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This is why it's so important that we resist pressure to upload everything to the cloud. Buy a 64 or 128GiB flash drive and put your whole collection there. (pl
by titzer 8y ago
This is why it's so important that we resist pressure to upload everything to the cloud. Buy a 64 or 128GiB flash drive and put your whole collection there. (plus one probably for backup). Copy it to all your local machine(s). Copy the important stuff to your mobile.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoMissing my 160GB iPod Classic honestly. But nowadays oddly enough Google Play Music has most of the music I want and when they dont as OP does I upload them. One thing I do is buy the music and download it locally. Google Play Music gives me proper high quality MP3s compared to Apples m3a or whatever those were. Licensing deals are stupid. Also I do see smaller artists on Google Play Music being lumped together with half a dozen other smaller artists. I cant believe how broken that is and sometimes the artists songs I am looking for doesnt show up cause they dont even show albums featuring that artist in their album listing.
- fibers 8y agoi mean...you can load a good chunk of your library on an 400gb sd card and play it on your phone. it seems more battery efficient than constantly streaming music from an online account even when the cache expires consistently
- fjsolwmv 8y agoPeople who spend thousands of dollars on music tend to be people who buy expensive phones that don't allow SD cards. But 128GB phones have enough storage for most music collections
- shaan7 8y ago> expensive phones that don't allow SD cards Oh 21st century, what have you done.
- JohnFen 8y ago> People who spend thousands of dollars on music tend to be people who buy expensive phones that don't allow SD cards. The lack of an SD card slot is a dealbreaker in a phone for me, regardless of price.
- Grimm665 8y agoI wouldn't trust flash drives for a whole library of hard-to-replace music, they fail all the time and they're hard to recover once they do. Better to use a NAS, external hard drive, or cloud storage you pay for like S3.
- sansnomme 8y agoA RAID NAS! Anything less won't cut it.
- hhmc 8y agoStill incredibly vulnerable to physical disasters e.g. a fire
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoA 2 x 12TB RAID NAS with two separate backups in two other physical locations.
- hhmc 8y agoThat would work, but at that point is it really less effort and expense that using a managed solution (AWS etc).
- GuB-42 8y agoRAID is not backup. It doesn't protect against accidental deletion, malware, fire, etc... It only protects you against disk failure, and it is mostly used to make sure the data is still available as you change disks. Not for long term data protection. Overall, a RAID NAS is probably not that safer than a standard external hard drive. RAID is mostly there to make sure that you can benefit from high performance, high capacity and networking without sacrificing reliability. If you have two disks and availability is not a problem (you can afford not to listen to music as you restore from backup), you are better off with an external hard drive used only for backup/restore operation and kept somewhere safe when not in use.
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- blablabla123 8y agoIf privacy is not an issue, a dump feature solves this. Available for Google services and unofficial ones are there for many more. Clouds that don't provide such a feature are probably not worth using.
- Fnoord 8y ago> This is why it's so important that we resist pressure to upload everything to the cloud. Buy a 64 or 128GiB flash drive and put your whole collection there. (plus one probably for backup). Copy it to all your local machine(s). Copy the important stuff to your mobile. Collections are not static. I discover new music every once in a while. Syncing with cloud makes sense; it is just that you could be the owner of the hardware behind the cloud, to maintain privacy or you encrypt the data in the cloud (or both, and use one cloud as backup). You could use rsync or something with a flash drive though. Android smartphones will happily eat microSD cards containing hundreds of GB of music. Which means the iPod Classic 160 GB is finally obsolete. However I think you can hack those devices anyway, to put in a new 2.5" SATA SSD (if they eat SATA).
- JohnFen 8y ago> Buy a 64 or 128GiB flash drive and put your whole collection there. That's too small for my collection! (I use a 64 gig card for taking my music on the road alone). My music collection is stored on a 1Tb drive.
- andai 8y agoI think you're going to like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19919163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19919163
- JohnFen 8y agoYeah, that's pretty cool! I'll probably wait for the price to come down a bit, and to see what the real lifespan of the things are, before I start doing anything more than experimenting with them, though.