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Respect to anyone still managing a library of mp3s
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this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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Still fits in a 1 TB sd card... Barely!
A 1TB SD card costs the same as a single vinyl LP right now.
It's not even a concern.
However, I have a box of CDs that I ripped to 96kbps Vorbis in the early 2000s, and I think this time I'll go straight to FLAC. Plex will transcode to the flavour-of-the-month codec on the fly when listening with limited bandwidth.
I have my flacs on a 2tb nvme drive in a little usb-c enclosure, kinda like a big USB stick. It's about half full... Also have a couple hundred records so I'm pretty agnostic on format I guess. Still use foobar2000 too to manage and play lol
Imagine stroring WAVs
I actually tried doing that when I first decided to start archiving my own CDs. I ripped with abcde to flac but kept both copies. The idea was to keep .wav as a sort of "master" original and then copy the flacs to my phone and laptop for listening. That way if something happened I could always go back to my "masters" without having to rip the CD again.
Honestly the wav files aren't that much bigger than flac and I feel like storage wouldn't be much of an issue today, but I started this project several years ago when an 8TB hard drive was still $600+ and I quickly ran out of space.
Why would you need "masters" when you use lossless codec anyway?
I guess the idea was that if something happened to flac like new devices stopped supporting it for whatever reason, or if a better lossless format came along, it would be much easier to go back to the wavs and convert them to a different format.
It is easy to convert them back to wav, so...
Converting back and forth, even from lossless to lossless, is a good way to lose or corrupt data. I abandoned the idea years ago anyway, but thanks.
Imagine storing stems and plugins