how many songs/projects in your computer

[jmorris]

I'm wondering,how many songs do you have presently or on average in your computer. I presently have about 40-50. I think the smarter way to handle this many would be to only have a few, save them to DVD or backup hard drive, and import them as they are worked on. I to this point do not. I have many backups of everything from DVD to 3 external hard drives. Am I the norm? Or am I out of control

 

[foreverain4]

i have everything backed up once. if the client wants to keep the project when it is finished, they have to buy their own drive and take it with them. this way i am not responsible for it. if they dont buy a hard drive, i delete it. i stopped burning dvd's a while back. most of the time i could only fit one song per dvd. i have about 12 projects with 9-12 songs each currently on my system.

 

[Track Rat]

I always back up. I track to an HD24 and always transfer that into the PC and then save each individual song to CD-R. Then I save it again with the editing teaks to another CD-R. Although the 8 to 10 tunes (an average project) that I have in the PC are in peril while I'm editing, worst case, I can always go back to the original CD-R or even the HD24 and start over. And about a month ago I had a computer melt down and had to do just that with one tune out of eight.

 

[jmorris]

Foreverain4,
Try the dual layer DVd'S ( if you have a dual layer burner, duh that was dumb,if you had one you'd konw about it!). I have the same issue with DVD space. I can usually get 2 or 3 songs on a DVD in most cases. I like backing up to DVD as I dont have to keep swapping out hard drives in my external drive units. I'm trying to keep all projects on external drives so only the song being worked on is "in the computer"

 

[bryank]

ill usually just keep the final masters on my comuter. once i fell like the recording and mixing part is complete, and i approve of it........ill master it and save the master stereo wave file......................but ill end up ditching/tossing the project file and such away.

so in a nut shell,.....i just keep the masters on my computer.............if i kept the other project files and such........i would ALWAYS be changing the mix, and keep remixing it over and over, and over.........cause im never satisifed with my final products. But usually a person who records/mixes/masters thier own stuff never is.........were so anal that way.

yeah......toss the projects when your done with em, and keep your finished master. if i didnt,.......id still be trying to mix/master a song i did years ago........in which most people think its a great mix.......but im always trying to get more out of it.

save yourself the trouble! mix/master it!......and move on! resist temptation by purposly throwing away the project file!

 

[Bondo]

i only have three projects (sigh), but my computer is only a couple months old, and one of them is a 7 song EP, and the other is a full length album that has been stuck in neutral due to budget problems (not on my end). Hopefully soon to be a couple more, and maybe I can start getting payed if I can get some good work out of this.

 

[Mindset]

I have about 92 tracks w/ vocals, and about 1258 beats finished without vocals to them yet. I usually keep at least 3 back ups' of everything, one back up is located in another city with my partner in crime, and another on RAID & one on DVD just in case something happens.

 

[xstatic]

I have about a terrabyte of stuff on drives right now, plus backups of each on drives, plus countless DVD-r and CD-R backups.