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It's not very portable. I can't keep it on my phone without a 1TB micro SD, and I could theoretically carry an SSD but thats not really portable as it requires

It's not very portable. I can't keep it on my phone without a 1TB micro SD, and I could theoretically carry an SSD but thats not really portable as it requires internal connection. And if it's an external drive with a USB connection then it's probably much larger than my phone. It's certainly able to be kept and it's not a particularly unwieldly amount of data for the average power user, but if I ever had to bring my music somewhere (and I mean all of it) I'd be screwed. Plus that data would take hours to copy if ever needed. I spent just an hour today dding a 64GB SD card. I just keep my favorite albums and discographies in 320 MP3 as I know there is almost no music player on earth that will fail to play it. Then I keep that in a micro SD in my wallet, for that emergency in which you desperately need some Pink Floyd.

jonplackett 5y ago
More likely that storage capacity/$ will scale faster that codec efficiency. In a few years you’ll have it on your phone anyway!
f1refly 5y ago
1. Wow, what an obsessive music geek you are. 2. Consider https://beets.io https://beets.io for management, it may be just the system you want. One of its features is converting you library into a lossy version while keeping your high res files in a very managed way.
- sodality2 5y ago
  Now that's cool. Thank you so much, I'll look into that.
- toast0 5y ago
  As you seem knowledgeable, it looks like beets manages music you've already ripped, do you have a suggestion for ripping? Last time I tried, it was a disaster (I got a lot of poor quality audio and ended up nuking everything because it was too much work to listen to everything and try again)
  - f1refly 5y ago
    It's been a while since I ripped my last CD, but I always found https://github.com/bleskodev/rubyripper https://github.com/bleskodev/rubyripper very useful. It uses cdparanoia to get multiple rips and combines them into what it thinks is the exact information located on the original cd. These days, I can fortunately download most stuff directly from bandcamp :)

jonplackett 5y ago

More likely that storage capacity/$ will scale faster that codec efficiency. In a few years you’ll have it on your phone anyway!

f1refly 5y ago

1. Wow, what an obsessive music geek you are. 2. Consider https://beets.io https://beets.io for management, it may be just the system you want. One of its features is converting you library into a lossy version while keeping your high res files in a very managed way.

sodality2 5y ago
Now that's cool. Thank you so much, I'll look into that.
toast0 5y ago
As you seem knowledgeable, it looks like beets manages music you've already ripped, do you have a suggestion for ripping? Last time I tried, it was a disaster (I got a lot of poor quality audio and ended up nuking everything because it was too much work to listen to everything and try again)
- f1refly 5y ago
  It's been a while since I ripped my last CD, but I always found https://github.com/bleskodev/rubyripper https://github.com/bleskodev/rubyripper very useful. It uses cdparanoia to get multiple rips and combines them into what it thinks is the exact information located on the original cd. These days, I can fortunately download most stuff directly from bandcamp :)