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As an owner of 30+ year old CDs, that isn't necessarily the case. Some of them don't work particularly well these days. I went through a streaming thing for about 10 years but am moving back to physical media now. When I went to re-rip my CDs to FLAC I found some serious issues with a number of CDs which were chock full of errors around the edges.

Anyway after this I decided, fuck it, screw reliable storage or buying things on media. I'll buy it in a digital form and keep moving it around in less reliable media (mostly SSDs) until I'm dead.

I don't care about ownership. I care about not having to buy things twice and care about things I've bought being taken away. That's slightly different.






these days i think people that can afford it should have a personal backup system set up. and music just fits into it passively.

building things up right now as homeserver/tarsnap/friend's homeserver

at some point i want to setup offline tape backups... they last longer than hard drives.


I had LTO. It's expensive and painful. Just multiple copies on good quality SSD is fine. Needs to be left powered up occasionally to do maintenance.



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