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I think should be a balance. I went full digital Marie Kondo a few years back, and I regret it. I'm into a lot of niche media, like covers or small indie band
by javchz 3y ago
I think should be a balance. I went full digital Marie Kondo a few years back, and I regret it.
I'm into a lot of niche media, like covers or small indie band scenes. And at the beginning having everything in Spotify or YouTube seems nice... Until there is a rights issue or something worse (like an artist being doxed) and the song it's deleted and became lost media.
Now I backup everything in a 2x2TB HDD just in case (Mirrored across 2 computers using syncthing, similar to Raid 1) and seeing how my music playlist in YouTube it's full of gray thumbnails, I think was a good investment.
- bombcar 3y agoThere's a real value to digital hoarding, because external forces are operating against you, and it will all crumble to dust. It's also nice that you can digitally hoard billions of megabytes in the space of a small shoebox.
- perilunar 3y agoThis. I can't see any downside to digital hoarding. A couple of hard drives is not going to turn your house into a dump. They are very easy to search. It imposes very little on your relatives after you die. And as you say, things frequently disappear online. If you want to always have access to something it's worthwhile keeping your own unencrypted copy.
- jonhohle 3y agoThat’s what’s sad (imho) with moving away from physical releases. Getting a pressed CD was cheap, even for the most cash strapped band. I could take it home, rip it and have copies on an iPod, a CD-RW for the car, on my computer and media server. Should anything happen, the original disc is right there to rip again. Movies are the same. With the demise of video rental shops, and content going in an out of half a dozen streaming services, it can be really challenging to find obscure movies that used to be easy to find. Browsing sucks now as well. And if I throw that into a watch later list and get back to it in a few weeks, there’s a chance it won’t be there. I’d love to pair down my physical collections, but that concern of losing something and not being able to find it again is a huge impediment.
- michaelcampbell 3y ago> I went full digital Marie Kondo a few years back, and I regret it. I would love to hear/read an exposition of this at some point.