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| From | "Mark Eichelberger" <markeichelberger@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: IPOD question(s), please...... |
| Date | Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:42:30 -0400 |
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No Stewart, you are not alone.
I also have had hard drive failures and anyone who thinks that their vast
mp3 collection is permanent is risking it all. Of course, you can back up
the files to CD-R, but with hard drives reaching 120 GB and higher, is
anyone really going to back up that many files to CD-R? I think not.
I like to think of my CD's as the master copy and I use my PC as a jukebox
that contains the best cuts from my collection. But would I ever consider
getting rid of those CDs and rely on a ripped MP3 file (which may or may not
become obsolete) as the master copy? NO WAY!
Just my 2 cents!
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Mason" <flamingo@theworld.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>; <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: IPOD question(s), please......
> At 01:26 PM 7/7/2003 -0600, Not Lame wrote:
> >Like many out there, going to start culling down so many of the thousands
of
> >cd's I have and collect the best of the best and dump the rest.
>
> Every time I see a variant of this sentence, my flesh crawls.
>
> Number one: seriously, am I the *only* person here who has experienced a
> massive catastrophic hard drive loss? Trusting a music collection that
has
> undoubtedly cost me many thousands of dollars to the whims and vagaries of
> a small hunk of metal does not strike me as a good idea.
>
> Number two: I just can't be sure that what I think is "the best of the
> best" on July 8, 2003, is what I'm going to think is "the best of the
best"
> on July 8, 2013. The number of times I have either belatedly discovered a
> brilliant song on an album I had previously overlooked or heard something
> new by a band that made me re-evaluate everything else they had ever done
> is already huge; I shudder to think how many albums I'd have to re-buy in
> the ensuing years if I tried to do something like this.
>
> Number three: Well, let's just say I agree with the central thesis of
> Nicholson Baker's DOUBLE FOLD.
>
> It's not that I don't de-accession. (And it's not that I don't kind of
> covet an iPod, but as something to listen to on the T or while I'm walking
> the dog, not a primary music resource.) I've bought too many albums blind
> at 10 cents or a quarter each on a hunch for all of them to be winners.
> But massive purges based on a new toy just strike me as a bad idea.
>
> Not that I'm not having fun snapping things up out of the used bins just
> because somebody thought he was moving ahead with the times. I did the
> same thing in the '80s.
>
> S
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