After weeks of uploading endlessly, I have encountered the dreaded "non-audio file limit."
TBH it is kinda seriously annoying. I donīt have a ridiculous amount of non audio files. Album covers (some in relatively hi-res), a few pdf booklet scans, some txt files with concert info or reviews etc.
This data needs to be backed up with the audio. It is as essential to the collection as anything else. File structure, associated data, album art and the like are all very important to us audiophile nerds with big collections. (The kind of person who is most likely to use AudioSafe btw.)
I suggest that you either scrap the limit entirely (no one will sneak in their film collection and you can stipulate that non-audio files must be in the same file structure as audio files)...
or make it much much higher. (High enough that no client will ever have to see this error message.)
If the next 1/4 of my uploading collection is unable to have even their folder.jpg files with them, then I am afraid this service is officially worthless to me. Not to be a *****, but I will really feel that these weeks of uploading, bandwidth hogging, and putting wear & tear on my external hard drive were a hopeless waste of time. A partial backup solution is not much better than no backup solution... worse actually as I will still have to back everything up from scratch somewhere else.
The sad thing is that I hadn't even selected some of my largest folders for backup. This is only my active lossy collection. My lossless collection with the majority of my ROIO's and and basically all my CD Rips since hard drives got over 1TB is still not even selected for AudioSafe. I was dismayed at how long this upload was taking, and just figured I would get through the first part, give my system a rest from 24 uploading and maybe get around to the lossless folders later.
Please think long and hard about what I am saying here, as I know that I am in your core demographic. As a very longtime member of the illustrate family, I am not simply being some petulant brat. This is a deal-breaker IMHO.
J