We've had a great 20 years!

[Lobito]

Originally Posted by zaval80

This site is a torrent tracker requiring login/password. There's also a forum I've mentioned on the previous page, also requiring login/password - where it is possible to run private torrents and to post links. There is a "blogspot" model - a site having a "c-box" (or a "shout box"), where uploaders have to use login/password, but their links (posted in the "box") are open for everybody. Lastly, the kind of a specialized forum where links are in the open like Guitars101. (In any case, as long as certain popular upload sites are used, it's even possible to upload to them without logging to the said upoad sites.) So there are at least four different models for a new site.

everybody knows this. whats the point?

[zaval80]

Originally Posted by Lobito

being close to "non existent" is hardly up and running, in my book at least.
by up and running i meant having at least 1 upload.

I found some perfectly working links there, did not count, but 1 upload is in place.

[zaval80]

Originally Posted by Lobito

everybody knows this. whats the point?

The point is, there are sites, there are running sites, so in the case TTD ceases to exist, there still are ways to upload and download music. You said yourself that not everybody knows about G101.

[lgerard]

Originally Posted by dreamliner77

How bad is the hard drive? I have some experience in data recovery

It is beyond saving. I tried to use an alternate power source but the files are all corrupted. I gave it to a friend who is an old school IT guy and he couldn't do anything with it either. It is my fault for constantly putting off transferring them to a newer drive. Stupid poetic justice that it would be the ones that can't be replaced

Thanks for asking though

[Lobito]

Originally Posted by zaval80

The point is, there are sites, there are running sites, so in the case TTD ceases to exist, there still are ways to upload and download music. You said yourself that not everybody knows about G101.

yes those types of running sites with and without passwords etc, have been running for some time you can access now.
i asked 4 people this morning and none had heard of guitars101.

[Thunderwing]

Originally Posted by zaval80

I think everybody knows about G101

I certainly don't, care to elaborate ??

Anyone knows a place where I can upload my Pinkpop torrents ??

[zaval80]

Originally Posted by Thunderwing

I certainly don't, care to elaborate ??

Anyone knows a place where I can upload my Pinkpop torrents ??

Guitars101.com/forums/

[tkc43]

thank you

[thesabman]

Originally Posted by lgerard

Very sad to see the demise of this fine website. Big thanks to those who managed to fan the embers of STG into something that lasted for 20 years, that is quite an achievement, and one I am very thankful for.
You have certainly earned the right to spend your time listening to and enjoying music without concerning yourselves with the never ending details of its distribution.

On an equally sad note I just discovered that a hard drive issue wiped out all my beloved Neko Case recordings that I downloaded from here. I will never be able to get them back as they seem to have been consigned to dead torrent land. Oy. it's always something.....

That's why I burn all my music to CD's. I've heard so many people comment over the years that they lost all their music to hard drive crashes. Put your music to CD's, then you won't have that problem.

[PanTau]

Originally Posted by thesabman

That's why I burn all my music to CD's. I've heard so many people comment over the years that they lost all their music to hard drive crashes. Put your music to CD's, then you won't have that problem.

Theoretically that would be possible, then I would have to burn 50,000 CDs + X, but I would reach my limits when storing these CDs, my room here in the nursing home is only about 4 by 4 meters and is already so overcrowded that the nurses complain that they can hardly look after me properly ...

PanTau

[AlexPhoenix]

Originally Posted by thesabman

That's why I burn all my music to CD's. I've heard so many people comment over the years that they lost all their music to hard drive crashes. Put your music to CD's, then you won't have that problem.

CD's often deteriorate over time and become unplayable. I use hard drives but keep a backup clone of each drive in case one fails. Plus there is always cloud storage!

[WilliamFruntz]

If it's important irreplaceable documents, I have one master drive and two back up drives. I haven't done it in a while, but I used to also burn blu-rays as another layer of back up and keep them all in a fire proof safe.

[thesabman]

Originally Posted by AlexPhoenix

CD's often deteriorate over time and become unplayable. I use hard drives but keep a backup clone of each drive in case one fails. Plus there is always cloud storage!

I've heard about CD's deteriorating over the years but I'm happy to say that I've never had one go bad on me. And I've had them since 1987. Only time one went bad was when I dropped one getting out of my car & it hit the asphalt driveway & got scratched. I still have hundreds of cassette tapes that still play. I guess it all boils down to how you store your music, whether it be be vinyl, tapes or CD's.

[dandrew]

Originally Posted by AlexPhoenix

Plus there is always cloud storage!

Bingo.

[78jazz]

Originally Posted by thesabman

I guess it all boils down to how you store your music, whether it be be vinyl, tapes or CD's.

I do a decent job of storage and I have never had a CD die on me.

At this point, I would use hard drives only as backups to discs.