Jumping off the Bandwagon
About that Bandwagon service I blogged last time...
I can't recommend it for now, after trying it out for a day. It's way too rough. The interface is rough. It's buggy.
When it starts up for the first time, it tries to upload your whole music and other content catalog at once initially, in a modal window (that's one that stays open above all other windows no matter what) - without even warning you that it's going to do so. How annoying is that. I have about 160 G of a combination of music, audiobooks and a few TV shows. Waiting for all of that to back itself up initially would take a long time. I could not even quit the program, so I had to go into the terminal and kill the process. (Note, they seem to be doing some rapid changes, and I don't know if the program works like that even today. As of yesterday, it did.)
But even worse than that, if I try to play music on iTunes while Bandwagon is doing its backup thing, iTunes locks up between tunes, so there's like a 10-15 second pause. I like my Gapless playback.
I think I'd much rather just backup my tunes to a second hard disk, using scheduled backups while I sleep. Bandwagon, free or no, is not for me. (They want to charge you $69 per year for this.) The idea of having a backup on something like Amazon S3 itself is still interesting, at least for a limited part of my collection such as iTunes store purchases - maybe I'll just get me an account and back it up with good old FTP myself.
