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On February 09 2013 04:09 TheAmazombie wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2013 04:02 gaymon wrote:
Why would u create a blog about losing ~10000 songs which you illegally downloaded ?
And why would u safe all that music anyways with pages like grooveshark.. For me, I have been a musician and collector of local and underground music since the 90s...not to mention all of the bootlegs and live shows. Those are things that you can't just replace or find on grooveshark or other streaming services. It would be upsetting to me if I lost all of that, but at the same time, that is the risk you take in digital storage...especially without backups or cloud service backups.
If you are so concerned about your music backing it up is probably the best choice.Bootlegs and live shows (arent nonofficial liveshows bootlegs 99% of the times ? o0) should be findable in various forums.
Grooveshark is limited. I can't put those songs on my phone, I can't download the songs with fancy bitrates or uncompressed for my sound system, I have to put up with the limited selection and the clumsy UI. MP3 and flac files on my computer are convenient and if I lost them, there are songs in there that I could never find again.
Only downloading 10 percent of your songs will give u 80 hours of music (160 if you like opeth and over9000 if you like Nocte Obducta LOL), i dont think that you will die if you dont immideatly have access to all of your songs on the highest quality possible. Having a 100% crystal clear flac quality piece of art on your mobile/mp3 to listen to in the sub or on the bus isnt really required aswell.
Why would you post here just to be a condescending douche to a random internet stranger? Did you even consider that maybe the music he listens to is very hard to come by? Or better yet, maybe he doesn't have the money to spend on that much music? I've said it many times and I'll say it again, a true fan who can't buy your music but supports your band is infinitely more valuable than a poser who buys the record, thinks its crap and goes back to listening to the radio's top 40 of the week. I feel for you Azera, as someone who absolutely loves music, I really really do. Guess I should be investing in an external HDD at some point in the near future. :/
After ranting i gave him the advice to grooveshark it, maybe he didn't know about that. Music which is hard to come by is often also free and such easily obtainable in legal ways or not on the internet at all (but why shouldnt he have a tape/cd/record in that case)
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United States12129 Posts
On February 09 2013 03:59 sam!zdat wrote:
Aerisky I don't understand your question
Nvm I think I misinterpreted your comment. I thought you were ranting about planned obsolescence taking the soul out of music media or something lol. Though digital storage isn't planned obsolescence per se. Still does have that consumerist concept which you really hate though, is all.
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hey buddy that sucks but just stick in there. good luck man
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That's sad  .
Backing up my files now.
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You should really try file recovery software or even a paid service. We are really good at recovering shit off of broken HD's, the FBI pulls shit off of deliberately destroyed ones all the time, and that tech is available.
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You didn't listen to 650gb of music anyway. Even in FLAC that's like 2000ish albums... Maybe even 3000. Think of it as a chance to get rid of the shit you never listened to.
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On February 09 2013 13:40 Swede wrote:
You didn't listen to 650gb of music anyway. Even in FLAC that's like 2000ish albums... Maybe even 3000. Think of it as a chance to get rid of the shit you never listened to.
Yeah but you can easily listen to like 30 gigs regularly. If your music taste is non mainstream enough, refinding that is gonna be a fucking nightmare. I have 23gigs of painfully selected tracks I would goddamn cry if I lost. some of them took me like hours just to find the first time.
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On February 09 2013 13:56 sob3k wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2013 13:40 Swede wrote:
You didn't listen to 650gb of music anyway. Even in FLAC that's like 2000ish albums... Maybe even 3000. Think of it as a chance to get rid of the shit you never listened to. Yeah but you can easily listen to like 30 gigs regularly. If your music taste is non mainstream enough, refinding that is gonna be a fucking nightmare. I have 23gigs of painfully selected tracks I would goddamn cry if I lost. some of them took me like hours just to find the first time.
Yeah, I agree. I just find people who have that much music annoying for some reason.
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On February 09 2013 14:38 Swede wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2013 13:56 sob3k wrote:On February 09 2013 13:40 Swede wrote:
You didn't listen to 650gb of music anyway. Even in FLAC that's like 2000ish albums... Maybe even 3000. Think of it as a chance to get rid of the shit you never listened to. Yeah but you can easily listen to like 30 gigs regularly. If your music taste is non mainstream enough, refinding that is gonna be a fucking nightmare. I have 23gigs of painfully selected tracks I would goddamn cry if I lost. some of them took me like hours just to find the first time. Yeah, I agree. I just find people who have that much music annoying for some reason.
Well that's weird. Most of the files were different renditions of classical music. I think I had about 14 kinds of Beethoven's 9th.
Also, Grooveshark had bad sound quality. I have a FiiO E10 and Audioengine A2s as well as a Sennheisers HD598. I'd be a stupid cunt if I used Grooveshark to play my music.
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On February 09 2013 14:38 Swede wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2013 13:56 sob3k wrote:On February 09 2013 13:40 Swede wrote:
You didn't listen to 650gb of music anyway. Even in FLAC that's like 2000ish albums... Maybe even 3000. Think of it as a chance to get rid of the shit you never listened to. Yeah but you can easily listen to like 30 gigs regularly. If your music taste is non mainstream enough, refinding that is gonna be a fucking nightmare. I have 23gigs of painfully selected tracks I would goddamn cry if I lost. some of them took me like hours just to find the first time. Yeah, I agree. I just find people who have that much music annoying for some reason.
You must really hate commercial DJs for hire - I think my brother lugs around nearly half a terabyte of music for all manner of gigs. Because you just never know.
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On February 09 2013 16:36 Azera wrote:
I'd be a stupid cunt if I used Grooveshark to play my music.
lol tell it like it is
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On February 09 2013 03:27 sam!zdat wrote:
Once upon a time, I had many many compact discs. I thought to myself: "sam, now that it's the future, shouldn't these be digital?" "Yes!", I thought.
So I put the compact discs into the computer. One at a time. They were assimilated. Their souls were too big for my computer's soul-box, so I had to get an external soul-box to keep them in. How nice! The souls traveled through a string into the soul-box, but the string was not that wide, and so it took some time.
It took many moons to assimilate all the souls. Finally, I was done. "Hooray!", I thought. In my joy, I knocked the soul-box off of the table and it fell onto the ground. The soul-box cracked, and all the souls leaked out. "Alas", I thought.
This is eloquent. I like it. It's lovely.
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Yeah if you want to store stuff in CD quality (which anyone with decent headphones/soundsystem should), it does take a lot of space. I have about 400gb worth, and there's very little there I wouldn't want. As Azera says, different versions of classical pieces take a lot.
Really sorry for you, makes me want to do a back up right now
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Netherlands45349 Posts
If it is worth to you as much as I think it is then you should consider bringing the HDD to a recovery service(ofcourse you can first try free software). If you really have been building it for 3 years then a paid service will be worth it.
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On February 09 2013 22:36 Kipsate wrote:
If it is worth to you as much as I think it is then you should consider bringing the HDD to a recovery service(ofcourse you can first try free software). If you really have been building it for 3 years then a paid service will be worth it.
That's an option, but recovery services go from somewhat reasonable to "dear god, how many zeros are on the end of that number?" quickly - and they cannot guarantee that they will be able to recover any of it. (Replacing a controller card in the drive versus forensic examination of the platters.)
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