Last week the inevitable finally occured my laptop died. I’d kept ignoring the warning signs but had at least taken the opportunity to get the last bits backed up before it croaked totally. However, the one thing I didn’t have backed up at home was my music. I guess this is partly because I’ve got too many tracks to make a DVD-based backup system really work and partly because I assumed all those CDs lying around in the back of the car have to be good for something. Ripping several hundred CDs is pretty unappealing though so I was very relieved to remember that I work for a wonderful start up that’s stored all my music safely in the cloud.
Finally, a chance to use the Psonar system for real – how would it cope? First up, I thought I’d try downloading a single album. I log in to Psonar and browse for an album I fancy listening to, select it and drag it into the icon representing my new laptop. I then start up SongShifter on the laptop and sit with crossed fingers. As soon as I’ve logged in it spots there’s some work to be done and immediately starts downloading the album. Ten minutes later its finished! Psonar copies the files to your usual music library location on Windows and orders them into directories ArtistName\AlbumName\
