Guest Low Roller Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 ... what would you have to get first?Hopefully this nightmare scenario never happens to any one of us, and we all make sure to backup our digital music (just like you should regularly back up all your pictures and files), but in this hypothetical situation, if you lost all your music and had to start from scratch, what would you get?Rules: there is no limit to the number of answers, but you can't say "everything I lost". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balogna pogna Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 I 'd start with the Doc Watson & Frank Zappa albums/shows, and then move on to the Dick's Picks & Live Phish collections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 nearly everything I lostbst, GD, and Coltrane/Miles/Satchmo/Lee Morgan would be priorities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 Drive By Truckers, Fruit Bats, Hold Steady, Bruce Springsteen.Those are the ones I just can't live without..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asparagus Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 It's happened to us and I think we got some live Phish to start things off. A friend gave us Speaking in Tongues, Are You Experienced and Ring of Fire on vinyl to get the collection going again.It's good to keep backups off site as they burn just as well as the original copies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-O Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 This leads me to another question - what's the best way to back shit up? In the cloud? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 Currently I only use an external 1TB drive to back everything up. It's a manual process, and I'm not always honest about doing it regularly. Ideally I would have an off-site storage facility that creates regular back-ups automatically. My company uses A-Click Backup as the standard. It seems to work.If I lost everything I would start off with Radiohead studio albums (natch), and a few of the indispensable live shows from various eras of the band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mister slippery Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 King Crimson - RedGhost - Opus EponymousBeethoven 9 Symphonies (1962, HVKarajan)Chemical Brothers - Live at Glastonbury 2007.Harry J All Stars - Liquidator single.That would hold me till I could get to a store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadianphan Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 The Beatles Bruce Cockburn Phish Sufjan Stevens Paul Simon Death Cab for Cutie Radiohead The Black CrowesAs far as storage and playback go, I use Vortexbox. It's a Linux distribution that rips, stores and manages backups. It will do scheduled, incremental backups to an external drive all by it's self, so your collection is always backed up. I've seen a lot of discussion about backup to the cloud, but FLAC files are so big that it's probably not cost effective or quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afro poppa Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 I would probably recoup all my Dead followed my Neil, Dylan and Phish in no particular order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 i've never been one to do large backups. Music would be a huge loss, but PICTURES are the most precious.The other week I got a Dlink 320 NAS with two 2TB drives in it. They are RAID formatted so one mirrors the other. If one drive fails the other is always a perfect clone. Love it.I'm going to backup my pics/home vids to the cloud soon as extra precaution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 I'd probably just get into a whole new field of music, like Klezmer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 I'd replace all my stuff in alphabetical order: Abba to ZZ Top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 or Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry_llama Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 pft who needs music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tungsten Gruvsten Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 The other week I got a Dlink 320 NAS with two 2TB drives in it. They are RAID formatted so one mirrors the other. If one drive fails the other is always a perfect clone. Love it.Yup - I have all of my media on 2 of the DNS320's...both RAID, one is music, the other is movies and projects/multitracks. Whenever I think of it I'll plug in a USB drive and dump photos/multitracks off as I'm not so worried about the music/movies...still have all my CD's in boxes, that would be a headstart I guess....but that 1.5TB of MP3's would be hard to accumulate again.Fuck it, Klezmer it is. (Davey Boy: Cabbage Rolls and Coffee, mmm mmm good!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaggyBalls Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 I'd probably start with everything I was hoping to listen to that I haven't already, with the ryan adams/gillian welch/wilco/up bustle and out/greyboy favourites I find myself going back to again and again finding their way back to me.Starting fresh is pretty exciting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 My entire Dylan collection.The 2TB worth of live Dylan (WAV, FLAC, SHN & DVD), plus every album on CD, as well my vinyl & cassettes of Bob, including rares etc.Not like that would be possible, but that's what I would want out of my entire collection.I don't have many mp3s, (like 2gb maybe) and I wouldn't give a shit if they did disappear, I hardly listen to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted August 24, 2011 Report Share Posted August 24, 2011 anyone interested in casing Esau.'s joint for me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler Posted August 26, 2011 Report Share Posted August 26, 2011 The first thing you do is buy a record player. That way, if aliens arrive and zap all of our digital storage means, you can still find a way to listen to music. 2nd, find every person you may have ever lent your hard drive to and get your shit back, as much as possible.This has happened to me and it sucks ass. Your collection will likely never be the sam again cuz as we get older, there seems to be a lot less time to download/ convert/ organize as before (at least for me anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jVids Posted August 29, 2011 Report Share Posted August 29, 2011 It's happened to us and I think we got some live Phish to start things off. A friend gave us Speaking in Tongues, Are You Experienced and Ring of Fire on vinyl to get the collection going again.It's good to keep backups off site as they burn just as well as the original copies.Actually our first vinyl back in the game was mothafuckin HURON! woot woot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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