Hey #SoundDesign and #GameAudio - I am looking for external drive recs (Mac OS) to use as a sample drive.
The Western Digital one I just bought is a lemon and I'd like to cast a wider net for options.
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Replying to @grhufnagl
Should it be portable or not? I need a portable drive, so I am using a 4 TB LaCie rugged in RAID0 and has been really happy about. However, my library is 3.7 TB now, so I need another solution soon
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Replying to @nikolaj_dehaan @grhufnagl
Are you compressing/packaging the audio or does that not make sense for
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Replying to @ErikHoyjor @grhufnagl
Lossy is a no-go for source material becaouse of fiedlity and metadata, but marvelous when putting sounds into the game :) I know
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Yeah, I’m using FLAC. There’s some magic with Soundminer that allows you to embed metadata in FLAC and use it. I have no idea how/why it works, but it works beautifully except for the 24-bit limitation.
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Replying to @markkilborn @nikolaj_dehaan and
So you convert your recorded source to FLAC, apply metadata to it and use these converted files in your library? What do you do with your WAVs, keep them on a separate external drive, how are these managed?
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Replying to @epachecosounds @nikolaj_dehaan and
The Mirror process in Soundminer automatically copies the metadata across. I kept the WAVs on external drives for a while. But finally I just nuked them from orbit.
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When you say the mirror process copies the metadata across, do you mean you're applying metadata to your converted FLACs and it's respectively applied to the WAVs? For the mirroring to happen are both file types in the same folder directory or can you set a mirroring path?
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Replying to @epachecosounds @nikolaj_dehaan and
The mirror function in Soundminer is a batch converter. So what I do is take WAVs with embedded metadata, run them through this converter, it turns them into FLAC and embeds the WAV’s metadata into them as part of the process.
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