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Originally posted by Biohazard That sucks man The bad part is that now AG is gone allot of the rare stuff is imossible to find, even the TA hub doesn't have all the stuff im looking for.

+ the bad thing is that I dont know the name out of my head of a lot of stuff, only the known ones...
Maybe I should stick to dloading the best tracks only.

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Best of the best:
Laurent Garnier - sambu

Did you try using Scandisk or Norton's? BTW most of the guys/gals here suggest you backup your data. I mean i hate to be a prick but in all those days of collecting MP3's didn't you once ever think to back it up? I mean the stories of people losing shit off their hard drives is common as hell. I always download a CD's worth (700) and then burn it straight away.

By the way -- maybe you can look at this as a way to get a fresh start and only get the tunes you really like. I sometimes like to collect tunes until i realise i'm doing it and stop. I then only get the tracks i really like because i like them rather just for collection sake.

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Originally posted by TranceSeeker Worst day of my life !!!! OMFG I just lost 12 gigabyte MP3z. More then 2000 tracks, OMG im really fucked up now I fucking can't believe, why me???? oh my God....... I always wanted the biggest trance collection sparing everything that came out, now Im done, I quit dloading trance. Whole my life I spent dloading the biggest and best trance all over the world. Fuck life !!!!!

u didnt try and install windows xp by any chance?

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Originally posted by DuMonde TrAnCeR u didnt try and install windows xp by any chance?

no mate, I have win2000 pro, but anyway nothing will get my mp3z back so I just have to live with it ^_^

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Best of the best:
Laurent Garnier - sambu

Yep, everytime I get near 700 megs of singles I go ahead and burn them to disk
Better that way, for 'safe keeping' sakes


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i got about 80gigs of trance. im pretty quiet around here, but i got about 400 livesets, tons of albums, and a shitload of singles. man, i wouldnt even know how to cry if i lost my shit. sorry for ur loss, maybe i can help u replenish ur supply. PM me man.. =)
all the best.

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Like a few people mentioned...

always make back ups on cdr and also catalogue every mp3 usin winamp and paste to notepad so you know exactly what mp3s you have, and what disc there on, 12 gigs isn't that much fella unless your on 56k if your on dsl or cable u can claw back all those mp3s with in a month no worries! i will sort out a list of what i have in my collection which is very upto date and post a link so you can get a good idea of what to get!

hope this will help ya

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'J00F - Tour De Trance'
'Age Of Love - Age Of Love (Marco V Remix)'
'Nick Rafferty and the Coalition - Fake in it'
'Aluna - all i need is time (slusnik luna club mix)'
'Uberdruck Presents Drugface - Fill Me (Uberdruck Remix)'

Im sorry for your loss m8, I know the PAIN!!!!

I lost 2 Gigs of MP3z recently, so I downloaded some Data recovery software which reclaimed some of the tunes but not all, as it depends on what staus the del/crashed file's are in.

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Top Atm:
Activa - Perception (Original Mix)
Coast 2 Coast - Cut Me
Icaria - Onwards (Original Mix)
Hiroyuki Oda - Transmigration
Shadowrider - Blue Horizon (Luke Terry Remix)

I know how you feel. I just lost 13 gigz of mp3s yesterday due to hard drive failure.

Damn...I feel your loss. All this talk about losing our music collections is scarying me. I have about 13gb on this computer. I should be getting a new computer before I go back to school. So it makes sense for me to start backing everything I downloaded in these past few months to CD-R. My question is, is there any good back up software that will let me automatically span the 12gigs across a few CDs? I dont want to have to copy 700mb of stuff individually to diff direcs to burn. im too lazy..hehe

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Originally posted by Vesa This is an excellent advice. It was only recently when I discovered how to make a proper catalogue about mp3s on CD-R, so I'll list it here. Assuming you are using Internet Exploder 5: (BUT DO NOT DO THIS WHILE YOU ARE BROWSING OTHER PAGES WITH EXPLODER; THIS OPERATION HAS A NASTY SIDE EFFECT OF MAKING OTHER EXPLODER PAGES CRASH ): - "Select All" files on the CD-R from the edit menu - right click on the highlighted area, and "Enqueue in Winamp" - wait a while (so that the enqueueing operation has time to complete) and start Winamp - press CTRL+ALT+G to make a Winamp playlist - "Save As" the resulting Exploder page using the name that you also write on the CD-R and CD-R case This was a bit off-topic, so back to the real issue of the topic starter: The hard disk crash can be survived. There will very soon to be a complete catalogue about almost all trance tracks on http://tds.trance.nu . The majority of these can already be found at the Juno release archive that you can get from: (EDIT: The following link will work on Monday afternoon because the www server of our department also apparently exploded): http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/karhu/j...enewhtmlversion Just read though the catalogue on a quiet evening, reminisce about all these superb tracks, and make a list of which tracks you used to have. Then you download them all on the DC Hub, and everything will be OK. If some rare track is missing on the Hub, someone probably has the vinyl and rips it for you.

Here's the BIG problem: On DC's TA Hub, there are only ~200 users in there at a time. Most of them have similar stuff. What if you only have a 56K modem and you just lost 120 GB of RARE SINGLES that no one has on the hub? Even if u have CD-Rs, there's BOUND to be stuff that you didn't back up. We're talking about 120 GB of singles that can't be found today because there SO rare and they're by artists that aren't well known.

Also, about that Trance database site, there's NO WAY that that site can have EVERYTHING. WHY? EVERYONE would have to know about it. Until that happens, EVERY track title won't be archived there.