disappearing music
Thanks to those of you that wrote to me about ripping vinyl LP's. I
have several options now it seems.
Think Geek has
a `Instant Music Vinyl & Cassette Ripper' which looks like its
for Windows or Mac, but it is USB so perhaps it would work in
Linux. A USB turntable is another option, they can be pricey but it
would be pretty cool to have :-) Lastly, getting a regular
turntable and a small pre amp, would let me use anyone of the many
Linux audio recorders, such as
Ardour which I am somewhat familiar
with.
On my trip, I took along a usb hard drive with all my music, it was
formatted with FAT32. I needed a Windows filesystem that I could
write to in Linux and I wasn't sure how far write support for NTFS
has come along since I last checked. (
ntfs-3g looks promising though)
I copied all my music onto the drive with rsync but didn't have
time to check it with a Windows PC, but it mounted in Linux under
/dev/sda1 and all the files listed ok but when I tried to read the
drive on my laptop the partition had disappeared. I have no idea
what exactly happened. Today I reformatted it using ext3 and
rsync'ed the music back onto the drive. Maybe there is Windows
software that will read ext3 partitions. (Googling tells me that
had I chosen ext2, Windows might be able to read it. sigh.)