A system and method for archiving a user's media collection are provided. In general, a central archiving system stores high-quality versions of a number of known media files and a number of known encoding algorithms. First, each media file in the user's media collection and an encoding algorithm used...http://www.google.se/patents/US8060477?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8060477 - System and method for archiving a media collection