What do you guys use/How Do You Store Your Digital Music files?

bflynn1
bflynn1 Posts: 1,394
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Title says it all. Just curious if there are different methods. Thanks!
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,890
    edited December 2016
    I copy them onto data DVDR discs. I also back them up on data Blu-ray discs & Hard Drives.

    In time I will store them all to the clouds ...

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  • AfghanTwilight
    AfghanTwilight Rochester, NY Posts: 865
    portable drives, DVDRs, and cloud.
  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,386
    I have it on my computer and backed up to a portable drive.
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,506
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,469
    External via computer and lots and lots of discs burned.
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  • KV4053
    KV4053 Mike's side, crushed up against the stage Posts: 1,519
    Internal drive, Home Cloud, External drive at another location
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  • EM194007
    EM194007 Posts: 2,827
    External hard drive, USB flash drives, DVDR discs, and BR discs. Definitely need more then one back up.
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 11,072
    edited December 2016
    I think I'm OCD. I have a FLAC Directory on my hard drive which I've been building for nearly 10 years. I think it's over 700 albums now. There's the local copy on the PC. I have a media box (called a popcorn hour) hooked up to my tv which has a 6tb internal hard drive, so there's a clone of the directory on there too. I have some old 2tb drives I don't use anymore, so I back it up at home from time to time, and every year or so I have a hard drive at work that I back up my music and pictures on, so I make an updated copy to that. If the house burns down the biggest hits (datawise to me) would be my digital music collection and all my pictures. Having a copy offsite at least hedges against something bad happening to the house and wiping out all those copies.

    It took a long time to built my FLAC collection, I don't want to loose it. I also have all the old PJ bootlegs in flac (the '00, '03, '05, '06 etc..) tours burned to bluray. I keep that separate from my overall music folder. I've still got quite a big mp3 directory too, but the only thing that still uses it is my car stereo. Everything else is FLAC.
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  • Jbarker
    Jbarker Alberta Posts: 560
    Zod said:

    I think I'm OCD. I have a FLAC Directory on my hard drive which I've been building for nearly 10 years. I think it's over 700 albums now. There's the local copy on the PC. I have a media box (called a popcorn hour) hooked up to my tv which has a 6tb internal hard drive, so there's a clone of the directory on there too. I have some old 2tb drives I don't use anymore, so I back it up at home from time to time, and every year or so I have a hard drive at work that I back up my music and pictures on, so I make an updated copy to that. If the house burns down the biggest hits (datawise to me) would be my digital music collection and all my pictures. Having a copy offsite at least hedges against something bad happening to the house and wiping out all those copies.

    It took a long time to built my FLAC collection, I don't want to loose it. I also have all the old PJ bootlegs in flac (the '00, '03, '05, '06 etc..) tours burned to bluray. I keep that separate from my overall music folder. I've still got quite a big mp3 directory too, but the only thing that still uses it is my car stereo. Everything else is FLAC.

    Address please... going to send you a lot of blank discs and a blank hardrive.
  • buck502000
    buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    External hard drive
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,570
    on2legs said:

    I have it on my computer and backed up to a portable drive.

    Ditto for me. I also have most of it uploaded to Google Play's cloud.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • Foriginal Sin
    Foriginal Sin Chandler, AZ Posts: 1,897
    3 separate external hard drives, iTunes, also on 2 iPods and 3 iPhones.
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  • Smellyman
    Smellyman Asia Posts: 4,529
    Just on two different computers. I don't worry much about replaceable data. Pictures are the only thing I really concern myself with.
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 10,840
    Apple time capsule for my whole computer, and 2 external HDs for just music. I also have an Amazon cloud account but I haven't backed up there in over a ear because it takes too long. But I've got 95% of my shit there too.

    It's a bit OCD, but if you've ever lost all your music, you know you never want that to happen again.
  • Kev - Coat and Keys
    Kev - Coat and Keys Earth Posts: 357
    I have an external drive, but since the £GB crapped out I have started using 7digital and Qobuz more as they are now cheaper than hdtracks.com and they both allow re-downloading stuff which is a real nice service for back-ups.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,890
    Kev - Coat and Keys said:

    I have an external drive, but since the £GB crapped out I have started using 7digital and Qobuz more as they are now cheaper than hdtracks.com and they both allow re-downloading stuff which is a real nice service for back-ups.

    Qobuz? Are they international friendly unlike hdtracks.com?
  • Kev - Coat and Keys
    Kev - Coat and Keys Earth Posts: 357
    demetrios said:

    Kev - Coat and Keys said:

    I have an external drive, but since the £GB crapped out I have started using 7digital and Qobuz more as they are now cheaper than hdtracks.com and they both allow re-downloading stuff which is a real nice service for back-ups.

    Qobuz? Are they international friendly unlike hdtracks.com?
    Qobuz works for me in the UK fine - their prices vary wildly, but I find you have to shop around for the best resolution and prices for digital music anyway.
  • AceCool
    AceCool Texas Posts: 455
    I keep my files on my computer but have an external backup HD. I also have another external HD that I keep in a safe deposit box. I pull that one out and make back ups every one to three months.
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,588
    I tunes and external drive..but i need a backup for sure..
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,890
    edited December 2016
    Kev - Coat and Keys said:

    demetrios said:

    Kev - Coat and Keys said:

    I have an external drive, but since the £GB crapped out I have started using 7digital and Qobuz more as they are now cheaper than hdtracks.com and they both allow re-downloading stuff which is a real nice service for back-ups.

    Qobuz? Are they international friendly unlike hdtracks.com?
    Qobuz works for me in the UK fine - their prices vary wildly, but I find you have to shop around for the best resolution and prices for digital music anyway.
    That's true. For me the hardest thing is which sites let's Canadian customers purchase and download from cause we are pretty much restricted on the majority of HD digital downloads.
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