Hi Greg--
I've migrated to exactly the same thing. It works extremely well. Its
not that far from here to compiling the associations we want into a
database record playable/launch-able links.
Note, however, that we can use Spotlight this way because we know
classes of things we have on our computers and we know places and
terms to search. For someone who does not know these-- it looks like
16TB of folders!! Should we stop using the material for 3-5 years
because of illness or hearing loss, it looks like a 16TB mess to the
universe. A global frame of organization seems like the next step to
me. These are pioneer days of sound recording and of greater
interest, historically. I have boxes and boxes-- most of which will
end up in a landfill. Had I started out with an archive template,...
I'd have some 16TB drives to hand over to someone to use almost
immediately.
Do you like the idea of being able to add data as you log and make
excerpts the first and subsequent times? How about the potential to
synchronize assets on the time line?
There are many, valuable, tiny, connections and suspicions we
discover as we log. We just need a way to jot them down so they
correlate grandly. I'm imaging the software tools as "journaling" --
bringing in the experiences of the processes we are going through as
part of the records. Rob D.
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At 9:46 AM +0000 11/7/10, simmosonics wrote:
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>For what it's worth I'm getting by just fine using the Spotlight
>comments field (Macintosh OSX). It's totally free form so I can
>write whatever I want, and I can search on it any time and from
>within any app - just click on the magnifying glass in the upper
>right corner of the screen.
>
>I am trying to correlate sound recordings with images, videos, pdfs,
>URLs and so on, so that I can enter a particular phrase, e.g.
>"elephants chitwan national park" and up comes everything with those
>words in the Spotlight comments field, organised into file types. I
>find that useful for finding matches within all the different
>digital 'assets' I have.
>
>Spotlight does it nicely for me these days, and because I don't
>intend to be going back to Windows in the foreseeable future I don't
>see it as a problem.
>
>I'm also using a Drobo for my mass storage, very impressive and good
>redundancy. Higher up-front costs, but cheaper in the long run. I
>can apparently expand it up to 16TB before I run out of room...
>
>- Greg Simmons
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