Re: [IRCA] transferring recordings from cassettes to digital media

[Brett Saylor <bds2@xxxxxxx>]

The discussion of conversion of tapes to digital leads me to ask how 
people name and store their digital audio files... when I first started 
cataloging recordings on the computer, I named the files starting with 
call letters, city, state, then frequency, time (in UTC) and date. Over 
the years I've changed to naming the files starting with the frequency, 
making it easier to sort.  Since I have many gigabytes of files, I have 
a folder for each AM frequency on my hard drive (and one for long wave) 
e.g. 530, 540, etc. up to 1710. I create folders for the TA splits as I 
need them. When I use Total Recorder to record TOH ID's I'll add the 
frequency, call, city and state by hand to the file name as I review them.

Also, how do people back up their files? I burn a set of DVDs about once 
a year and take them to my office to keep them off-site in case a 
disaster happened at my house. I also have an external hard drive that I 
copy the files to once every few months.

Just curious what others do,

Brett Saylor


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