track might appear on multiple discs though.

Bad news taken from the dbpoweramp forum re audiosafe:

"Notice of Termination of Service
Sadly we have to give notice of termination of AudioSAFE, this will happen in or shorly after August 2013.
The concept was sound, sadly uptake in beta was not enough."

adca

There's a crowd sourced kickstarter project reaching delivery called spacemonkey that might be interesting. You get a 1TB networked hard-drive that does a local backup of all your stuff (fast) and then (so they say) uses hundreds of similar spacemonkey drives to store encrypted fragments of your data. Kinda distributed cloud. If it works it would be a lot cheaper than many alternatives.

My off site backup seems to fall  apart these days. Symform on Readynas stopped working for several Duo users, and no answer on there forum why or how to correct itd, and now  audioUnsafe also. I really  liked these  off site automated solutions.

Hopefully Symform will work again soon.

Claus

"Solutions" is the key. With the business model so tenuous I hesitate to call any of them solutions!

"Hope is not a plan," I like to say.