Comments on: Bandwagon Launches – Online iTunes Backup

By: World’s Largest iTunes Collection: 849GB - PaulStamatiou.com

World’s Largest iTunes Collection: 849GB - PaulStamatiou.com — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:01:23 +0000

[...] a related note, I am eagerly awaiting the release of Bandwagon DIY. I covered the launch of Bandwagon, an OS X application that backs up your iTunes media online, back in February. Since then, the [...]

By: Bandwagon DIY Emerges From Closed Beta - PaulStamatiou.com

Bandwagon DIY Emerges From Closed Beta - PaulStamatiou.com — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:01:07 +0000

[...] to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Bandwagon, the little OS X application that backs up your iTunes media online, will be relaunching this evening as a DIY version. Just give it your Amazon S3 account info and [...]

By: Dimitry

Dimitry — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:45:28 +0000

I’m with most of the people up top. It simply doesn’t make sense financially for me to sign up for that service. To buy an external hard drive vs. $69/year? Let’s throw some numbers at it. Take 250gb hard drive: WD My Book 250gb from Newegg: $114.99 out of your pocket right now. Let’s say in 3 years, you will outgrow it (as movies are quickly becoming a standard in iTunes library). So what’s $69/year * 3 years in todays money? Well, let’s say current inflation rate will stay the same (it won’t): 2%. That means in year 1, year 2′s $69 will be worth less (time value of money). Same for year 3. Add them up and it adds up to: $203…

For $178 you can be 500gb My Book from WD (external) and STILL pay less than this service. It makes even more sense NOT to use the service if you already own an external HD. It also saves the hassle of uploading (at least the initial time) of all the music. I use free iBackup which backs everything (music, movies, documents, photoshop files, etc.) that I need (~30gb right now) in under 30 mins. Doubt I can backup my 7gb of music in that time.

I would be interested in hearing from the company itself. They’re certainly taking the hassle of knowing how to backup music files from regular computer user, but then again, Mac will have a powerful backup tool build in soon. (I think Vista too? dunno).

Anyways, sorry for this babble. Just bored.
Dimitry

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:04:48 +0000

I would think that online backups are the safest way to go. I agree that you could always backup to an external drive and there is also the iPod, but what happens if (god forbid) there is a fire and you lose your external drives and iPod? Now I’m sure if that happens you obviously have more important things to deal with than your iTunes Music collection, but at least for me, I know that I’ve been collecting music for well over five years and to lose all of that media would be disastrous, even if in a fire. Now there is the possibility of rotating an external backup drive off-site to ensure you don’t lose data, but that can get annoying. The way I see it, online backups provide the best of both worlds — they promise off-site backup and you don’t even have to get up from your desk to do it.

By: Ralph Dagza

Ralph Dagza — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:48:11 +0000

Yay we are not banned anymore!!!

By: Ash Haque

Ash Haque — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:59:44 +0000

and when your hard drive crashes and you want all your songs back, are you supposed to spend a couple days downloading them? IMO, a 250gig external hard drive, pretty much the same price as 2 years subscription, is a way better route to go.

By: Konstantinos

Konstantinos — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:20:32 +0000

docmisterio: you're welcome.

By: docmisterio

docmisterio — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:56:03 +0000

@Konstantinos – Thanks! That was it!

By: Konstantinos

Konstantinos — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:08:33 +0000

docmisterio: you're probably referring to iConcertCal?

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:45:01 +0000

I’ve been testing Bandwagon as well, but unfortunately the current version has no way to throttle down the upload speed. This leads to my cable connection being pounded, and then disconnecting (thanks, Cox). Future versions of Bandwagon should have a throttle ability, but for now, it’s severely limited my usability of the software.

By: Pronet Advertising

Pronet Advertising — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:49:02 +0000

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By: docmisterio

docmisterio — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:38:31 +0000

Thanks Paul, however, it is none of those… but I’ll tell you the concept (and I swear I ran across it here, hehe)

It’s a software that syncs with iTunes and then tells you about shows from the bands you have in your iTunes in your area, I just can’t find it anywhere…

Thanks man!

By: Links 23.02.2007

Links 23.02.2007 — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:32:23 +0000

[...] Bandwagon Launches : Pretty nifty, though I don’t see many people using it. [...]

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:37:17 +0000

@docmisterio, any of these?

http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/10/19/tangerine-enters-a-crowded-market-pwns-all/
http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/10/10/qloud-makes-itunes-tagging-possible/
http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/10/04/soundflavor-itunes-meets-pandora/

By: docmisterio

docmisterio — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:33:50 +0000

Paul I hate to go so far off topic… but was it you who did a review on a software that looks into your iTunes and tells you about shows for those bands…

I can’t find it anywhere!!

By: lars

lars — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:10:07 +0000

to my mind, its quite pricey. id feel more comfortable using 70$ on an external drive even with the risk of a failing disk. ‘web services dont fail’ you made my day^^

By: Andy Howard

Andy Howard — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:12:24 +0000

This is a great idea – especially for travellers. I’ll consider using this during my next long adventure.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:01:52 +0000

This has to be one of the most pointless start-ups you’ve covered so far Paul. If you have your mac, and external harddisk and an iPod, you will already have three copies of your iTunes library anyway.
iTunes will sync with the iPod, and you can use something like Carbon Copy Cloner, to make daily copies of your music folder to an external disk if you wish.

IF you should stream your songs back again, there could be some benefit, although an iPod is already ultra portable, so again this whole service seems just superfluous.