[TriLUG] Music Files (and a small rant)

[Mark Freeze]

>cheaper if you subscribe to some of the other services and and just
listen to the streams. How often do you actually listen to each of the
4500 songs ?

Here we go again..

The point is that they are mine and I want to keep them. It would not
be the end of the world if I lost them, which is why I don't spend $5K
on systems to protect them. But, on the same hand, I care more about
them than just putting them all on a couple of 250GB IDE drives in my
desktop box and 'letting the cards fall where they may.'

For the rest of the 'doesn't mean much if you don't protect it' crowd:

I'm sure that in your house you have a smoke detector, maybe even a
fire alarm as part of a home security system.  Why not a sprinkler
system?  Why not active fire zone protection for the most sensitive
areas of your home?  Why not move closer to the fire station?  Why not
undergo yearly fire training and prevention classes?  Just because you
are not willing to go 100%, full-out, to protect your home doesn't
mean you don't care about it or it's contents.  You make the best
decisions you can with the money you have at the time.  (The money you
spent going out to eat last week could have been used to buy fire
extinguishers.)

Maybe in my original post I should have just said that I wanted to
protect 500GB worth of data and just left the music part out.  Jeesh!

Regards,
Mark.


On 5/25/05, Robert Ryals <rryals at tmio.com> wrote:
> Mark Freeze wrote: 
> But any failure would not result in irrecoverable loss, but rather in
> a
cost-to-replace loss.

> I would consider trying to re-download over 4500 unique songs at a
price of
> .99 each almost irrecoverable. I don't' have the $4500 to
recover them, nor
> the time to download them one by one. For the
un-Napsterish files - ripping
> all or part of over 1200 CD's takes an
unimaginable amount of time.


> .99 each if you're using iTunes, cheaper if you subscribe to some of the
> other services and and just listen to the streams.  How often do you
> actually listen to each of the 4500 songs ?  
> 
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