I got a bunch of random CD's. Most of them burnt cd's and some are actually pretty good. Some of these are over ten years old and are in pretty bad shape with scratches and stuff but still seem to play okay in my computer. A few of them skip a little. Some of this stuff is music I could not get back. Should I try to recopy each disc to a fresh disc? Or should I take it somewhere like subway games that does scratch repair?
If they play ok on your computer I would copy them to an external hard drive. Then you will never lose the music. You could always try to copy them to another CD if that's how you prefer to listen to music. See what happens. I have all of mine on an MP3 player now but keep that backed up on my hard drive just incase something happens to it. I have a lot of stuff that would be hard to replace also.
Some of these I don't know what the track names or artists are I would only be guessing. I don't know how to name it. I will put them on my external hard drive. Those things are awesome. Even if the computer goes down it doesn't take your music and shit with it
Name them whatever you want. It's your music. It doesn't really matter what its called. Call it whatever you want so you will know what it is.
no. if you don't know the name, you listen to the song. that website should be programmed delete. most songs have lyrics, and after enjoying your music, you type in a few words of the most common lyrics. done it for years. if it doesn't have lyrics, you will find the artist, because you will be listening.
hard to do with EDM which has few lyrics if any that website set off my sketch-O-meter for some reason tho.
Then use shazam if you have a smartphone or tablet, is there a browser version? I dunno. then you can re-name the music to what it is, put it on a USB, then you have it forever... well, until you lose your USB lol
can someone explain shazam to me? How does it work and why did some previous poster say that it should be deleted?
Download the shazam app on your phone. Play the song and let the app listen to it. The app will recognize the song and tell you the name of the artist and song.
It takes a digital fingerprint and then compares that to it's database. I would imagine it is for some hippy reason.
Polish them with peanut butter http://www.instructables.com/id/Fix-any-CD-with-Peanut-Butter/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oKoNiBwWcg"]CD Cleaning - Peanut Butter - YouTube
I would not bother to try and repair them if I were you. 10 years old, they will wear out eventually. So yeah copy them onto a hard disk if you still can. Then you can burn the same cd as often as you need
Well external drives still fail and do so at a much higher rate than internal drives. Check the warranty, I have never seen an external drive with a warranty more than three years, many are only two. The best/safest way to go is to get an actual NAS (Network Attached Storage) device. Western Digital and Seagate both make decent ones. They usually have a better warranty and construction. Backing up important things to a device like a WD Passport drive or similar is asking for trouble. Those "pocket drives" are mainly designed for convenience of data transfers and such, not really designed as back-up devices regardless what the ads say.
