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Well, over last two decades my mp3s, flacs, avis, mkvs, pdfs, epubs and others moved between CDs, DVDs, HDDs to land at a ZFS array replicated to another ZFS ar
by pacija 3y ago
Well, over last two decades my mp3s, flacs, avis, mkvs, pdfs, epubs and others moved between CDs, DVDs, HDDs to land at a ZFS array replicated to another ZFS array at the moment. The way I use them has changed over the years (cloud streaming from navidrome, kodi for local playing, azuracast for radio broadcast etc.), but the media files themselves are the same.
- cm2187 3y agoAs long as you don’t have real media files or other codecs that have disappeared (or will disappear - imagine if we move to a new cpu instruction set, I assume not every codec library will be recompiled).
- bombcar 3y agoIf you maintain lossless storage you can switch formats as necessary; the problem really becomes a major issue when you have various formats you don't use very often and you don't notice that something became unplayable. Luckily the number of people obsessed with emulating old systems saves the day for now. But at some point things like Video CDs and the Compact Disc-Interactive systems may fully fade into history.