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Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 11:51 pm
storage is magic
Having been paid, I started my monthly expenditures with my new favorite hobby: music replacement.
Years ago, when I was unemployed, a student, and then very low-paid, I used to download (at freaking dial-up speeds) tons of music from napster and limewire, as back then, downloading was such a commitment and effort it felt to me like I was paying anyway. It was partially a matter of money, and at the time, very much a matter of having to buy an entire album to get a song I liked. The coming of iTunes changed that, in which I had better speeds, convenience, and music that was fairly high quality, which was a problem because once you're listening to professional recordings, it's hard to go back to napster-era quality without wincing like a lot.
Slowly but surely, I'm replacing my entire napster-era and limewire-era music downloads with the enthusiastic help of Amazon. It's not really controlled so much as running across a song while surfing music and realizing hey, there's one, and it's sixty-nine cents! (This happens with startling frequency). However, last month Sarah McLachlan was my major focus, and this month I rediscovered Roxette on one of my playlists and did a clean sweep. Also, Culture Beat for Mr. Vain, and I can't even tell you why that one stuck in my memory but it's both disturbingly catchy and it reminds me of going to a dance when I was an exchange student and dancing for hours and hours with this one coming up on rotation until I could sing along with it (at one time, I could sing along with Swedish pop as well; I didn't understand what I was singing, but autolyric memorization apparently has no language barrier).
I have to admit, this has been a really good way to actually explore my collection and find songs I forgot. Also, Christ, I have a lot of music. Honestly, my digital hoarding is reaching disturbing proportions. When i say disturbing, I mean, this is not helping when right now at Fry's, I saw a 4 terabyte hard drive that I could totally convince myself is necessary to my continued existence, or maybe two, since by my most recent check of my server, my entire media collection including all movies and television and music and ebooks is just over 5 terabytes.
...how the everlovingfuck did I get five terabytes of media? More importantly, thought. Sarah McLachlan was what I wrote my first fanfic to, and the hard drive on my computer then was four gigs. I can't even fit all my fanfic on that much space. That I wrote.
Really, I wonder how I survived back then.
Years ago, when I was unemployed, a student, and then very low-paid, I used to download (at freaking dial-up speeds) tons of music from napster and limewire, as back then, downloading was such a commitment and effort it felt to me like I was paying anyway. It was partially a matter of money, and at the time, very much a matter of having to buy an entire album to get a song I liked. The coming of iTunes changed that, in which I had better speeds, convenience, and music that was fairly high quality, which was a problem because once you're listening to professional recordings, it's hard to go back to napster-era quality without wincing like a lot.
Slowly but surely, I'm replacing my entire napster-era and limewire-era music downloads with the enthusiastic help of Amazon. It's not really controlled so much as running across a song while surfing music and realizing hey, there's one, and it's sixty-nine cents! (This happens with startling frequency). However, last month Sarah McLachlan was my major focus, and this month I rediscovered Roxette on one of my playlists and did a clean sweep. Also, Culture Beat for Mr. Vain, and I can't even tell you why that one stuck in my memory but it's both disturbingly catchy and it reminds me of going to a dance when I was an exchange student and dancing for hours and hours with this one coming up on rotation until I could sing along with it (at one time, I could sing along with Swedish pop as well; I didn't understand what I was singing, but autolyric memorization apparently has no language barrier).
I have to admit, this has been a really good way to actually explore my collection and find songs I forgot. Also, Christ, I have a lot of music. Honestly, my digital hoarding is reaching disturbing proportions. When i say disturbing, I mean, this is not helping when right now at Fry's, I saw a 4 terabyte hard drive that I could totally convince myself is necessary to my continued existence, or maybe two, since by my most recent check of my server, my entire media collection including all movies and television and music and ebooks is just over 5 terabytes.
...how the everlovingfuck did I get five terabytes of media? More importantly, thought. Sarah McLachlan was what I wrote my first fanfic to, and the hard drive on my computer then was four gigs. I can't even fit all my fanfic on that much space. That I wrote.
Really, I wonder how I survived back then.
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From:I have 3TB TV shows which are no longer airing (on 2 external hard drives), 1TB dedicated to storing movies, 2TB (on 2 hard drives for shows I'm currently watching), 1TB for music & ebooks, 1TB for photos and vids. They're not all full (yet!) - especially the movies/vids/books/photos ones, but I gallop through storage space pretty quickly and I haven't really concentrated on sorting out my music yet.
I have a whole bunch of vinyl in the attic to convert to digital & I want to rip or replace most of my CDs - possibly a Christmas project? So uh.
Yeah - I hear you with the storage!
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From:I have a whole bunch of vinyl in the attic to convert to digital & I want to rip or replace most of my CDs - possibly a Christmas project? So uh.
I have an ongoing project of ripping all my blurays and DVDs. The DVDs are fairly easy, though I'm slowly replacing them with blurays as they come out, but the blurays are a problem since they rip to 20G to 50G each. I mean, I use handbrake to get a sane size and because even on the LAN streaming a bluray rip is impractical as hell and pretty dodgy on random pauses, but it's been impossible to find a good guide on what kind of settings to use to get a good compromise between bluray quality and file size, so right now, I only rip stuff I want to watch (I did all of the marvel movies since avenger is coming out this month and I wanted to be ready).
4T just makes me drool. So. Much. At least until I run out of SATA connectors on my motherboard, at which time I will be staring at new boards hungrily. This weekend I had went into a fugue state at Frye's when I saw a board with ten sata connectors. Just. I could conceivably get a max of 40 T on my server with that. All my movies, all my TV, all there at the touch of a mouse. Just. Want.
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From:Not everyone is so lucky. :D
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From:And as for storage? I have two 1TB filled two 500 gig filled and a 250 for travelling
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From:My walkman has more memory storage than it does.
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From:^.^
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