Backing up Music Library...

When you back up your library or playlist to DVD will it keep the title of the song and keep that song in your playlist or does it just back everything up in one big clump? I am wondering if backing up certain playlists might be better than doing the whole library. What are your thoughts on this? I think DVD is the way to go instead of having a whole mess of CD's for my over 1,450 song collection. I am well aware that I cannot expect to play music from the back up DVD. I just want to back everything up should something go wrong in the future. Would a pain in the neck if it doesn't save the title of the songs though!!!

If you want the easiest way to backup, get an external hard drive. A lot of people, including me, that regularly post on these forums use an EHD & you can find them dirt cheap these days.
Of course, data DVD's are the way to go, since they hold a lot more data than a CD. If you burn as a data disc, all file information is maintained. If you are concerned about backing up your playlist/playcount information, you will also need to backup the 2 iTunes database files, the .xml & .itl files.

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