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<blockquote data-quote="EndlessMac" data-source="post: 1081545" data-attributes="member: 140470"><p>I also just backup digital music collection to an external hard drive. As long as you have two copies of your music (one on the computer and one on the external) then that should be a well enough backup solution. Transferring your music library to a new computer is easy and newer Macs has a feature called Migration Assistant which will help you transfer everything from your old Mac over to the new one.</p><p></p><p>If you are really paranoid about losing your digital music you can always sign up for an online storage website and have a third backup there. Also before getting rid of your CDs you might want to make sure you ripped the full digital quality rather than using a lower compressed quality. Once the CDs are gone you won't have the opportunity to do it. It will mean the file size will be larger but hard drives are getting much larger these days so it shouldn't but too big of an issue.</p><p></p><p>Lastly you might also want to backup your iTunes playlist if that is important to you. You can easily back them to CD/DVD under the File menu in iTunes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EndlessMac, post: 1081545, member: 140470"] I also just backup digital music collection to an external hard drive. As long as you have two copies of your music (one on the computer and one on the external) then that should be a well enough backup solution. Transferring your music library to a new computer is easy and newer Macs has a feature called Migration Assistant which will help you transfer everything from your old Mac over to the new one. If you are really paranoid about losing your digital music you can always sign up for an online storage website and have a third backup there. Also before getting rid of your CDs you might want to make sure you ripped the full digital quality rather than using a lower compressed quality. Once the CDs are gone you won't have the opportunity to do it. It will mean the file size will be larger but hard drives are getting much larger these days so it shouldn't but too big of an issue. Lastly you might also want to backup your iTunes playlist if that is important to you. You can easily back them to CD/DVD under the File menu in iTunes. [/QUOTE]
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