Need software help...ideas?

[StereoInstaller1]

OK, here is the situation: I have about 70GB of CDs in .WMA and MP3 on my hard drive at work and at home. All full albums, all in folders, all properly labeled.

I want to synchronize anything new I get between work and home, and keep the 2 or 3 other hard drives sync'd too.

I really do not want to do this manually, as in compare folder by folder what has changed. Anyone know of a nice bit of free software to keep all of this in order?

I have another 300 or so CDs to put in this, and I really don't want to swap that manually, that would suck balls.

Thanks, guys.

Luke

[Turf1600]

Burn them all and ship them to me.

[delfin]

you can use gotomypc or some other kind of remote desktop to access EVERYTHNG on the computer with the music from anywhere you can get an Internet connection. You could do that and copy all the music from one to the other or just keep the music on the 1 as you can play the music anywhere.

[nmlss2006]

One of the 'proper' ways would be

http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/trac/wiki/CodaHOWTO/Building

It is, however, (very) nontrivial.

[StereoInstaller1]

Burn them all and ship them to me.

Mail me a hard drive! 72GB and growing, all ripped from CD in .WMA @ 192KB

you can use gotomypc or some other kind of remote desktop to access EVERYTHNG on the computer with the music from anywhere you can get an Internet connection. You could do that and copy all the music from one to the other or just keep the music on the 1 as you can play the music anywhere.

I am not trying top use them elsewhere, I am trying to have 5 or 6 copies of my entire collection without having 5 or 6 computers full of media in my house.

One of the 'proper' ways would be

http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/trac/wiki/CodaHOWTO/Building

It is, however, (very) nontrivial.

UH, WTF, mate, what was that WHOOSHING sound? It was CODA, going over my head...

Guys, I just want a thingie that will allow the 2 hard drives to self-sync!

HELP!

Luke

[delfin]

http://www.allwaysync.com/

And thy will be done. Bam.

[nmlss2006]

I'm sorry! I did say it was nontrivial. It does, however, work very well. Did you look into windows' own syncing abilities, for 'simple'? Or what delphin suggested may work.

[StereoInstaller1]

I was looking at Micro$haft SyncToy.

Delphins works better and is the same price.

Thanks, guys!

[Kruzen]

rsync ftw

http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/\

Rsync is a wonderful little utility that's amazingly easy to set up on your machines. Rather than have a scripted FTP session, or some other form of file transfer script -- rsync copies only the diffs of files that have actually changed, compressed and through ssh if you want to for security. That's a mouthful -- but what it means is:

* Diffs - Only actual changed pieces of files are transferred, rather than the whole file. This makes updates faster, especially over slower links like modems. FTP would transfer the entire file, even if only one byte changed.
* Compression - The tiny pieces of diffs are then compressed on the fly, further saving you file transfer time and reducing the load on the network.
* Secure Shell - The security concious of you out there would like this, and you should all be using it. The stream from rsync is passed through the ssh protocol to encrypt your session instead of rsh, which is also an option (and required if you don't use ssh - enable it in your /etc/inet.d and restart your inet daemon if you disabled it for security).