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Where does everyone get all of this PD music? The only place I can find it is on this site and Mutopia/SheetMusicFox.

Also, if anyone finds a PD copy of Brahms's Piano Quartet No.3 in C Minor (preferably with parts), I would be eternally grateful if you could put it on IMSLP.

We scan them from the printed music in most cases--some of us have large personal collections and some are students at Universities/Colleges where they borrow scores from their libraries.
As for the Brahms quartet, put it on the request page (wishlist).

I search P2P software check the legality of it and upload it (if legal). Everything I have uploaded is from emule.

Oh I scan it for viruses first.

When I get more time I will be scanning them.

AW7

Oh so you're one of the ones whose been snatching my scans and uploading them!
A year or so ago I used to share out my whole collection (almost all of which were scans I made from my own or rented scores) on emule until something/someone happened which caused it to erase everything. Since then on the web and here at IMSLP when I first joined I noticed, especially the already uploaded Ravel scores, most of them were mine. I was certainly glad to see they were being circulated well, and I've noticed many many within the MIT collection also. Fortunately, I managed to recover almost all of them, but before that happened I had complete collections, at least piano, for most French composers including Schmitt, Ravel, Debussy, and Alexander Tansman's complete piano works including transcriptions and ballet scores. I learned a valuable word during that experience: "backup".

daphnis wrote:I learned a valuable word during that experience: "backup".

Indeed At least I backup IMSLP like I'm obsessed, so something similar should not happen to IMSLP

In light of the recent debacle at CDPL, we are very thankful for your obession about backing up!

Indeed. You can never be too neurotic about backing up files, ESPECIALLY in our situation.

Hehehe I have "hot" (hard drive) backups every day (in 2 separate places), with "cold" (DVD) backups every 1-2 weeks.

i bought myself two extrenal hard drives after losing 30 gigs of audio music when my laptop crashed. ($#@^%&*&^%ing gateway...)

I know what you feel like. I had 20something gbs of music, and I put it all on an external h/d and after a week of having bought the h/d... it crashed.

Then about three months later after I had almost got back (a lot) of my music, (my desktop was broken so I was just using the laptop), the laptop h/d crashed. It was great.....

so yeh...

I know what it's like.


DON'T FRICKEN DROP THAT HARD DRIVE EVER THEY ARE THE MOST DELICATE THINGS EVER.