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How do YOU manage your gigabytes of samples? Which format do you use to archive them?
Do you leave them on CD or DVD?
Does it make sense to store the disks you use most often on HD in AKAI or STS-format? What about using the same samples with other samplers like KONTAKT? Do you use soundfont format (because both STS and KTK can use the same library) or GIG-format?
Which converters do you use? CDXTRACT or Translator or others? Do you use a database to find them?
What about your loop-archive? Do you sort by BPM, use "Where is it?" or any other prog?

Let's share our strategies to learn from each other. We can take over the result of our thread to tips & tricks or give a recommendation how to handle this time consuming task of working with a good sample library effectivly!

I made a 16 GB partition on my HD only for samples. And I stored my sample CDs on it, as they are.
Advantage: you can tweak the sounds as you want. In most cases I wanna change my sounds a little when I use them in my music.
SF format I don't like, cos STS seems a little bit buggy with this format. Do you read KEYBOARDS? The SF-samples from the K.-CDs were not readable at all, so I take the raw wav-files and create my own sounds in sts-format. It needs time and patience, but it's worth.
On planetz sites there was a discussion about problems reading AKAI-CDs. Whenever I wanted to read an AKAI-CD in SFP, I had to close SFP and restart. When you store your AKAI-CDs on HD, these problems won't touch you at daily work.
The size of HDs is no more topic today imho.

Greetz, Thomas