[internetworkers] MS opens music store
ron thigpen
ron at fuzzsonic.com
Fri Sep 3 11:09:57 EDT 2004
Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> Hey, you gotta back up your computer anyway :-)
>
> Because of the huge convenience I'm now buying from iTunes first, and
> only then looking for a CD. The sheer storage requirements of CDs has
> become a problem, and I'm loath to add any more. There's two towers of
> CDs in the house, and the rest were boxed up and are being stored at my
> office.
Believe me, I feel the pain of CD storage. But even as good as the
compressed formats are these days, there's still a fidelity/convenience
trade-off. Depending on the work in question I may or may not choose
one over the other.
I do backup my digital collection, but adding all my CDs ripped
losslessly would push the size w/backup to about a Terabyte of data.
That'll be cost effective sometime before too long and the back catalog
can go into storage then.
I /have/ mostly stopped using cassettes.
--rt
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