Too Much Music...

boo boo · 07-19-2009, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

Speaking as someone who has had to rebuild his entire music collection from zero TWICE in the past year. The idea of getting rid of any of my music is nothing short of frightening.

Looking for and downloading music for me is always a pain in the f*cking ass, it'll take me forever to find and then download a 30 minute album, why anyone would want to go through the process of downloading the same album more than once is beyond me.

I've had to restore my collection at least once, and yeah, it's a pretty idiotic idea.

This guy's lastfm must be ridiculous. And yeah, how idiotic would it be when someone asks for you to send them one of your favorite albums and you say "sorry man, I deleted it for no reason".

Schizotypic · 07-20-2009, 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by right-track

I wouldn't have a problem wiping my hard drive of music. The only stuff I'd want to keep, I own a hard copy of anyway.
The stuff on my computer is in musical purgatory waiting for me to sit in judgement until it clicks...or not.

Honestly I have 120Gb's right now, most of which I've heard maybe once or not at all, but I could not part with any of it. At all. The idea terrifies me.

winterinwarsaw · 07-20-2009, 03:42 AM

Great thread.

Looks like we're all not alone in the feeling of musical saturation, good to know that it's not just me who feels crazy. A few months ago I took a look through my music library and was overwhelmed by the number of albums that I'd hardly or never listened to. About four weeks ago my hard drive was damaged and needed to be replaced. I lost years of accumulated downloads. It was horrible at the time, but now I feel strangely refreshed knowing that I only really need to have music that I will actually listen to.

jackhammer · 07-20-2009, 04:43 AM

I have said this many times but I will say it again for newer members. Back your music up as a data DVD disc. You can get around 40 albums onto a blank DVD. It can be done in a matter of days and blank DVD'S are cheap and easily storable. If your HD ever goes down you have your music backed up. Simple.

Astronomer · 07-20-2009, 04:45 AM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

I have said this many times but I will say it again for newer members. Back your music up as a data DVD disc. You can get around 40 albums onto a blank DVD. It can be done in a matter of days and blank DVD'S are cheap and easily storable. If your HD ever goes down you have your music backed up. Simple.

This is what I do. But then everybody tells me that DVDs don't last forever and might 'expire' or something. Seems unlikely and something that would take a long time to happen though.

jackhammer · 07-20-2009, 04:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

This is what I do. But then everybody tells me that DVDs don't last forever and might 'expire' or something. Seems unlikely and something that would take a long time to happen though.

Sometimes 'dual layered' dvd's suffer when the glue splits and the layers are corrupted. This happened in the early days of DVD movies but single layered discs that are rarely used and stored away? Highly unlikely. They said the same about CDS. My oldest CD is over 20 years old and still absolutely fine.

Seltzer · 07-20-2009, 05:31 AM

I find that blank DVDs are more delicate than CDs and much more sensitive to brand/quality difference. You have to mistreat a CD pretty badly to render it unreadable in a computer (smudges are worse than most scratches) whereas it's quite common for lousy quality DVDs to throw read errors at you even immediately after being burned (happened to me with these dodgy Ul Tran dvds).

DVD media is my primary form of backup. If you're worried about their quality, buy some Verbatims (or something of that standard) and burn your critical data twice for redundancy.

Piss Me Off · 07-20-2009, 05:42 AM

I'm paranoid enough to have an entire hardrive simply for backups.

winterinwarsaw · 07-20-2009, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

I have said this many times but I will say it again for newer members. Back your music up as a data DVD disc. You can get around 40 albums onto a blank DVD. It can be done in a matter of days and blank DVD'S are cheap and easily storable. If your HD ever goes down you have your music backed up. Simple.

Oh I'm totally doing this now. Writing all my albums to CD becomes painful, but DVD seems like a good idea. Of course at the right my music collection is growing, I might as well invest in an additional external hard drive

I already have one for storing samples, recordings, etc. I think I'd cry if that was ever wiped.

Antonio · 07-20-2009, 11:26 AM

man, now i gotta get some blank DVDs

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Originally Posted by Schizotypic

Honestly I have 120Gb's right now, most of which I've heard maybe once or not at all, but I could not part with any of it. At all. The idea terrifies me.

i've seen this plenty of times, being a pack rat with your music but not giving it a listen. not trying to be mean, but do us a favor and listen to it please, it's pretty likely you're missing out on some great stuff.

07-20-2009, 04:43 AM	#44 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	I have said this many times but I will say it again for newer members. Back your music up as a data DVD disc. You can get around 40 albums onto a blank DVD. It can be done in a matter of days and blank DVD'S are cheap and easily storable. If your HD ever goes down you have your music backed up. Simple. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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Seltzer Fish in the percolator! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hobbit Land NZ Posts: 2,870	I find that blank DVDs are more delicate than CDs and much more sensitive to brand/quality difference. You have to mistreat a CD pretty badly to render it unreadable in a computer (smudges are worse than most scratches) whereas it's quite common for lousy quality DVDs to throw read errors at you even immediately after being burned (happened to me with these dodgy Ul Tran dvds). DVD media is my primary form of backup. If you're worried about their quality, buy some Verbatims (or something of that standard) and burn your critical data twice for redundancy. __________________ In the Court of King Crimson \| Last.fm \| RYM

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Piss Me Off Moodswings n' Roundabouts Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: At the corner of Dude and Catastrophe Posts: 4,512	I'm paranoid enough to have an entire hardrive simply for backups. __________________ Last FM Rate Yr Music Muxtape

07-20-2009, 03:42 AM	#43 (permalink)
winterinwarsaw Groupie Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: online Posts: 19	Great thread. Looks like we're all not alone in the feeling of musical saturation, good to know that it's not just me who feels crazy. A few months ago I took a look through my music library and was overwhelmed by the number of albums that I'd hardly or never listened to. About four weeks ago my hard drive was damaged and needed to be replaced. I lost years of accumulated downloads. It was horrible at the time, but now I feel strangely refreshed knowing that I only really need to have music that I will actually listen to.