I lost mine several times - I didn’t always use to have backups. Two were on MP3 players that stopped working. One was on an old smartphone, which worked but which I just didn’t bother copying most of the data from. Once I just wiped it accidentally. In hindsight - I don’t mind, that would’ve got cleaned up anyway.
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Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It never left. My MP3 collection is getting kinda disgusting at this point. I really should delete a bunch of it, but you never know when I’m going to want to listen to that album I downloaded 15 years ago and haven’t gotten into yet!
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I kinda wish I’d lost mine once or twice.
Rawdogthatexe@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Every few years I just create a new folder of the artists that I actively listen to and keep the older stuff out of my library but still in storage.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Sounds better than my method of having the first ten-fifteen years of collecting arranged neatly by artist names in folders labeled alphabetically followed by a few different folders labeled by the year I downloaded (not the year of release), a few genre folders, and a a few, uhh, folders sorted by how I acquired the music torrented or through Soulseekqt. Yeah, mine is a complete mess. Pulsar player for Android makes it incredibly easy to sort through stuff anyway. I did conveniently fail to put a lot of the stuff I rarely listen to on my current phone anyway. I’m not too egregiously awful. I do at least listen to everything I download at least once or twice. I had a friend in the 00s who just downloaded everything whether he listened or not. Yeah, I’ll keep comparing myself to his 20+ year old standard of digital hording.