Alan R. Lucas said:
quoted 6 lines So do you backup your stuff mostly for convenience/protection? Or to> So do you backup your stuff mostly for convenience/protection? Or to
> replace the physical product? I'm just curious. I've been ripping a
> bunch of my CDs because I recently got a Zen 30gb player, and I'm soon
> to back the mp3s on my PC to DVD. But I could never settle for only
> having the backup copies and not the physical product. I'm a sucker for
> packaging.
I am too (a sucker for packaging), which is why you aren't seeing a
buttload of ebay listings from me right about now :D My next hurdle is
getting all of my vinyl into mp3, but that's a bit more of an ordeal,
obviously :D
I backup my stuff for both reasons mentioned, actually. Now that I have
everything I'm going to do some basic sorting, and then burn big chunks to
DVD for backup. But it's mostly to replace the physical product whilst
I'm at home. When I get in the mood for a song, I'd rather just play that
song compared to find the CD, pop it in, cue up that track, listen, then
do the process again when I feel like listening to a few different tracks
in a row. But I let people borrow the actual CDs, and I usually just copy
the whole album for the car, or pop it in when I feel like listening to
the album in its entirety and just chill out and hear all of the tracks.
But I have the advantage (?) of being in an apartment that is rather
wired, and there's computers in the "office" and another one in the living
room, all on the LAN, so I can play the OGG files anywhere. If that
wasn't the case, those albums would definitely get more playing time on
their own.
Of course, now that *everything* is on the computer, I'm probably more
likely to tend towards bleep.com. Good timing in that regard :D
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