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I have 3 x 1080p monitors and it's amazing for doing work. Surround gaming lost it's appeal so I just game on the center monitor now.

Anyone remember the purple couch? With the backwards baseball cap?

Thanks for your reply!

 

I don't know which software works the best, but I plan to use the Samsung data migration software

 

After everything is done, do I need to re-activate my OS? I assume that I will need to call Microsoft to do so?

 

Thank you.

I haven't had to re-activate Windows when restoring drive images, so I assume cloning would work the same way.

Did some research fro my situation, I'm running everything on my 750GB WD HDD, and I'm going to put my OS and some frequently used software on a new Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD 

 

Searched on web, and in most tutorial is about replacing the HDD with SSD, that's easy for my to understand.

 

What I'm confusing about is that when cloning the drive using the data migration software, does it clone the entire drive, or I can select which partition I want to clone? Also after everything is done, what will happen to the original partition? Any conflict on the Drive Letter? (may be a dumb question since I have never done such thing)

 

I have 3 partition on my PC, 1 for OS, 1 for documents and files, and 1 for Games

 

I will keep my HDD as regular storage disk

 

 

 

I assume that I can clone the partition of where my OS is, and here is what I will do:

 

Back up all the entire disk (assuming that the data migration software can't selectively clone the OS partition)

What drive cloning software are you using? I believe most should be able to clone a partition onto a new drive.

Use the USB to SATA cable to do the cloning (Or I should just plug the drive to the SATA port on the motherboard for better speed? If so, what should I be aware of?)

Either way should work fine. I would go for the faster speed of the SATA port.

System reboot and I will go to BIOS to change the boot device (I assume this step should be very easy on my MSI Z87 motherboard?)

Yep.

After entering the system, test everything out and format the original partition (What will happen to the drive letter? I assume the SSD will simply replace the old partition's position, and all other partition will change the drive letter automatically??? really confusing here)

Your SSD should take on the old drive letter, but you can always change the drive letters manually in Disk Management later.

I plan to merge the original partition with the partition for games

 

Thank you all!!

The cooler looks awesome.

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So it comes with 1 year of McAfee free, and they only charge you if you forget to cancel after 10 months?

Also, I don't see anything about when they will send you your rebate. For all we know, it could be after the 10 months...

Back on topic. Adobe released CS2 for free download last year.

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=cs2_downloads

Cheers. It could be handy for finding stuff some other time, however, it's not an issue any more as it's managed to get through the rest of the files, it seems. Now I'm getting this error:

21-Sep-2014 20:33:18 - WARNING :: Thread-21 : Attempt to query MusicBrainz for The Red Hot Chili Peppers failed (retried 3 times, caused by: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable)21-Sep-2014 20:33:23 - INFO    :: Thread-21 : No results found for: The Red Hot Chili Peppers

I was getting another error before but that's because I hadn't started up the virtual machine. That's what appears once I did. Any idea what's causing that?

HTTP Error 503 is MusicBrainz rate limiting queries. Not sure why that would occur though since you're running your own VM.  :unsure:

Ok, so I've downloaded and set up the musicbrainz server using VirtualBox and I can log into it just fine. I set the options in Headphones to use custom and localhost on port 5000 (default) and then rescanned my media. It didn't seem to work and outputs the following:

20-Sep-2014 15:30:20 - ERROR   :: Thread-12 : Uncaught exception: Traceback (most recent call last):  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Headphones\headphones\logger.py", line 204, in new_run    old_run(*args, **kwargs)  File "C:\Python27\lib\threading.py", line 763, in run    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Headphones\headphones\librarysync.py", line 106, in libraryScan    f = MediaFile(song)  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Headphones\lib/beets\mediafile.py", line 1166, in __init__    self.mgfile = mutagen.File(path)  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Headphones\lib/mutagen\__init__.py", line 247, in File    fileobj = open(filename, "rb")IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('rb') or filename

Having said that, I think I know what the problem might be... The file in question uses Japanese text.

 

EDIT: Yup. That seems to be the problem. It did it again for another file so I changed that and rescanned. It seems to be going through them just fine now. I think I've probably got a few more foreign charactered file names so this might take a while. Is there a way to search with Windows and find all files with anything out of the ordinary?

Glad you got it working.

A quick Google search found this script to find not ASCII file names: https://superuser.com/questions/237533/find-files-with-non-ascii-characters-in-filenames-in-windows-xp

Other links as well:

https://superuser.com/questions/636247/how-do-i-remove-non-ascii-characters-from-filenames

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17870055/how-to-rename-a-file-with-non-ascii-character-encoding-to-ascii

I'm not sure if any of these will work.

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I have this setup.

Yeah, I've got it running; I'm not that incompetent - haha! But it's the settings and configuration that's not so simple. I think I've set it up how I want it, but it just seems to be doing hundreds of things and then not doing anything else.

 

As far as I can tell, I've set a folder for "Sorted Music" and it's reading from my actual library, but nothing is going into my Sorted Music folder. Does it have to finish it's scan, or does it only do that with converted and/or downloaded music? If it does actually sort all of the tags, re-converting it with dbPoweramp will move everything to the right folders, but it's going to waste a lot of time just converting files from the format they're in to the format that they're in.

 

If a simple program that does just that part doesn't already exist, surely it won't be too hard to make a program that would? I've got some basic-mediocre programming skills and could probably write up a simple C# WinForms program to take a directory and then read all files from it and place them in a new directory based on tags. I'd just need to know how to read MP3 tags first.

 

But, I'm lazy, so is there a program that could do that for me, is do I just have to run that from within Headphones somewhere?

 

EDIT: I have set the folder scheme I want in the settings, it just doesn't seem to actually move anything as said above.

Yeah, I've found Headphones to be a bit finicky.

So in Settings > Quality & Post Processing, you've set the Path to Destination Folder to "Sorted Music"? Also Move downloads to Destination Folder is checked?

Try going to Settings > Download Settings and set Music Download Directory to your existing library folder.

Then go to Manage > Force Actions and Post-Process Single Folder to test to see if it's working.

Huh. Thank you very much. This looks kinda like what I'm needing. Except for the fact that I have no idea what I'm doing with it. Would you mind writing some instructions on how to do the things I asked above - or linking to a guide that does?

 

By flicking through the settings, it seems that it has some sort of torrent integration - is this just so that you can easily download more music from popular torrent sites or is there a more legal use?

 

It looks like it wants to take files from one folder and move them to another when sorting, rather than moving files from within one folder to another place in that folder - is it possible to do that (if you understand what I'm trying to say)?

 

How do I go about getting it to update a song's tags for me?

 

Thanks!

There are instructions on running it on windows here. You will need to install Python first.

The torrent integration does exactly that, but you don't need to use.

I believe it can sort within the same folder, but just to be safe I would just rename the root folder, eg. Music -> MusicUnsorted, and have Headphones sort back into Music. If that made sense?

All your songs will be updated automatically with tags/metadata from MusicBrainz, an open source music database.

EDIT: Lifehacker has a great article on a lot of other software that would probably work better.

The software that I use is Headphones because it runs as a plugin on my FreeNAS box, but it's a bit difficult to get it setup and working. It should be able to do everything you listed except finding duplicates.

I use Desktoppr since it's just one click sync to Dropbox.

Yes, you will have to "un-raid" the two SSDs, but you will lose all the data on the SSDs. Make sure you create an image that you can restore (as long as it is less than the capacity of one SSD) or you will have to reinstall windows.

Love your content, Linus! Congrats on 1 million subscribers and keep it up!

I own a Mamba...so...

I believe it's just called 3D side-by-side (SBS).

That skin is so orange.

If you just need screenshot (full desktop, window, region) functionality, check out CloudShot.

It saves the screenshot to Dropbox and copies the share URL to your clipboard.

I can't seem to get these images into a gif, can you? Can you make it play at 50ms a frame at 468x60.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/mb3xbccv1zr6opk/banner.zip

Here you go.

Do two MSI GTX 580 Lightning Xtremes count?

Since these are used like credit cards, you should either need to present these in person or verify your full name for online merchants.

You never know, some online merchants might not verify the name/billing address.

And on topic, I always submit the MIRs. I've received $100s from Patriot, Corsair, and probably some other companies as well.